Funny you mention ASUS. That's what I had in mind when I was talking about the quality of components. I wouldn't be surprised to learn I'm way out of date, not having been in the market for a year or two but in my experience with these things, ASUS motherboards typically were more expensive than budget-minded boards…

Well, I did not delve into recreating a Macbook Pro. I was just saying, in terms of the cheaper end stuff. In addition to pricing out a Mac Mini equivalent (which is what I opted for) I did notice at least at the time, most similarly equipped Ultrabooks were about the same price as a Macbook air.

I'm not sure about that. I spent a great deal of time working out pricing on a Hackintosh when I decided I wanted to switch. If I kept the components the same for same, it was only a hundred bucks cheaper at the time. And would come with no overall warranty and support. Apple's price is largely justified by the…

Dude that was from last year. I mention this myself in other pleaces in this thread.

Perhaps from your limited perspective. Not everyone interested in gaming on a computer is hoping to play every game released. Motives for purchasing a computer is a spectrum with a gray area, not as black or white as you.

Oh, the NES version's only inferior once you have the original to compare it to (plus have the internet to know Kojima hates it). It was absolutely awesome in the 80's. Made me a lifetime Metal Gear fan well in advance of the Solid games. I was really into GI Joe, and James Bond type spy stuff, and the NES game was…

Man, one of my buddies was "that rich kid" in school, and he had some whizbang incredible soundtable midi card. The shit sounded amazing! The Origin brand of games was just incredible during that era. If you saw Origin on the packaging, you knew it would be just an astounding experience.

Eh, if they're here complaining, they clicked on the link so Patricia did her job! Their job isn't necessarily "reporting", it's generating page views. People bitching and arguing over nothing actually helps her and the site a lot. XD

Awesome, thanks for the concise breakdown!

Haha, well if you do decide to give it a whirl at some point or another, I would suggest starting with MGS3. Although it's the 3rd game, it's the first in the timeline and rather self-contained. It's been released a few times over the years. There was the original PS2 release, the "Subsistence" edition release for…

It is mostly tied to MGS2's dangling threads, which is far and away the king of convoluted in this series. I liked the game, don't get me wrong, but there are quite a few WTF moments that are just left hanging.

Check a box? I'm not sure what you're saying here.

Well yeah, I played the MSX version too. It comes free with MGS3 Subsistence, although I played it via an emulator years before. I'm talking about the time when we only had the NES version available.

Haha, my boss made a photoshop edit of the lolcat "Srscat" dolled up as the Joker with the caption "Y SO SRS". Someone else is currently selling the image on magnets. Random shit gets around!

I'll just leave this here.

Of course he was. He was the de-facto clone of Big Boss!

Hey now! That game was awesome back then. :) :P

Oh I wasn't intending to sound insult-y on MGS2's meta, but it is a lot to swallow for some people and mostly where MGS gets the stigma for complexity.

Diving into a dumpster. For video games. Time for an addiction intervention, I think. :\

A good basic way to sum up the overall theme of the series is: