finally gonna find out what a Strand Game is

I have two dying PS2s and two possibly-faulty discs of this game and this is the only one for the four possible disc/PS2 combinations that didn't result in disc-read errors

yet

Instead of a recap of MGS 1's plot this game has an entire book?

sorry everyone I guess I'm reading 129 pages of text at 640x480

I should really have predicted that reading that would unlock a longer book

im gonna actually play the game

Hideo Kojima would like you to know that he has seen The Terminator (1984)

update: my R3 button is broken

I have another dualshock but its R1 button is broken

it is conceivable that with enough PS2s I could eventually play a videogame

Can Thew bike to the local game store before they close

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Update: Yes

For those keeping score: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty has thus far enlisted two discs, two PS2s, and three controllers

You would think this is the most trouble I've had with a PS2 game but actually Final Fantasy XII took ten years, five resets, a PS2, a PS3, a PC, a Windows XP virtual machine, and a GameShark save-transfer device from 2001:

haha this is so blatantly showing off

I miss graphics being primitive enough that every time you did something cool you could design a whole room just to be like cHECK THIS OUT: S H A D O W S

this still SORTA happens (the smoke effect in Control comes to mind) but I feel like it's less about blowing teenagers' minds and more industry tech artists/rendering engineers mainly showing off at each other lol

snake just sneezed and alerted the guard I was about to shoot what the hell

disc error lmao

the real question now is whether this means I need a third disc or a third PS2