Poll Favorite Metal Gear Game? (179 votes)
Since there's often more than one version of many Metal Gear interation, please specify which one, if necessary.
Since there's often more than one version of many Metal Gear interation, please specify which one, if necessary.
@grixxel said:
I'm gonna stick with MGS1. I feel that most people will pick the others because they did not play MGS1 when it came out and that detail right there makes a huge difference on how you look at that game. Sure, the others have better tuned mechanics, crazier cut scenes and story and flat out a whole lot more impressive but it was MGS1 that made all that shit possible. This game was fucking INSANE and unheard of when it first came out.
I agree completely with what you said but I still think MGS3 is by far the best game in the series, it's actually my favourite game of all time.
MGS2, for me. It packed a lot of surprisingly emotional stuff. But then I've only actually completed 1 (the PSX original and Twin Snakes) and 2, so my opinion doesn't really count for much.
I skipped out on Snake Eater when it first came out. I've tried to play it a few times in recent years, but it's incredibly hard for me to get into. Just the way classic MGS games play doesn't click with me in the way it used to.
4.
I think Snake Eater has the best story, but 4's amount of nostalgic fanservice meant that I enjoyed it just a little bit more.
4.
I think Snake Eater has the best story, but 4's amount of nostalgic fanservice meant that I enjoyed it just a little bit more.
I've only played through Metal Gear (NES) and Metal Gear Solid (PS) and I have to go with MGS; it truly changed the gaming landscape. The NES game was revolutionary in some ways and completely broken in others (Jungle maze, anyone?).
I think 2 is my favourite. I think it was in a perverse way the most focused of the games, it had a defined, concrete story (however batshit insane it was) it wanted to tell and definite themes it wanted to explore. The characterisation of the Patriots (which I really enjoyed) is a standout for me, and was much better than in 4. It also moved the story along at a reasonably good clip, and is probably the best paced game. At the end of the day did its very best to be its own game, considering it had to be a MGS game. In many ways it is the anti-MGS4; which is basically tying up loose ends the game and I still can't get my head around that god-awful zero analogy at the end. I don't think it had as much of a unique voice as the other games.
Boy, that's rough. I liked the first Metal Gear Solid for its characters and overall story (before things got so damned convoluted in 2 & 3). Playing through 2 with a college friend was definitely the best time I had with a MGS game, though now, I think I'd say MGS 3 is my favorite due to the awesome gameplay and the neat boss battles. I wish some of the elements from the handheld games saw some kind of modernization, particularly the soldier recruitment and base building. But yeah, overall, I'd say MGS3.
MGS2.
I actively dislike 3 for cluttering up the game with too many systems (food, camo, surgery, CQC) that diverted way too far from the original hide-and-seek basics of MGS1 and the original game. I respect 4 for being a glorious trainwreck as Kojima frantically tries to finish up all the loose ends in the serie's convoluted plot. I prefer MGS2 to 1 because I felt Kojima had grown just enough as a designer to take better advantages of the PS2 than with the PS1 and as a writer hadn't yet into the madness that was MGS3 and 4.
And: MGS2 should have been the end of the entire series.
Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, That game came in as a big surprise and it took a lot out of me. At first I wasn't sure about the controls, it was one those "CRAP! I got spotted, I'm gonna retry and load up another save." Until a point where everything clicked around the point before the end, where I understood how to sneak behind guards with the D Pad, interrogate, find a cool code on the codec to cancel the patrol and then just make everything easier on me. It was a lot like Dark Souls, and I felt all the more greater for experiencing it..... like seriously the Boss fight, having to feel the rumble at the exact moment, that was brutal.
Sons of Liberty, because Ocelot's actually pretty cool in this one.
Having played Guns of the Patriots, I can still stand by this opinion.
The only ones I've actually played to completion are 4 & Rising. I picked 4. 1, 2 & 3 I just watched the "movie" versions of, by that I mean all of the cutscenes strung together into one big long video file I torrented a long time ago. I actually want to go back and play them all but now that I know the story I don't see much point, maybe I should just get Peace Walker, haven't spoiled that one yet, but I think it's more of a side story?
I gotta go with 3. It's closely followed by 1.
They're the most grounded in reality, and believable. Well i mean you could accept it for the most part. sexy sniper lady who likes dogs, thats actually completely believable. Big crazy shaman dude with a minigun? Sure! why not. a gunslinger? sure!. i mean yeah in three it got a bit wacky....i mean there was a guy who's super power was BEEEEEEEEEEEES. but the story and characters felt so much better. It was fantastic.
2 and 4....ugh, so convoluted and stupid. Just complexity for the sake of being complex. you got a fat guy on roller blades, school girls, a vampire guy who's apparently allergic to wearing shirts, NANOMACHINESSSSS. it's just so silly and dumb. I totally understand why people might like these ones more, but boy...the dumbness to me just wasn't the right flavor, and i can appreciate dumb. It's just so god damn hard to take an extremely self serious story seriously when it's making you fight a fat dude on roller blades...Also, raiden sucks.
3 Subsistence. I really do love all the games though. Portable Ops was the only one I never really got super excited about, and even then I didn't mind playing it, at least once I remapped the controls.
Edit: Oh wait Rising is on that list. Probably not Rising.
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