Metal Gear Solid is the best series ever. Period.

[rih29]

This game rocks my socks. I get endless enjoyment from sneaking around, shooting innocent medics in the back with an AK47, Strangling guards and forcing them to join me, using people as body shields, and exploding trucks with TNT, and watching guards freak out and call HQ.

I'm playing MGS: Portable Ops on my PSP and it's the best game ever.

Discuss Metal Gear Solid.

[Jowy]

I'm posting in this thread with the power of my mind alone.

I always play no-kill though for added challenge.

[Ichimonji]

Yes. To everything that has been said in this thread so far.

I probably going to purchase MGS:PO next week, and I can't wait for MGS4.

[Moon Rabbits]

MGS One was good, I lost hope after MGS Two and haven't played Three yet.

And Silent Hill is better.

[LunarWeaver]

Metal Gear Solid is ridiculously awesome. MGS2 is actually my favorite, and it's the most criticized of them all. I liked Raiden, though... I liked him before Kojima changed him to Badass Raiden or whatever you kids call him these days (not that the new one isn't looking totally jiveriffic too). But I like Snake, too, so it's all fine for me.

Definitely looking forward to the fourth.

[Maxico]

I really get the feeling that most of the MGS2 hate is "monkey see, monkey do".

I think it was much better than 3.

[Dreddz]

Im not a die hard fan of the series but I like them, I would normally pass on a game of this type but MGS is very unique so I stuck with the series. I own Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops but have only had time to play about 2-3 hours of it, even though I got it two weeks ago. I liked the first Metal Gear Solid the most, then the second, then the third. So its kinda gone downhill with me, but I liked all of them still. I do feel like im the only one who treats them like a stealth shooter though, I even had a go at European Extreme on MGS2, I got up to Vamp ( when hes a boss ) then stopped, both because is was hard as nails, and I wanted to play other things.

Bring on MGS4.

[Roto13]

I'm a pretty big fan. Like Lunar, MGS 2 is my favourite. I don't hate Raiden. :P

[Odaisé Gaelach]

MGS2 was very good, except for one thing: the storyline. The plot. Complete and utter drivel.

[Roto13]

I liked the plot. It was crazy. :P

[Wolf Kanno]

I love the series though I have to say MGS3 is my favorite. Big Boss is the best.

I think MGS2 gets too much hate for dumb reasons. Raiden isn't all that bad, he's a little bit whiny but I blame his VA and Rosemary for that. It's plot is pretty damn convulated but actually makes sense except I felt they made the Patriots seem a little too "other worldly".

I want to play Portable Ops and MGS4 but Sony want's too much money for lackluster systems with competent game libraries at best Though if anything was going to make me buy a PS3, it would have to be MGS4. It's still the only game announced for the system that seems worth the trouble. I can only hope that fanboys will convince Kojima to port MGS:PO to the PS2 cause I really don't want to get a PSP.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I love the whole Metal Gear series, but I haven't played Portable Ops or Snaker Eater.

And I didn't like Raiden, he was queer.

[Jack]

Raiden wasn't queer, he was having a baby with his (not ugly) girlfriend and his job involved shooting people in the face, blowing up mechs, defusing bombs and slashing people up with a katana.
Possibly the least queer actions I know.

I love all the Metal Gears, although MGS2 was my favourite. I enjoyed the plot too, with his combination of testosterone fuelled action and Sartre influenced philosophy. You don't get THAT in many games.

And yes, I AM looking forward to MGS4.

[chrisfffan]

the first Metal Gear Solid is one of the best games ever the second was so disappointing because you had to be that wimp Radien! but the third was great a lot like James Bond really but i wanted them to make the game where snake fights his dad Big Boss and Grey Fox the new game should be good though.

[Cz]

I'm going to hesitantly agree with the premise of this thread, at least for the moment. It sort of depends on whether or not you're going to include MGS:Twin Snakes, since that drags down the rest of the franchise, while at the same time corrupting the brilliance and beauty of the original game.

As for MGS2, I wasn't thrilled by it on my first playthrough, but once I had a bit of time to digest the plot it really grew on me. Raiden has his awkward moments, but the game itself is superbly designed, albeit not quite up to the standards of its predecessor. If you're going to come up with arguments against MGS2, go for something better than "the main character is a wuss".