Finally bought another Playstation 3(got a 160gb).
I picked up Killzone 2 and 3(3 is amazing btw :3 ) and of course Metal gear Solid 4.
Now, i have spoiled myself by watching the ending when the game first came out but that was all I watched. Having experienced it, I feel somewhat fulfilled. I have been in the Metal Gear Universe since 1999 with MGS.
MGS 2 is by far my favorite right next to the first one. win Snakes was alright but I felt it would have been better if they had left the original soundtrack in place.
MGS 3 was a great game as well but I wanted more of a continuation of MGS 2's story than going back in a prequel but it was still a great game.
I also enjoyed Peace Walker and Portable Ops. I tried Ac!d but couldn't get into it for some reason.
Anyway, the entire game of MGS 4 was wroth waiting 3 years since release to play through. It is a great game.
I do think I understand why it really couldn't have been at the release time ported to 360. If you really look at everything graphically during cut-scenes and in-game gameplay, I do not think that they could pull off the same thing with the 360 with limited storage media in a DVD.
Many parts of the game looked near if not as good as CG quality. the only let down graphically is it doesn't flow at a silky 60 fps 70% of the time. Seems more at or below 30 FPS.
I was one of those that really questioned why Konami didn't make a 360 version. Having actually played the game, I now understand in my own way why they cannot port it. I think MGS4 was specifically programmed with the Playstation 3 in mind. They would probably spend at least a year re-coding all the graphical aspects alone, all the eye-candy.
Then again, I might not know anything. But, MGS4 installs several times to the ps3 hdd, which, I don't know of any 360 games that really do that. It doesn't matter because if they compressed everything in MGS4 onto a DVD, it would (IMO) ruin texture and audio quality of the game.
tl;dr Finally played MGS4. It was worth the wait. Saddens me to see the chronological end to the MGS epic but everything ends at some time.