Acronyms hurt my head too, but nothing hurts as much as the following excerpt from Sony Defense Force’s June 1st review of Metal Gear Solid 4;

A few weeks ago, Sony Defense Force had the pleasure to entertain an opportunity of a lifetime. We were personally invited to Kojima’s luxurious resort in the mountain village of Nasu, Japan in order to play through the entire final version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Sound incredible enough?

Incredible doesn’t begin to describe it. Insane? Ridiculous? Impossible? Those words seem a little more apt. Sony Defense Force is still the gaming world’s greatest mystery — is it rampant fanboyism at it’s worst, or the world’s biggest hoax? Regardless, this event could never have happened. I’m calling on Kojima & Co. to go on record and debunk this SDF scam once and for all! Up until now SDF had at least straddled that line that could leave some people to believe they were the real deal. Their review of MGS4 is a cry for attention –the SDF crew begging to be exposed so they can move on with their lives. Come on Hideo, let it happen!

As always, it’s good for a great SDF-related laugh. Don’t forgot to check out the comments — 248 and counting! Bonus points to the Onion-esque creators of the site for adding “Ad Free” to their banner right above a big banner ad (as pictured above).

Over the years I’ve come to learn that I’m a lot of things to a lot of people. Father, husband, victim, defendant, cellmate, etc. Yes sir, Jim Squires is a regular Renaissance Man. Now I can add hypocrite to that list.

A few weeks ago I got up on my soapbox and told you why I wouldn’t be buying Metal Gear Solid 4. I was being the pretentious dick who wanted to abandon the possibility of a great game experience just so that I could focus on smaller and independent titles. What I neglected to factor in at that time was that A) I’m a weak, weak man, and B) I can both have my cake and eat it too. You see, there’s no reason why I can’t balance my time between AAA titles like MGS4 and off-the-radar games.

A few different factors lead to my decision to pick up Metal Gear a scant three days after writing my last post, all of which can be heard in BitCast #47. Why I picked it up isn’t really all that relevant. What’s relevant is that I caved to peer pressure (thank god — the game is fucking fantastic) and in turn lied to you all. Whoopsie! So officially my apologies go out to all.

In an effort to cleanse my soul I decided to make a relatively exciting purchase in the world of smaller games. Hopefully it’ll help offset my karmic emissions. So what is this mystery purchase I speak of? A DS homebrew card.

There’s a thriving community of homebrew developers out there creating amazing original content for the Nintendo DS, but unless you have a programmable card you just can’t get on the boat. After reading the excellent DS Fanboy cart comparison, I decided to go with the M3 Real. It’s essentially the R4, and it ships with a rumble pak for the same price.

Every now and then the card seems to freeze up, but it’s really not too often. I’ve had the card for a week, been using it about 4 hours a day, and have had games freeze on me twice. All in all a worthwhile purchase. I’d love to tell you where i got it from, but they’re shipping was for shit so they’re not getting a free plug.

Thus far I’ve grown an addiction to Still Alive DS, been moderately frustrated by the Amplitude clone AmplituDS, and have been trying to find an easy way to convert video to DPG for use on the DS. Anybody out there have any recommendations on what I should be checking out?

Yesterday I posted a video of Bad Company making fun of MGS4. Well it was yanked off YouTube…. but here’s a GameTrailers link to make up for it.

The video of MGS4 poking fun at the 360 is definitely up for interpretation, but this one here leaves no room for doubt

Lately it seems as though we’ve had a bit of a hate on for Metal Gear Solid 4 here at theBBPS. In all honesty nothing could be further from the truth. Ryan and I were both part of the Metal Gear Online beta, and have both been looking forward to the launch of MGS4 for as long as I can remember. Just take a listen to our earlier bitcasts — every time someone asked me what upcoming games I was looking forward to MGS4 was at the top of my list.

Sure Dan might have given up on the franchise and Kevin might have given up on the fanboys, but that doesn’t mean anybody here actually hates Metal Gear. I’m sure if you asked Dan even he’d admit that although it’s not his cup of tea, it’s a brilliantly crafted franchise for those who are into this sort of thing. So how did it come to this — that one of the two guys here on the site who’ve been actively salivating over MGS4 for months now has decided to give this game a pass?

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Not that anything out there still needs to squash those “MGS4 coming to Xbox 360″ rumors, but I think Kojima just did a real nice job of cementing that one in stone. This one definitely gave me a good chuckle.