Backloggd is a website that lets you log and review video games with other gamers, it's essentially the letterbox'd of video games.

Here's my profile

https://backloggd.com/u/henryJSB/

Make one and add me, fools.

Oh wow. 
I think Dirty Duck was the one who referred me back to this site and I wanna thank him for that. 

It's been... what? 12 years? I was like, 17 or 18 when I joined in 2012 and now I'm 30. 

I have a lot of fond memories of this place and everyone in it. I was homeschooled at the  time so it was a good place to banter and meet new folks. (Or just to have friends at all). 
I'll be honest, i haven't been big into Metal Gear Solid in ages (but it of course still holds an indelible place in thy heart. Peace Walker and Sons of Liberty in particular are in my thoughts all the time).

I'll do a quick rundown of my life since I left.... 

● 2014: 
• I stopped being a Jehovah's Witness.
• got kicked out of the house for it, 
•lived with my bio mother for a minute til it got abusive, 
•fell in love with my warhouse coworker,  
•lost virginity, first kiss, blah blah blah 

●2015: 
•moved to omaha w/friend
•got a job at an arena 
•that's kinda it honestly 

●2016
•nothing burger of a year aside from harambe, the election and work drama
•went clubbing on 10/2. Met future adoptive mom  

●2017
•realized I was trans mtf

●2018
•came out as trans, started hormones, etc 
•got kinda adopted by some friends parents? (Long story. Remember the adoptive mom from 2016??)

●2019
•had a bunch of side jobs 

●2020
•lost theater job
•started living alone, then with coworkers 
•bio mom died
•got covies 
•dated a witch   didn't really work cause her husband wasn't as cool with it 
•became a mega stoner 

●2021
•moved in with another coworker
•got promoted to security coordinator at arena

●2022
•started living in car 6/28/2022
•took a 23 day vow of sil3nce (that was interesting. Everyone thought i was deaf).
•took transcendental meditation a lil tooo seriously, lol
•got in a really bad car accident
•got new car to live in 

●2023
•started getting tattoos 
•saw Stop Making Sense like 7 times in theaters 
•experienced horrific limerence on a coworker, would not reccomend.
•volunteered at a homeless shelter and didn't post about it on social media (...until now)

●2024
•Reconnected with the witch from 2020 and lived with her and her husband for a month when it was blizzarding. We all became good friends ? 
•got kinda obsessed with astrology 
•blocked my bio father and adoptive mom for the usual cliche reasons. 

●2025
• a hot mess of a year so far, lol. But at least I got to be here again. ✌?
• I'm mostly just foccused on this art project of mine called Only Forever. Been tinkering on it every other day since 2012. (It's basically a hodgepodge of all the stories i made up as a kid into a single, giant story). I'm hoping to make it a motion comic with animated segments (it's the kind of project you spend your whole life on and never finish cause that's just what my brain wants. An endless supply of rituals, lol). Will definitely need to find voice actors at some point. It's really just an excuse to document dreams, bring friends together, honor life and all that smultzy jazz. 
I'll try and post some of the promo art below:it should be there but if not (I tried). 

But I digress.
It's good to be back and to see you all again! And I wanna make a habit of visiting at least once a day to stay in touch. Forgive me, but I actually forgot some of you. (Blame the weed). The names and avatars are familiar but they don't always ring a bell. 

Respectfully, 
Strangelove (real name is artemis tho)

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Would love to hear some of your guys hobbies and likes aside from video games/discussing video games on Metal Gear fan sites, so feel free to talk about what you're doing, what you like to do, or what you'd even like to try. 

Essentially, I thought this would be a nice thread considering a lot of these interests we share come up organically anyway, and having a place to talk about them and ask questions is ideal. 

Personally, as a lot of you would know, I've been practicing Karate since I was 8 (no longer go to a club for this, but home practice and learning is still in my weekly routine), kung fu and fencing. I'm due to start Chinese Sword Dance too in late April. 

Aside from Martial Arts, I love photography, find it super relaxing and enjoy sharing my photos with like minded people. 

To keep my brain healthy? I learn Japanese, an hour at least every day, some days I feel like I'm making no progress, other days I feel like I'm a natural! (As is the way)

I've dabbled in writing a lot, and I've gone through periods of writing daily for up to about a month, I'd like to up this and dedicate myself to writing poetry, but it's a much more intense, involved hobby in regards to how much thought goes into it, but hopefully one day I'll be able to do it much more casually and relaxed. Right now I'm not writing at all, but I'm jotting down any ideas I have and fleshing them out as much as possible in my notes app before I transfer them to a word document.

