Do you think the game lived up to it's hype? A lot of fans are disappointed about it.
I think I was the happiest man on Earth when I was playing MGS4. I think the game is great. The best game out there.

I liked it. Offline mode lived up to its hype, online was a little disappointing, but nothing major..

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It's the best game for 5 times playing !! why coz it shows all its secrets so i like snake but i dont like to play with his son on day i love to play as an old one even if he is still behind the scene .

metal gear solid 4 guns of the patriots ::: how does that sounds for u players !

i play games since i was 8 yr i know alot of games that no one could imagine

the best game well be better the msg4 is ( no one lives for ever ) find this game and if u finish it give me a call i'll send u a 1000$ cash but show me the end thats all..





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I actually wasn't so happy with the game.
It went to much west.

When I watch first trailers it could be major.
But then the OSV kicked in, some stuff were left out.
Like when you are laying on your back ad enter FPV where are Snake legs, that were in first gameplay trailer???

And Camo system was really copied from MGS3. The games only inovative stuff was peoples emotions inside the game(what we don't see).

The rest is kinda a let down.

To bad...the game could be a hit.

And online mode...well...I don't know...maybe I'm an old folk trying to live in the past. It is ok. I keep playing it because it is online game in MGS universe.

But MGS3 (if it had better graphic and AI, like MGS4) would and it does stays the best MGS game to me.

We can thank Payton about giving it a western feel. The game maybe could be better without him, but I still think he did a great job. I was expecting a bit more gameplay but the cutscenes were done so great, It`s a real enjoyment watching them.
Now I`m really excited about MGS5.

I did actually enjoy it, The mission where you had to follow that guy to big mommas place aggrivated me though...me and not killing something for so long was bloody hard work.
The only grudge I had against it was when it was installing the seperate chapters after compleation of the previous one, I dunno why but there is only so much of watching snake smoking a fag for two minutes I can take.

The game-play aspect of the game was undeniably outstanding but the narrative was massively disappointing in my opinion. Firstly, BigBoss’ reappearance was absolutely dreadful. He appeared suddenly from out of the blue, talked gibberish for half an hour and then – almost unbelievably, died for a third occasion. Furthermore, The Patriots turning out to be a couple of computer AIs was equally as disappointing. Also, virtually every unexplained phenomenon in the game was put down to nanomachines. Kojima had either run out of ideas, or he was just being shockingly lazy. In summary: the game-play was awesome, the cut-scenes were brilliantly dramatic, but the story fell significantly short of my expectations.

Big Boss appereance was bad ***.
That was the best part. At least for me.

But I see what your point is. It was a bit drained, wasn't it?

If they put all cut-scene from MGS4 together, it would make a great movie. Kind of like MGS3`s bonus disc.

Silent Assassin Wrote:If they put all cut-scene from MGS4 together, it would make a great movie. Kind of like MGS3`s bonus disc.

Yea...but MGS3 movie was actually quite bad. I expected a lot better movie. that flash back type and gameplay elements were actually the worst part.

The first MGS trailer with dropping in jungle. That was done greatly.
Something like that would be great.

i think it was the best series of all. Storyline was perfect for me.

Story line of MGS4 was kinda streched to the max. I expected more...
But Kojima totally won me with Shadow Moses....so I?m not gonna nit picking.

It's my favorite game I have ever played. Final Fantasy VII held that spot for me since 1998 but it was finally beat.

I agree i just got a PS3 for christmas and got MGS4 and i have to say that was the best game I ever played and one of the best games ever made It was so emotional and I loved every minute of it up until the very end

Definitely the worst of the series. Horrible story. Locations that, while great looking, where pretty boring in terms of game play. It felt like it was made more for these psuedo-fans than the real fans of the series.

Boss Wrote:Definitely the worst of the series. Horrible story. Locations that, while great looking, where pretty boring in terms of game play. It felt like it was made more for these psuedo-fans than the real fans of the series.

Something of my inner voice agrees completely with you.
Worst of the series.

MGS3 owns.

The whole thing was just an amalgamation of shitty ideas aimed to give these pseudo-fanboys boners.

Eh MGS3 is maybe a notch above MGS4 in the gand scheme of Metal Gear games, but it suffers from similar problems, although not on the same scale.

I think you guys are a bit influenced by the critisising media, eh?

I have to say, when I first played Metal Gear Solid 4, It was really cool and everything, I liked to play it, the cutsences were awesome!

In after, I was a bit angry that I spoiled to much of the game in before, because I watched all the trailers and read ALL the information the web had for MGS4! I also spoiled myself with Big Boss and that was a big mistake of mine!

But besides this, it's nothing compared with the great epicness MGS4 actually showed to the world! And I'm still impressed there are so much easter eggs and side informations, you never can handle it in 1 playthrough, and it was really fun to play it more often!

I always look at the MGS Franchise as a whole! MGS4 never could have been a great games without the old ones! And up to the ending and story of mgs4, it kinda will be a all new experience to play to old games, cause you partly have an all new view of charackters.

The Music is excellent, Harry Gregson Williams did an awesome job. I like his themes, there are some really great tracks like Father & Son and Sorrow, MGS Saga, Everything Begins, Old Snake of course and and and.
Music top.

Now to a part I really did not fully agree with kojima, and maybe this is the weakpoint of MGS4:
Of course, it is a story element, but this "Old" Snake was a bit to melodramatic in my eyes. Snakes still badass and a very detailed and likeable charackter, but he did not talk that much and was completely speechless while big boss was talking to him. A mgs1 snake was cold and badass, a mgs2 snake was cool and wise with "semper fi" and stuff, a mgs3 "naked stuff" was funny, a bit parodic and sympatic charackter.

But Snakes charackter in mgs4 is hard to describe, isn't it?
Anyway, let's take a look at the other Characters: Drebin was to short and unimportant in my eyes, same with sunny. Ok, FOXALIVE and so on, but this was not that exciting in my eyes, same thing with RAT PATROL 01, PATR10T.

Otacon, like in mgs2, but better, was fine with me, I liked his presence.

Liquid, he did not seem to be a charackter you can take serious. Ocelot did a bad job to act Liquid in the honest sense of word!

Big Mama, Dramarama. Short, but too much retcon, and too less detailed in my eyes, too less about herself, after Hanoi and stuff.

Raiden, the lightning. Ok, nice one, why not.

BB Corps, there background did not seem to be that mysterious like the background storys of Foxhound in MGS1.

Naomi, puhh..that's a tough one.... I think it's love it or hate it... can't decide which of those two it is for me.

"I only can say that in the End she seems to be tha freaaking mastermiiiindd of Tha FranchiZeeee and worked for thA Patriots??!?! OMGZ...
Who is she ReallYzz?? She AlwaYz wanted To Know He She Wazz in MGS1, now She KnoWz That She Is a bAdASs and a Big Boss Pusseyyyy??? "
When Big boss said "Naomi told me everyting", I was not able to categorie her charackter.

Big Boss... it might be the most melodramatic, graveyard scence in worlds history, but that's why I love it! <3 <3 <3

Of course the game can't fit for everyone, and that there is no doubt about the fanservice, some like it some don't, who cares!

About Ryan Payton and westernizatzion:
I liked his potcasts xD
I did not feel to much of westernization, I can't say if the game would have been better without, but I think they added some elements to improve the gameplay. Maybe Octocamo is not that exciting, but it is a new deal for the Stealth Genre, and could be advanced in future games.

As example, I really enjoyed Rex vs Ray fight, maybe my favourite bossfight!

I think MGS4 is getting more and more overrated !
Some people also might me just sad that the Snake saga is over now.
But altogether I think Kojima and his team did a great job to and the saga, and I hope and wish kojima keeps on making games like this!

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Wow, this got longer than I've expected...

Hope you enjoyed reading!

Believe me, the media had zero to do with my ideas about MGS4.

1. I try to stay far, far away from the video game media as it's filled with a bunch of morons whose opinions I could car less about.

2. every bit of the media that I've let slip through to me praised MGS4 up and down, and that, obviously is counter to what I think about MGS4.

I can't believe I actually read all that.

But really, something is missing in MGS4, to make it perfect. Or there are to many things...