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PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
The European Metal Gear Online beta is now up and running.
You spotted it and you reported it. And you will hold a place in our heart.
There was panic that the beta, pushed back from earlier in the week, would not make it for the weekend.
These worries have been dispersed like a bad smell in the open and you are free to competitively give it to each other online.
Metal Gear Online - you should know by now - is the online game in the Metal Gear series. It's coming out on the same day as Metal Gear Solid 4 and is jolly good fun.
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elephant_stone
25/04/08 @ 14:19
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Woo hoo - updating now! *stops all other internet activity in the house in order to increase download speed!*
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superjag86
25/04/08 @ 14:20
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I've just tried it and it's solid (no pun intended!) but don't expect too much. Takes abit of getting used to and doesn't feel responsive enough to be an online shooter. Also it doesn't compare favourably to CoD4.
I'm definitely going to stick at it, but probably only until Tuesday... ;) |
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GreasyWeasel
25/04/08 @ 14:44
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I managed to go through the training stuff before the servers gave up under the strain.
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ElasticTangent
25/04/08 @ 15:05
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@Man_s - Just checked and I can't see it either. It's also not on the US Store as far as I can see. Looks like it's been removed.
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rhinoxious
25/04/08 @ 15:13
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Total Pain in the Ass.
turn on PS3, download latest update ... wait install latest update ... wait download beta .. wait install beta ... wait update beta to latest version ... wait a long time get a konami log-in thingy ... website paralysed try and get on a game ... no joy I've never wasted so much time trying to play a demo/beta. Massive kudos to IW for the COD4 beta, nil points for Konami for this shit. |
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Finally played it and.......what the hell was the fuss about?
Trank guns that mean you have to go kill the person anyway otherwise they just wake up and kill you. team-o-vision or whatever they call those strange symbols. No actual objectives. I bloody well hope the single player experience is a hell of a lot better than this. Well I'm permenantly offline from the MGO beta now (deleted from my PS3) so someone who actually likes it can have a go in my stead. |
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thomasbeff
25/04/08 @ 15:33
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@penhalion
Do you think it looks fugly? Fuck all improvement over MGS3 imo. |
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superjag86
25/04/08 @ 15:36
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ooh it does run in 1080P tho! not that anyone really cares about that...
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@thomasbeff
Looks better than MGS3 but, not by much. The environments look good it's just the gameplay itself that turned me off. Any metal gear fans will understand where I'm coming from on this. The controls are like the single player metal gear. Even down to how you go about selecting stuff. You are given the option of some powerful guns that fire tranquilizers?!?!?! There is zero benefit to using them as people simply wake up and use REAL ammo to kill you. It looks funny putting the entire opposing team to sleep except it doesn't actually help you in any way shape or form. I actually killed the entire enemy team after they all seemed to have choosen trank guns??!! They seemed genuinely suprised by this. Maybe I'm missing some deeper gameplay elements but, I doubt it. |
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It's taking forever to download the 1.1 patch and now I have a 1.2 patch to download after that, ugh.
I don't have the gaming time to waste on crap like this, I'm going to delete it and wait for the full game in June. However, if the hassles with the beta are anything to go by, I don't think MGS online will be getting much of my time. Konami - first impressions count, take note. |
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@thomasbeff
I thought it looked pretty poor yeah, considering the hype behind MGS4. Also noticed the framerate drop pretty bad on the Blood Bath map I think, at the start. Was not impressed with my first five minutes, just as well it comes free with MGS4, but I will now have just a small element of doubt about that game, and may hold off until some reviews. @penhalion Agree about using the single player controls. They don't work well in MP. I'm not too sure how the tranquilliser gun is supposed to improve gameplay if it's as useless as you say, seems very silly. |
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I agree with the "meh" comments. Gameplay definately gets some used to, and seems to play very slugishly at times especially trying to do CQC. Noticed some framrate drops as well. I'll probably play some over the weekend, but after all the bloody hassle of getting on to play this, I am somewhat disappointed.
On the plus side, it only took 2 attempts to get in! Been dropped from 2 games so far, but thats out of like 20 so its in the minority. |
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Jonathan_Fakenham
25/04/08 @ 17:19
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Just waded through every little box and category on the PSN store. It's not bloody there!
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solidSnake04
25/04/08 @ 17:23
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guys i have been a fan of MGS series since the PSX times.
if you have played the MGS3 online then expect something similar...similar, not equal. it does take sometime to get used to and it surely must play like the single player mode. some interesting moves for you to pull off like lying on your back, and the CQC is a bit different. I'm not that impressed. Don't know if I ever will be after playing COD 4 |
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JediMasterMalik
25/04/08 @ 17:27
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I really like it, not the most intuitive of games, but it's definitely fun.
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solidSnake04
25/04/08 @ 17:31
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it has its moments but in all my honesty, by todays standards its not that much of a robust and/or impressive online experience... maybe 1 hour play wasn't enough but i doubt it very much
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I've only been through the first part of the training parts a few hours ago, but I'm looking forward to playing tonight - assuming I don't end up in line on the login server.
Can't say I was all that impressed by the visuals in the training levels though. It certainly makes it look like the developer quotes a week or two ago about having to scale back their original vision quite severely because of hardware limitations, was just plain bullshit. They might not have been referring strictly to graphics alone, but surely that always what's going to put by far the most pressure on the system? Doesn't really look like that's the case here from what I've seen so far, even assuming the singleplayer MGS4 does manage to impress a bit more visually. |
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solidSnake04
25/04/08 @ 17:44
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Im pretty sure the single player will be well impressive. MGS have always been spot on, to me at least...
Online is one hell of a different story. For instance, MGS3 was impressive in almost every respect, apart from the online component which i disliked somewhat.
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@AZA
In what way? I was under the impression most games on Live are peer to peer? Halo 3, CoD4 etc? Not knocking Live as I have a 360 and am happy with the multiplayer, CoD4 runs great 99% of the time online. Warhawk for example though uses dedicated servers as well as p2p. I dunno how Konami does the online, but dedicated would be the way to go, I agree. Just a guess here, but it wouldn't surprise me if Sony removed the download so no more people got hold of the client to put any more stress on the servers than there already is. Although it was an open beta, maybe they've had a change of heart and seen sense since what seems like the whole install base of PS3 has downloaded this beta. |
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thomasbeff
25/04/08 @ 19:30
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@Apostle
Exactly. The basic game mechanics and graphic simply aren't good enough. Before this i would have bought MGS4 without any doubts. Now im really going to have wait for reviews. |
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