I'm really new to the series and I finally am going through the franchise. It's probably a sin that it has taken me this long to play each game because they are fucking awesome and I'm enjoying every minute of it. Within 2 games MGS became my favorite franchise over Zelda, I can't get enough MGS-verse. My first game was MGS4 and it was solely on the experience of my buddy so I bought the game and my mind was blown, one of my favorite games ever and probably will be hard to top as my favorite MGS game overall. I beat the original last year and I loved it but I kinda want to play the Twin Snakes version to see if that holds up better because I did have some issues with various things, overall amazing game.
Now is where it gets interesting. I played through MGS2 2 weeks ago or so and.....I have mixed feelings. I really disliked some parts of the game, but I thought was pretty good too great game overall. Boss battles where subpar except for....really the ending battle was the only one I loved out of the entire game. Raiden was intolerable for the first part of the game but grew on me has he grew up on screen. I still have no idea what happened at the end and accidentally skipped some cutscenes which was terrible. I want to say 50 minutes out of the last hour are cutscenes/codec conversations, that about right? The Tanker section I thought was the better part of the game. Basically I need to play through the game again to really develop how I feel but definitely the weaker of the 3 I played so far.
Now I just started 3 a couple hours ago and took a break but I got up through "The Pain" and I'm LOVING the game so far. If it maintains the momentum it has for me it could easily surpass 1 and 4. Snake is of course a badass and have had some great one-liners. Young Ocelot is super interesting me as basically Snake is mentoring him right from their first meeting. They have a bad guy I hate and can't wait to fight her...that traitor. I'm only a couple hours in and its just bringing up emotions that I had when I played through 4 and I just want to keep going and learning and watching and seeing how the game plays out.
After I beat 3 I will play through Peace Walker (thank GOD (Hideo Kojima) for the HD collection) but I'm curious how MG and MG2 are, should I play them? Am I being too harsh on 2? Am I remember 4 too fondly? Twin Snakes worth playing? ETC?
I guess this is more of I just WANT to talk about MGS. I feel like I do now as I did when I first watch Arrested Development years ago, I've been missing out on this amazing thing and I just want to catch up with people who know what they are talking about.
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