Game Debate to the Death!
Favorite Metal Gear game?

Metal Gear Solid 3.

I'm going with Ghost Babel. The animation and sound were amazing on the Gameboy Color and the gameplay was outstanding. What can I say - I love me some 2D.

Gamer Confession: I have yet to play a Metal Gear game. Back in the day, my side of the block was responsible for getting all the Nintendo consoles, and the other side of the street were the people who got the PS1 and PS2. That way we could spread out all the games on all consoles between everyone -- sorta like Niero's secret club when he was a kid.

And every damn time a Metal Gear Solid game came out, the other side of the street would always beat the thing in one friggin night, so I never had a chance to play or even watch MGS2 or earlier ones. By the time MGS3 came out I just said screw it, I'll wait and start the series from the beginning some day in the future when I'm bored.

So no votes from me this week :(

Metal Gear Solid 2 even though it took a weird turn in the game and swapped characters and is still amazing for what it has done to the series. Acid games are alright though.

MGS3 is mah favorite.

My least favorite is AC!D but that shouldn't even count

3 snake eater cuz it was awesome .

2 sons of liberty no CQC means i die every 5 seconds .

Loved the AC!D games (no love for Turn Base eh?)

Still tied between MGS3 or AC!D2

Favorite: Metal Gear Solid

Least favorite: Snake's Revenge

Metal Gear Solid 3, because 4 isn't out yet and it has both the best controls and ending.

AC!D was the worst, if only because it stopped working after I updated the firmware on my PSP.

I've yet to try Ghost Babel which I heard was excellent.

But out of the ones I have played, I would have to definately say the original.

Twin Snakes would have been at the top if it wasn't for its' general silliness. But then again, I probably would have been disappointed if it was exactly the same as the original presentation wise, so it's kind of a lose lose situation, eh?

Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best.

Metal Gear Solid 2 is the worst because I don't like it as much as 3 and PO.

God, this is difficult.

Overall I would have to say that Metal Gear Solid is probably the best; it just feels like the defining Metal Gear experience even to this day for me. But, if we're talking about enjoyment I would have to go with Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, by a hair.

That game was just so wonderfully camp and bondish, and had what I feel is the single greatest boss fight ever (The End). Not only that, but as has been mentioned more than once on the Podtoid, MGS3 managed to do a flawless job of humanizing Big Boss, which was totally unexpected. Oh, and the ladder sequence is the stuff of legend. I f**king love the Snake Eater theme (I'm one of the few, I know). Subsistence wins over Snake Eater for obvious reasons.

As for my least favorite, I would have to say Twin Snakes, no contest. Like I said, MGS is the defining game in the series and Twin Snakes just took that and really cheapened it in my eyes. It made everything over the top, but not in a camp way like MGS3, but in a "Hey, look how cool I am" way. Regardless of how the gameplay may be improved (and frankly, I cannot stand the Gamecube controls for this game) over the original, I have never made it past Revolver Ocelot simply because I can't stomach how badly it rapes one of the seminal achievements in gaming.

mgs3 subsistence was perfect in my mind.
could never get into mgs2

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I'll go with MGS3: Subsistence. I just found the story was much more powerfull than MGS1 or 2, the gameplay was the best, all that good stuff.

My least favorite would honestly have to be the origional MG1 or 2. I didn't get very far when playing because I lost interest, yet it's still my fav game series to date.

I know that I'm going against the grain here, but I loved Metal Gear Solid 2.

The story was so fucking amazing, and as much as everyone feels like "Raiden" was an emo bitch, I felt that they developed his character really well in the game. I mean hell, the kid grew up on the battlefield doing brown-brown! He's a hell of a character, he's dealt with a ton of shit (including the mind fuck that was his mission) and people never gave him the chance he deserved. Hopefully, MGS4 changes people's opinions of Raiden.

Metal Gear Solid

2 and 3 just didn't feel as amazing as MGS did back in the day.

Favorite: Metal Gear Solid/Twin Snakes, both are really good.

Least: Metal Gear Snakes Revenge. I remember playing when I was younger, and damn it was hard! I could only play it with game genie, thats the only way I could get far.

Favorite: Metal Gear Solid 3. The sad thing about this is that after this game, I am much less excited for MGS4 because I would rather have more 60's and 70's adventures with motherfuckin' Big Boss.

Least Favorite: This would have to be Metal Gear Solid. It's still an awesome game, but it's definitely my least favorite. I would feel bad naming any of the earlier Metal Gear titles because I would be holding them to different standards based on how old they are.

Metal Gear Solid for PSX is my favorite and probably always will be. It was a masterpiece in my opinion. I've beaten it on ever mode possible and done just about everything you could. The first game to really nail the move to 3D almost effortlessly. The characters were original and fresh then. The story was amazingly well crafted and understandable if you paid attention.

I felt MGS2 really killed a lot of the original feel with the Metal Gear series up to that point. I enjoyed it, but felt they were really stretching a little too much for no real reason.

MGS3 is my second favorite, as it really is a great way of telling the rich story behind Big Boss. It went in to detail events we could only have imagined previously. They did a very good job of expressing the concepts involving the formation of the idea for Outer Heaven and its meaning throughout the series. While as far fetched as the rest of the series in terms of realism it was much more believable than some of the stuff that went on in MGS2 , by far.

If anyone has played through the true sequel to the first on the MSX system you'll know what I mean when I say that it deserves some huge props for its time as its basically Metal Gear Solid without 3D. I encourage any fan of the series to look in to getting a MSX emulator and playing the translated version if you haven't. I almost feel like its a prequel to MGS in a lot of respects.

Silly robot, game debates to the death are for kids.

MGS 3: Snake Eater,is by far my favorite.

least favorite would have to be AC!D, just couldn't get into it i will have to try it again.

This is the first Game Debate that I just can't answer.....

Favorite- Metal Gear Solid 2! The reason being the crazy bosses and contrary to why others don't like the game, I thought the story was pretty mindblowing (You can't tell me you called the whole thing about virtual mission and reenactment stuff- It's like saying you knew the ending of the Sixth Sense before it happened). And the phone call at the game's conclusion- Good stuff.

Least Favorite- Metal Gear Solid 3- The only reason it's my least favorite is because it took me 2 weeks to pass the first prelude mission of MGS3. The entire time I was trying to be sneaky, but the way the camera worked, it was impossible, and I eventually decided to shoot more than I had to. Thought it was great by the end of the game though.

An honorable mention goes to Ac!d. It's an actually cool game that's more like a turn based strategy like Advance Wars than Magic the Gathering.

This is too hard, mainly because I have all the great memories from the first game..it came out along with FF7 and Goldeneye and all..oh man.

I have to give my vote to MGS1. I just have so many memories from that game.

The worst has to be AC!D. It was an interesting concept that just didn't flow for me. It was still a neat little adventure.