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Welcome! To Metal Gear July 2: Snake’s Revenge. It’s that time of year again, the month-long celebration of the greatest series in all of gaming. There’s no time like the present to try these games out if you’ve never given them a shot, and there’s no time like the present to play through them for the 14th time. Last year’s thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3727711 The Series The Core Chronology Metal Gear – MSX, 1987 Metal Gear 2 – MSX2, 1990 Metal Gear Solid – PSX, 1998 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty – PS2, 2001 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater – PS2, 2004 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots – PS3, 2008 Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker – PSP, 2010 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance – PS3/360/PC, 2013 Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – PS3/PS4/360/ONE/PC, 2014 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – PS3/PS4/360/ONE/PC, 2015 If you’re looking to see what the big deal with Metal Gear is, these are the games that most people are talking about. Metal Gear 1/2 are classical difficult action games from the early era of Japanese PC games, defining the realm of “stealth” games due to limitations on the number of bullets that could be rendered at once; this forced developers to change the style of the game to one of avoidance rather than confrontation. The Solid continuation is the story and gameplay brought into the 3D realm and every entry is a unique and fascinating game that you could play over and over again. The best option for newbies is picking up the Metal Gear Legacy Collection for PS3, which contains copies of every game up to Revengeance. This time last year we were all breathlessly waiting for the release of MGSV, but now we know it’s an undeniable classic and a massive, massive game, even with its weirdly crippled release and sadly light finale. I will be playing everything from MGS1 through V, although this year I’m going to try and challenge myself a little. For MGS1,2,3,4 I’m going to do the unthinkable and skip all the cutscenes so I can see how quickly I can beat the games. For Peace Walker I’m going to try an All Banana playthrough, and for V I’ve been playing through every mission in Subsistence mode (only OSP, no allies). Share your scores and styles!! The Side Projects Snake’s Revenge – NES, 1990 An off-brand sequel to Metal Gear developed exclusively for the North American market. Was released without the original team’s awareness; the creation of the official Metal Gear 2 was a response to the poor quality of this game. Metal Gear: Ghost Babel – GBC, 2000 A portable version of Metal Gear that plays closer to the MSX original. Takes place in an alternate timeline set seven years before the original MSX game. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes – GCN, 2004 A remake of MGS1 in the MGS2 engine. Many of the boss designs weren’t revisited when porting to the MGS2 engine and the addition of first person aiming generally breaks a lot of the encounters, but the new cutscenes look ridiculous and it’s probably worth a play. Metal Gear Ac!d – PSP, 2004 Metal Gear Ac!d 2 – PSP, 2005 This is a trading card game based on Metal Gear characters I guess. I don’t know anything about it. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops – PSP, 2006 Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops+ - PSP, 2007 The first attempt at a handheld Metal Gear in the style of the 3D entries. Successful in its time but the gameplay was improved upon in almost every capacity with the release of Peace Walker and the story is non-canon, so can be safely skipped. Metal Gear Solid Touch – iOS, 2009 A light gun game with Old Snake murking in the desert while you tap the screen to kill people. Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops – iOS/Anroid, 2012 I don’t know anything about this other than that it’s a Japan only F2P mobile game with Social in the title so its probably really, really well made and fun to play. Metal Gear Online Some of the later entries heavily featured an online component. Notably, the entirety of Peace Walker can be played in co-op, and MGSV’s release featured the latest entry in the Metal Gear Online series. It’s actually a lot of fun, but I barely touched it at launch because I was too busy getting the platinum in MGSV. Maybe this month we can get some groups going and play some MGO or join each other for PW runs! Now go! Let the legend come back to life!
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:04 |
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In Training posted:Metal Gear Ac!d – PSP, 2004 I played a lot of these when they came out, and the best way to explain them is "MGS as an RTS with cards determining special actions". I remember the first one being pretty fun, worth a look if you like that gameplay style.
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:09 |
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ol yeller posted:I played a lot of these when they came out, and the best way to explain them is "MGS as an RTS with cards determining special actions". I remember the first one being pretty fun, worth a look if you like that gameplay style. They just added it to PSN last month apparently so maybe I finally will
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:11 |
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Oh Nevermind I think that was Portable Ops or something. I don't see it on there
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:14 |
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I'm going to play MGS4 but I don't have any other plans. I do have a MGSV subsistence file going though.
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:19 |
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Metal Gear PO:OPS
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:21 |
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probably a good time to rectify that i never finished peace walker ghost babel would be good too since i really like the 2d games
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:22 |
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too long, did not read. bwahaha
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:35 |
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i want to know if msx metal gear 1 is a huge poop turd like the nes version but i will never play it to find out
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:36 |
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mysterious loyall X posted:i want to know if msx metal gear 1 is a huge poop turd like the nes version but i will never play it to find out It's better
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:37 |
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Hype! the Single greatest gaming series of all time. Based Kojima the Genius God.
