I'm upset! The
Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is released tomrrow and reviews are out... they're not promising either!
The problem boils down to the piss poor
MGS1 port! I know I gave the Shenmue HD port on PS4XB1 grief for being in 4:3... and I still resent it! But thsi is even worse because the game isn't even upscaled. I would actually go further in saying it is worse than playing in on a 480P monitor because it is stretched to a HD-4K screen! It just looks nasty with rought jagged edges on every texture. I can't enjoy the game like this can will just have to emulate it.
What stings is that had this Master Collection never happened we may have got
MGS1 as a PS Premium title - Which offer Fullscreen Stretch & Upscaling options! I would have loved this as the PS+ Premium games have all been great so far! Sadly, I can't see that happening as there is already this version of MGS1 available, so I can't see them making the effort.
I have no beef with
MGS2 or
MGS3, clearly they're just the PS3/360 HD Collection versions made by BluePoint but even that I can play on my backwards compatible Xbox One X which upscales them to 1080P (Or maybe even 4K?).
The thing is, there is plenty of effort put into the Extras - Digital Encyclopedias, Comics even the MSX/NES versions of MG1 & MG2. But all that is secondary to the core games which see no improvement from previous releases. I don't feel the need for tne endless amount of remakes we're getting these days, I'm happy with Updated ports that take the original experience but modernise it via widescreen/widestretching, resoultion and framerate upgrades - I see the point of a release like this to to preserve the original experience but make it accessible and the go-to version to play, this Master Collection does none of that,