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Remember when video games were meant to be fun?

No, me neither.

A PS5 Pro console on the left with a shot of Snake from Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater on the right

I stopped my unhinged pursuit for MGS3’s “FOXHOUND” rank and subsequent Steam Achivement for months while fighting The End, until I realized wearing his “Fire” camo made the fight a doddle.

And by stupid I actually mean torturous."

Not now, though.

Every time I look at this remake it becomes more eye-arousing.

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1 (PS5): was $40 now $34 @ Amazon

I stopped my unhinged pursuit for MGS3’s “FOXHOUND” rank and subsequent Steam Achivement for months while fighting The End, until I realized wearing his “Fire” camo made the fight a doddle.

That was my first mistake.

Tell us what you really think, Meiksy.

At launch, every Metal Gear entry in the bundle was locked to a grim 720p on PC.

Snake shooting a tranq gun in first-person with soldiers approaching him in a Russian jungle

No biggie, right?

So painfully, hopelessly wrong.

Theres alotto unpack there.

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection - MGS 3 on a large OLED TV

But the biggies are no continues and no health medicine.

Ive been playing this game since I was 19 years old, and now, terrifyingly, Im 39.

Two decades worth of muscle memory does something to you.

Snake fighting The Fury with flames everywhere in Metal Gear Solid 3

I stopped my unhinged pursuit for MGS3’s “FOXHOUND” rank and subsequent Steam Achivement for months while fighting The End, until I realized wearing his “Fire” camo made the fight a doddle.

I started this FOXHOUND run on January 21.

Almost 10 months later, Ive still not finished this exercise in torment.

Ive probably been a bit stingy when it comes to those saves, in fairness.

Snake dying in a fight against Volgin in Metal Gear Solid 3

Picture a muscle-bound, heavily scarred Russian with lightning hands in an MCU suit and youre basically there.

I must have lost to him well over a dozen times at this point.

Fight or fry

Make no mistake, Vulgin is miserable to fight on Extreme.

Doom: The Dark Ages

I know his attacks like the back of my increasingly infuriated hand.

The trouble is, a couple of attacks are sooooo hard to avoid.

Like the one where he starts spraying bullets from his finger.

Assassin�s Creed Shadows Naoe

Honestly, Ive lost count of how many times Ive fallen to the fists of Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin.

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