If I were to try out 1 (one) metal gear solid game, which one should I get? MGS 3 seems like the most beloved title and is a prequel, would that be a good choice?
>>7260994811
Yes
1 is fun, 3 has the most interactibility. Dont play 2, its made to torment the player(unironically). 4 barely even qualifies as a game, and 5 kinda requires you to play the MSX/Playstation series to understand the plot
>>726099481MGS1 or MGS3MGS2 and MGS4 are too dependent on other titlesPeace Walker and V are ok I guess but they're not very Metal Gear-ish
>>7260994813MGS1 is actually a sequel too; Its Metal Gear 3, but instead they called it Metal Gear SolidPlay MGS3, if you love it, watch some youtube recap of Metal Gear 1&2, then play MGS1, 2 and 4.The rest of the games are basically noncanon, except Peace Walker and MGS5, which are canon, but nonessential
>>726099481MGS1
>>726099481MGSV is what got me into the series, and it made playing death stranding really good. I really liked MGS3 and I haven't beaten 1 or started 2 yet. I've been trying to play the original NES games but they're difficult if you dont have the manual with you. I don't. Haven't a clue what the fuck im to do.
>>726099820>>726099709>>726099660Thanks guys, I'll get mgs 3, one last thing: is the remake worth it over the original as a pure visual overhaul or does it change things around and I should just get the original instead?
>>7260994813 has absolutely dogshit gameplay and the story is pretty laughable
>>726099481Fuck no. MGS3 is a fucking parody of the series and was forcibly made because MGS2 mindbroke the fans so hard and started sending death threats. You do NOT want to start with it as your first game. It is a good game mechanically and features are very good, but story shifts for the worse imo starting from this game, and playing it won't entice you to try out the other titles.MGS1 is the definitive Metal Gear experience and has everything you need to enter the series. Gameplay is dated but still slick, and story is at its best.Don't play MGS2 because it's not really a game for beginners and would turn you off the series forever, while MGS4 is a PS3 exclusive and it's only a moviegame. PW is a bad choice because gameplay is nothing like the rest of the series, and MGSV has an excellent game engine and controls the best, but has a dogshit story and barely resembles "Metal Gear gameplay".
>>726099481UnMetal
>>726100204Some stuff looks a bit weird but you should be good with the remake. Slap the legacy filter on it and play on modern mode and you're good to go.If you're not willing to drop the shekels then the older versions are alright but it might feel a bit old.
>>726100395Forgot to refresh, but this is for you >>726100204
>>726099481>https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/wiki/faq/
>>726100576>linking to pl*bbit>While each game works more or less on its own, if you want to enjoy Metal Gear Solid as a series, you need to start with Metal Gear Solid and play each title in the series (1, 2, 3, 4, Peace Walker, V)I'm the MGS1 shill and you're making my argument look bad. OP said if he could play only 1 game
>>726100204the original 100%the remake totally fucks the story cutscenes
3 is the best by far, its the complete package and the one Kojima himself recommends newcomers to start with
>>726100395Yeah 3 is a big step down in terms of the story and feel that the series is known for. If you find pic rel relatable then you're fine to start with 3 but 1 is really the best to jump in.
>>726099481Just play MGS1 and go from there, if you want to be a retarded zoomer and cry about it being too old play Twin Snakes I guess
>>7260994811, Delta or V
1 still holds up, if it gets frustrating, just throw a chaff grenade. 2 needs MGS1 to fully understand and it's too high concept for a newcomer. 3 is great, I still find new shit about it, I never knew you could get an SVD in Virtuous mission. 4 needs all the other games to have any impact. PW is PSP junk and V is great, the story is very schizophrenic, I love it, along with the gameplay. I'd recommend to start with 1, 3 or V.
Memeing about chronological order when you should obviously do release order is fun and i wanna write a musical song about it. Are there any other franchises where you can do this other than MGS and Yakuza
>>726099481how's the story of the phantom pain? i know that the game was unfinished but sometimes it seems like the game almost doesn't have a story and works like a tech demo. is it true or is there a serviceable story in there?
>>726105864>how's the story of the phantom pain?awful and a total waste of timethe game is so badly paced and just flushes hours and hours down the drain with literally nothing
>>726099549Fpbp
>>726099481release order
>>726099549Absolutely not. You should be ashamed of yourself for even recommending that shit. Way too old and clunky and disgusting looking. 3 is the best of the classics for sure. Easily the most standalone MGS game.
>>726110258I played 1, 2 and 3 for the first time in the past few months and 1 is literally the least clunky of the three. All three have fairly unique controls that seem weird at first but make sense in practice, but 1 has the lowest barrier thanks to not having a bunch of fringe mechanics and as a result, being easier to learn and feeling less awkward when you do learn it. 2 and 3 add a bunch of fringe mechanics that are absolutely cool but massively muddy the learning experience for the player.
>>7261104622 and 3 are just so much more refreshing and palatable. Better graphics, presentation, etc. 1 is just not modern enough anymore to be considered a complete experience to new people to the series.
>>726099481MGSV has the best gameplay and super optimized on the PC but it's also the one plays least like the other games.
>>726099481Unironically 4.It's the shortest game and the story is complete nonsense even if you played the other games. If you played any other games, you might be inclined to play more just to see what happens next. MGS4 however is the end of the series so you can stop there unless you enjoyed the gameplay of the game's first two acts.
