Best Metal Gear poll

Well hopefully this isn't an announcement of another chicken hat or something.

September 1?

http://jogos.uol.com.br/videos/assistir.htm?video=metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-04024E1B3168E4995326

Update: I started playing MGS2 (the hd re-texture from a couple years ago) last weekend with the same crew, two newbies and one who'd played it before.

It is insane. It still feels like a game that came out this year. And all of the themes are like ripped from the fucking headlines of now. WHY IS THIS GAME SO GREAT.

I might skip MGS3 during this series of marathons because we don't have a lot of weekends left before my buddy moves and I really want one of the guys to see MGS4. I know 3 is most people's fav but it's also SOOOO long iirc.

Also I don't think I realized in 1998 or whatever HOW MANY REFERENCES there are to MG1/MG2 in MGS!

there was some fan disappointment at the time due to the Raiden/Snake switcheroo, but i loved the hell out of MGS2 and its craziness. i'm thinking/hoping history has vindicated the game

and yeah, MG1/2/Solid/Sons are all reiterations of the same story, aren't they? m/l

I do definitely remember some blowback due to that, but honestly, the game wouldn't have worked if it were Snake. Like, the game ONLY works because it ISN'T snake. I remember by the time I finished it the first time, way back, I thought, "yeah... I'm okay with this being a new dude." Really excited to complete it again.

xp MGS1 and 2 are more or less, can't remember for MG1/MG2...

what about the alternative tradition where history has noticed these aren't really videogames /:

???

A fallout between Kojima Productions and its owning publisher, Konami, has led to senior staff at the studio being restricted access to corporate internet, emails, and phone, GameSpot understands.

Along with the restricted communications, key developers at the studio, such as Hideo Kojima, will now have limited opportunities to lend their appearance to promotions of the studio’s upcoming game, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

Power struggles between Kojima Productions and Konami have convinced the publisher to make drastic changes, including amending the employee status of its Metal Gear team. Some senior staff at the studio, including Kojima, now essentially work as contractors, not permanent employees.

The extraordinary measures were revealed by a source within Konami, speaking to GameSpot on the condition of anonymity. The person explained that, once the Phantom Pain project is finished, in all likelihood the management at the studio will disband.

"After we finish MGSV, Mr. Kojima and upper management will leave Konami. They said their contract ends in December," the source claimed.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/kojima-expected-to-leave-konami-after-mgs5-inside-/1100-6426024/

RIP Konami?

Silver Gear Solid coming to an indie publisher near you in 2017

https://www.musterbrand.com/collections/metal-gear-solid/snake-leather-506

Pretty damn cool.

http://i.imgur.com/duxu7Uu.png

just needs a "!" above snake's head

not often am i pre-convinced that a game is gonna be my #1 for the year... but it's going to take some serious stumbles in this game's execution for me not to stick it at the top of my c+p ballot.

7. Buddy System (Crap on Command)

As you complete more missions with a Buddy, your relationship grows. For example, the Diamond Horse (called D-Horse) can defecate on command. It sounds silly (heck, it is silly) but you can use that manure to spin out enemies vehicles on the road.

call of duty did it first

Yeah this is def GOTY material, probably one of the best games of all time. Fox Engine looks great and plays AMAZING and the control is buttery smooth which is a long time coming for this series, which has always struggled with complicated and sometimes counter-intuitive controls.

It also seems very symbolic, sort of ending Konami's masterful career of console video games. The scene depicting the Mother Base raid when all hell breaks loose in "Ground Zeroes" is the stuff of really awesome big-budget action movie dreams, the kind hinted at in the box art for games like Contra and Metal Gear.

They finally have the technology to really make those crazy cutscenes come alive, the camera not even stopping between the cinematic pulp action and the player's control.

have to admit, i was wary of the cutscenes in ground zeroes after all i've heard about mgs4 but i didn't mind sitting through them at all cuz they looked amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RngF7QxzA7w

those horse turds are comically large

i just played through ground zeroes a couple times over this weekend, and guys, i think phantom pain might be the last great game ever

i MIGHT be being melodramatic, but seriously, with the amount they packed into that pre-game game and with the maelstrom of swan song-y pr and with how much i am playing thru 1-4 + peace walker this year (once each btw) i am geared up to just stick this whole medium on a boat and set it on fire after mgsvpp

i'm inspired by that, tempted to do the same, and I never played 3, 4 or Peace walker

3 is amazing play that before all the others. At least fight The End and make it to The Sorrow.

and then they release a trailer with a new order soundtrack

PHANTOM PAIN, STOP READING MY MIND

when you say play 3 before all the others, you mean before 4 & PW, right? surely not before MGS1...

3 is first chronologically ;)

If you've never played any of them I don't know which one I'd recommend I guess Ground Zeroes cos the control is best. I played the first NES one in the 80s but did not get far. Got hooked with MGS1 though.

working through them i have determined that there isn't a single game in the main series that has poor controls. Ground Zeroes possibly the worst to start with though because it's definitely the least representative of the "experience" of the other games (hyper-authored, rife with gonzo politics, etc.) plus if you haven't played 1 how are you supposed to enjoy the secret bonus mission Deja Vu?!

The end theme music for MGS1 is beautiful.

The death screen in MGS too.

damn

http://me.ign.com/en/metal-gear-solid-5/108073/video/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-e3-gameplay-de

i have the fondest memories of playing MGS1 (and the original MG for NES), but couldn't get through the intro of MGS3 because of the controls. :(

whew, that looks impressive.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CbcgOyN8--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1302771358818106794.gif

You get to pet doggies! ^_^

lol. that does look great, although i hope you can sneak all the way through it when it makes sense (at the end of that demo it looked like all the soldiers were automatically alerted to your presence for a big exciting getaway, but maybe that was just for the demo).

loving MGS Ground Zeroes so far, and i've only just gotten inside the fence.

i think he got spotted on purpose

this looks absolutely insane

https://i.imgur.com/VMYnyxK.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur6vhxVg6gE

New footage from TPP. Awesome use of his robotic arm at 24 minutes in. Just insane. Think Batman's remote-controlled batarang.

Rocket punch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGGuvRIIx8c

the multiplayer component of other players invading your online bases is gonna be crazy

I just beat MGS4 again last night. That makes 1, 2, 3, PW, and 4 beaten in the past 6 months or so.

It's somehow better than I remember it. (I think I was a lot more angry at the cutscenes then, which makes sense because I didn't have a smartphone to dick around on while half-listening to them). While it holds up fantastically and is among the best games of the last console generation, it is completely a relic in the sense that no game anymore seems to be willing (and I guess with good reason) to ship with SO MUCH authored content. I mean, how long did the Rex v. Ray battle take to conceive, create, fix, recreate, polish, debug, etc.? And you're in it for like 10 minutes. This game was infinite-budget blockbustering at its finest, and we'll never see anything like it again.

Also notable, and it's something that I guess kind of faded in my memory, is just how final that game is. Every other game was all about leaving loose ends and it really feels like MGS4 does everything in its power to be final. Which kinda makes the existence of 5 funny (even though it's a prequel, it feels like the metanarrative of 4 is "kojima is fucking done with this").

My final rankings for the greatness of these games is going to be challops as hell, and keep in mind that my 4th & 5th favourites are still games I really really like...

MGS1 -> MGS4 -> MGS2 -> MGS3 -> MGSPW

I can't wait to see where 5 fits in, based on what I've seen so far I'm projecting between 1 and 4. But it'll be incredibly unlikely for anything to beat 1, that game just fires on every possible cylinder at all times.

I am hyped for it beyond all reason.

The more I go back and play games that are NOT Metal Gear the more it becomes clear that the series has always been heads and shoulders above most other 3D games. Go back and play some of MGS's contemporaries: they all have awkward tank controls, over-reliance on menus, horrible voice acting, etc.

MGS aged incredibly, maybe more than any other game from the time. No camera problems at all. Even Mario 64 has camera problems.

https://www.gfycat.com/PalatableSadDunlin

I just 100% Ground Zeroes this morning. I'm going legit for TPP so if anyone here wants to be Steam friends hit me up at Adam_Vania.

Apparently there is no pre-loading but the game will start dling as soon as it comes out in New Zealand. Which I think for most of the US means you actually will get the game the day BEFORE it official comes out. Maybe?

hah, that gif is awesome!

no fuckin way

did she SHOOT the grenade in the air??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngySxUOj-VI

if you multiply the scores for "series best known for their emphasis on story" and "series with the worst story" together, does metal gear hold the top rank?

Pac Man probably has the worst story. I mean have they ever explained what those pellets are?