Konami Promises To Continue Improving Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1

Released nearly a year ago, and Konami still can't get a bunch of decades-old games running right. Pathetic.

And there's supposedly a second volume in the works? 😂

Man, I wanted so much for this to be good (and complete on cartridge). This was such a no-brainer and yet I seemed to underestimate the depths of Konami's cognitive inadequacies.

60fps on Switch 2?? Would that be too much to hope for? 🤔

If they can’t get volume 1 right which are ancient games how are they possibly going to get volume 2 right where the games are much more modern?

So, uh, why not patching them up once more, then??

I feel like they should have delayed the release. It isn’t like these games are going anywhere.

Well why couldn't they get it right the first time around then?

If this was a properly handled release I absolutely would have gotten it, but as is, no thanks.

Maybe if they do manage to fix it up well enough.

@Bizzyb Should have had 60fps on Switch 1! With every game on the physical release!!!
these are old as$ games!!!

It sucks that most of the games aren't even on the cartridge and they can't even get 60fps on these old, PS2 era games. Come on, man.

Lmao it is strange that these PS1/2 games can’t even run properly on switch.

I'll consider buying it if they patch MGS 2 and 3 to 60 fps, but definitely not until then.

Pah ha ha ha ha 🤣 "we are still continuing to rake in the money and laughing all the way to our Pachinko machines !"

Until the framerate gets fixed I’m not interested.

What "standards"? If Konami had any, they wouldn't have released the game in such a sorry state.

Normally I'm a sucker for a next-gen port/upgrade, telling myself I'm playing the game in better quality on hardware likely to last longer. To illustrate the point, I'm someone who dropped £50 each on New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe and Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (among others) despite having a Wii U that still works well and discs that still played fine.

But to this I have said no. Keeping my PS3 and PS4 versions of these games. Kojima put the love into these games and his absence is felt.

Tried to add a picture but can’t get it to work so screw it. Just imagine the BP guy from South Park saying “we’re deeply sorry”

Most importantly they should physically rerelease on Switch 2 with all content on the cartridge!!!!! Not like 0 MGS games and everything just downloadable and only the 2D games on the cartridge!!!!! Disgusting practice

Add multi audio option support! CAPCOM'S BIOHAZARD REVELATIONS have this feature since its first release, if I'm not mistaken. And, add 60FPS for Switch version!

Just quietly take progress on this out behind the shed...and release the Portable Ops/Ac!d collection.

I played through everything in the collection recently, and it was fine. Whatever genuine issues existed at launched are fixed now.

Here's an idea, Konami - release it when it's worthy of our money !

Funny how Resident Evil Revelations 2 on Vita runs like pants while on the Switch it is butter smooth while MGS 2 and 3 run better on the Vita.... wild!

Can they increase the frame rate with patches or has that ship sailed for the switch?

I didn't buy the master collection but bought 1, 2 and 3 individually on Switch and have had no issues with them at all.

@Taffy MGS 2 & 3 on PS Vita plays very janky though and framerates constantly dipped. The Switch versions doesn't do that, it stay smooth constantly. Only thing is it runs at 30fps instead of 60fps. MGS3 Snake Eater on 3DS was the best port of the game, 60fps and 3D support. Only thing about that game is that unless you had a 3DS, you won't get the benefit of the 3D features as it looks dead ugly at 360p on the 2DS.

@Serpenterror It was not 60 fps on 3DS lol

Metal Gear Solid 4 is supposed to be on the next pack. I highly doubt this is go well for them. Though I'm glad to be wrong.

Maybe I'm out of the loop here but what was wrong with them? Framerate or bugs?

Konami was one of a handful of companies that set standards. Now they are a sad sack. And that saddens me. Lol.

It wasn’t all on cart so it was an easy pass and a 60 gb download is not gonna happen.

"So we hope everyone will give us a little more time to get it there."

yeah, what choice does anyone have? 🙄

i was given this physical game as a thoughtful gift, and for some reason, it REQUIRES a 32gb download up front to even START the game.

3 games that came out on cd , dvd, and dvd respectively. 20+ years ago.

thing is, if even the first MGS was playable on cart, no download, id have forgiven the rest. not a perfect compromise, but it could be THAT easy.

as it is, its a pointless hunk of plastic that I dont have room on my SD card to play even a little bit of.

I'm happy with the overall performance of the games, they play well.

“We’re sorry that we’re Konami”
There, fixed 😂

@larryisaman Here you go Larry.

@Truegamer79 All games were 30 FPS, even the ones that were 60fps on original hardware, and MGS1 had really poor resolution filtering, making the game look worse than the original to series diehards.

@Samalik

Oh i see. Pretty sad when developers can't get a decade or more old game to run properly on modern hardware. It's almost like the team that worked on the original versions were pushing themselves harder or they just had more skills.

Here’s a few suggestions:

Performance/Quality Mode for the Switch version of Metal Gear’s 2 and 3 in the collection. Performance Mode is 720p/60fps docked. Quality Mode is the current 1080p/30fps docked. Handheld? Maybe 540-600p/60fps for Performance Mode, and the current 720p/30fps for Quality Mode.

Patch in the full, complete online manuals of all the games in the collection, to the actual in-game menu for offline viewing. Why did they make them online manuals, that requires an internet connection to view them in the first place? Sucks, because otherwise, the manuals here were really well done as digital versions.

Add the Gameboy Color version of Metal Gear as DLC. Free or paid, they should add it.

@-wc- And if you want everything it has to offer, including all regional variants of the content like the ebooks, games, and other extras, be prepared to have 66.21GB of free space reserved. That’s what I did, and it’s the largest download on my Switch, with the cartridge required to even boot up anything! 😂

By all means the OG Switch has proven time and time again that it could surpass the performance levels of the PS360 era of consoles (not by a large margin, but it can do it), and these games (MGS2&3 HD) ran at 60FPS on those consoles at the same visual settings (which is to say they run natively at 720p in their latest release, just as they did back on PS360)

Just get Bluepoint to come back and optimise these games if that's what it takes to get it right.

@Truegamer79 I'm betting these are probably running through some kind of middleware. Unity or whatever they call it. Seems like everything these days is doing that.
Middleware that probably sucks up the console resources so games run like crap. Middleware that was probably designed for more powerful hardware but sinces it "runs" on Switch, it was good enough.

Yeah, the difference was that the original developers could code the games to run within the actual capabilities of the intended hardware.

@larryisama Haha this is exactly what came to mind for me too before I even saw your comment. I’ll give adding one a try as well though..

@-wc- : And as @90sRetroGaming pointed out, it's actually over 60GB if you want to download the "bonus videos" and whatever other supplementary content is included (or rather excluded).

Honestly, I wouldn't want this even if it were free, "physical" or otherwise. What a pathetic joke of a release. Had it been an honest-to-God product, even at an inflated cost to cover the costs of a 64GB cartridge, I would have happily bought it on day one, but as it stands... I'd have to be an owl to shake my head far enough to even remotely communicate my disappointment.

Similarly, FC 24 is finally available at a more reasonable price of AU$24, but I'm still reluctant as my microSD card is almost full, and I don't want to reward this sort of behaviour, even at a substantial discount. Plus, setting aside 20GB+ on each future instalment is not a prospect that I wish to accommodate either. I would have happily paid full price had EA bothered to use a 32GB cart though. As much as they were maligned, the "Legacy Editions" were better value for money in my eyes, as you at least got a full game on the cart for your money (and I had only ever bought them at a significant discount anyway).