@grixxel said:

I agree completely with what you said but I still think MGS3 is by far the best game in the series, it's actually my favourite game of all time.

It's a fight between snake eater and 4 but MGS4 wins in the end.

MGS2, for me. It packed a lot of surprisingly emotional stuff. But then I've only actually completed 1 (the PSX original and Twin Snakes) and 2, so my opinion doesn't really count for much.

I skipped out on Snake Eater when it first came out. I've tried to play it a few times in recent years, but it's incredibly hard for me to get into. Just the way classic MGS games play doesn't click with me in the way it used to.

4.

I think Snake Eater has the best story, but 4's amount of nostalgic fanservice meant that I enjoyed it just a little bit more.

4.

I think Snake Eater has the best story, but 4's amount of nostalgic fanservice meant that I enjoyed it just a little bit more.

MGS1.

MGS1.

I've only played through Metal Gear (NES) and Metal Gear Solid (PS) and I have to go with MGS; it truly changed the gaming landscape. The NES game was revolutionary in some ways and completely broken in others (Jungle maze, anyone?).

I think 2 is my favourite. I think it was in a perverse way the most focused of the games, it had a defined, concrete story (however batshit insane it was) it wanted to tell and definite themes it wanted to explore. The characterisation of the Patriots (which I really enjoyed) is a standout for me, and was much better than in 4. It also moved the story along at a reasonably good clip, and is probably the best paced game. At the end of the day did its very best to be its own game, considering it had to be a MGS game. In many ways it is the anti-MGS4; which is basically tying up loose ends the game and I still can't get my head around that god-awful zero analogy at the end. I don't think it had as much of a unique voice as the other games.

All 4 Solids are the best for their own different reasons. 3 is probably the best overall package. 2 is the most fuckin ridiculous. 4 is the best film. And 1 is the best nostalgia.

All 4 Solids are the best for their own different reasons. 3 is probably the best overall package. 2 is the most fuckin ridiculous. 4 is the best film. And 1 is the best nostalgia.

Can't decide between 2 and 3.

MGS1 is my favourite for having the full package, while each MGS has different positives, MGS1 had what they all had.

Boy, that's rough. I liked the first Metal Gear Solid for its characters and overall story (before things got so damned convoluted in 2 & 3). Playing through 2 with a college friend was definitely the best time I had with a MGS game, though now, I think I'd say MGS 3 is my favorite due to the awesome gameplay and the neat boss battles. I wish some of the elements from the handheld games saw some kind of modernization, particularly the soldier recruitment and base building. But yeah, overall, I'd say MGS3.

MGS3 is top of the line. Funnily enough, after doing a mental inventory I've realized that the only Metal Gear Solid game I've never played is...Metal Gear Solid.

MGS2.

I actively dislike 3 for cluttering up the game with too many systems (food, camo, surgery, CQC) that diverted way too far from the original hide-and-seek basics of MGS1 and the original game. I respect 4 for being a glorious trainwreck as Kojima frantically tries to finish up all the loose ends in the serie's convoluted plot. I prefer MGS2 to 1 because I felt Kojima had grown just enough as a designer to take better advantages of the PS2 than with the PS1 and as a writer hadn't yet into the madness that was MGS3 and 4.

And: MGS2 should have been the end of the entire series.

Metal Gear Solid or Twin Snakes were the best for me. I liked MGS3 but didn't think the camo system was very good, and I thought 4 was a massive disappointment.

MSG; Twin Snakes, the GC remake and Rising are my favs.

MGS3 is rg best though.

Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, That game came in as a big surprise and it took a lot out of me. At first I wasn't sure about the controls, it was one those "CRAP! I got spotted, I'm gonna retry and load up another save." Until a point where everything clicked around the point before the end, where I understood how to sneak behind guards with the D Pad, interrogate, find a cool code on the codec to cancel the patrol and then just make everything easier on me. It was a lot like Dark Souls, and I felt all the more greater for experiencing it..... like seriously the Boss fight, having to feel the rumble at the exact moment, that was brutal.

Metal Gear Solid 2. While a divisive game, it still remains one of the best video games I've ever played.

Having played Guns of the Patriots, I can still stand by this opinion.

I played through MGS2 so many times, and I can't forget how much time I spent on the VR missions in the Substance version. Those were really great and seems like they didn't grab a lot of fans.

MGS3 arguably had the best story though.

I like MGS2 *a lot*

The only ones I've actually played to completion are 4 & Rising. I picked 4. 1, 2 & 3 I just watched the "movie" versions of, by that I mean all of the cutscenes strung together into one big long video file I torrented a long time ago. I actually want to go back and play them all but now that I know the story I don't see much point, maybe I should just get Peace Walker, haven't spoiled that one yet, but I think it's more of a side story?

The original MGS. It's the game that brought gaming back as a regular hobby for me after not really paying attention to games during my late teenage years (mid-to-late 90s).

Damn right, 3.

I gotta go with 3. It's closely followed by 1.

They're the most grounded in reality, and believable. Well i mean you could accept it for the most part. sexy sniper lady who likes dogs, thats actually completely believable. Big crazy shaman dude with a minigun? Sure! why not. a gunslinger? sure!. i mean yeah in three it got a bit wacky....i mean there was a guy who's super power was BEEEEEEEEEEEES. but the story and characters felt so much better. It was fantastic.

2 and 4....ugh, so convoluted and stupid. Just complexity for the sake of being complex. you got a fat guy on roller blades, school girls, a vampire guy who's apparently allergic to wearing shirts, NANOMACHINESSSSS. it's just so silly and dumb. I totally understand why people might like these ones more, but boy...the dumbness to me just wasn't the right flavor, and i can appreciate dumb. It's just so god damn hard to take an extremely self serious story seriously when it's making you fight a fat dude on roller blades...Also, raiden sucks.

3 Subsistence. I really do love all the games though. Portable Ops was the only one I never really got super excited about, and even then I didn't mind playing it, at least once I remapped the controls.

Edit: Oh wait Rising is on that list. Probably not Rising.

I think I had the most fun with Metal Gear Rising to be honest. My second pick would have to be Metal Gear Solid 3 or 4. Hard choice.

Rising is by far the best. Got the profound stupidity and nanomachines, son! moments you expect from a kojipro game but it actually plays like how a good video game plays because Platinum stepped in and saved the project when it became clear Kojima's team couldn't do action gameplay.

4>2>1>3