Topic: What PS3 game(s) are you currently playing?

@Thrillho takes a lot of skill to guide that remote control missile up a snowy ramp through a glade and to hit a sniper in blizzard conditions... don’t let anyone tell you any different 🤫

@Thrillho @colonelkilgore I always used the Nikita for the second one. I'm pretty sure you can just hit the side of the tree she's hiding behind to get her. The sniper + diazepam is good enough for the first battle though

@Thrillho @ralphdibny hey, a living legend's gotta do what a living legend's gotta do right 💥

@ralphdibny hey, so I've beaten vulcan raven for the second time, have I got much game left? Not that I like to spoil things or anything, nor am I not enjoying it but im 'spinning multiple plates' and I need to know so I can apportion the sufficient time.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy cool, it does feel like that too tbh... cheers foxy

@colonelkilgore it's hard to say to be honest. I remember the last bit to be quite long because there is a bit of backtracking. Only through the areas your in now and are yet to visit though. I'd say a few hours left I reckon! It might feel like longer when you are playing

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy oh it's a classic alright, one thing that has struck me... fairly profoundly actually, is that although it was a huge step forward for video games... and that is why it's rightly viewed so seminally, a fair old percentage of the satisfaction I get from it is in the 'old-school' video game-ness of it. Its great

@ralphdibny okay, in fairness the back tracking can seem off-putting at the thought of having to do it... and then you actually do it and it only takes like 15 minutes... so that's not necessarily a bad thing.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I think it's just because it's right at the end of the game so you think you are basically done and then you have to go back. It's a cool gimmick, the first time you do it anyway but it wears thin after a few play throughs and I have done a few. Gotta get me that tux and cyborg ninja outfit! 😅

@colonelkilgore Even better than the Nikita trick is that crossing the minefield before the first Sniper Wolf fight is even easier than you might think as you can just run straight across rather than follow Meryl!

@Thrillho yeah I've kinda noticed that since actually... I've gone back and forth over that area a few times since and didn't bother trying to recall Meryll's footsteps... just ran in a straight line without issue.

The one area that pi**es me off is the cave system just before that full of wolves. I seem to waste a fair amount of ammo in there.

@colonelkilgore If you have the handkerchief with Wolf's scent on it, have it equipped and they'll leave you alone. I think if you hide in a box in that section then one of them can pee on you too!

@Thrillho I knew there must've been a way to make that easier... cool, cheers Thrill I'll remember that.

@colonelkilgore @RogerRoger

Metal Gear Solid is done and what a game it was (still is)! So that’s MGS3, MGS: PW, MGSV and MGS down, MGS2, MGS4 and MG Rising left. Gonna have a little break from the series but I’ll be returning to them later in the year.

@RogerRoger thanks Rog, yeah I’m really looking forward to 2 & 4 (& Rising to be fair) but I think a breather after knocking out two on the head (4 in six months) is the right decision to ensure I get the most out of them. I tend to agree with your tastes more often than not so the fact you hold 2 and 4 in such high regard will be a great motivator come July when I start Sons of Liberty.

@RogerRoger @colonelkilgore I really don’t think that much of 4 but I think it suffers from the fact that it’s a longer game than the others; I have played 1-3 through many many times but 4 only the once.

I remember the big parts of the plot but actually remember very little of the gameplay itself.

@Thrillho well I’ll be going for the plat on it so... just the 8 (minimum) play through required, including the dreaded Big Boss run. The anxiety is already prevalent!

@RogerRoger never apologise for personal tastes dude, if there is one thing us ‘Sony-ponies’ can learn from those ‘xbots’ it’s that 🤣

@colonelkilgore I think I'm with @RogerRoger in that the poignancy of MGS4 is best served while the previous entries are still fresh in your mind.

It's just so convoluted that more stuff will make sense if you remember characters and their fates from MGS 1 and 3 more clearly. But as you say, you will be doing minimum 8 run throughs so I doubt there will be a lot that will pass you by! 😅

@ralphdibny will keep that in mind Ralph, I’m pretty good with keeping track of characters within long running narratives though. Also, I enjoy watching ‘lore’ videos on the games I’m into (obviously stopping the videos before they pass my current position in the overall series though), which will help with that. Just this morning I watched a couple of good ones about Gray Fox and Kazuhira Miller. The Metal Gear lore is so rich, its way different but it reminds me to delving into the lore of Dark Souls. There is so much background information if a person can be bothered (I know I’m preaching to the converted with you though, a man with an obsession level of over 9000 and all that 😉).