Alright fellas, who's down for an MGF server?

I was going to reply to @"Departed" in his thread, however we need a more active board so this stands on its own as a subject.

The first reason you know this game is terrible is it doesn't have it's own subsection on this board. This isn't an oversight by our glorious leader (who will not be overthrown, he is on vacation not exile..), it's because it's not very good and has zero impact on the landscape of the zeitgeist of the series. It's far more recent than MGS1-4 and gets discussed very little. for good reason. The below is what I wrote on the game 13 years ago and I'm going to bring it up again because I think it's aged pretty well (and I'm lazy and have to rush out for a hair cut in like 15 minutes).

Me 12 years ago Wrote:the more detail you look at it the more Peace Walker is almost a blatant rip off of the Monster Hunter games. Even if they included them in the 'Extra Ops' area it doesn't make it any less deliberate.
The more detail you look at it the more Peace Walker is almost a blatant rip off of the Monster Hunter games. Even if they included them in the 'Extra Ops' area it doesn't make it any less deliberate.

In Monster Hunter you fight the same Monsters over and over again at different levels, Low Rank, High Rank, G Rank. In Peace Walker you fight the same Mechs again at different levels, Type I, Type II and Custom, maybe a few variations, I forget.
In Monster Hunter you do Gathering Missions to earn points to upgrade your Farm. In Peace Walker you do Recruiting Missions to get better ranked soldiers to upgrade Mother Base.
In Monster Hunter you have to upgrade your weapons and armour to make the progression easier and the more difficult Monsters beatable, you can't take on a G Rank Tigrex with an Eager Cleaver, you need to upgrade that bad boy . In Peace Walker you have to upgrade your weapons and equipment to make the progression easier and the more difficult mechs beatble, you aint beating no Custom Peace Walker with a rank 2 C.Gustav.
Monster Hunter can be completed on your own (solo'd) but it is in fact designed to encourage multiplayer, especially with the highest level Monsters. Peace Walker can be completed on your own but it is in fact designed to encourage multiplayer, especially with the highest level Mechs.
In Monster Hunter you collect 'carves' from Monsters to upgrade your weapons. In Peace Walker you collect 'AI Boards' from Mechs to upgrade Zeke.
In Monster Hunter you have the choice to kill or capture the Monster you face in a quest. In Peace Walker you can destroy or capture the Mech you face in a mission.


(Also Pupa, Chrysalis, Cacoon and Peace Walker all remind me of the 'Elder Dragons' in MH, the bigger more difficult monsters you face far less often than the smaller mechs and helicopters, which may as well be the 'dromes' and 'fire wyverns', but that's a personal observation, not something I'd 100% say they've lifted too. Although you can't capture Elder Dragons and you can't capture those... Probably lifted that too.)

Now combine all the above and put it in to a story heavy, stealth based action game where fluid story telling is prevelent and you're going to have a bad time.

This one is my own opinion, and it's a bold one but Monster Hunter saved the PSP in Japan and with Capcom not launching a new one for any Sony system this game was the next Monster Hunter it was never going to get. The 3DS and Nintendo have been hugely freakin' lucky with Capcom's exclusivity recently. Peace Walker sales were huge for the PSP, helping shift units too. This game was designed to take what made Monster Hunter games popular and sell to the Japanese market to give the PSP one last huzzah before leaving that system for the now dead GO and the soon to be dead Vita. This game was a blatant cash cow and one of the fundamental reasons it fails as an MGS game is down to the Co-Op. It's not mandatory, but a couple of hundred hours is if you don't use it.

https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/...in-concert

I was literally looking at the announcement for a world tour from a few years ago that never happened just a few days ago. I'm so flying over for this so I better see a few of you there!

Considering we're probably going to be getting a TES:IV Oblivion Remake/Remaster in a week or so, I thought it would be fitting to make a thread for The Elder Scrolls, to discuss hopes, loves, hates and disappointments for the franchise.

Anybody looking forward to stepping back into Cyrodiil? The remaster looks great in regards to graphical fidelity and how crisp and detailed everything is, but from the leaked screenshots, it seems like it's losing a lot of its classic Fantasy inspirations we had to begin with - the high contrast and saturation colour grade seems to be gone, a lot of trees and foliage cleared, but hopefully this is just how it is in the development build. 

