METAL GEAR SOLID SERIES

I pretty much played every MG game to date (but I haven't played the PSP ones). I used to be a sucker for the amazing story. But then I realized while the games did have it's interesting/uniqe gameplay, the whole thing was just one big fat movie with cutscenes coming at your face every few minutes (no exageration here). Yes these cutscenes got me, even almost made me cry. But sometimes I wonder whether or not Hideo Kojima should have been a movie director instead? I mean really.

A friend of mine let me play through MGS1 for a day. After that I've been mildly pleased with the series. I haven't shown fanatical devotion yet, but I now own copies of the NES version of the original and Solid's 2 & 3.

Unfortunately that doesn't include MPO so no name for you. :/

Originally Posted by Darken
I pretty much played every MG game to date

Does that include Snake's Revenge?

NOTE: Some MGS2 & MGS3 spoilers, plus basic MGS4 story information available from gaming websites.

I could talk an ear off about how much I enjoy Metal Gear games. I'd almost buy the PS3 just to play the final game. *almost*

But really, I feel like MGS3 was something like the last hurrah for the series, at least on consoles, and in terms of storyline. The whole evil-Liquid-arm-sown-onto-Ocelot was the stupidest part of the MGS2 storyline, and in that story there were a lot of stupid parts. MGS3 brought things back to basics, made the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo a little more rational, and told a fantastic story without relying on fantasy elements to tell the best parts. The best part of MGS3's plot was the end-of-game revelations which occurred, and they didn't have anything to do with the Sorrow's magical powers or how the Fury turned into a flying flaming wrath after Snake killed him.

But things are getting too convoluted and too *magical* in MGS4, by appearances. The main villain of the game is Liquid Ocelot- the man formerly known as Ocelot who was taken over by Liquid's spirit which lived on in Liquid's arm after Liquid died, and after Ocelot had it attached to his own stump of an arm as a result of a cyborg-ninja attack. Wow. Beyond that point, Meryl somehow isn't dead and there's a zombie enemy that some people think is Big Boss AGAIN (even after his trilogy supposedly ended). Campbell is alive and giving directions to Snake- apparently the Patriots didn't bother killing him off when GW started to impersonate him to mislead Raiden, and besides that Campbell is in some position of authority to convince Snake to do 'one final mission' and kill Liquid. Oh... and Snake pulls a Hemingway, but Kojima spoiled it by saying that 'Snake doesn't die,' so that's all well and good.

And some of the gameplay sounds obnoxious too. Really, I don't need to behaving like Stevo and grabbing my enemies in the crotch to knock them out cold. Even for Snake, that's a low blow... but yeah, I'll still need to play this game once because it's Metal Gear and all.

Is it just me, or are the NES Metal Gear games fucking impossible? I suck at Megaman as well, so go figure..

NES MG games are impossible, ya. I tried them a few times but always gave up, heh.

MGS on the PS was the first MGS I fell in love with, since I was never exposed to the originals. The storyline and presentation is very awesome. Hideo is about the only game director/designer that I know because of this.