Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Getting volume 1 of the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection last year felt like collecting the penultimate stone of the Infinity Gauntlet to me, a man who still essentially lives in 2005 when it comes to the videogames he plays. Finally, one of console gaming’s best, biggest, most iconic series had made the transition to PC (though, to be fair, GOG had the OG PC versions of 1 and 2 for a while before that). Sure, the ports left a little to be desired, but even the rickety state of the games didn’t do much to dampen my enthusiasm about finally having MGS3 on a platform I actually own.
I say the «penultimate» stone because, of course, some games were missing, weren’t they? The Master Collection’s first volume only contained the original Metal Gears plus Metal Gear Solid 1 through 3. Games like Peace Walker, Acid, Ghost Babel, and Portable Ops were all absent, as was—most notably—Metal Gear Solid 4, the only entry in the mainline series not to get a proper port to at least one other platform ever since it hit PS3 16 years ago.
