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After finishing Ratchet and Clank, I decided to jump right in to the next game.

Unfortunately, it turns out that I don’t have the next game. I have the first, third, and fourth, but not the second and none of the spinoffs. Rather than play them out of sequence, I moved on to another series until I pick up the R&C games that I am missing.

Metal Gear Solid seemed like a good idea – I have all four games of the main series to play, including the awesome looking MGS4. I should be able to burn through the first game fairly quickly, right?

Well… I tried. The first game is for the PS1. I don’t actually have the PS1 hooked up, but the PS3 supports PS1 playback. I fired up the console, popped in the disc, and…

I just can’t do it. It looks like absolute shit on my tv. No big surprise there given that it is a 10+ year old game being upconverted to hi def on a 47″ HDTV. Absolute shit.

I am going to have to find a way to make this work. I will play this game – I can only imagine how confused I will be if I skip MGS1 and move straight to MGS2. Maybe I’ll try hooking up the PS2 to my old 19″ analog TV and see how that goes.

In the interim, I’m off to gamestop to try and find a used copy of R&C: Going Commando.