They say that the best things come to those who wait. I’ve been a bargain bin gamer for quite a while now, so while I’m often about five years behind my peers in what games I own, I usually luck out in finding the best deals. Time like this are when I get to gloat about my patience.

Konami has assembled Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection, which is supposedly due out in North America this coming March. It’s available for pre-order at Play-Asia for a sweet $34.90 plus shipping. It contains Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. This is a fantastic bargain since MGS2: Substance alone goes for about $27 for a used copy. My big hope is that the version of the first MGS in this collection contains both VR Missions and the high-resolution textures found in the PC port.

A different, 20th Anniversary collection was produced some time ago which included the core versions of the first three games, along with PS2 ports of the classic Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake games as well as a couple supplemental discs. While I wish some of those were also included in this Essential Collection, I still maintain that packaging the three “director’s cuts” of the games is well worth the price that it’s listed.

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