Jick Magger
Arcane
I'd just recommend playing by release date. First game's aged terrifically, and it can be hard to get in to the other games in the series if you get too used to MGS3's style of gameplay.
You don't have to be that careful. Enemies are not very sound aware, just run past them.I went back and played every game in the series starting with MGS4 -> MGS2 -> MGS3 -> MG1 -> MG2: Solid Snake -> MGS1. MGS1 was the last game in the series that I played.
So I'm certain that I can say that MGS1 has by far, out of the whole bunch, aged most aggressively. The gameplay is the most arcane. It doesn't have crouch running or first person aiming. The camera is strictly isometric, so you are heavily reliant on the "vision cone" radar to detect guard patterns. Enemies by and large have to be either dispatched by carefully sneaking up and putting them in a chokehold, which can be unnerving because the difference between triggering an alarm and successfully putting the guard in a choke hold is much more narrow than in MGS3.
MG2: SS > all. Best story and level design. MGS2 comes close due to increased gameplay options without the awful corridor level design of MGS 3 and 4, but fuck that dialogue. MGS1 is just a dumbed down MG2.
?MG2: SS > all. Best story and level design. MGS2 comes close due to increased gameplay options without the awful corridor level design of MGS 3 and 4, but fuck that dialogue. MGS1 is just a dumbed down MG2.
Areas are just stacked next to each other like a corridor. I prefer the feeling as if I'm in a single cohesive location; Thief level design.I can't play MGS1 and MGS2 anymore after playing MGS4.
MGS3 (HD Edition, not the original version) is still playable.
?MG2: SS > all. Best story and level design. MGS2 comes close due to increased gameplay options without the awful corridor level design of MGS 3 and 4, but fuck that dialogue. MGS1 is just a dumbed down MG2.
Snakeboarding is betterSnake Tales is where it's at for me. Ground Zeroes' side ops were good, but not great. MGS5 needs to have side ops of higher quality for it to be the best.
Hideo aged a lot in just one year. Poor guy. All his relationships just seem to fall through the floor. Guy can't keep his family and then he can't keep his job. Punished Hideo indeed. Looking forward to seeing what he does without Konami forcing him to make more Metal Gear Solid games.
Similarly, Konami has also never said anything explicit that would indicate they are keeping Kojima’s family hostage. When a spokesperson was asked about Metal Gear Solid 5, they responded, “It will be more than likely that MGS5 is the last Kojima-produced Metal Gear title. I think we’ve kept him away from his family long enough.
(Q&A was taken down, for some reason)A Kojima Productions Q&A posted by PlayStation's EU Community Manager has confirmed that Kojima's new project will be coming to PC, but only after a stint on PS4. The length of the exclusivity period was not coughed up.
All the retcon shit really turns MGS series from a bizarre melodramatic espionage soap opera into an animu cum gargling competition.
I never got why in the end of MGS2 when they get a list of the Patriots (it's like a dozen or more names), they're all dead for over 60-100(?) years and then in the shit-ass PSP game the Patriots are founded in the fucking 60's/70's.