I don’t give two flips about Metal Gear Solid 4, but I know alot of people out there are…. and that’s ok with me. So I feel it my duty to inform our good readers that starting today at 10am pacific and 1pm eastern time Amazon will begin taking pre-orders on a PS3 MGS4 bundle. Good news, it’s the 80gb model and includes the rumble controller. Bad news? we’re not sure the price.

But if you’ve been on the fence about the PS3 and you’re a Solid Snake fan (rather than reformed like myself) then head on over to Amazon today and get yourself a pre-order in. You know these are going to be in short supply.

Seriously, do it now!

I have a little confession to make: back when I was a teenager I thought I was “too cool” for video games. I know, I know — nobody can be cooler than Mr. Driller, so who the fuck did I think I was? But still, it happened and there’s not much we can do about it. So what turned me around?

There were a few small things that had me dabbling. Ocarina of Time was my foot in the door, and FFVIII got me to buy a PS1. But it was the release of Metal Gear Solid that turned me from mere dabbler into full-time hobbyist. When 2 came out, I loved it (fuck you, confused masses — it was great.) I snagged up Snake Eater on launch day and played through it with my wife in tow. When the PSP launched, what was the first title I brought home with it? Ac!d of course.

So when word of MGS4 first crept out you can no doubt guess how excited I was. And that excitement lasted, too. From the first suggestion of it at E3 2005 right up until the close of the MGO beta, I was in. But these last few weeks? These last few weeks have been hard. It just seems like everywhere I turn , there it is — and it’s been that way for a year. Big game releases like GTA4 would give us a month off from MGS4 news, but as soon as they were on store shelves the Snake news would just keep sneaking out.

I just don’t know if I care about Metal Gear Solid 4 anymore. Will I still be picking it up? Sure — but I feel so burned out on Snake right that I honestly don’t know when I’ll be putting it in my PS3.

What about you guys? Has the hype machine killed your interest in MGS4? Did it kill it for other games like Halo 3? Let’s talk hype.