Oblivion Remake Screenshots
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Hey all, I'm going to China in a couple of days and I won't be back until early May. I might be able to get onto the site on my phone while away but there's a non-zero chance that I can't and so in light of that I've taken some precautions.

Firstly I've given some members some mod powers while I'm away so that threads can be moved, locked, deleted etc etc etc. Whether there'll even be much need for that remains to be seen but better safe than sorry!
My four horsemen of the apocalypse me being out of town are: @"Jassassino" , @"NateDog" , @"Null" , and @"Wayno". If you see something that needs modpowers let them know. 
(And don't let the power go to their heads.)

Secondly, I've tried to fix any errors or issues that have been brought to my attention before I go. Stuff is mostly in working order but you may notice that your Codenames are not showing up in your postbit. The newest update to Codenames has, for some reason, broken them being given out meaning nobody (besides Blueblob and his 25 Chicks) was earning Codenames even when they reach the criteria for one. Reverting to the older version has caused the current issue of them not showing up in posts. I have chosen to leave it like that for the time being. My reasoning is that it's more important to have you guys earn Codenames when you're meant to so that you can show them off once I'm back and can figure out how to make the newest update work.

@"Blueblob" your chicks are safe until I'm back. Enjoy your time with them.

Even though I'm away please still post in Help or PM me if you notice anything that doesn't look right! I'll get on it when I'm back.
And keep spreading the good word! The activity and growth so far has been so good to see and it would be great if that keeps up. Kisses.

(I won't say see you when I'm back because that would be embarrassing if I can access the site no issue while I'm out there.)

So a fun part of MGSV were the cassette tapes of 80s songs that you could find spread throughout the game. Being able to blast 'Rebel Yell' as Pequod lands or bump 'Maneater' while infiltrating an enemy outpost was not only #epic but also did a lot of legwork for getting the time period across.

With the potential for a Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 remake being a hot topic of discussion my question to you all is if the game brought back cassette tapes what would be your picks for 90s songs to really immerse us in the time period as well as create a certain feel for infiltrating Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land? (@"Wayno" I expect you to separate your answers so as to properly convey 1995 and 1999 respectively as well as explain why they're vital to the time period. Naturally.)

There were 16 licensed songs in MGSV. So I think a limit of 25 is fair to give a bit of wiggle room without going mad.

Here's mine: (link to Spotify Playlist to listen)
Outer Heaven Uprising:
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Zombie - The Cranberries
Alberto Balsam - Aphex Twin
only shallow - my bloody valentine
Just - Radiohead
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
The Jangling Man - Cleaners From Venus
Bizarre Love Triangle '94 - New Order
93 'Til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
Brain Stew - Green Day
Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
Spiderwebs - No Doubt
Buddy Holly - Weezer

Zanzibar Land Disturbance:
Teardrop - Massive Attack
Born Slippy - Underworld
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Flowers - Cibo Mato
Breathe - The Prodigy
Road Rage - Catatonia
Everlong - Foo Fighters
6 Underground - Sneaker Pimps
Say You'll Be There - Spice Girls
Da Funk - Daft Punk
Automatic - Hikaru Utada
Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt

Is this an excuse to make a 90s mixtape? Maybe! But it's also an excuse to imagine a 20-something year old Solid Snake listening to said mixtape. I had a much longer list of just songs I liked at first. It was hard to whittle it down but I tried to think about whether it was a good fit to be in a game like this rather than if it was just a good song. I tried to have a good spread of music types too but I'm aware this does tend towards rock and its offshoots a bit more than other genres.

Wasn't going to make this thread but it feels weird coming back to see so many people from such a cool chunk of my life and just trying to get stuck in with how much has changed.

Like so many have said, the MGSF era was so awesome and really formative, it feels like a unique part of my life so it's amazing to come back to a space and see so many of you from that time.

I do regret not investing more time in activity and bonding with me people more from MGSF, love to see that so many have stayed in touch. A few did reach out to me via different sites/socials which was nice.

I tried MGL but couldn't stick there it just didn't gel, and after that just thought things were done, still got a few folks on social media but it's cool to have this place to reconnect and dig up some memories. My recollection isn't good, most likely due to repeated concussions and too much social boozing.

I'm now 34 wih a wife and 2 year old, with a baby due in June - crazy thinking it's been a longer span of time since I signed up to MGSF than how many years old I was at that moment.

Hope everyone is doing well, looking forward to catchiong up.