Metal Gear Scanlon is done! And boy, what a ride!

I never played much Metal Gear myself, as the only games I have actually played properly have been one bootleg copy of Metal Gear Solid (which I now realize had some kind of DRM as it always locked up when the last boss fight started, deleting the save) and Metal Gear Solid 2 on the Xbox. Why only those two games? I never owned a Playstation. I did also play through the demo of Metal Gear Solid on a friends Playstation though, and I played it a lot for some reason. Not sure why, because I never liked how it controlled.

I have always been fond of stealth, and the stealth gameplay in Metal Gear rubbed me the wrong way from the start. I struggled through MGS2, only playing on to see where the story went. At the time I remember liking how bonkers it was, while at the same time thinking it was kinda stupid.

And now, after I have seen all of the gameplay and story from the main games? Well, Drew didn't actually play it stealthy, but it seemed to be as bad as I remembered it. The camo system in 3 and 4 seemed neat though, and I think I would have enjoyed that. Story still straddling the line of "this is stupid as shit" and "this is awesome". There are glimpses of great stuff there, ruined by idiotic scenes. I think, for me, Hideo Kojima's love for western action movies ruined a lot of what could be cool. Most of the cool stuff was just hammered in too much, and it got worse every game. The same with the dramatic scenes, which got more and more melodramatic. I appreciate the story, (but calling it great is stretching it,) and I do love big plots like that. Had all of it been planned out at the start it would have been impressive, but it is clear it was not.

Yet there is something to this series, I admit that. I even went so far as to add Metal Gear Solid 5 to my Steam wishlist. It seems to be better in the gameplay department, and maybe you can stealth it better when you have more freedom. But I don't feel like I need it at the release date.

So congratulations, you guys made me want to play a Metal Gear game. I have always thought I didn't need that after MGS2.