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Metal Gear Solid HD Collection

Game » consists of 60 releases. First released on Nov 08, 2011

A compilation of several remastered Metal Gear titles: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, plus hundreds of VR missions and both classic MSX2 Metal Gear games.

What is the best way to approach this for newcomers?

#1 Posted by Redbullet685 (5738 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

I'm planning on buying this, and having only played a little of MGS 1,3,4 through the years (Really liking what I played of 1 and 3, not so much 4) I was wondering which game to start with.

I could go 2 -> 3 -> PW because of when the games were released or I could go 3 -> PW -> 2 for chronological order in story.

So, where should I start?

#2 Posted by FluxWaveZ (17845 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

I say order of release because even though MGS3 and PW take place before the other games, there are still references you won't quite understand unless you play the previously released titles. So I say you play MGS2 before the other two.

#3 Posted by evilrazer (466 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

It's like Star Wars, play it the way is was intended by Kojima and you will get most out of it.

#4 Posted by Aetheldod (2476 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Yeah go from MGS2 to 3 then PW

#5 Posted by Commisar123 (1760 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

I'd say MGS3 Peace Walker and then go get Metal Gear Solid 1 and then play MGS2

#6 Posted by Redbullet685 (5738 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

So, I guess I should go in release order.

#7 Posted by XanderCrews (100 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Go with the release order. If you plan on playing for the story,(as crazy as it is) I would say go ahead and get MGS 1 from PSN as well.

#8 Posted by Hizang (8536 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

You should play MGS1 first, that collection really is not good for newcomers because it misses out that game. Go and download it off the PSn , its cheap and is my favourite in the series. Then go MGS2, MGS3, MGSPW then go and get MGS4.

MGS series done!

#9 Posted by Ubersmake (683 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

@Redbullet685: Release order is probably the best also because of how game mechanics have been changed/added over the years. CQC is probably the best example. Having it in 3, but not 1 or 2, and then retconned in 4 is...strange, to say the least.

#10 Edited by Devil240Z (2461 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

PW kind of only make sense to a vet of the series so I would play any MGS game before that. not to metion its the newest.

I would say MGS1>MGS2>MGS3>MGS4>MGSPW

#11 Posted by DocHaus (1100 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

@Ubersmake said:

@Redbullet685: Release order is probably the best also because of how game mechanics have been changed/added over the years. CQC is probably the best example. Having it in 3, but not 1 or 2, and then retconned in 4 is...strange, to say the least.

Snake didn't get the same inherent ability for CQC in his genes, but Liquid did, which is why he owned him so fiercely in that overly-long cutscene in Act 3. Also, "nanomachines."

#12 Posted by IkariNoTekken (990 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

@evilrazer said:

It's like Star Wars

Only play half of it? Also at this point what George Lucas supposedly 'intended' is something completely different from the original trilogy as seen by all the terrible edits he's made on the films over the years.

Kojima fortunately hasn't followed down the same path so yeah play it in order of release.

#13 Posted by Guided_By_Tigers (8020 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

You should really play MGS1 before MGS2.....you can start off with MGS 3 as its the game that takes place first chronologically in the series.

#14 Posted by Zidd (1774 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

be prepared for controls that have aged very poorly for example holding 3 buttons down to shoot from behind cover.

#15 Posted by NTM (6419 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Yeah, order of release. It's better that way. DO NOT PLAY THE THIRD FIRST. Go MGS, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4, then do all of the in-between games after if you want. Your views on the Metal Gear games will differ I feel if you go in a different order than that. I feel like a lot of people that play games today started playing the MGS series starting with three, and they over-importanize it as if it's the best when there isn't a best. (I know, importanize isn't a word, but you know what I mean).

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