Here's How Much Better Metal Gear Solid 4 Looks on PS5

Have the steel book version on preorder, honestly can't wait relive this game!

@Oram77 OI! THIS POST DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH PHYSICAL GAMES, STOP MOVING THE DISCUSSION AWAY FROM THE TOPIC OF THE ARTICLE

(joking of course, I was just having a little fun )

Looking forward to this collection and news that they have bumped up the resolution and FPS is really welcome. I still need to pick up a copy of MGS3 Delta and play that ahead of this release though.

I have Metal Gear Solid 4 for PS3 on disc and a PS3 I will stick with that version because it's cheaper for me.

Can not wait for MGS4 again!!!!

Is Konami trolling with that video?

A whole new generation of Metal Gear Solid 3 fans can now get pissed off at the fates of their favourite characters.
Oh, and make yourself a nice cup of tea and a sandwich before sitting down. MGS4 is at least 50% cutscene. In a series famous for forcing you to put the controller down for long periods, this one is where things got stupid.

I've just Googled and the final cutscene is 71 minutes and there are a total of 8 hours of non-interactive scenes throughout the game. I really don't remember it being this crazy when I played it on PS3.

PW didn't seem like a stealth game to me. I vaguely remember not being able to sidle or crawl, etc. I'm the one person that favors Portable Ops.

@LikelySatan You could crouch walk, but not slide or crawl. I think it was done that way to balance the PSP games' more basic AI and level design.

It's been a few years. I'll probably wait a bit on this one since the first compilation is selling for less than $20 - I don't imagine it will take long for this one to follow suit. I've already bought a silly amount this year, and September isn't going to be kind.

@kyleforrester87

I see what you did there!🤣🤣

I remember when this first came out on PS3 and people were joking that the deluxe edition comes with popcorn and candy 🤣

That being typed, I am very much looking forward to playing and watching.

This is good, isnt it?

@LifeGirl
That’s why MGS5 was cassette tape recordings for the lore, Kojima did learn from MGS4.

@ShadowRJ Difference being I would say the same thing even if it was a code in the steel book

@kyleforrester87 I was going to make a cheeky comment about MGS 4 but you beat me to it.

Of all people, I'm glad Big Boss himself made the joke.

@Thelegend159 Cassettes were Peace Walker first, It's a "Tactical Espionage Operations" thing that PW and V are as opposed to the "Tactical Espionage Action" way of doing things that MGS 1-4 are.

The "Operations" genre was made to be played in smaller sessions so codecs were moved to something you can listen to as and when.

There's a whole crazy amount of stuff Kojima was going for with the Operations genre that he went really deep in to with V, but all that is far too much for a comment section.

@SMJ Those are insane numbers for the embedded videos, I remember it feeling like a Lord of The Rings style marathon at times, but like you I don’t remember it being quite that excessive. I’m not even sure I’d sit through that length now.

Rose tinted glasses and all that I guess! Happy memories though!

@SMJ lol how could you forget? The Old Snake smoking loading screens, forum posts that had each cutscene's length and what act they're in so people could plan when to play the game so they don't get stuck on one of the feature length cutscenes before having to go to school or work.

@YOLOsapien I'm getting old and clearly just remember the fun parts! 😂

I wished they'd really remake the games, not like delta but actually rework gameplay and dialogue. I'm a huge mgs fan and still find that the gameplay and dialogue hasn't aged as well as some die hards would want you to believe. After death stranding 2 I don't think Kojima would remake his game 1:1. He's still somewhat overindulgent, but he did learn some new tricks.

@LiamCroft

"At its best, Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS3 was only 1080p."

I think I read somewhere that MGS4 ran at 1024x768 natively, which is a 4:3 ratio, so the game is effectively rendered vertically stretched and then horizontally stretched and scaled to go up to 1080p.

So basically a waste of money then

@wildcat_kickz How is it trolling? The Peace Walker cutscenes are no longer using 240p PSP assets.

@SMJ That's because when people remember fond things they take a small clip and preserve that in their mind and then convince themselves an entire experience or point in time was amazing when in reality you've just blocked out all the bad that surrounded the brief amount of good.

@Orpheus79V Showing sharper still image cutscenes is completely meaningless, at least to me. Show me improved actual gameplay. It's like they showed a sharper title card.

@wildcat_kickz Oh right, fair enough. Well to be fair they have shown a lot of footage of gameplay, for MGS4 at least, with YouTubers and Twitter clips. Not sure why it's not in the article since the headline is about MGS4 looking better, but alas.

It's MGS4, at 4K60FPS with some higher resolution textures. Stuff like Playboy mags and the iPod are still in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBD-zhoA4hQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgTF_IPjnU

@Orpheus79V Ah fair deal - I didn't realize they had other stuff. Yeah, MGS4 looks fantastic in those videos! If only the piss filter was removed, but alas, I know they're basically just ports and I can't expect an artistic pivot. 😂

Love MGS4. It's right up there with Snake Eater. ❤️

It's great and all that but man I do love MGS4 on the ps3. It kind of sums the console up for me and just feel right.

Easily my favourite MGS so really looking forward to it still. Even though I've finished it like maybe 15 times or so over over the years and already once this year

I played Ghost Babel on Motorola MPx220 (Windows Mobile) via emulator. Now to replay at 4K!

Hype for this is boundless. Been crazy obsessed with MGS since PS1

Can’t wait to play MGS4 again! I’ve always said it it’s my favorite GOAT, but I haven’t played it in 18 or so years.

All I can remember from MGS4, is getting bored to death, by the insane amount of cutscenes. Even though it's been almost two decades later, I doubt I would be able to "play" it again. Especially these days, when I have even less patience, for long cutscenes. 😮‍💨

@zidane4028 Yep, it was nowhere near 1080p, regardless of output resolution.

I'm excited to revisit both games. I haven't played either one in over a decade.

@MrHabushi I remember even the manual had an image of the game in its native res, 4:3 and vertically stretched, that they forgot to correct before going to print.

Mentions how good mgs4 looks on ps5. proceeds to show only peace walker animated cutscene...

Loved the early Metal Gear games and enjoyed Metal Gear Solid TPP and Delta the newer remake. However I remember bouncing off 4 pretty hard and not particularly enjoying it. Is it worth playing through it?