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:37 |
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Its kinda cool but you have to manually swap between every key at every door and that probably takes up half of your play time
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:37 |
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mysterious loyall X posted:i want to know if msx metal gear 1 is a huge poop turd like the nes version but i will never play it to find out It's way better and 2 is a must play imo
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:37 |
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In Training posted:Its kinda cool but you have to manually swap between every key at every door and that probably takes up half of your play time remember hen avgn gets mad at the part in the nes version where you have to use a keycard to open the gas filled door, put on the gasmask, and then take off the gasmask in the gas room to use the card to open the exit? classic
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:40 |
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mysterious loyall X posted:remember hen avgn gets mad at the part in the nes version where you have to use a keycard to open the gas filled door, put on the gasmask, and then take off the gasmask in the gas room to use the card to open the exit? classic theres also a part on the roof where there are endless guys spawned to fight you and you have to run to the end of the last screen of the sequence is a Locked Door and you have level 1 throuhg 8 keycards and have to guess which one it is and youre used to starting with the latest one and working backwards, and its close to the end of the game so you fiugre its a level 8. but its a Level 1 and the first timeyou get there you will probably die at the door trying different keys
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:47 |
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In Training posted:theres also a part on the roof where there are endless guys spawned to fight you and you have to run to the end of the last screen of the sequence is a Locked Door and you have level 1 throuhg 8 keycards and have to guess which one it is and youre used to starting with the latest one and working backwards, and its close to the end of the game so you fiugre its a level 8. but its a Level 1 and the first timeyou get there you will probably die at the door trying different keys what if there were only keycards 1, 2 , and 4
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 21:55 |
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Guess I'll dust off the Legacy Collection I bought and get down to some drat gaming...
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:01 |
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I'm very excited to play MGS1 and 2 again.
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:19 |
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im gonna celebrate by playng mgs4, never played throguh it bfore
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:22 |
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Fungah! posted:im gonna celebrate by playng mgs4, never played throguh it bfore Make some popcorn
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:40 |
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Peace Walker HD is next on my list, guess I gotta get to it soon.
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:45 |
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I wound up liking Peace Walker a lot more than I thought I would even though the bosses kinda suck across the board
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:47 |
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the bosses are borng damage sponges but the sneaking missions are badass nd heavens divide is top tier mgs music
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:49 |
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I've ordered the HD collection in anticipation
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:56 |
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In Training posted:I wound up liking Peace Walker a lot more than I thought I would even though the bosses kinda suck across the board
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 23:08 |
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Who's your favorite MGS boss?
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 23:11 |
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NickRoweFillea posted:Who's your favorite MGS boss? Chrysalis
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 23:20 |
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Metal Gear Rex [mods can't stand his one weird trick]
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 23:39 |
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NickRoweFillea posted:Who's your favorite MGS boss? The End
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 23:40 |
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NickRoweFillea posted:Who's your favorite MGS boss? The End or The Boss. It's a tough one.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 00:23 |
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[Solemnly] ... The Boss
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 00:25 |
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Nice OP. I'm finally going to beat V, do another playthrough of Revengeance and hopefully get to some of the others. I might play The Twin Snakes since I never tried it.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 00:28 |
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Vulcan Raven is my favorite mgs boss
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 00:29 |
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Gameplay-wise it's not great now, but the build-up, the music, the novelty and innovation- the Psycho Mantis fight might be when MGS really clicked for me in the first place?
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 00:34 |
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NickRoweFillea posted:Who's your favorite MGS boss?
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 00:46 |
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Everything about Ray is great. Rex is a tough boss, the game hypes this one up as making it obsolete, and then instead of fighting one, you fight something like 12 of them. The number even increases at higher difficulties.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 00:48 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:Everything about Ray is great. Rex is a tough boss, the game hypes this one up as making it obsolete, and then instead of fighting one, you fight something like 12 of them. The number even increases at higher difficulties. It's twenty on European Extreme
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 01:11 |
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my brain can't rationalize where the Ray boss fight platform is on Arsenal Gear was when I was 11 and it can't now either
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 01:15 |
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frank.club posted:my brain can't rationalize where the Ray boss fight platform is on Arsenal Gear was when I was 11 and it can't now either It's on top of the whole ship but also Raiden is going insane so it looks like the Rays are just flying out of the abyss
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 01:35 |
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In Training posted:It's on top of the whole ship but also Raiden is going insane so it looks like the Rays are just flying out of the abyss yeah I didn't get the Nanomachines thing at all and I always assumed that the Rays were walking on part of the boat that was under water.
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