Trophies Not Likely for MGS4
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Article written by BioEye in PS3 News, on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 11:45.
TSA reported that last week was supposed to be ‘Metal Gear Solid week’, with Kojima Productions announcing something new MGS-related every day throughout the week to celebrate one year after MGS4’s release. Many players of the game were hoping that it would finally be the revelation that the game would be receiving trophies, even over 50 weeks since the game was launched.
So what were the announcements?
Monday: Announcements every day.
Tuesday: Metal Gear Solid 4 ‘Greatest Hits’ edition has shipped to stores worldwide. That’s like the ‘Platinum’ version of a game for us, when a popular game is made cheap.
Wednesday: TheSixthAxis covered this one, which was the new Metal Gear Online packs.
Thursday: Metal Gear Solid (1) is coming to the PlayStation Network. Didn’t we already know that? Apparently not.
Friday: Everybody was waiting for that one announcement. Konami had kept everyone waiting. This was it. “The Metal Gear Online 2009 Tournament”. Oh.
The internet sank back down. That’s it then. If Konami were going to announce anything big for MGS4, that was their moment. So after a year, E3 2009 and the Metal Gear Solid week, no trophies have been announced or confirmed for MGS4. If you’re still getting your hopes up, then don’t. With the Metal Gear team working on two new Metal Gear games, it would seem that a trophy patch for the last in the main saga is now out of the picture.
Many ‘fans’ of the game have been demanding trophies since its launch. It’s very difficult to define a fan of the series, as most people, even the fans, don’t truly understand the full story-line of the series. Even if you do, you probably don’t, and if you don’t, you probably do. Just looking at the MGS4 database from the PlayStation Store is enough to confuse anyone. Could this be a statement from Kojima that he thinks that understanding the story is more important than getting a certain number of head-shots? Most likely. With extremely long cutscenes, the series is known for being story-intense rather than gameplay heavy, which is what has attracted so many, but also gathered so much abuse. Many people seemed to have coped with the lack of trophies in the previous three main games, but with PlayStation 3 trophies being the reason for many playing certain games now, do most of the top-end games need them to be worth a second play-through?
So after that ‘week’, or four days of announcements, how do you feel about the lack of trophies in Metal Gear Solid 4? If you bought it, and were waiting until the trophy patch came until you played it, now would be the time to put it in your PS3 and start watching cutscenes.
Source: Konami
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RocketSOL | 23/06/2009 11:50
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Not too bothered about not having trophies. I was expecting more announcements though, as it was supposed to be a “week long”.
That MGO tournament announcement is only for the US as well, bit of a joke really.
johngrat100 | 23/06/2009 11:50
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Shame
Still I love’d this game but I really need to finish it. Got to the bit where you control the Metal Gear in the corridors and haven’t picked it up since. I tend to do this with these games and pick them up a few years later to complete.
pay-t | 23/06/2009 11:50
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I consider myself an understander of the story. Though MGS2 made it a bit vague, I still understand it.
DarthSharkey | 23/06/2009 11:56
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Bought it when it came out, played it, loved it, don’t really care if it gets trophies as all new games are coming out with trophy support so why live in the past.
If trophies ever did get released then I would happily play the game again to try and get them but I’m not bothered. I’m happy playing all the new games.
Colinbarr66 | 23/06/2009 11:57
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I’ll still go back and play it again. The story is still to good
teflon | 23/06/2009 11:59
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I say its a missed opportunity. Sure MGS4 just hit the platinum or best of range, but just adding trophies would spur sales on enormously and quite possibly net Konami another few 100,000 sales.
But it really doesn’t matter because MGS4 is still an incredible game, and MGS is an incredible series. Ive just finished MGS1 yesterday, now Im onto MGS2, then 3 and back to 4 again.
toutski | 23/06/2009 12:12
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I think you are right. Trophies could drag people back to MGS4 who had left it behind. Surely a trophy patch wouldn’t be THAT much work?
LivedeviL | 23/06/2009 12:23
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Thank god I’m not the only one doing the “Play the series” scenario, I even plan on doing the PSP version too (especially coz I got bored with Portable Ops and never finished it!)
I agree, they could get so many more sales just by doing that, but, TBH, it doesn’t need them
the game is it’s own trophy, you can actually put that bad boy on your shelf and be proud of it 
Colinbarr66 | 23/06/2009 12:29
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I’m going to complete 3 and Portable Ops before Peace Walker is released. Doing MGS the now
BryOnRye | 23/06/2009 12:31
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It’s disappointing but I wasn’t holding my breath. Still got plenty of other games to finish anyway.
discharge | 23/06/2009 12:38
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After completing MGS4 7 times – I really don’t think I could do it all over again just to get trophies.
Soild_Nat | 23/06/2009 12:50
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Not having trophies hasn’t stopped me playing it twice and about to play a third time to get the Big Boss emblem!
They will include them in Rising so no harm done!
Snebjnr | 23/06/2009 12:59
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Oh well then
I still love the game, even without trophies
hannes_truce | 23/06/2009 13:03
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not really bothered either way. loved MGS4 wihtout trophies and got hours of enjoyment from it. i think thats enough.
Lanselta | 23/06/2009 13:33
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MGS4, Still a great game without trophies.
I guess we should know better than to expect any reasonable announcment during this “week of news”. Kojima, and the guys at Konami are the masters at building up hype for absolutely anything. Be it the (not so)cryptic message for the poor iphone game, a stupid recurring count down in a feild, (which was leading up to e3 anyway) or, a week of average news, where only one day of which is of any consequence.
There will probably be more of these build-ups/teasers come from Kojima/Konami over the next few months as we get more info on the comming games. Some of which might be good, but after this week of news, i wont be expecting anything substantial.
rht992 | 23/06/2009 13:35
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what? i wanted a reason to play a great game again
PSN_KAP | 23/06/2009 15:07
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rht992 is right anything were the game devs gets gmers back to play there game is always a good thing.. konami is being real dumb now because we all know for a fact that people would end up buying the platinum copy of the game thus bumping up there revenue… idiots for not releasing trophies….. yet
tomjakes | 23/06/2009 15:34
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what no trophies! this would be a crucial step if konami patched it. but there probably doing rising and peace walker. Why wont you make trophies for MGS? and why dont you fix MGO its dodgy as hell!