The iPod Survived! Metal Gear Solid 4's Long-Awaited Escape From the PS3 Kept Its Iconic Real-World Brands and Meta Humor

The remaster of Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally coming to current gen consoles this August as part of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 2. A recent reveal of gameplay not only showed off the enhanced graphics, but also suggests that many in-jokes and brand tie-ins from the 2008 original will still be found in MGS4’s wartorn future. Over the weekend, Japanese freelance writer Mafia Kajita and voice actor Yuichi Nakamura played through Act 1 of the upcoming Master Collection Vol. 2 version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on their popular YouTube channel (Fun fact: Nakamura played Kevin in the Japanese version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengence). Right at the start, there is an infamous tongue-in-cheek joke in the cutscene where the Geckos hunt for Snake. Fans will be pleased to know that the meme-able scene still has the “No place for Hideo” quip on the watermelon-filled cardboard box, which gets stomped on by the Geckos. However, the url for Kojima’s blog, which was also hidden on the box in the original MGS4, has been removed from the Master Collection version (likely because the page no longer exists). Among the items that Snake could stuff in his pack in the origina