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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version I decided to play this over the week-end kind of on a whim because I needed something to distract me from impulse buying Tekken 8. I don't need another fighting game in my rotation right now, especially not with Persona 3 Reload coming out in less than a week. Anyway, I actually played the Tanker chapter a couple months back, right after I played MGS1, so I only had the Plant chapter left to play. I may have mentioned it back then but MGS2 is so much easier to slip back into. I never had any issues with the fixed camera angles and it just controls incredibly well overall, so I didn't struggle like I did with MGS1. Almost couldn't tell it was my first playthrough in over a decade. I'm sure some would find it dated by modern standards but for me this was one of those rare cases where the game was actually every bit as great as I remembered it to be. The story, in particular, has aged so well because of how prescient it was. Back then it was speculating about the future but now it's just describing the present lol. I'm kinda glad I held off on playing the meat of the game since that meant there's now a mod out that fixes the internal resolution. I was able to run it at 1440p without any issues. There's even some experimental support for ultrawide, which is a really cool option to have, but I ultimately decided to play the game on my 16:9 monitor because the ulrawide mod broke too much stuff during cutscenes. Seemed to work pretty well during gameplay, though. I'm so glad to finally have a version of these games on Steam. I've wanted to replay MGS2 and 3 in particular for quite a few years at this point, so it's great to finally have a version I can play whenever I want without having to dust off an old system. And thanks to modding, they're already the definitive versions and will only improve with time. I'll probably jump straight into MGS3 tonight. I went through MGS2 fairly quickly, so I should have plenty of time to finish it by friday.

Folks at work are doing a group and it was on sale so I'm diving in.