Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 Game Line Up Hasn't Been Decided "Yet"

They went into this without knowing?

That sounds a poorly thought out idea

They know. They probably want to wait and do a big reveal at some point. Wonder if they’re waiting for a Switch 2 launch date before giving further deets.

Calling it “Vol 1” was their take on the Capcom Test.

Not like they have alot of options. Its got to be at least 4, 5 (including ground zero) and Peace walker. After that maybe portable ops and acid 1 &2. I don't know if will ever get twin snakes again.
Rising and survive don't really fit.

So I guess Yuji Korekado isn't the Metal Gear series producer anymore? Wishing Okamura the best in that role. Big shoes to fill.

So even for publishers the Japanese way of naming and numbering games is confusing.

Now the main question is- will these games fit on Switch 2 Cartridge and will they run at least as well as on the ps4 the very least! The biggest turnoff with the first collection was that no game was included from the main 3D games, so that was a no buy for me!

Considering that Volume 1 had a 60GB download requirement for a collection containing only the earliest games in the series, I shudder to think of what kind of "physical" releases any subsequent volumes may have. I would have jumped at Volume 1 had it been a good honest product, but as it stands, I wouldn't touch it even if it were free.

And the unbelievable audacity to still charge AU$100 for it!

Trying to decide if they want to stretch it out for a third collection with the Acid games as well as Portable Ops.

My guess would be what bonus games outside of 4, 5, and Peace Maker haven't been decided yet, like the MSX and NES games of the first.

They could release mgs4 by itself and I'll be happy

Wouldn't mgs 4 and 5 be the obvious choice? I'm seriously wondering though, are these even possible on switch? I mean if they were fine on PS3 surely switch can handle them right?

@Truegamer79 i dont think its that easy ,Ps3 even gives Sony a hard time with emulation . Hence its only available on ps4 and 5 through a patchy cloud services work arround that use to be called playstation now.

@Truegamer79 GtaV ran on ps3 so anything is possible.

Really you could probably do two more sets. Twin Snakes, Peacewalker, and 4 in one, Rising and 5 in the other.

The only real question mark is what of Ac!d in include, and if they can get away with 4 on it's own.

Peace Walker alone would make Vol. 2 worth owning.

"what would you say if I told you I hadn't seen Evil Dead 2 yet?"

Konami being Konami...

Could it be the logistical nightmare that is MGS4? I legit wonder besides the file size being such a cluster when release, but what about the licensed stuff? Like that game legit talks about blurays with disc swapping, has licensed...EVERYTHING. As much as I like MGS4, I wonder how much of a hatching job it's going to get. Or would they pass the price unto the consumer, not the first time a rerelease did that.

Don't care as long as it includes MGS4. Game has been trapped on the PS3 for WAY too long now.

I am dying to know how big switch 2 default cartridges will be. That problem needs solving.

The PSP games need to be there, definitely.

Then include the pachinko game just for the heck of it.

Which means they aren’t sure if they have 3 volumes worth of games or not.

@Truegamer79 @Roibeard64 There was an article a while back that Konami had an Xbox 360 version of MGS4 done, it just never saw the light of day (I think it was a matter of storage size being too small on X360 and it would have been a ton of disks).

Now, I am sure that codebase is gone, but at least it does prove that MGS4 isn't solely reliant on PS3 architecture to work.

I think Uncharted was more reliant on PS3 hardware and Naughty Dog were able to get it onto PS4. Now whether Konami wants to do the find of engineering work Naughty Dog did for Uncharted is a whole other story.

I'd guess they're waiting for event season. The 1st collection got announced in May Playstation Showcase and then got announced for Switch in June Nintendo Direct so I figure another Playstation Showcase will be the source of 2nd collection announcement.

Given that PS5 is currently barren on the PS Studios side of things after Stellar Blade in late April and PS5 Pro needs to be announced, I'd guess Sony will do Playstation Showcase in Spring again.

Whatever they will have for this 2nd collection, it would be a disappointment just like the first one.

@GamingFan4Lyf I do remember hearing about that when FF13 came out, the PS3 fans were immediately pointing to the Xbox 360 as the fault of "reduced" graphics quality, pointing to the need to downscale graphics to fit the game on multiple DVDs for the 360 version, compared to one Blu-Ray for the PS3.
Wouldn't be surprising of Square-Enix to go for lowest common denominator when developing multiple versions of something, probably to speed up QA. I do remember playing FF4 Advance and, probably the least of the things I've heard others complain about that game, the UI font being needlessly tiny. Turns out from the fan modding community, they needed such a tiny font for the languages only included in the European version. They couldn't give the US (English only) version a bigger font.

I just want to finally play Acid

@KingMike I think it was only reduced FMV output as the Blu-ray was able to full 1080p and the X360 version was compressed. I think actual in-game assets were the same.

Funny because if you play FF13 on an X1X or Series X, you get 4K video and graphics (there is a DF analysis of it and SE actually went above and beyond for the X1X Enhanced version - mainly shocked that the FMVs got a boost along with the game).

doesn't seem like a hard question

Hey! Add dual audio option support to the 1st volume first! Then, you can do whatever you want...

