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Yes, the plot is totally tripping balls.
When you're getting...
As someone who was disappointed with MGS2, I look forward to this one. I should probably go back and play MGS2 and see what I think of it nowadays.
(Also, I've only read the first and last pages of this thread.)
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3 is definitely the greatest Metal Gear game.
No. But it's sequel does.
EDIT: A hundred, thousand, million times better.
I absolutely loved the trippy, twist-filled final hours of MGS2.
You only THINK MGS3 has the worst story... until you get to the end.
In that way, it's the exact mirror opposite of MGS2.
I only hope they'll pour some water in their whine.
I do hope when you cut apart the walkers that moo you free an animal.
Kinda like in Sonic.
I am glad I did.
Hahaha that would be awesome.
Kojima absurdity is one of the best things about MGS games.
I loved the ending sequences of 2, and the random Power Rangers exploding bosses goodness of 3.
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Took me at least fifteen tries to against Olga 'till I finally slipped into the zone on extreme, and managed to put her down without getting hit.
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The sequence of Metal Gear releases goes like this:
Metal Gear (NES), Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (NES), Metal Gear Solid (PSX), Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2) and Metal Gear Solid 3 (PS2).
In terms of storyline, it's pretty much the same except MGS3 is the 'first' in the canon:
STORY:
MGS3 -> MG -> MG2 -> MGS -> MGS2 -> MGS4
If you never played the original Metal Gear games (which were, I gotta' say, incredible at the time) they were basically a top-down stealth-actioner. You guided Snake around the jungle and into the enemy compound, generally trying to stay hidden. I usually just snuck up behind guys and gave 'em a one-two-three punch to the neck to kill 'em.
Just like the Solid titles, you found all your gear on-site, eventually building up an impressive arsenal. There were cool boss fights, and eventually you save the world.
Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 are the most-loyal to gameplay elements of the original two, with the Nikita Missile, area-specific boxes to hide in (getting in a box in a truck would allow you to be driven around the map by enemy drivers), untouchable floors that must be negotiated by using the Nikita, and the necessity to wall-hug to sneak underneath security cameras.
Frankly, I don't mind that MGS3 doesn't have the Nikita, 'cause it is the best game in the series in terms of gameplay, graphics, story and certainly boss fights.
I have never played MGS.
I like MGS1.
I like MGS2.
I like MGS3.
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Ohhhh that's to do with a mask... To be honest the intricacies escape me at the moment, so let's check the FAQs...
"This is my first MGS game"
"I like MGS1"
"I like MGS2"
Selecting this is my first MGS game has the regular opening. Selecting I like MGS1 makes your stamina drop slower. Selecting I like MGS2 gets you a special intro.
...but I'm not positive so I'm checkin' this out right now...
Edit: Yeah selecting MGS3 seems normal with no surprises, so I hafta' figure "this is my first" is the same. Selecting MGS2 gets you the mask (what happens for that scene later on if you don't have the mask, I wonder?), and I must admit I've never noticed my stamina dropping any slower, but maybe that's cause I always went for the mask.
"I'm playing the MGS series for the first time!" - Choosing this option will
provide you will the regular introduction.
"I like MGS1!" - Choosing this option will cause your Stamina Gauge to drop
slower during the Virtuous Mission.
"I like MGS2!" - Choosing this option will show a "Special Opening" to the
Virtuous Mission.
"I like MGS3!" - Choosing this option will unlock the Extreme and European
Extreme difficulties, all the cut-scenes in Demo Theater, all the Snake vs.
Monkey levels, the Secret Theater on the Persistence disc, and Duel Mode. In
addition, you begin the game with every single extra camouflage uniform and
face paint that are exclusive only to Subsistence.
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MGS3 -> MPO -> MG -> MG2 -> MGS -> MGS2 -> MGS4
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Well, it's a prequel. If Naked Snake dies in the jungle, it'll fuck up the later games in the series, hence the whole "time paradox" or whatever.
(also if you take the fake death pill you have until it says "time paradox" to take the wakeup pill)
What does it do?
It gives you unlimited ammo
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Incoherent nonsense does not a story make.
You can also unlock the "I Like MGS3!" stuff by finishing the game on any of the other three options. I think that new players ought to choose "I Like MGS3!" on their first run through the game, if only because the Brown paint and the Desert Tiger and Flecktarn uniforms have very very useful side effects.
Seriously there has to be a way to defend MGS2's story without sounding like a pretentious dick.
Which doesn't use any ammo.
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The great thing about Duel mode is that it forces you to use weapons like the handkerchief that you might have avoided during the normal game. I don't think it's actually possible to beat Volgin or The Boss in Special Duel without making extensive use of the handkerchief or the knockout gas cigar.
Heh. I chose that the first time I played MGS 3, and I nearly died laughing.
I got to the end and I still way prefer 2's and 1's plots.
But at least MGS2 tried to do something special and meaningful with all it's wacky contrived bullshit.
Also I'm not entirely sure why but throughout that entire game I could not shake the feeling that the interior of the Big Shell should be almost exclusively white and light grey, like how Shadow Moses was mostly black and dark grey.
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