Metal Gear Solid

[MikLSP]

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MrGarry2u wrote:
I wish I could down-vote the people who have not played MGS4 because it hasn't got trophies.
That's like me not wanting to buy a magazine because it didn't come with a poster this week, or not wanting to finish a book because there is nobody to clap and say well done. XD

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I didn't say that I had never played it because it had no trophies; I played, completed and proclaimed it to be the greatest game I had ever owned. Before I replayed it, there were rumours of trophies being added so I held off for them. It just turned out that between hopeful waiting and playing many other games, that ended up being quite a long time, lol.

Also trophies aren't just as simple as a "well done" pat on the back. They add more challenges to the game, making you try to achieve things you may not ordinarily do and therefore adding more value to the game imo

[SurrealNightmare]

I don't think he was talking about you specifically.

[MrGarry2u]

Wasn't talking about just you, this section of the forum, and other sites have been full of people who sit there with a perfectly awesome game and not play it because of a lack of Trophies. As a person who couldn't give a mile high flying f'jizzle about trophies it just sounded dumb to me, imo.

[SephirothGod]

The thing that annoys me about the trophies is they can't be unlocked if you've already achieved it on a previous playthrough.  For example there will probably be a trophy for getting all 40 emblems, I've already done this and don't want to play through the game another bunch of times just to get a trophy to say I've done so. Same with the Big Boss rank, which will hopefully(Since MGS3 never had a trophy for getting FoxHound ranking, which disappointed me) have a trophy but I cba going through all the suffering again when I can prove it with this: 

[MrGarry2u]

Yeah they're not about to give it retroactive trophies because I could jump online and get a 100% save then watch them all pop up, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, platinum. lol

EDIT: I've never been the type of guy to screen shot my scoreboards on offline games either, no offense. I'm the kind of guy who when I'm at the arcade and I get on the scoreboard I put N0B or BUM instead of my initials...

[SephirothGod]

I only took a screenshot of it because one of my friends challenged me to the BB run in under 2hrs 30mins, needed that as proof. 

[MrGarry2u]

And you kept the file for 4 years,
Nah... I wasn't having a dig, I remember coming on the forum and telling people how proud I was of my MGS4 run where I got Pigeon for no kills, Eagle for headshots and Wolf for using no rations all in my second playthrough lol.
I think it was Tarantula and Eagle in my first ever 17hour straight on release day playthrough lol I felt so ill from playing that long, but I think I've done worse than that on other games since.

[SephirothGod]

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MrGarry2u wrote:

And you kept the file for 4 years,
Nah... I wasn't having a dig, I remember coming on the forum and telling people how proud I was of my MGS4 run where I got Pigeon for no kills, Eagle for headshots and Wolf for using no rations all in my second playthrough lol.
I think it was Tarantula and Eagle in my first ever 17hour straight on release day playthrough lol I felt so ill from playing that long, but I think I've done worse than that on other games since.

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Actually I got challenged to do that over christmas so I've not had it that long .  I do still have my screenshot from my first big boss run 4 years ago though.  Its on computer taking up no room so I don't see the point in deleting it

[SurrealNightmare]

Konami have confirmed that we'll be receiving the patch next month and that there will be 34 trophies altogether.

The patch will also allow you to perform a full install of all 5 chapters.

[MikLSP]

I agree that obsessing over trophies ruins playing games as they were intended and it would indeed be a travesty to miss out on an experience like MGS4 just on the basis of trophies. There's no denying though that they add a further dimension and more replay value. I see them as a set of challenges which help to get more out of a game and I am glad I didn't overplay MGS4 originally to the point that I would not want to take up those challenges now.

Do you guys reckon the trophies will mirror the original emblems or disregard those all together? It would be nice to at least see some of those involved.