MSaturn

The first MGS remains one of my all-time favorite games. I don’t feel that 2 or 3 were quite as good. I wonder, if this rumor is true, if the remaster will be of the PS1 version or Twin Snakes? I’m partial to the original myself.

I played some of this a few years back on MAME. It’s very flashy. Definitely interested in picking it up now that it’s finally getting a home release!

I’ve never sold a system; by my count I have 18 now, going back to my childhood NES. But the truth is I rarely play on the old original hardware. Some of the consoles don’t work, and the rest don’t display well on modern tvs. In practice I have been using emulation and releases on modern platforms for almost all of my retro gaming for at least the last five years or so. Someday I’d like to get a game room with a crt, I’d refurbish the old systems, and I would use the original hardware again, but that’s not in the cards for now.

@BloodNinja I generally agree. I use a lot of emulation. At the same time, there is a purist part of me that feels that the original hardware will always be the most “authentic”. It is the “real snake” against which the copy must be judged.

It is impossible for the hardware, and the physical media that the games are on, to really last. The best, most authentic thing we can hope for is that clone systems become more and more accurate, and that we also start getting perfect cloned peripherals. Roms can be loaded on reproduction cartridges, and basically such a device could be thought of as “real” rather than emulated. This will probably always be a niche thing, the level of commitment required to buy all that hardware. For most people, software emulation will be “good enough”. That is all that can be done.

That Nintendo Power quote about "squeamish players" being bothered by the death animations is really interesting to me because of a specific memory I have about this game. I was playing it at a friend's house... I can't recall the exact situation, but I think I had brought the game over and we were just messing around with cheat codes. Anyway, we open a door and there's an enemy soldier standing right there. Startled, my friend shoots the enemy in the face with a machine gun and at exactly that moment his mom walked into the living room. She gasped and screamed and then started yelling for us to turn the game off, then she sat down on the couch and literally wept. She was extremely disturbed by the realism of the death animation, and I clearly remember her saying "How long before you can see the pain on their face?" Needless to say I did not bring Goldeneye back to that friend's house. I think he just came to my house to play it, lol.

Gimmick! Is a fantastic game, but it’s very difficult to get the good ending without save scumming and the like. This remaster sounds like it could be good; definitely something to keep an eye on.

I can’t say I’ve played them all but of the ones I have played R4 is my favorite by far.

I will most likely pick this up. I enjoyed Blazing Chrome and I thought Oniken and Odallus were quite good too.

I’ve had trouble getting into these games, which is weird because they sound on paper like something I ought to like. People used to say they were like NES games, but more fair. I disagree, they seem much less fair than (good) NES games, like Ninja Gaiden or Castlevania. More punitive and more disrespectful of the players. I’d like to overcome this eventually though and really get into them.

I was a big fan of Robotech and Macross back in the day. I remember reading about this game and being really excited for it. I kept waiting and waiting but it never came out. There was also a PS1 Macross game that was supposed to get a Western release. A demo made it onto one of the OPM demo discs. I played that demo over and over and kept waiting for the game to come out. It never did - but I kept that demo disc for many years. Eventually we got Battlecry.

I actually prefer the Alpha games. I had trouble choosing between Alpha 2 and 3... I ultimately voted for 3, but they're pretty much tied for me.

A retro bundle of the Ridge Racer games, up through, say, R4 would be an immediate purchase for me.