Originally posted by Scythe
The PSP games: Except Peacewalker, are strategy games based around a cardgame style battles. It's waaay different than the console ones. Peacewalker goes back to being a regular MGS game, sneakin' around and it has a jungle setting like the third.
you realize that peace walker is a sequel to another psp game that was not card based right?
which i still need to play....peace walker not mpo
but to answer the question on the forum. mgs is my favorite series, great story, great characters, great director...let me go off on a tangent for a second.
Hideo Kojima is quite possibly the greatest single person in the video game industry, he does not make a game to be "popular" or to make money, he simply tries to make the greatest games possible, the level of research and detail he implements into his games is insane. and he created a team (kojima productinos) to do the same kinds of things, so anything made by this company I will stand by. phew, im done...for now
but the first game is really good, I almost recommend doing what i did, play the second first then playing the first, when you do that you play the first and the second just makes a lot more sense, and you probably wont hate it as much as most people do. but just go in order, play it the way they wanted it to be played. wow, im just a tangent machine. mgs 1 is amazing, featuring the greatest character in any of the games grey fox, the story was solid, the characters were all great, but the gameplay is what might ruin the game for you, i know people that will not play these games because of the gameplay.
The second game was REALLY good, at least to me. Even though the mc was "whiny" and kinda girly, I thought he was frikin awesome. His situation made sense why he was kinda whiny, I mean he pretty much went from playing video games to being in a real life mind f**k that would cause most people to crazy and die there are so many twists in the story to this game it might frustrate you, but I loved it. The gameplay is much better than the fist, but is still kinda rigid, but you learn little tricks along the way, like unequiping a weapon and quickly reequiping it relodes it instead of waiting for the character to do it himself.
The third is by far the best in the series, just because it has easily the greatest cast of characters, very good dialog, the greatest story, and the most easter eggs i have ever seen in a single game. There are some new aspects to the gameplay that make it better still, but it is still pretty much the same gameplay. there are more guns, a lot more, cqc was brought in, adding a little bit to the interesting aspect of the game. and the end just might make you cry...but i didn't *cough* cuz im a man.
sorry for going on for so long, i just think that this series deserves an explanation for each game, well, at least for the playstation console series, im not going to get into the msx games or the portable ones, but you should definitely play both.
No 4 is a very close second to no 3, and that is just cuz i hold the story so much higher than gameplay. mgs4 easily has the greatest gameplay of any of the games, it is actually like a shooter game, but a stealth shooter, it really is amazing. the choice of guns is just incredible, and the customization of most of these weapons just adds that much more. The story is pretty close to no 3 quality, especially the ending, i am not saying anything at all about it. the bosses were....well, HOT! and pretty innovative, well 2.5 of them. raiden is a bad ass in this one (though, still no grey fox if you ask me). there is so much fan service in this game, it will make you want to play the other games again, so don't start on this game whatever you do. so pretty much this game is one big nostalgic stealthy massacre, that is still interesting enough to draw you in like a movie...a REALLY REALLY REAAAALLY long movie.