Metal Gear Solid HD Collection - Import

mountaincow · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:17

So I just found out that this was delayed, I feel a bit gutted as I was planning on blasting through my favourite series over christmas.

Can someone confirm that PS3 is region free? If so, please advise the best place to buy the game from to hopefully get it next week.

Also does the asian version have english audio and subtitles?

Thanks very much in advance!

TALON1973 · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:23

i thought the delay was worldwide ?

sunny007 · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:27

Yes PS3 is region free.

Someone from here has bought the game, they posted it in the I bought in November or December thread !

mountaincow · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:28

It seems to be out in America at least, I also see Asian versions of the game up for sale already!

sunny007 said:
Yes PS3 is region free.

Someone from here has bought the game, they posted it in the I bought in November or December thread !

Thanks for that, I will look see if they mention a store name.

K1LLSW1TCH · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:29

Yeah it's out in North America, you can import or wait until next February when we should be getting it. Region 1 will work fine.

mountaincow · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:37

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Yeah it's out in North America, you can import or wait until next February when we should be getting it. Region 1 will work fine.

Any idea why it was delayed till February? :confused:

I would hate to import and then find out a couple of months time that the European version has some extras or maybe slight differences that were in the original European versions (I don't know I'm just clutching!).

K1LLSW1TCH · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:38

Probably localisation and all that stuff.

nolimit · 13 Dec 2011 at 22:47

I purchased the North American version in mid November and it works with the UK PS3, even the trophies work with UK account.

Got it from a popular online retail store with marketplace, from a seller called Games Centre. It was purcahsed for £30 at the time.

mountaincow · 14 Dec 2011 at 03:57

Thanks for the help but it looks like the cheapest I can get it will be about £48, which although worth it just for Snake Eater in HD, is too much for me to splash out just to play over christmas. Especially with this great year of games to catch up on.

JoeBoi · 14 Dec 2011 at 06:54

Try looking at Video Games Plus I brought it from them via eBay but their website would be a good place too look.

sunny007 · 14 Dec 2011 at 07:55

Auction site got some for around £34.99

pauLAW · 14 Dec 2011 at 10:45

I love MGS and when I heard it was coming out again as part of the HD collection I was going to order it straight away but.....

How can they call this a collection when its missing the first game? how can they not include MGS1?! I raised this issue before and someone said "well MGS1 is available on the PSN".....well so what?

MGS1 should be included with the "collection", they have even done a remake for the gamecube so why are PS gamers not given this too?

mountaincow · 15 Dec 2011 at 00:07

pauLAW said:
I love MGS and when I heard it was coming out again as part of the HD collection I was going to order it straight away but.....

How can they call this a collection when its missing the first game? how can they not include MGS1?! I raised this issue before and someone said "well MGS1 is available on the PSN".....well so what?

MGS1 should be included with the "collection", they have even done a remake for the gamecube so why are PS gamers not given this too?

I thought I read a while ago that a remake of MGS1 is being done, although separate from the HD collection. I did try twin snakes and I have to say I couldn't enjoy it with different voice actors, so I really hope that it is never used as the remake.

K1LLSW1TCH · 15 Dec 2011 at 04:30

I assumed that there's a coupon bundled in the box, good for one free download of the Playstation version of MGS1.

TheVoice · 15 Dec 2011 at 06:30

Jazzerman said:
I thought I read a while ago that a remake of MGS1 is being done, although separate from the HD collection. I did try twin snakes and I have to say I couldn't enjoy it with different voice actors, so I really hope that it is never used as the remake.

As far as I'm aware the voice actors are the same, just that their performances had to be recorded again because the quality of the original MGS files was too poor to use in a newer game. It does mean however that their performances are a bit different, and for the most part it's Twin Snakes that comes off second-best in terms of pacing, emphasis etc.

Earth[Tera].bin · 15 Dec 2011 at 06:59

I picked up the the Asian version from Ebay and can confirm everything is in English ,so if you cannot wait then that's an option . Although at this time of year I'd imagine it'll take a while to get delivered.

antijoke · 15 Dec 2011 at 07:33

They couldn't do MGS 1 because the assets couldn't be used from the first game due to how low the quality is.

Yes it sucks, but at least they are not doing a Capcom.

Alrik · 15 Dec 2011 at 11:09

anticonscience said:
They couldn't do MGS 1 because the assets couldn't be used from the first game due to how low the quality is.

That's the thing that ruins this HD collection for me the fact that they didn't include the Twin Snakes version. If they had it would have been an instant buy for me because I've not played any of them, but there's little point in me buying it when it's missing the first game.

I understand why they couldn't do it, but it just sucks that they didn't.

Billythekid · 15 Dec 2011 at 11:39

im thinking of getting a ps3 again for this, absolutely love metal gear.

pauLAW · 15 Dec 2011 at 11:59

anticonscience said:
They couldn't do MGS 1 because the assets couldn't be used from the first game due to how low the quality is.

Yes it sucks, but at least they are not doing a Capcom.

I understand the issue but its 2011 and they can sort it out, might cost them more money than they was planning to spend but for me its not a MGS collection without the game that started it all.