Metal Gear Rising has multiplied online - it seems that it's all about memes

Home / NewsYesterday 54 11K Share Metal Gear Rising has multiplied online - it seems that it's all about memes Gennady VorobievThe Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance game has no obvious reason for high online: it is nine years old, there is no multiplayer, and the average playthrough is about seven hours.
But online has grown in recent weeks anyway.
And it seems that we have memes to thank for this.The situation around MGR attracted the attention of the PlayTracker platform - it collects activity from different platforms in one place.
PlayTracker writes the following:The number of concurrent players in MGR is up 1,000% over the full month average in April 2021.The rapid growth in online began in January 2022.MGR has the highest achievement activity on all platforms since 2018.
Online claims can be double-checked on SteamDB - there is indeed an increase in the number of players over the past six months.
The last discount for MGR was in January 2022, and the surge was in February, March, and April.
In general, the increased activity is clearly not related to the sales.As PlayTracker believes, people have once again paid attention to MGR because of the memes - the game is indeed popular among online sharers.
The thesis is confirmed by Google Trends data: for example, in recent months the requests for Metal Gear Rising and Jetstream Sam have had the highest activity since January 2015.
There are a number of famous memes associated with MGR: for example, Senator Armstrong saying Nanomachines, son!; the characters Sandowner and Jetstream Sam with their specific smirks; the song Rules of Nature, which is superimposed over epic (and not so epic) moments from movies, anime, life, and other things.
It remains to be seen why the interest in MGR memes increased in 2022.
The game proved its memetic nature a few years ago, closer to the release: an article in the online encyclopedia Know Your Meme, dedicated to MGR, appeared in 2015.Anyway, our comments for Metal Gear Rising memes are open.
Feel free to do so!

Sony didn't stop Metal Gear Solid 4 from coming to Xbox 360, says Kojima colleague

Metal Gear Solid has a very close connection to PlayStation, but most games in the main series are not exclusives after all: they dropped by on both PC and Xbox.
The notable exception is one - MGS4: Guns of the Patriots, which was only released on PlayStation 3 and has not even received a re-release on the new generations.There is a popular version that this happened because of an exclusivity deal with Sony, but fresh information states - there was no such deal, from a legal standpoint, Guns of the Patriots nothing prevented the release on Xbox 360.
That's according to Ryan Payton - he served as assistant producer in the production of MGS4.Payton shared his memories as part of The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2 by Steven L.
Kent.
To quote an excerpt:The prevailing belief in the industry was that Sony had probably made an exclusivity deal with [Metal Gear Solid 4].
It didn't.
If Kojima had wanted to port the game to the Xbox 360, his bosses probably would have approved it, but he wasn't willing to do that.Guns of the Patriots was limited by media: the PS3 had Blu-ray discs with about 50 gigabytes of data, while the Xbox 360 read two-layer DVDs at most (about 7 gigabytes).
In addition, MGS4 required a partial installation on a hard drive, and the Xbox 360 had models without a drive at all.That the archives MGS4 too puffy for Microsoft's console, said himself Hideo Kojima (Hideo Kojima).
Apparently, this is the key reason why the game didn't come out on the Xbox 360 - without any intrigue in the form of lifetime deals with Sony.But then why did Guns of the Patriots remain a PS3 exclusive and not appear on new generations of devices or PC? There's no definitive answer here.
The owners of the series from Konami seem to be about to breathe another life into Metal Gear Solid and are preparing a remake of Snake Eater.
Maybe about MGS4 will be remembered!

It seems that the nuclear disarmament in Metal Gear Solid V is impossible

Hideo Kojima has hidden a secret ending in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which requires the destruction of all nuclear warheads.
Recall that in Metal Gear Solid V online mode, you can create nuclear weapons, and other players have the power to penetrate your base and steal or destroy its stock.
Thus, gamers had to cooperate in order to completely eliminate nuclear weapons and get a well-deserved reward.
Achieving this honestly has been impossible for years.YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming? investigated and found out that the game puts sticks in the wheels and makes disarming impossible.
No matter how hard gamers tried, a small number of warheads were still left in the world.
There was no way to disarm them, since they didn't belong to any base-these cases were nicknamed \"Ghost Bombs.
Enthusiasts who discovered this flaw attempted to contact Konami to have the bug fixed.
However, the studio has long ignored the bug.
This is probably due to the third chapter of Peace, the mention of which was noticed in the game's files.
Users believe that Nuclear Disarmament was just supposed to unlock a new set of missions.
Moreover, in 2015, the official Konami Twitter account hinted at it: \"The truth can be found in the world.\" However, the studio had a huge fight with MGS creator Hideo Kojima, so the content for the third chapter may not exist at all.
Consequently, Konami can not allow the number of nuclear weapons has dropped to zero.Recall that the fifth Metal Gear Solid will be deprived of the online component on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on May 31.
PC, PS4 and Xbox One versions are safe for now.

Ubisoft has disabled online services for 90 games (but the list is made after its sleeves)

Ubisoft has made an addition to the graveyard of online services: the company has published an article on its support site, where it confirmed the disabling of network components in 90 games.
It seems that the article was written after its sleeves: there are both projects, which shutdown was already announced several years ago, and games that are physically unavailable.The information seems fresh: Ubisoft employees have posted it as new material, created on April 22, 2022.
But there are a bunch of piquant points there:Some of the online services should have been shut down a long time ago.
For example, back in 2017 Ubisoft announced the closure of online components in Flashback Origins for PC and Splinter Cell: Blacklist for Wii U, and now it has \"closed\" them again.Some online services are disabled on the OnLive platform.
It is a streaming service similar to today's PlayStation Now and Stadia.
OnLive was launched in 2010, began to go under in 2012, and in 2015 it closed for good.
And there it is simple: no streaming, no games.
If you take the material from Ubisoft at face value, it turns out that the company for some reason supported online on a platform that is physically unavailable for seven years.As writes VGC, some games in the list have no network components at all.
For example, Rainbow Six Lockdown for the GameCube.
How it ended up on the list is a mystery! Ubisoft considers not only multiplayer components, but also, say, challenges and mini-additions, which can be obtained through Ubisoft Connect (or Uplay) as network components.
The mini-additions will remain available on consoles if you do not delete the save with open content, but on PC there is no such feature - there additions through Ubisoft Connect disappear altogether.
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