MGS4 takes a jab at non-HD disc formats

What Microsoft gets for giving us prehistoric disk format.

Damn it twice, Otacon!

(Haha)

I'm assuming Mr. Kojima-san is really enjoying his new sportscar, funded by Sony..

Somebody order a flame-war combo? I wrote thos on my blog today. Purely satire of course.
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Microsoft claims the 360’s power and features go full circle on all aspects - including it’s ability to confuse the frak out of fans!

Rumors of Blu-ray integrated 360’s to be launched near years end to compete with Sony have been sending hope to fans not wanting to pay bloated marketplace rental fees for an inferior HD experience. Rumors would then be squashed only to return to headlines to be squashed again.

The truth - the Xbox 360 is a “work in progress” console with multiple personality SKU’s. Early adopters are just guinea pigs while Microsoft concentrates on it’s software library. Unfortunately concentrating on one’s software library leads to XBLA congestion and de-listing while hardware suffers “the ring”.

One insider source hints at “an E3 announcement” of a Blu-ray 360. Is the effort too little too late? How many SKU’s will be released until they get it “right” when people willing to wait on quality titles can go into a store this day to buy a Playstation 3 with everything they need for a true HD experience, minus in-game XMB and full featured online.

Are all these consoles really good for the market for us consumers to have a full featured entertainment experience? How many asses does it take to kiss to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Uniconsole? The world may never know.

haha sony is just a little bit butthurt.....

Wow that's stupid...It's not like master chief says ''ps3 sucks ass'' in the game. I found that cut scene unnecessary.

come on man. that was no jab. thats a bit of a reach i think

I thought it was more of a jab against previous MGS games like MGS1/ps1, Twin Snakes/gc, and Subsistance/ps2....all of which were 2 disc games.


But I guess that's just me, huh?

Sony had absolutely nothing to do with that.

It was funny, lighten up.

That was pretty gay. Personally I don't give 2 sh*ts about having multi disks but that's me and i bought a PS3 pretty much just for this game.

Whooo you have blu-ray built in? do you want a cookie sony?

Well, that's certainly mature of them.

And I don't see why this was posted on Xbox 360 (keyword there) Fanboy...

Is this the same Blu-ray that hasn't taken advantage of the market since it won the format war?

It has nothing to do with the 360, its poking fun from a scene in metal gear solid 1 where you had to switch disc's. dummies.

lol quite funny xD.. but i highly doubt that was about the 360.. as rom said.. i think it was about MGS1 and technology.. it wasn't perse the xbox 360.. it think it was trashing the old technology in general..


greeeetzz

I mean this is probably the safest place 4 MGS4 fans to come if they don't spoilers, no more, muhahahaha.
Also i think every1 know that the comm thing would come up at least once in the game

yea richard mitchell, you are obviously not seeing the humor there.

the joke is to the old mgs fans of old who had to switch disks, and by the way i cant stand when people just call bluray disks a 'hd' format. its just a physical disk format, it has nothing to do with the content on it.

cd dvd bluray flash memory and hard drives can all contain sd and hd content on them the only difference is storage capacity!

Call me when you get an awesome huge disk format that reads fast enough to play a game straight from disk

i.e no instal times

@iFester rumors of a blu-ray 360 have been in the air since sony announced it would have blu-ray

*please people stop the rumors

fanboy wars = people trying to hide the flaws in there system of choice by pointing out the flaws in others

ps3 has its ups and downs
360 has its ups and downs
wii has boom blox and a whole lot of downs

get on with life play yours games and stop crying

they seem to fail to mention slow read speeds of the Blu-ray drive/disc so you need to duplicate the data & ALSO install onto the Hard Drive.

In engine cut scenes anyone? well u could if u had any faith in your game engine.

compression anyone? Fable 2 can be compressed from 800GB to just 8GB!

I think some ppl are reading the joke too closely to the point that they believe it is joke against the 360. When I heard of the joke, I thought it was in regards to the previous MGS games where it tells you to change disk during a codec conversation. Almost all the previous metal gear games had mutliple disk

Just the idea of an optical format being revolutionary is ludicrous. Let's trust a company who has created two other proprietary formats in the last 15 years. Let's see there was the betamax...wow that failed miserably to VHS and was better technology. Then we have the mini-disc...which was decent technology. I even owned several mini-disc players...me and three other people. Microsoft is smart for not jumping into this new optical format bullshit. In 2010 when we get the Xbox 3 with impeded USB ports for flash drives PS3 owners are going to realize how fucked they are.

Is it me or can anyone spot the fansboys who are insulted by this joke? I know I can.

I mean this game is not the first to do the change disk joke(Monkey Island 1 did a similar jab in askin the gamer to insert a nonexistant floppy disk.) I think the only folks who are madare the ones who are way into this mindless "console wars" thingy.

Uh guys, clearly this is a shot at the nGage.

i am okay with dvd discs, and not having to load game info onto the hdd to be honest. Also the only possible reason the game wont fit onto a dvd disc is the stupidly long cutscenes, i would sooner play that watch, i have movies for that. The storyline is stupid anyway

@Grimm

It is a freaking joke that pokes fun of the previous game and not the 360. You can cry all you want and take this joke personally as if they said something bad about your family or take it as nothing as ajab agasint the old metal gear games that ask for disc B or disk 2.

It's a funny jab but what's the point in not having to swap discs when you have to stop in the middle of the game to install new content 5 times?

Apparently at points where you previously would've spent 10 seconds to swap a disc, you now wait 3 minutes for another install (6 total in the game counting the one at the start).

Hahaha the article and the comments are killing me. "Inferiority complex?" Hahaha Come on guys you can do better than that! Like, I don't know, "nananananana, at least we don't have installs that improve the experience" or "at least we only have a few games with multiple discs and PGR4 only had to remove the night/day cycles!" I didn't find the jab funny until I came here. I think this site has an inferiority complex actually. Had it ever occured to you that it might be a jab at Sony's own PS1? You know, since it's the only console where you as Solid Snake had to switch discs? But of course fanboys, give the joke some flesh. *wipes tears off face*

@Xav De Matos

LOL

Nah. I think this is a jab against the famicom disk machine. I mean you know that Kojima is not a fanboy with the old nintendo machine. LMAO

@Vcize

Can you watch cutscenes while swapping discs? I thought so.

So true, Slomo. I find this article funny as well, which is why I am makin alot of comments.

But yeah, it is a jab against the Gamecube twin snakes game, as well as the original solid game for the playstation. I don't see this as a jab against the 360. I can see this as a jab if the dialogue had something like "Oh wait, this is the ps3 and not that other console with the X as the logo."

LOL