I guess we’re never gonna get over this. What does anyone care anyway? It just gives Xbots something to say “Ha ha! We took this from PlayStation” just to be what people hate about fanboys. But really, what does everyone care anyway? I remember going to midnight launch for this game and was excited. I’d never really played the series prior to this. I’d heard a lot about it and had played the demo of Metal Gear Solid that came with our PlayStation (yeah, you used to get a disc (CD) that had a variety of games to try out back then) but Metal Gear Solid 4 was the game to finally sell me on the series and I started with Metal Gear Solid 3, I had in my game collection, and played them in order until I got to MGS4 and was so excited.
But, I remember seeing all the criticisms of the game leading up to that point and even beyond. Everyone griped about the installation of the game but even more they griped about the length of the cutscenes. They couldn’t even begin to try and understand Kojimas style, that beat the crap outta what he ended up doing to appease everyone with MGSV and later Death Stranding (a walking simulator) but there was plenty of gameplay in Metal Gear Solid 4.
So, if everyone just wants to gripe about lengthy cutscenes and not enough gameplay, then why bother, just let a living legend sleep where it lies. I believe it was on SONYs Streaming Service PlayStation Now for a while too, you remember when games could be streamed over the internet? Remember when you could do that in late 2000s with OnLive and Gaikai that eventually became PlayStation Now? Remember that? So, if y’all just want to gripe about it, why bother putting the effort and resources into it just long enough for Xbots to say “Ha ha! We stole PlayStation’s exclusive game” and then never play it and then continue to complain about how long the cutscenes are?
Let it go, just like letting it go that Starfield is never going to come to PlayStation. Honestly, I’d rather have Gears of War anyway. Microsoft isn’t doing anything else with the original trilogy and Xbots have gotten their full with it, if I were Microsoft, I’d port it to the PlayStation to make even more money off of it. Nobody said they had to do Gears 4, 5, and Tactics, but there’s money to be made just like Epic was going to do, Xbox didn’t want it anymore, they’d had their fill. It’s money Microsoft is just throwing away when they want to make more money, but want to spend $70 billion to make money, there’s other ways to make money you’re just not looking at