>>726099481No.Start with MGS1.>>726110621>>726100395>MGSV has the best gameplay>MGSV has an excellent game engine and controls the bestYou should either play more video games or kill yourself for being a retard with shit taste.excellent game engine that does nothing unless you start it in a menu, the controls are dogshit if you try to utilize your inventory, use cover or not use cover>THE gameplay is BUSSIN yo, when miller tells you to fulton a nigger for the 500th time, that's when it gets good, scanning every soviet or an african to check his stats to upgrade your guns to make their bars longer and wait 5 hours real time for development? aw yiss das it mayne.>Invisible Duran Duran xD epic bro.Goyim aren't human
If you have to play just 1 game right now, get Delta.Original 3 great is goat, but the controls might put you off.Just remember to enable Legacy filter in the settings.
>>726111992>If you have to play just 1 game right now, get Delta.I sincerely hope you are being paid by konami to post.
>>726111992>>726112202Delta is technically a good remake, but what hurts it is the disgusting Unreal smeariness garbage. Cant play it for more than a little while before severe eye strain sets in. Disgusting.
>>726112202it doesn't even have DRM, niggaif he likes it, he'll play other games
>>726112292>technically a good remakeexcept for legacy controls being nothing like original MGS3 controls or even the HD collection controls, the MGS3 HD is cheaper as part of the master collection too, and the modern controls having abysmal bullet drop because someone noticed that modern third person shooter controls allow the player to rape through the PS2 levels without breaking a sweat.The whole idea of a remake of a PS2 game leaving PS2 level design intact by wrapping it in UE5 grafeeeks is retarded, literally NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN.
>>726112553modern people do not have the patience to deal with an ancient ass ps2 games controls. its just reality. theyre making it playable. you dont use a typewriter do you? I doubt it
>>726112640>modern people do not have the patience to deal with an ancient ass ps2 games controls.If you're too ADHD to release Square to fire then you should just go do whatever normalfag niggercattle does.
Peace Walker is the best.Should play 1 first for the hype.
>>726110573You're a fucking retard if you genuinely believe that. OP should be playing the series in release order
>>726112553Nigger, it has the exact same controls as MGS3D, which Kojima himself supervised. The third person aiming doesn't break the game in any way, considering you're still going to be using first person aiming 99% of the time in bossfights and encounters. Crouch walking is basically in the original as well by using cardboard boxes lol. I have never heard a convincing argument as to HOW the new controls break anything beyond the obvious advantages of crouch-walking (introduced in MGS3D anyway).The controls argument by pseudo-purists retards is the most cringe shit possible.
>>726112553yeah the legacy control was dogshit awful, I don't know what the fuck they did with it. I enjoyed the game the first time around with modern but playing it again with legacy singlehandedly docked a couple points off of it for how shitty it was. it was only similar to the original in the most frustrating sense with the changes they've made to it.
>>726113559In addition to this, the original MGS3 had an extremely generous auto-aim which made combat even easier than the third person aiming system lol. Anything more precise is still better with FPS aiming as well.
>>726113559>it has the exact same controls as MGS3DI'm not an insane tendie to play MGS 3 frames per seconds that was remade in peace walker's engine>Crouch walking is basically in the original as well by using cardboard boxes lol.yeah no camo index and weapons or CQC is the same as having crouchwalk camo index and access to weapons and CQC at all times.The new controls make the game so easy Konami themselves released the game with tranqualizer gun having the squib bullets fall out of the barrel, while trying to dive away from the pain into the water takes a 5 work days and grenades roll off from the rock you stand on.All the delta models also looked fucked up, ocelot in particular having dreamworks rumpelstiltskin face when they could've compressed the pachislot models to size that's real time renderable.
>>726113945Yet again, you ignore how the original had piss easy auto-aim anyway and how FPS mode is still way better to use in 99% of situations. Fake fan lol. You just dismiss MGS3D bringing all those changes by Kojima himself because it doesn't suit your ruined diaper narrative.
>>726112553>>726112292it's a bad remake because it fucks with all the cutscenesonly retards play mgs for the gameplay
>>726116150MGS's gameplay is the best part about it, and I'd love to see your better examples lol.
>>7260994813 and 1 are the best. If you're a pretentious faggot that gets off on huffing your own farts then listen to someone talk about 2 on youtube, people who like 2 ignore 95% of the game and only talk about the intro and the ending.
>>726116346Weird you'd say that considering 2 has the best gameplay in the entire trilogy lmao
>>726116346MGS2 is my favorite because I find it the most fun to play, even if I have gripes with it.I think MGS2 drops the ball with boss fights, but they're fine for the most part. I still vastly prefer them to MGS4's.
>>726099481Delta.Yes I said it.
>>726110258>it'sh clunkeeeeKill yourself.
>>726116492yeah MGS2 is pretty fun and arcadey, people fixate on the story way too much
>>726112553>the modern controls having abysmal bullet dropThe big drop on the tranq gun was clearly a deliberate counter on it in particular, and was a decent change even if it doesn't matter all that much most of the time. It's still piss easy to get headshots in Delta.
>>726117385It looks stupid, Not being able to move while aiming and requiring 3 inputs was part of the challenge that apparently filters "modern people" too hard.IQ test like tank controls.>Hold R1 for first person, aim with sticks, hold Square to ready weapon and release to fire>shieeet nigga whachu mean ayieeee save me druckmann!
>>726117385It's a weird complaint too considering "tranq op" is a series staple that no one really liked. This time around I actually just ran up and smacked people because of the bullet drop.
