Game Battles: Resident Evil vs Metal Gear

Round 1: Graphics.

Round 2: Gameplay.

Round 3: Fun Factor.

Round 4: Sales.

Round 5: Critical Acclaim.

Round 6: Story/Stories.

Round 7: Upcoming Titles.

Round 8: Current Titles.

Which is the better series?

(All spin-off's count as well. Including Metal Gear Rising, and Metal Gear Solid, as well as Raccoon City, and the recent RE: Revelations.)

mg curbstomps in all except sales. maybe. i dunno.

What? No multiplayer? I would've given Resident Evil that at least for the funny as hell moments when playing co-op in the campaigns.

I've only played the 4th one. I only have Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

Then why make such a poll when you've only played one game?

Round 1: Graphics
Metal Gear without a doubt

Round 2: Gameplay.
Metal Gear, I'm a sucker for stealth

Round 3: Fun Factor.
Metal Gear never gets old. Then again, I played RE4 over a hundred times, and thats not an exaggeration or including Adas story (around 60 times normal and over 40 times on professional). I've likely put more time into RE4 than I have all the MGS games combined (ground zeroes alone got a good 25 hours out of me, so I've played the hell out of MGS too), as awesome as they are. Thats not even counting all my play throughs on 360 or PC. Every time RE4 is ported to a new console, I buy it and replay it until I unlock everything. Co-op in the other games also adds a ton of replayability. It would be fair to give this to RE since RE4 has pulled me since day one, but I'll give this one a tie I suppose. I'll never get bored of either.

Round 4: Sales.
MGS4 sold 5.67 million copies worldwide

Resident Evil 4 sold 7.4 million copies (GC, Wii, and PS2) and this was before it came out on next gen systems and PC.

This goes to Resident Evil, though it is important to note that MGS4 made all its sales on one console which is pretty impressive. RE4 had the benefit of being constantly remastered and ported around.

Round 5: Critical Acclaim.
RE4 is one of the most critically acclaimed titles of all time and was considered revolutionary. You'll rarely find a top 10 video games list without RE4 in the top 3 somewhere. In its time, it scored almost perfect reviews and even higher than MGS4 (though the same as MGS2).

I'll give this to RE.

Round 6: Story/Stories.
Metal Gear in quite the stomp

Round 7: Upcoming Titles.
Once again, Metal Gear in quite the stomp

Round 8: Current Titles.
MGS has more consistently good titles. RE has been in a sharp decline since 4.

Which is the better series?
Honestly, as a whole, MGS. Great protagonists, great villains, great story (mostly), great gameplay.

RE has great protagonists, but the majority of them have been brought back as two dimensional shadows of what they were. Chris and Leon got the worst of this. If they were aged and built on in a better way, they'd be on Snakes level but they both peaked too early.

Despite this, RE4 is my all time favorite game. Silent Hill 2 comes in at second place for me (while also being my all time favorite series). MGS4 comes in at 3rd though it will be kicked out when MGS5 comes. Ground Zeroes already confirmed that.

Would be cool to see aged Leon and Chris. I'm not talking Old Snake level, but an older and kind of less Supermanesque version of themselves.

They're both franchises that should have been taken out back awhile ago. Kojima agrees, Capcom... doesn't.

At best, I think they need to be wiped clean and started over fresh- new characters, new settings, new mythology.

Originally posted by Arachnid1
You'll rarely find a top 10 video games list without RE4 in the top 3 somewhere.

The hell? Great game but I've rarely seen it in top ten lists let alone in the top 3. It's certainly no Ocarina of Time in the acclaim department.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
They're both franchises that should have been taken out back awhile ago. Kojima agrees, Capcom... doesn't.

At best, I think they need to be wiped clean and started over fresh- new characters, new settings, new mythology.

Because we totally need another "DmC".

Not a bad game, but god, Dante is unlikeable, and the story is ****ed.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
They're both franchises that should have been taken out back awhile ago. Kojima agrees, Capcom... doesn't.

At best, I think they need to be wiped clean and started over fresh- new characters, new settings, new mythology.

Yep!

When your ending cutscene in the "final game" of the series is an hour and a half with powerpoint slides, something's off.

I would love to see Resident Evil series to remade into something new. Get rid of the bullshit canon (are they on the J-virus now?). Same with Metal Gear....(NANOMACHINES!)

If you are going to throw out the canon you might as well make a new franchise instead.

Yeah I'm more a fan of spiritual successors. But those lack brand recognition

Originally posted by ares834
If you are going to throw out the canon you might as well make a new franchise instead.

Not necessarily. As Lek said, it's about the brand and you can still keep the main gameplay associated with Resident Evil/Metal Gear.

Both of these games had no idea that they were going to have a coherent storyline because they didn't know if a sequel was going to be made or not.

Wouldn't it be awesome if developers/writers had a chance to create a new story without referencing the convoluted narrative from the previous games and use the universe that was hastily created. I wouldn't have a problem.

One thing that made RE4 great was it wasn't too steeped in trying to shoehorn the "canon" into it. There is references and the same characters but it wasn't fully into it.

The thing is MGS is all about the plot (BTW every MGS is convoluted not merely MGS4). That's the main point of those games, it's the story that drives them forward not gameplay. If you reboot the franchise it’s not MGS anymore, it’s something different.

I don't believe that would be true. It was always a game (from the original MG games on the NES, which basically started the idea of stealth over action) and it was until MGS2 where the crazy ass cut scenes became the norm.