Posted August 26, 2015
DrakeFox: I think the special thing about the Metal Gear Solid series is that, at the time, it had a lot of cutscenes and a somewhat hard to follow plot combined with actual gameplay once in a while.
Does it make it the world's best stealth game ever? Not by a long shot. It's pretty good, still somewhat enjoyable if you don't mind the overly drawn out exposition and the rather weird controls (the control scheme was laid out before third person action game controls were anywhere near standardized).
Add to that the fact that MGS1 and MGS2 were really pinnacles of graphics at the time of release (MGS2 still looks pretty good, and that was one of the earlier PS2 games)
I played through MGS1 and MGS2, found them okay. Tried to play MGS3 but that game really annoys me with the ambiguous stealth system (so if I have the right camo that guy might not see me even if he's looking this way, but if I don't he might see me before my camera gives me a chance to see he's there? Sounds perfectly fine...no wait it doesn't). Didn't make it better that the PS2 had rather horrendous load times to enter menus to heal or change camo.
As it stands, it's rather okay with a silly obtuse plot. Personally I'd prefer to play Thief or Splinter Cell, and I think even Monaco does the stealth action concept better (note I really like Monaco, but it's hardly focused on stealth)
The original game's cut scenes were not that long. By that generations standards they were but there is more gameplay than you let on. Especially in MGS 3. I think the lengthy cutscenes equal the time actually in game. The re-release on the PS3/XBOX 360 fairly sorted that games issues.Does it make it the world's best stealth game ever? Not by a long shot. It's pretty good, still somewhat enjoyable if you don't mind the overly drawn out exposition and the rather weird controls (the control scheme was laid out before third person action game controls were anywhere near standardized).
Add to that the fact that MGS1 and MGS2 were really pinnacles of graphics at the time of release (MGS2 still looks pretty good, and that was one of the earlier PS2 games)
I played through MGS1 and MGS2, found them okay. Tried to play MGS3 but that game really annoys me with the ambiguous stealth system (so if I have the right camo that guy might not see me even if he's looking this way, but if I don't he might see me before my camera gives me a chance to see he's there? Sounds perfectly fine...no wait it doesn't). Didn't make it better that the PS2 had rather horrendous load times to enter menus to heal or change camo.
As it stands, it's rather okay with a silly obtuse plot. Personally I'd prefer to play Thief or Splinter Cell, and I think even Monaco does the stealth action concept better (note I really like Monaco, but it's hardly focused on stealth)