Please, please, please say that it's not some defect in my system that I abhore the Metal Gear series of games. Playing through them is painful. The gameplay, if you can call it that, is terrible and doesn't compare to the stealth in other games (the Thief series, Deus Ex, heck even Beyond Good and Evil had better stealth sections!). The plot is like a sub-par Steven Segal movie with atrocious acting to boot. What people see in these games is beyond me. I spent two quid on Metal Gear Solid 2 and I still feel ripped off (to put it into perspective I could have easily picked up the penneys on the floor around the shop where I bought it and have had enough funds left over for a Kit Kat Chunky). Maybe I'm missing a trick here, some diamond section that makes these games so damn popular. Or maybe I can shove it alongside the GTA games as series that I'll just never "get".