@-wc- I would say I want to sleep with Tim Robbins x sweet reference yo xxx

@DiamondJim that's assuming too much hahaha.

@GamingFan4Lyf an Xbox360 version never existed, Kojima wanted to put the game out on Xbox360, but, due to storage issues, that wasn't possible.

@Edu23XWiiU I couldn't imagine it working on xboxs at the time. The PS3 version had to install the current act you were playing.

@Sisilly_G If they're smart, they should try making separate versions and sell them independently.
Oh, and actually get the games to run at 60fps on the damn switch. This thing's more powerful than a PS3 for crying out loud!!!

@Edu23XWiiU It did exist and got canned because of the aforementioned storage limit of DVD:

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/konami-had-metal-gear-solid-4-running-on-xbox-but-it-was-held-back-for-one-reason

It was even "running beautifully" on Xbox 360.

This seems to suggest that this game didn't require the Cell Processor and therefore might not be as difficult to port as people may think (especially if the work done for the X360 version still exists on a dusty HDD somewhere)

For me, My hope is MGS4, all 4 PSP games, and Twin Snakes. Rising was developed by Platinum, so it'd probably get a separate release, and it just feels a bit weird thinking of a PS4 game in a collection? I'd love to see it on there, but it does feel a bit weird to think about.

It feels a bit early for Konami to bundle MGSV in a collection when they can easily still sell it standalone, maybe as a "remastered" port with some bonus content, however sparse and barebones that may be. I know it's almost a decade old, but a Switch 2 port would still feel pretty current gen.
I could see them releasing MGS4, Peace Walker, and Portable Ops as the main games of volume 2, with Ghost Babel and the Acid games as the bonuses. MAYBE Rising.
I'm still waiting to see whether they'll ever port Twin Snakes, maybe as DLC, or maybe even as a Nintendo exclusive, but I'm not holding my breath.
Maybe we'll see Ground Zeroes, Phantom Pain, and Delta in some future volume 3.

@Roibeard64 I agree with your list but they could also add in Ghost Babel in there.

They just don't know how the hell port MGS 4 from PS3
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hopefully multiplayer avaible ~ i need chance to play it

@SilentHunter382 good call I completely forgot it existed maybe it might also come to NSO

@Sisilly_G It’s not audacity if people end up paying for it, it’s being good at capitalism.
If we want games to stop having insane prices and unfinished launch states, we need to do our part in not paying those prices and stop pre-buying games.

@Arehexes Because of the storage size the game had, you couldn't run it from the disc. Kojima famously wanted to use all the space of a Blu-Ray disc, and he did just that, but condemned the game to a meaningless exclusivity. There was no deal signed with Sony to make MGS4 exclusive.

@GamingFan4Lyf wooow, I missed that part of the report, thank you! Yeah, the only reason why it was an exclusive title, was because of the storage size of the discs, otherwise, the game would have appeared on Xbox back then. Just waiting on the announcement hehehe.

Knowing Konami, they’ll probably try to sneak “Survive” in their somewhere…

Vol 2 won't be mgs4-5 it's not possible atleast for physical release. Just 4 takes around 50gb plus the extra data to download not to mention 5 that's another 30-40gb something. Peace walker acid portable ops that sounds possible And as for twin snakes... yeah wishful thinking doubt it will ever happen on any console.

Sure, one could naturally assume that Vol. 2 will be MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots, MGS: Peace Walker, and MGS V: The Phantom Pain, but there is another possibility: We could instead see Vol. 2 contain Portable Ops, Guns of the Patriots, Peace Walker, and maybe Ghost Babel; whereas MGS V: The Phantom Pain would be saved for a Volume 3 alongside MG Rising: Revengeance, and MGS V: Ground Zeroes.

@N-MCMXCIX if in any case that happens switch will not see vol 2 whatsoever Even just digital release will be hard.

@iaLgan I wouldn't be too sure about that. Might I remind you that we have gotten ports of PS3 games on Switch in the past, [e.g.: Ninja Gaiden (Sigma) Master Collection], so therefore, Guns of the Patriots on Switch ain't out of the question. And furthermore, The Phantom Pain was also on PS3, so regardless of which volume it arrives in, it has a chance.

@N-MCMXCIX it can im just saying physical is out of the question

@iaLgan The PSN version of MGS4 was about 25-30GB, can't find the articles about the game finally being available to purchase digitally because of Master Collection Vol 2 speculation filling the search results.

The extra 20-25GB data was for installing from the disc to the hard drive, as well as duplicated data to load faster iirc.

MGSV (GZ + TPP) is about 35GB. UHD discs are most commonly used for 4K movies, are supported on the PS5 and I believe the Series X, and hold up to 100GB.

Seeing as this is Konami, neither game will be put on a 32GB Cart, or 64 if Nintendo ever made those available.

@Nua so 25-30 something for either game besides the download and you expect a physical release ? Mgs 4-5 is a no go either way for switch.

@iaLgan I never said I expected a physical release on Switch. I said Konami wouldn't put either of the games on a physical cart. Sorry for trying to share information about the games.