First MGS4 reviews point to major hit

I’ll take it, thanks.

Shocking!

In related news… if play don’t come through with my gunmetal PS3 I won’t be playing this until little big planet comes out.

I just started playing Metal Gear Solid 2 this weekend. Better late than never, eh?

Chatty bastards, aren’t they?

“It’s the end of the world! We must act NOW!”
“But first, let’s talk about your girlfriend a bit.”

Heh. You wait till the end, Blerk. It’s the funniest thing in games.

I hope there’s a bit of a recap of the story at the beginning of MGS4. It’s been quite a few years now since I played MGS2 and I can’t really remember how it ended up. Not that I particularly recall ever understanding what was going on with the ending at the time I was playing it…

Anyway, this is really starting to make me wish I had a PS3. :/

So is 2008 going to be the best year in gaming ever?

10/10 from the Italian Official PS mag – that means it’s EVEN BETTER than the 9/10 they gave Haze!!!

How does MGS3 fit in here? I understand it’s a prequel of sorts, do I need to play that before even contemplating MGS4 or can I quite happily not bother.

It’s all over for my wallet. All over

Blerk: Who knows! At this rate it wouldn’t suprise me if you needed to play the PSP ones to make any sense of the plot.

Snake Eater LOL

Funniest tagline in games EVAH!

/chows down on rattlesnake

MGS3 just charts the origins of Big Boss, the guy that Solid Snake is cloned from. It’s not really essential to play that after MGS2 / before MGS4.

MGS3 contains a bit of back-story about Big Boss, Revolver Ocelot and the Patriots but I’d be pretty confident that you can play MGS4 without having played MGS3 and not really miss out on much of the story.

IMHO, the main reason to play MGS3 is actually that it’s a far better game than MGS2.

Does MGS 3 work ok on bc? Was there any updates?
I tried it ages ago and it seemed to be stall-a-rama.

I’m just watching the retrospectives to get the story. It’s far too insane to bother trying to understand it properly.

I never understood any of it. All you need to know is that villains turn up, someone does a shock horror face, there’s a fight and it finishes. That’s pretty much it.

Heheh. The story isn’t that retarded, it’s just told in a retarded way. It’s worth reading a retrospective; the Piggyback Games MGS3 is an excellent companion not just to MGS3, but to the whole series – it really fleshes things out in a straightforward manner.

“The story isn’t that retarded”

Well… I just read the plot synopsis for MGS2 on Wikipedia and I’m still not 100% sure I know what was going on at the end of it.

Hehehe. It’s bonkers, but not retarded

mart: When you got into amputated arms controlling people it hit retarded for me. :p

KB – No one knows what happens in MGS2. People just pretend they do.

*taps nose*

PT: Hehe, it’s just fun sci-fi fantasy larks. Anyway, I’m not saying the story isn’t silly, I’m saying it’s not as hard to understand when the sequence of events is relayed in a less convoluted manner.

At the highest level, yes.

I’m really not sure the plot matters so much, tbh. The daftness is part of the appeal.

It wouldn’t be MGS if it wasn’t batshit mental.

Mmm… that I agree with. I have no real issue with people enjoying the story, even if it is a bit nuts. I don’t generally agree with people claiming it to be a masterpiece of fiction though. =)

If you think about it, 95% of video game stories are batshit mental, tbh. It’s only the fact that MGS looks a bit like a “serious military simulation” in screenies that makes people go o_O when they start seeing giant robots and cyborg ninjas and severed arms taking control of peoples brains.

I think some people come to it expecting it to be all serious n’ that.

If only, if *only*, someone would make a game with a story that wasn’t insane. Maybe then it wouldn’t feel as though all games are made for 12 year-old boy-men.

You should remove all notions of serious when you first find yourself among the mechs that moo.

His stupid headband’s a bit of a giveaway as well.

Oh believe me, I love all the sci-fi/fantasy stuff – the cloning and the conspiracy theories that form much of the MGS back story: great.

It’s just that the ending to MGS2 really didn’t (and to a large extent, still doesn’t) make any sense to me at all. It was all “A ha! He was double-crossing them who were actually double-crossing him back (gotcha!), and he was actually her in disguise (and who the hell’s she!?); and this guy here is still himself, except of course he isn’t because his personality has been taken over by this other fellow and maybe it was all a dream anyway! Post-modernism-lol!!!”

And for that reason I found it a little bit unsatisfying. The first and third games, on the other hand, I loved to bits.

You forgot that they were all dead as well.

Metal Gears have always moo’d anyway.

I just can’t wait to have David Hayter do the most intense end-of-the-world voice over again.

He’s so intense, if you stuck a lump of coal up him, in two weeks you’d have a diamond.

Yes. I stole that line.

“Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!!”

Excellent!

@Shatner: You should give it back!

Blerk: i think you may want to play MGS3 to pick up on the Eva storyline (Big Mama). that’s my guess from what’s already been posted many times.

I understood MGS2…
I also understood the end of The Matrix movies…
I’m insane…
MWUAHAHAHAHAHA

“One of the greatest games of all time”, says GamePro. Blimey.

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