@CidNight#28100 Oooh, very nice–I guess they saved disc printing costs for the green label run. Objectively better game than Metal Slug: 1st Mission 
@kory#28101 I was actually going to play Ground Zeroes (also displayed above) - but in looking for it I noticed this interesting difference between the MGS releases. I think that was a big loss on the greatest hits version. I remember being very impressed by the blue disks when I was 10!
@CidNight#28102 Yeah, the original MGS packaging was so classy. It takes a lot of confidence to put out such strikingly minimalist box art, though it makes that garish GREATEST HITS banner all the more silly looking. That red metallic foil printing on the cover really leaves an impression.
PAL packaging wins again (for my taste). I especially like that Special Missions' disc was printed in the same style and labelled as Disc 3. The original game came with a Silent Hill demo disc, so the case had room for three discs too.
@billy#28109 those are slick
I was just going to say the minimalist MGS box reminded me of the very nice PAL Final Fantasy covers! PAL MGS isn‘t as obviously superior imho but it’s very good indeed.
@CidNight#28100 Turn that Ground Zeroes cover art around!
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@captain#28190 oh holy cow! That’s sick!
@CidNight#28194 Yeah, I wish Phantom Pain had its own reversible cover (and 4, while we‘re at it). Always shudder to think that market research must show sales improve when 3D model renders are used for cover art. You’ve got the PS3 version of GZ, though, does it still have this? I can‘t imagine why it wouldn’t.
@captain#28205 PAL territories got a drawn cover for 4, thank god:
@captain#28205 To be fair, I would buy the heck out of a game featuring a closeup shot of this 3D model on the cover
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@christoffing#28208 It looks so much better!!! C'mon, American marketing people!
@kory#28209 I—
I spoke too soon
@rainbowbattlekid#27417 I have been thinking about this for the past 24 hours, and came back to this thread just to watch it again.
"I'll have a pot of lapsang, please."
@whatsarobot#28275 yeah it's hypnotic. i like his little almost-smirk after “…and some sausages”
We talk a lot about the more extreme Bluepoint overhauls around here, but I‘m curious to know, does anyone have strong feelings (positive or negative) about the Bluepoint remasters of 2, 3, and PW? Personally have not played any in their original format though judging by Youtube footage it seems at least 3 lost a lot of bloom and contrast in the transfer, and PW of course had a lot done to it. Maybe there’s a difference in how the 2 and 3 ports feel, too. Is Peace Walker so tuned to handheld play that it feels wrong on a TV, etc.
@Syzygy#28061
I know I've said this on here before but I'm like 100% certain MGSV's language virus was heavily influenced by the themes of Project Itoh's Genocidal Organ.
I wish there were more games like the AC!D series. Anybody have recommendations for games like that? Slay The Spire isnt close enough.
@Moon#28436 The only thing I can think of that is remotely like a game that is a card game but not a “card game” card game is the obvious answers like the Megaman Battle Network series or Baten Kaitos
@Syzygy#28441
I made the connection between MGS5 and Genocidal Organ myself and then later had someone on these forums point out to me that Hideo and Itoh actually knew each other in life, and that Itoh wrote the Japanese novelization of MGS4. I very much recommend checking out the film adaptation sometime, as it made me feel like I understood MGS5 in a new way.[ I like this review of the film](https://www.ganriki.org/article/genocidal-organ/), and the way it connects it to
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the “motif of harmful sensation” … Something about the idea of merely seeing an image, or hearing a word, and suffering irreversible harm
found in other horror works like "The Ring".