What's your favorite Metal Gear game?

Four is my favorite, followed by one, three, then two.

4,3,5,1,2

Haven't played the spin offs

Toss up between 1 and 3.

Still need to play Peace Walker, my Polish friend declared it the best game. Got the MGS collection disk about, somewhere.

Ground Zeroes sucked. Didn't like the tone of it either. Most Metal Gear Solid games are fun and stupid.

This? Paz gets sexually assaulted (gang raped) while a kid is ordered to join in, then she gets a bomb hidden up either A/B hole and blown up.

What fun.

That's on top of being ripped off. **** that game.

Scam job.

The first one followed by the third one.

1 followed by 3. I do think 3 was better overall, but 1 was my intro to the series.

Voted MGS3 but 4 is pretty much tied with it. 1, 2, and 5 are very much excellent as well.

Not the best one, but Ghost Babel is shockingly good considering it's on Game Boy Color.

3 > 2 > 1 > PW > 4 > 5/GZ > MG2 > MG1

You guys are making me want to play Snake Eater this weekend 😄

MGS1, OG, not Twin Snakes.

Yeah I agree, it was pretty damn mind blowing for its time. It’s also one of the few MGSes that is fairly coherent narratively before Kojima began to lose it and get self-indulgent, pretentious and convoluted with his storytelling.

I hope the rumors of a remake in Fox Engine are accurate, as long as they leave the cinematics and story alone. They were perfect in the original.

@MirkoS77: speaking of Kojima and his storytelling, I just ordered a book about Kojima's biggest influences on his writing. Looking forward to reading it!

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Stellar gameplay combined with some of the most insane storytelling ever... And I loved every minute of it! Definitely one of my top 5 GOAT games ever.

I’d be interested to read that as well.

MGS2

MGS3

MGS4

MGS1

MGS5

I enjoyed mgs2 the most since the improvement from the first one is huge.

MGSV for the absolutely amazing gameplay loop.

MGS4 for the story and great stealth gameplay.

3 and 5. But they're all good.

Toss up between 1 and 3. I probably played 2 the most though, but that was mostly replaying for dog tags.

2=1>3>4 for story=5 for gameplay

MGS1 by far.

I only played:

• Metal Gear Solid
• Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes
• Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
• Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
• Metal Gear Acid 1&2

I only ever liked the first one.

It's called The Creative Gene.

Definitely MGS V (GZ and PP)! It was the first game with actual good gameplay, good controls and gameplay freedom while not interrupting the player every so often with Kojima's verbal diarrhea. It was still there but overall the game was largely gameplay focused. It has the best gameplay of the series, period.

They have yet to make it and likely never will. lol :P

MSG1 & 2

3, 1, 4, 2, 5.

Metal Gear Solid 4. I loved the final chapter and how emotional the last cut scene was.

Worst MGS was part 5. The game felt incomplete and the story was incredibly bad.

MGS3

Chaos theory or double agent

MGS3

@robbie23: it really is sad how MGS V is devoid of Kojima dialogue and cut scenes

V and it's not even close.

MGS (1998) This game blew me away when it first released, the gameplay was great, the gimmicks we're fun as hell (the game reading your memory card and such), the graphics were top their, and the story was insane.

After that I couldn't get into the series much, 3 was good, skipped 2 and tried 4 but couldn't get into that one at all.

Compared to the other games in the Metal Gear series, what makes the Metal Gear Solid games any different from the rest?

Snake Eater has my vote

MGS1. It was a cool cinematic experience at the time. The novelty wore off in the sequels. Replacing Snake with Raiden in MGS2 did not help at all. Could never really enjoy the series after that. It is too ridiculous and over the top.

3 for me - jungle setting , best sound track and bosses

I played 2,3 and 4 before 1,so 1 is hard to go back to for me . Honestly so is 2.

4 and 5 are both good.

I played 2 recently from the HD Collection on XSX and it was great. What makes you think it would be hard to go back to?

MGS3: Subsistence. Everything after that was either disappointing or awful.

MGS5 is more far cry than MGS. MGS are known for masterpiece story telling with deep gameplay and not open world far cry inspired gameplay.

This scene was mind blowing and beautifully executed.

Story and story telling in MGS have always been garbage, sh*t tier, stupid and only for the idiots who have no idea what a good story is.

MGS V objectively has the best gameplay in the entire franchise and only idiots who play play games to watch the cutscenes can't see that.

Gameplay is better in original MGS. MGS5 gameplay is same as far cry ie boring with tedious open world design.

MGS shine with its linear and in depth level design.

Gameplay is king.

MGSV is the most innovative, compelling open world game of the PS4 generation.

Zelda bros be damned.

Started an MGS 3 playthrough this weekend and I have about a few hours left. The beginning took some time to get used to; the camera almost killed my experience! But now that I'm used to it, I'm enjoying it. Doing the The Sorrow boss fight. So good! Oh, and the story is great, not sure how someone can say it sucks. Sounds like said person has a hard time following things. 😉

On topic: 3 is his best game. Coherent plot, killer gameplay.

So good.

Nothing it does is new to open worlds or even new to metal gear.

MGS 2 then 4. I didn't get to finish 3 and never played 1.

MGS3 is so good, it made the next games in the franchise unplayable.

Can love baloom on the battlefield? Or was Otacon just a little simp being led along?

But generally I agree, always liked the atmosphere of the first game more so than the others.

A lot of it was the music composer, the diluted colour pallet and the Playstation hardware itself, where much like games such as Tomb Raider II, had a thick lair of black fog which gives this weird sense of isolation the later games don't really have.

Gameplay wise, yea, II, III etc. etc.. shit all over it.

Very hard to place what is the consensus greatest video game franchise of all time. All of Kojima's (main) games are masterpieces.

But...

1. Metal Gear Solid 4 (my favourite game of all time)
2. Metal Gear Solid 2 (top 3 favourite game)
3. Metal Gear Solid 5 (top 5)
4. Metal Gear Solid 3 (top10)
5. Metal Gear Solid (not completed this game - eagerly waiting for the 4K/60 Fox Engine remake)

MGS2 has the best soundtracks, MGS5 the best gameplay and MGS4 the best story.