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Metal Gear Solid
Are there any Metal Gear Solid fans on this forum? If so give a shout out so we can spread the love. I truly believe the combined MGS saga is one of the greatest stories in all of gaming.
Does anyone have any favorite/stand out moments, quotes, or characters?
Does anyone have any favorite/stand out moments, quotes, or characters?
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I think MGS3 is probably one of the best, if not the best, games of all time just because of how amazing the story is.
I was down with MGS2 up until Ocelot starts doing the Evil Dead routine.
"I live on... through this hand!"
Really? This is a neear-future scifi spy thriller, and you're pulling out possessed hands on me?
Why is Jack's girlfriend calling him up in the middle of a firefight to complain about how they never cuddle after sex? Couldn't find a more appropriate time for that?
And the conspiracy story gets really ludicrous towards the end. A conspiracy that’s just a front for another conspiracy, made of the ghosts of dead US presidents? A crewless nuclear submarine that is designed to control and disseminate all electronic information in the world? Its a bit of a stretch.
I still haven't beaten MGS3 (that game is stupid hard on a small-screened TV), but I've yet to see any kind of nose-dive like in Sons of Liberty.
MGS4 looks groovy, but then so did MGS2. And the PS3 is a bit out of my price range. I'm not holding my breath.
As revealed near the end of Metal Gear Solid, both Solid Snake and his nemesis, Liquid Snake, are actually clones of Big Boss created in the 70s from a secret government experiment known as the Les Enfants Terribles project (French for The Terrible Children). While recovering from a war injury, Big Boss' cell samples were extracted and then reproduced through analog cloning and the fictional Super Baby method. The cells were fertilized into an ovum, resulting in eight clone babies, and then planted into a surrogate mother. Six of the babies (later revealed to had only been five) were then intentionally aborted to encourage strong fetal growth with the remaining two (later found out to be three) clones: Solid and Liquid (and Solidus). Solid Snake was raised in the United States, while Liquid was adopted by the British government.
Rym/Scott, have you ever played any of the MGS games?
In fact, Snake is SO MUCH the man, I submit that he could hold his own against, and eventually beat, the Major. Of course, to appease you all, I'll be fair and say "he'd be really bloody and weak by the end of it, though." If you think of all the things that man (and his brothers and father, as they're all clones) has done (surviving multiple fights against tanks, destroying a Russian chopper with a stinger missile, diving off the top of an oil rig and swimming to shore, surviving the destruction of a tanker and successfully (and repeatedly) defeating a cyborg ninja, to name a few), he can easily survive a fight with the Major. Also, it is worth noting that Snake has effectively fought his exact physical equal to the death, not once, but twice. The only thing the Major could really do to him would be to get all up in his codecs and jack up his transmissions.
1.MGS 3: Snake Eater.
2.Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
So that answers your question.
I won't say that MGS is my favourite game series, but I really love it. Game-play, plot and humour all work in all three MGS games. I'd say that interesting bosses and boss fights and great humour are best things in any MSG game.
Oh, and somebody mentioned music. I'd like to say that I like them, but right now I can't remember anything else than the theme of first MGS, tough I still hym that now and then.
And few more good things in MGS games; replay value and lots of little details and funny stuff to find.
I tried to think something negative so I wouldn't post just praises, but I couldn't think anything bad worth of mentioning
I just bought a PS2 in May and have been looking for recommendations; have I been wrong to overlook all the old MGS games in the bargain bins on this preface?
I love the Splinter Cell series, and cannot wait for Conviction to make it's way to the stores. But MGS is not at all about slitting throats. It's more along the lines of sneaking, and not getting caught by the enemy, be it KGB, GRU, or the US Military. If you have not tried the game, I highly recommend that you give it a try. It has a great story line In my opinion.
Harry Gregson Williams makes some badass tunes in MGS... BAD. ASS.
The important piece of information you need to know is that Ocelot is the Boss's son. His father is the Sorrow, who was the ghost in MGS3, but when alive was a spirit medium, and because of that could see the dead and communicate with them. Now with that information, its possibly that because of the spirit medium nature passed down from his father, Liquid was somehow able to activate the latent ability in him once Liquids arm was attached to Ocelot's body. And Liquid being of stronger will was able to completely posses and control him.
:D
Oh, and in your post, you said Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance. You do mean MGS2 Subsistance? Or did you mean Snake Eater? Either way, all MGS games are must own.
But you have to play them in a certain order to understand the storyline, or look up an online synopsis of each game. I recall there being a few for Gameboy, NES, and SNES as well. You are better off looking for the synopsis.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence