What Metal Gear Solid games are worse (or not as good) as The Twin Snakes?
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respawnIN10
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Ground Zeroes is the best Metal Gear Solid experience, followed by TTS.
LordRaptor
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Except;
As far as I'm concerned, TTS is the right way to play the first MGS game. Much better gameplay, and they offer you the option to play it as the original if it bugs you that much.
Personally the only bad MGS game I've ever played was Peace Walker. Complete step back from Portable Ops.
Personally the only bad MGS game I've ever played was Peace Walker. Complete step back from Portable Ops.
depths20XX
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MGSV is easily worse as a Metal Gear Solid game.
Indiana Jones
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Opinions and all, but how can anyone think this? I own both games on psp, and PW is leagues better than PO. PW took some of the aspects of PO, improved them while trimming away the fat.
List of PO problems
Horrendous controls.
Bland maps. I mean disgustingly bland.
Piss easy/forgettable boss fights.
The worst writing of any Metal Gear game ever. Seriously, it's BAD.
Annoying soldier recruitment system.
Shitty interface and menu music.
Peace Walker is MUCH better than this game. By a mile. I'd rather fight mech after mech after mech than even attempt to beat Portable Ops again.
I'll give you the story, characters, and pacing. Gameplay was amazing though. To each his own.
Breakfast at Noon
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The psp game, fucking hate it.
Thabass
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Metal Gear Ac!d series is probably the only conceivable answer here. I guess you could throw in MGS: Portable Ops in there, but I liked that game.
They made Snake to be like a superhero. Jumping off rockets and doing crazy stunt jumps. Solid Snake is a much more grounded character (in more ways than one) compared to the Twin Snakes version of himself. It made Snake look (and I know it's weird to say coming from this series) unrealistic. At least it did to me.
However, if you look at this game through the view of it as a Patriots simulation and the player is actually Raiden training and Shadow Moses is actually just a VR training ground, then it would be okay. But the game never mentioned or alluded to it as that.
Also, I just think MSG1 is a much better game. Mostly due to the control scheme. While it was definitely playable, I never liked the controller design for the Gamecube MGS games.
They made Snake to be like a superhero. Jumping off rockets and doing crazy stunt jumps. Solid Snake is a much more grounded character (in more ways than one) compared to the Twin Snakes version of himself. It made Snake look (and I know it's weird to say coming from this series) unrealistic. At least it did to me.
However, if you look at this game through the view of it as a Patriots simulation and the player is actually Raiden training and Shadow Moses is actually just a VR training ground, then it would be okay. But the game never mentioned or alluded to it as that.
Also, I just think MSG1 is a much better game. Mostly due to the control scheme. While it was definitely playable, I never liked the controller design for the Gamecube MGS games.
respawnIN10
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This is why I prefer GZ to V. The main story mission is the ultimate sneaking mission that is endlessly replay-able.
Indiana Jones
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Yeah portable ops kind of sucks and is very clunky.
Peace Walker is great though, one of the best games on the psp.
ACID 2 (the card game) is fun but it's not my thing.
TickleMeElbow
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I tried to play Twin Snakes at my friend's house way back in the day, but the Game Cube controller fucked me up so bad lol.
Thabass
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Oh god yes. Snake would never point a gun at a defenseless guy who has no training in military combat. What a horrid scene.
What? The Ac!d games are amazing.
Schopenhauerian
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As Thomas Morgan of Digital Foundry put it, in an earlier thread:
The analogy that comes to mind for me is actually Alien/Ridley Scott (MGS1) and Aliens/James Cameron (Twin Snakes).
On the issue of color scheme/palette/grading that Charlouie Jonesman mentioned, since it's sometimes missed:
- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144658669&postcount=53
- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144660904&postcount=86
- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144677968&postcount=266
- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144737161&postcount=462
- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7540796&postcount=963