Trophies... thats the only thing that would make the best game ever even better, i still played it through 3 times and then tryed for the BigBoss Emblem which i couldnt do, that was insane.

I did it on my second playthrough, though at the beginning I didn't think I would finish it with BBE, I just wanted to know how far I could go.

The second worst part (difficulty wise) was the motorcycle chase in act 3 but the absolute worst part was the Vamp boss battle. Being only my second playthrough I hadn't defeated the beasts non-lethally (just laughing octopus and ??? mantis) so I didn't have the solar gun. It took me the better part of a day to kill the fucker with the M82A sniper rifle (well, one evening and part of a morning).

At one point I stopped to sleep and when I restarted the following morning, all relaxed and my body empty of adrenalin the battle made the adrenalin shoot so fast that my body didn't have time to acclimatise to it and my heart was pumping like mad, making me think I would get a fscking heart attack. Time to meditate for a few minutes.

Anyway, I find the game itself excellent but I hated both the story and the storytelling. It made me cringe in plenty of places. I find Kojima's stories much better when he avoids trying to appear profound.

Oh, and during the epilogue, in the cemetary, where one of the characters is scheduled to die, it dragged so long that I was like "FOR FSM's SAKE WON'T YOU FSCKING DIE ALREADY!"

That's why I only watched the cutscenes during my first playthrough and why I don't consider it the best game ever (MGS3:subsistence is better anyway). For me the story actually _detracts_ from the experience.

With the option of patching and DLC, what's the point?

I would've bought it Day 1.

because again, patching and dlc won't give them as much profit as a re-release.

+1

don't buy the line of PR that konami gave on "maxed out ps3 and bluray". you can't do that barely 2 years into a console life cycle.

THIS 100%!!!!!

Last time i played MGS4, I remember there was like a 10 min installation at the beginning, then a 10 min installation after every next level throughout the game. It was kind of annoying so maybe they could fix it and just have 1 installation at the beginning and thats it for the 'substance' version if there is ever one.

I wouldn't´t be surprised if MICROSOFT paid Konami in order to prevent a release of an enhanced version of MGS4 or the highly anticipated trophy patch.

If in this E3 or TGS it is not announced, it means that konami is really STUPID!!. They could make A LOT of money with a re-release of MGS4 with some added content. Millions of people would buy it.