• @ampersandrew
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    31 month ago

    One of the most famous moments of Metal Gear Solid is an anti-piracy measure.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      You talking about the radio frequency to contact Marrow? Not much for anti piracy, really. If you called Colonel Campbell three times total, her frequency was added to your saved frequency list.

      • @ampersandrew
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        11 month ago

        Ah, I never knew that. But even that was a callback to them using a very similar trick in the old MSX games as anti-piracy. (Meryl, btw.)

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          Yeah. In metal gear 2 it was like a requirement that you had the instruction book. But I really don’t think it was a piracy thing. I believe they just wanted to be a bit clever with their gameplay. MGS is really just MG2 with a bigger budget.