"I’m positively glowing with excitement for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. In recent months, I’ve been replaying the previous entries in the franchise, meticulously picking apart fan theories and re-watching every trailer countless times. Yet despite this, I acknowledge that some other people aren’t quite as excited as me – and I can’t understand why." - Rice Digital
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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
Agree that the generational gap is too broad to really make a strong list. Need to tighten the years a bit. Hard to compare Pac Man with N64 games.
Raiden was introduced in Metal Gear Solid 2 to the ire of some fans. In this opinion article, we argue that the character didn't deserve the backlash that was received upon release.
He just wasn't interesting sadly and to have Snake in the game, even playing him for a bit then give us the old switcharoo was just bad.
Put it this way, he was so bland they had to make him a cool cyborg ninja in the 4th game.
i also has mixed feelings about Raiden.. First reason was because I didn't even know he was the main character in the game (I only bought gaming magazines once in a while) and I had a MGS 2 demo in the bunker which was starring Snake.
Second reason I won't say he is uninteresting but just overshadowed by Snake.. the gameplay in the end of the game with the double analog sticks saber slicing was nice and I liked Raiden for that reason (improved in MGS Rising).
Playing with Solid Snake was just a wow moment every time in comparison.. Only Naked Snake could stand against Solid Snake for me..
He definitely grew on me as the game progressed but I was initially pissed because I was expecting to play as Snake. It was the old bait-and-switch lol.
Maybe. But his dialogue and voice acting didn't do him any good. No offense to the voice actor, he was much better in mgs4, so it's not his fault. Raiden was extremely whiny and just not interesting.
I didn't mind Raiden, in part 2. I never cared for rising but it was way more action heavy and at the time its not what I was looking for in a mgs game. I would retry it though these days
I enjoyed doing cartwheels while holding my balls on a giant warship, haha! Definitely a great character. I also enjoyed his spinoff game, it was short and simple but they did a good job putting it together.
I only played 15-20 minutes of MGS4, but Metal gear solid Ground zeroes was my first real experience with this series, and I'm hooked! I've always been a hgue fan of splinter cell and stealth games, this is like splinter cell on steroids, and the story is one of the most intriguing and epic things I've come across in a long time.
I can't wait to play MGS5.
This article lacks Shia Labeouf.
Basically, if you like an immersive story, top of the line game and level design, and some very hilarious moments then this is the game for you.
if you dont play AT LEAST all the BB games you are a casual and should be ashmed of yourself.
but yeah, i highly recommend playing ALL MGS games before V in the release order.
I'm actually doing pretty much the same thing. This past weekend I went through the 2 MSX games and probably today I'll start MGS 3. After that I should be all caught up.
Personally, I view the Metal Gear series (specificly Solid and after) as having been born In the story telling sweet spot of game development history. It came after the era that only understood itself as games (mario, sonic, ec.) But before the era of extreme hand holding and limited interactive innovation (most FPS's story modes, Uncharted, etc.). So we get this amazing story AND a game that's fun and interesting to interact with. It's really the combination of those two things that has kept me playing the series for so many years.