Topic: Metal Gear Solid

slapshot82

@Mickey... you know this is the 3rd time Ive tried playing MSG4. Mainly I was hooked on trophies at one point and didnt give it a shot really the first two times, but crap this game is amazing. It kinda starts off slow for about 3 hours, or really its all a intro to things to come, once you meet Drebin and can start upgrading weapons to you liking and buying all kinds of guns it gets incredible. Not to mention the story is amazing in itself with the tremendously long but fantastic cutscenes. I HIGHLY recommend giving it another shot, open-minded of course, once you get into it a few hours you will be hooked.

Upgrading weapons is incredible in a shooter that has incredible gameplay. Killing is supposed to be the last resort in a stealth-action game. Sadly, Kojima forgot that while hoe was working on MGS4. Oh no wait, he didn't, since he made sure the combat was screwy enough so you'd actually want to avoid combat...so why am I forced into firefights so G-ddamn often?! They've made the stealth part harder, but they also made running away harder, too. Now it seems like every time I get caught I have to fight it out, and every time I do, I'm reminded how horrid the combat is. I mean, the combat has always sucked in MGS, it was supposed to make you try harder to avoid getting caught, and to make you run back to the previous room when you screwed up. Now it seems like they're trying to make it a shooter, yet they couldn't even make it fun in _that_ respect.

It's a shame, because I do like the story, but I can get that all on Youtube. The game itself is too much of a mess to put up with.