News: Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 Announced

[st3ve]

I haven't played portable ops, admittedly, but wasn't the portability of the PSP a pretty big part of the game? I mean, I imagine most features could be reworked to work on home consoles, but tbh I don't think konami will be arsed to put in that kind of work anytime soon. I'm guessing vol. 3 will bring at least rising and the acids, but I dunno if portable ops would be likely to appear.

[Wayno]

Portable Ops is like Peace Walker and if that can be remastered and what not so can Portable Ops. They play the same. Only Peace Walker's Fulton system is much better than the box system in Portable Ops and Portable Ops's everything else is much better than everything else in Peace Walker.

[VRAM OK!]

Very disappointing MPO and Acid aren’t included.

I don’t ascribe to the idea that PO isn’t canon, because it was released as a direct sequel to MGS3 and its evens  are clearly referenced in both MGS4 and Peace Walker. But even that aside, the fact that games likes Snake’s Revenge and Ghost Babel have or are being included demonstrates this should be a complete MG collection, regardless of whether the games are main line or not, the entire series should be included in these volumes. I’m hoping it’s just the case that so much effort was put into porting MGS4 that they didn’t have time for porting MPO or Acid 1/2 and that those games will appear on the next collection, but I’m not optimistic.

I'm with you. MPO to me is a critical part of Big Boss' journey, it shows him going from a lone soldier to someone assembling his own group of soldiers and learning how to lead. I never understood what is gained if it isn't canon? I didn't feel any of the characters were too out there to exist in canon. Cunningham is a far more believable villain than anything in Peace Walker for instance.

I'm wondering if stuff such as the SIXAXIS, iPod, and MacBook will remain. A lot of people are acting like they won't make the jump but it'd be a shame if they're debranded-I always thought the way Kojima used real brands really helped to ground MGS despite all it's zaniness.

Yeah it seems to take far more effort and mental gymnastics for people to justify their stance that PO isn’t canon. It seems to be purely off comments from Hideo disparaging the game. But for all intent and purposes and it was unambiguously marketed and released as a direct sequel to Snake Eater. There was nothing about it that suggested it would some sort of spin off side mission in the same vein as Ghost Babel. When it was released and in the immediate years after, there wasn’t even any contention about its status in the series.