Surprise! Metal Gear Solid V To Infiltrate Steam After All
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I knew my decision to not give in and buy a PS4 would pay off eventually! Thank you Hideo Kojima! Now if you can just port over MGS3 and Peace Walker to the PC too...
I was about to mouth off about this statement, but even though Big Boss is MGSV's main protagonist it is actually very likely that Solid Snake may infact be in The Phantom Pain in some context (EG: why David Hayter isn't playing BB theoretically) so that could turn out to be technically accurate.IanDavis said:
OT: This is great news! Having the PC market in there in addition to both console generations will both help expand the audience, and give PC gamers a chance to see why hardcore fans like me obsess about this series so much.
I just hope the PC crowd doesn't get all dickish and elitist about them having " the only real version," or some other exclusionary nonsense, they've been getting especially bad about that recently.
My first reason for getting a PS3 was for MGS4. Now I don't even have to bat an eye for Ps4. Ty Kojima!
Way too late about the PC gamers being dickish part, there's already another article on PC gamer salivating it as some sort of victory over consoles and publishers, basically anyone not having anything on PC.Madame_Lawliet said:
Seeing the comments section in there is akin to being on IGN, it's filled with nothing but big ego's and massive hatred for consoles, and it fits the bill with Dualshockers article on the platform wars and fanboyism being tribal in general.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/08/14/pc-gamers-have-to-fight-for-pc-gaming-and-metal-gear-solid-v-is-a-big-win/
It's good that both titles are going to PC but I don't feel the ened to stroke my ego about it nor rub it in gamers not of the PC realm, it doesn't do anyone any good doing that kind of petty crap and only pisses people off in general.
The reason Japanese publishers are releasing games on PC is because PC versions of popular console exclusives tend to sell well. Frankly, I was glad that the PC got Dark Souls and Metal Gear Rising, and now I'm glad it's getting a major MGS installment. Who complains about getting more games on your platform?Rastrelly said:
Not just in the west. Apparently, PC gaming is growing in Japan as well. That might have something to do with this decision too.RA92 said:
i imagine theres still some sort of exclusivity deal regarding MGS4, but i definitively wouldnt mind playing itBindal said:
That was actually true. Space issues existed because of uncompressed audio they used. They could release the collection on Xbox One if they deem that move worthy of their time. I really hope that we'll eventually get the entire MGS collection for PC. I would like to replay all of the older MGS games. MGS4 could be distributed digitally, so space issues shouldn't be a problem on the PC nowadays. In the end it all comes down to the money, Lebowski. If they don't think they'll make any, we won't get it.Rozalia1 said:
To understand why a move to PC would be successful, you have to understand the Metal Gear fanbase. A HUGE majority of the fanbase has always wanted a PC version of the game, and now we've got it. A lot of fans of the Metal Gear series, and I believe Kojima himself as well, have always thought that Metal Gear was a little... held back by hardware limitations, especially when it came to MGS4. Fox Engine is probably scales WAAAY back for PS4, and even more so for XB1 so this PC release is Kojima's way of showing not just a beautiful game, but giving the Fox Engine a platform on which its limits can really be tested. Max graphics on this game is going to look amazing.Rastrelly said:
And don't forget, Revengance is already on PC, and the point of Revengance was to provide fallback income for Kojima to point to if shit really hits the fan and MGSV takes a huge hit due to all the controversy it could generate (Don't forget all the controversy that ONE CHARACTER stirred, not to mention that we haven't even gotten to the scene where Big Boss appears to murder a bunch of children in a jail cell. And we haven't even gotten to the child soldiers yet. Oh, and there's also all the controversy GZ drilled up, which I'm not going to get into.). And Revengance was a huge success on PC, and that's a game where you REALLY aren't going to know anything if you're a PC gamer and you've never played the Metal Gear series before - at least Snake was in one or two games on PC a long time ago. Revengance didn't fail, in fact, it largely succeeded on PC and almost matched the console versions in sales. Now take something like the main MGS series that PC gamers have wanted a crack at since forever, and you've got a recipe for success.
Soon....Xan Krieger said:
With the way Steam gets random entries of the Final Fantasy non MMO games (seriously, dropping FF8 and FF3 with no warning and topping Steam Charts for a week each time) expect a random re-release of Metal Gear Solid sometime a year after whenever MGSV gets released on Steam.