****. Spellican.

#21

I was pretty much forcing myself to beat MGS when I bought it for my PSP, just for the sake of saying I beat it. Stealth games just have difficulty appealing to everyone. If MGS HD Collection on the Vita goes down in price ($40 still, HAH), I'll probably get it still, if only to play the MSX versions of Metal Gear 1 and 2.

#22

I like a good stealth game.

A good one.

Bad Dragonite · #23

Which ones would you suggest oh great cow? :p

I am nobody · #24

MGS is that series I'm always meaning to play because of what other people say but never actually get around to touching because of current games and my short experience with MGS1. I forget the save frequency every time I try to play it and end up spending more time brute forcing a save than I do playing. >_>

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #25

Sucka

^^^^^^ *Hip-hop music starts playing* You wanna talk science?! Yo' mama so fat, scientists have declared her ass to be the 10th planet! Yo' mama so fat that she expresses her weight in scientific notation! *Looks all serious as crowd "Ooohs"*

^^^^^ MGS 1 is probably the best but MGS2 was just very fun, and both are certainly high-caliber games. You should play MGS: Twin Snakes some time.

As for MGS4, it was bastardized by "Western-Sensibility Syndrome" like Resident Evil 5. Still good games in their own right, I hardly recognize them as a part of their respective series.

EDIT: I took too long yhinking up yo mama jokes and got ninja'd. -_-

Bad Dragonite · #26

I am nobody wrote:MGS is that series I'm always meaning to play because of what other people say but never actually get around to touching because of current games and my short experience with MGS1. I forget the save frequency every time I try to play it and end up spending more time brute forcing a save than I do playing. >_>

Later games have it on a preset. It's fairly easy.

Calamity Panfan · #27

I don't like mgs because I don't like being interrupted by cutscenea very five steps

#28

Vgfian wrote:Which ones would you suggest oh great cow? :p

'Mark of Kri' and 'Rise of the Kasai'. 'Assassin's Creed'. 'Hitman'. 'Thief'. 'Manhunt'. Bladow.

#29

Bonus: Take the actor's place and shoot him yourself. Super bonus: Be a tour guide

Hitman and Thief don't get enough love on these forums. They're swell games. I got pretty far in Hitman 2 and Blood Money and lemme tell you blending in makes for better sneaking around than having to find a .5 second gap in a patrol to slip in through, you can just as well sedate a guard in the bathroom, hide his dumb body, make your way to the back of the theater like you own the place, rig the chandelier with a remote explosive, replace a prop pistol with a real one, watch them reenact a play and watch the actor kill one of your targets for you, then as you casually walk out trigger the explosives as the dead man's friend rushes to the stage and conveniently trips right under the falling chandelier.

X-3 · #30

This thread just makes me want to get the HD collection more and more.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #31

^^^ Assassin's Creed is inferior in, quite literally, every aspect compared to MGS. It's just generic, bleh. Hitman has more variety, less substance, but is great. Can't speak for the rest but they seem to have less emphasis on the actual "stealth"aspects.

I am nobody · #32

Vgfian wrote:Later games have it on a preset. It's fairly easy.

How possible is it to understand the story (at least, as much as that's actually possible) without playing more than ~2 hours of the first game? I'd probably be more likely to actually finish the series if skipping the first game is an option.

^Thief puts a lot more emphasis on stealth than MGS from what I've played of each. I'm not sure I personally liked it any better, but it's worth checking out if the stealth aspect is your biggest interest.

Bad Dragonite · #33

I've never played the first game and didn't have any real knowledge of the series when I played it. I still got every bit of it. :)
There are references, but they're few but they're still cool enough for fans.

So it's not necessary at all. If there'es a bit that is involved with the first directly, then it is explained.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #34

^^ Play MGS: TTS for NGC. It's a more modern MGS, graphically comparable to MGS2/3 and with nearly all of their features.

Also, MGS is nearly pure stealth with the exception of certain parts like boss battles and story-related aspects. The core game can require near-absolute stealth, and can be ridiculously difficult when you play the toughest way; Extreme Mode, "Over if Spotted", No Radar and attain "Big Boss" Rank. I don't see how you can put much more emphasis on stealth.

I mean, you could just run-and-gun on Very Easy Mode with the Radar on at all times, with "Chicken" Rank but that's not fun.

#35

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! wrote:^^^ Assassin's Creed is inferior in, quite literally, every aspect compared to MGS. It's just generic, bleh.

Okay.