Official Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance thread

Game Informer is reporting that Silicon Knights is porting MGS2 to GameCube to be released along side Twin Snakes.

anyways, this sounds very believable to me. but as far as it's release goes, i think it's gonna be one of 2 things. they're either gonna bundle it in with Twin Snakes, or give it away to people that Pre-Order Twin Snakes.
no way in hell are they gonna release it and sell it seperately though.

anyways, here's hoping that it's a port of Substance, because i've been waiting for that to drop to $20 before picking it up, but hey, if i can get it free, then awesome.

why wouldn't they sell it seperately?

do you really have to ask? look at it this way. why would they?

well, let's see...

it would compete with Twin Snakes. that right there already guarentees it won't happen. Nintendo doesn't release budget titles, and there's no way in hell they're gonna release a 2 year old game at full price. and the whole giving games away with pre-orders has worked very very well for them.

i don't see how you could even question that one. no way they're gonna release MGS2 for sale.

Substance?

Eithery way I couldn't care less.

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Originally Posted by Lucas Barton

do you really have to ask? look at it this way. why would they?

well, let's see...

it would compete with Twin Snakes. that right there already guarentees it won't happen. Nintendo doesn't release budget titles, and there's no way in hell they're gonna release a 2 year old game at full price. and the whole giving games away with pre-orders has worked very very well for them.

i don't see how you could even question that one. no way they're gonna release MGS2 for sale.

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That didn't stop Capcom from releasing RE 3 Nemesis and RE 2 for $39. Shame on you Capcom.

Besides I have MGS2 Substance for PS2 already so I see little reason to buy it unless it has even more considerable features/tweaked stuff.

Nintendo would never release a two year old game as new? Well, that hasn't stopped them from selling decade-old games as new on the GBA, nothing stopping them from doing it on the GC. I hope they do include MGS 2 (any version) as a pre-order freebie though, as it would give folks more of a reason to buy the game who otherwise would just wait for a price drop. It would probably also help move some systems as well.

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Originally Posted by Will

That didn't stop Capcom from releasing RE 3 Nemesis and RE 2 for $39.

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and Capcom became Nintendo when?

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Originally Posted by Jeremy

Nintendo would never release a two year old game as new? Well, that hasn't stopped them from selling decade-old games as new on the GBA

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decade old games that a whole generation haven't played. and i hope you're not talking about $5 eCard games. that's far from full price obviously.
i don't see how you could compare the 2. once again, the GBA games are games that a whole generation of gamers haven't played. MGS2 is 2 years old, and can be bought on 2 other systems. For $20 no less.

If they released a Substance version on GC (which I think they would have to - I don't see how they can release plain old MGS2 when a newer version is pretty old itself) it would sorta make sense.

Even still, way to be a step behind everyone else, Nintendo. You almost make it seem cool.

what is it with you guys being so against the idea of it being a pre-order freebie?

I was referring to the GBA ports of games, not the e-reader stuff, which I'm actually a fan of. Seeing them release those games at a rock-bottom price is a great way to introduce folks to them. I'm not against them putting MGS 2 or Substance in as pre-order freebies, I just doubt they will do it.