Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
MGS1 is sadly a game that is really beginning to show its age, while it has graphically lost its edge long before the PS1 was retired, the gameplay itself has pretty much been relegated to archaic after MGS2 hit the scene. I honestly feel that Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (16-bit MSX) plays better than MGS1, but I still love MGS1 cause its story and characters have held up nicely.
I'm not really sure I agree with you on this. While I wouldn't necessarily want to see the stealth genre regress to MGS1 style gameplay, I don't think you can really do a top down stealth game much better than MGS1. The controls were very responsive and felt great (I might even argue that the controls felt better than some of the later entries which piled on more and more moves to the MGS1 base), and the gameplay itself was quite challenging and compelling. I really don't think the game becomes less playable because the later games added to and changed up the formula a bit. In fact, aside from the fact that MGS2 added so many different ways to interact with enemies and the environment, I'd say MGS1 was a much tighter and more balanced gameplay experience. MGS2 made the stealth element a bit of a joke with the tranquilizer gun which takes almost all of the challenge out of the game. It wasn't really until MGS3 where they managed to work it in without completely breaking the gameplay.