Poll: Favourite Metal Gear game?

[Skops]

People saying Peace Walker must have a lot of patience.

Gimped controls, repeating missions to grind for parts, grind for proper ending takes ages, the whole story with the Boss was... meh (Paz thing was good).

No, the best stand-alone MGS game was Snake Eater. I mean, I love MGS4 for it's emotions, and MGS2 was my first, and MGS1 is iconic, but Snake Eater had the best single story, huge changes in gameplay for the better, interesting bosses, Easter Eggs galore, change in setting from inside to outside, and that music and the interaction between the Boss and Snake. Just amazing.

Gotta agree with you. The grind of Peace Walker is what makes it my least favorite MGS title. Wasn't a big fan of the story, I might be nitpicking but it bothers me they started mentioning the words 'Outer Heaven' 20 years canonically before the event. I have a long list of small problems with Peace Walker from story/references perspective that just didn't seem to fit and it really threw me off from the experience....Can some one clear something up for me? If Portable Ops' story isn't canon, how did Big Boss amass a small army for MSF before hand and why are they still in San Hieronymo? And I still don't really get the ongoing in-joke that Big Boss introduces himself to almost everyone as a bird watcher.

I gunna have to go with MGS1 as my favorite. I really feel like its the most balanced experience in all of the games. I've tried to get friends into MGS before and suggested they start with Snake Eater because thats where the story begins, but they never get past the 'Virtuous Mission' cause if you watch and listen to all cutscenes/codecs, its like 2hrs along and only 20 mins of gameplay. MGS2 suffers from the same. and MGS4.. ugh.. Jesus, I love the game but even I have have a hard time sitting through the first chapter. Despite my criticisms of Peace Walker, I will admit it did fix that problem; leaving much of the exposition/backdrop convos to optional audio tapes in the mission select screen.

 

[Vlado]

The release date was apparently leaked! September 1st, 2015.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-release-date-a/1100-6425654/

 

[loa]

I take it from that list you haven't played metal gear rising. You should probably fix that.
It takes the insanity of previous metal gear games, throws the slow part where metal gear games pretend to be cute, down to earth stealth games before you be fighting over the top supersoldiers with crazy guns, giant robots and vampires out of the window and cranks it up to 11.
Don't even pretend you never wanted to play as the cyborg ninja who gets shit done.

 

[teqrevisited]

As someone who doesn't actually like the Metal Gear games in the broader sense (Not into the story or the gameplay of the main games) I thoroughly enjoyed Metal Gear Rising. One of the most badass spectacle fighters out there.

 

[Juan Regular]

Metal Gear Solid without a doubt. It's probably my most played game despite its length. I finished it roughly 50 times and still play it once a year on Christmas. It's this wonderful piece of my childhood I can always revisit.
That being said I don't really love the series as a whole. MGS 2 and 4 in particular I really don't enjoy anymore because of their bonkers story. Still really looking forward to 5 though.

 

[Chaos Isaac]

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.

It's just.. classic. It didn't annoy me like MGS2 did. (Vamp was stupid, and not even cool, and I don't like him. Bomb hunting was not as interesting for as much as I had to do. Etc.) And MGS3 kinda out right bored me a lot. (I didn't like Eva, or the big bad. Revolver Ocelot was awesome, but that ladder climb was not. Most of the Cobra's were kinda boring and characterless, though the dead guy was cool.) And it kept it's story more focused and less bogged down then MGS4, which I borderline don't consider a MGS game.

 

[debtcollector]

Not surprised to see MGS3 lead, but I expected MGS to be in second. Happy to see votes for the 2D games, too! I wish a MG2: Solid Snake fan would make a comment about it.

Okay!

Solid Snake was a great game, especially compared to the one-note (literally) first game. I could never call it my favorite, especially because it came on the disc for Snake Eater, but all the added features--crawling, luring guards by punching walls, NPCs, elevators--and an actually deep story made it leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessor. I only played it for the first time last year, and I was still blown away by how great it was.

OT: Snake Eater all the way. It mastered every part of the Metal Gear formula while still adding new features that blended perfectly with the old ones. The plot was straightforward while still being interesting, and it had that magical realism thing going on. (Ghosts? Lightning people? Bee-kinesis? No explanation could make it make sense, so why bother?) Not to mention The End, the Shagohod, The Fury (I liked the Fury), The Sorrow, and the best damn nemesis I've ever seen in video games, period. (The Boss, obviously) Oh, and

Spoiler: SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE EAAAAAAAAAAATER

 

[GodzillaGuy92]

I am laid low. The artistic world has run out of carrots for me, and is bringing more and more sticks to bear. Good ideas are squandered, bad ideas the order of the day, and rare victories of execution snatched from the jaws of greatness by foundations too shaky to hold them up. Hope has left me to rot in the impregnable confines of fate.

But soft. My gaze lifts in awe as the stormy clouds above burst apart before a wave of warming light. The luminous zenith descends from the heavens on a dynamically cuttable carriage, pulled by the Winds of Destruction atop a current of reactive metal song. The Supreme Being pauses before my mortal shell, and names itself Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

Soon, I too will ascend from this plane, and join as one with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Soon, we will all of us be Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

 

[Stg]

I'm not surprised in the least to see MGS 3 being the favorite. While MGS was stunning in its own right and MGS 2 was revolutionary to console stealth/action games, I believe MGS 3 was by far the most polished of them all.

Plus the story was easy to follow and wasn't filled with 50/50 gameplay/cinematics.

 

[xacto14]

MGS3: Snake Eater guys, the ultimate apotheosis of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, the sweet spot between immersive/complex gamplay features and an overdesigned if serviceable game that tries to cover too many bases.

Seriously, the Camo things works, the weapons are varied and awesome, the environments are well detailed and cool. Animals brought their own danger and awesomeness, boss fights were par for the Metal Gear course but The End? The End was the best boss fight I'd ever played and to this day nothing has topped The End. A perfect combination of stealth, camo usage, hunting, use of the jungle envrionment, and sniper duel to top it all off. You're in a hunting ground and have to master the environment itself to beat your opponent.

I loved it, that slow, patient feeling of tracking The End, wondering if he was going to line you up in his sights at any moment, realising you were getting closer and closer until: You see him, there, anticipating your approach from another angle. You've outsmarted him this time, get his camo, take down some of his stamina and the hunt starts all over again.

Never had a gaming experience that topped my first battle with The End.

Can you tell I liked the boss battle with The End?

This, this is good.

For me MGS3 will always be my number one, just as Rising will be dead last, always. lol

 

[Vlado]

Not surprised to see MGS3 lead, but I expected MGS to be in second. Happy to see votes for the 2D games, too! I wish a MG2: Solid Snake fan would make a comment about it.

Okay!

Solid Snake was a great game, especially compared to the one-note (literally) first game. I could never call it my favorite, especially because it came on the disc for Snake Eater, but all the added features--crawling, luring guards by punching walls, NPCs, elevators--and an actually deep story made it leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessor. I only played it for the first time last year, and I was still blown away by how great it was.

Thank you! Since I first played Solid Snake after I'd beaten the four Metal Gear Solids, I was utterly amazed at how so many mechanics (some of which you named... I really enjoyed lurking around in the ventilation shafts) already existed in 2D! It really showed that Kojima had the perfect Metal Gear vision already at a time where technology didn't allow him to present it in such a magnificent way as the 3D games did.

 

[Signa]

I only played MGS1 and 2. I kinda hated 2, so 1 gets my praise. It is still a good game as far as I'm concerned.