Official Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance thread

[Kinopio]

I'd much rather have the original Metal Gear included somewhere in the game, especially if you can upload it to your GBA.

[kingoffighters]

Old thread was locked, so dakidski can't ask his question (and afraid to post a new thread).

I have no such reservations.

[nameless_one]

Who is this Raiden character and why am I not playing as snake. Is the whole game going to be like this!

[StriderKyo]

Old thread was locked, so dakidski can't ask his question (and afraid to post a new thread).

I have no such reservations.

I unlocked the thread and merged this with it. And just for fun, I included Johnny Nighttrain's hysterical "Substance coming to Gamecube for free" thread as a bonus.

[dakidski]

Now I have performance anxiety. Give me a second.

[MechDeus]

This thread lives on through your arms.

[StriderKyo]

why wouldn't they sell [Gamecube MGS2] 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.

Come on, it just makes sense, people!

[dakidski]

Well, my question wasn't anything serious. I was just wondering if a vanilla MGS2 savegame worked on MGS2:Substance. (both ps2) It didn't. That clues me they are not completely identical, and some code was changed. So I was wondering what differences, contentwise, there was between the two versions?

I noticed that Snake can get a cold on the tanker chapter in Substance. I don't remember that from the regular edition. Also, wikipedia tells me that Substance "includes a new infrared effects for the thermal goggles and a new set of dog tags".

[GohanX]

dakidski:

I have MGS2 regular on PS2 and Substance on Xbox. There really isn't much of anything different in the main game mode that I could tell. I'm pretty sure Snake could catch a cold in the original, but it didn't happen very often. The man difference is all the extra stuff they added, like Snake Tales and all the VR missions.

[nameless_one]

MGS2 runs worse on the xbox.