Metal Gear Solid is done and what a game it was (still is)! So that’s MGS3, MGS: PW, MGSV and MGS down, MGS2, MGS4 and MG Rising left. Gonna have a little break from the series but I’ll be returning to them later in the year.
@RogerRoger thanks Rog, yeah I’m really looking forward to 2 & 4 (& Rising to be fair) but I think a breather after knocking out two on the head (4 in six months) is the right decision to ensure I get the most out of them. I tend to agree with your tastes more often than not so the fact you hold 2 and 4 in such high regard will be a great motivator come July when I start Sons of Liberty.
@RogerRoger@colonelkilgore I really don’t think that much of 4 but I think it suffers from the fact that it’s a longer game than the others; I have played 1-3 through many many times but 4 only the once.
I remember the big parts of the plot but actually remember very little of the gameplay itself.
@Thrillho well I’ll be going for the plat on it so... just the 8 (minimum) play through required, including the dreaded Big Boss run. The anxiety is already prevalent!
@colonelkilgore I think I'm with @RogerRoger in that the poignancy of MGS4 is best served while the previous entries are still fresh in your mind.
It's just so convoluted that more stuff will make sense if you remember characters and their fates from MGS 1 and 3 more clearly. But as you say, you will be doing minimum 8 run throughs so I doubt there will be a lot that will pass you by! 😅
@ralphdibny will keep that in mind Ralph, I’m pretty good with keeping track of characters within long running narratives though. Also, I enjoy watching ‘lore’ videos on the games I’m into (obviously stopping the videos before they pass my current position in the overall series though), which will help with that. Just this morning I watched a couple of good ones about Gray Fox and Kazuhira Miller. The Metal Gear lore is so rich, its way different but it reminds me to delving into the lore of Dark Souls. There is so much background information if a person can be bothered (I know I’m preaching to the converted with you though, a man with an obsession level of over 9000 and all that 😉).
@colonelkilgore haha yeah, there doesn't seem to be a single character that hasn't been expanded on in another game beyond their initial appearance.
I'm sort of OK at tracking things, sometimes it can take me a while and I'll be watching a show and everybody will be acting all chummy and familiar around a "new" character only for me to realise right at the end of the episode that this character took out the bins in a 5 second sequence back in season 1 or something as equally inane.
I already mentioned the MoF from phantom pain (not the MUF 😂) but another thing I must have glossed over was the brief appearance of The Boss AI in that game. I was so obsessed with Strangelove when I replayed Peace Walker that I really wanted to find out her fate so I payed extra attention in that bit of phantom pain and scoured the area for clues. Thankfully (but very sadly) her fate was suitably grim in line with the general feeling that eclipsed a lot of the story of The Phantom Pain and MGS as a whole.
So many sad characters in this series, The Boss AI, Chico & Paz (their ordeal leading up to Ground Zeroes was absolutely grim), Strangelove, the medic, Raiden, Grayfox. Always gets me in the feels
@ralphdibny so I haven’t played (or even mentioned Ground Zeroes) but I am kinda keeping it back to play ‘sometime in the future’ once I’ve played through the series and fancy a brief sojourn back through the world. I assume that it also plays identically to MGSV in terms of mechanics, which I appreciated greatly. So even though I plan on having complete the series (well the ones that are playable on either PS3, or PS4 that is) by the end of this year, I will have something tucked away in case of emergency 😎
@colonelkilgore 😂 your order makes no sense whatsoever, it's sort of coming together into a chronological order though. GZ is just like one really long Phantom Pain mission in a unique environment I think. It's literally like an hour or 2 long if you don't go in for the side ops/collectibles. It's fairly important story wise in terms of it being the bridge between Peace Walker and the Phantom Pain. It is a little bit different from TPP because it's self contained, there's a few mechanics that work differently and they focus on certain things that I barely used in Phantom Pain if they were even there at all (that slow motion aiming when spotted comes to mind).
But yeah fair enough, I'm pretty sure all the back story is in the tapes anyway. They weren't something I listened to fully when I first played but I made a point to listen to them all last year which is how I understood the links to Peace Walker/Phantom Pain a lot better.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy thanks Foxy, it was awesome all things considered... and although I'm taking a wee break (not long though, I'll be starting MGS2 in June) I can't wait to play the next one.
Also, I'm loving the little post credit dialogues (can't remember if there were any after V and PW but they were cool in 3 and 1) the last one sets up 2 pretty well from the bits I know.
My memory wasn't failing me and the backtracking with the PAL key wasn't too bad I hope @colonelkilgore? 😄
Good idea with taking a break (even for just a little bit).
I'm personally not quite as fond of 2 or 4 (4 was a bit of a slog for me at the time with it desperately trying to wrap all the loose ends up) but I'll be curious to see what you make of them!
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@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I quickly understood where you were coming from about the back-tracking, it wasn't too bad though... due your vagury of your statement (of which I was appreciative) I kinda envisioned having to backtrack all the way back to the beginning sections... the actual backtrack destinations were far nearer to the end location.
Yeah 4 in particular seems to really divide the audience... I have a feeling that I'll be one of the ones who like it though as from what I gather it's the most 'out there'... and generally I quite like things which are like that.
I am a little wary of the amount of playthroughs required to Plat 2 and 4... but I've scheduled in 60 hours for 2 and 100 hours for 4 so I'll have the time at least, if not the inclination (we'll see though). I have a feeling they're both gonna be stern tests of my patented will-power.
I've heard you mention the scheduling of your games before and whilst I could never do anything so regimented myself I do find it quite an impressive feat none the less @colonelkilgore.
I think I played MGS4 myself before they even added trophies in to it through a later patch so I unfortunately can't say anything about it except that 100 hours seems incredibly excessive for a relatively short game!
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yeah fingers crossed that I'll come in under the 100 hour mark... and if so the excess will simply be gobbled up by what's next on the agenda (the original Infamous on PS3).
The reason I've accounted the way I have though is the minimum amount of playthroughs to achieve the Platinum is 8... and the difficulty rating for the Platinum is around a 9 out of 10. The hardest part of which involves a speed run on the hardest difficulty (Big Boss I believe) where you kill no one and raise no alerts... I already know through speaking to people who have tried (some failed and some not) that a lot of time will be gobbled up attempting that.
As I said though, if I get lucky and Plat it within 50 hours or something, it'll just bring the whole schedule forward and onto the next one.
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