Metal Gear Solid 4

Chives · 5 Jul 2011 at 21:46

One word for this game = wow
Bought my PS3 2 weeks ago today and started playing this a few days ago, just began the shadow Moses chapter now and I am just deeply impressed by everything, as a big mgs fan that I am, I honestly cannot find anything to criticise, it is I think one of the best titles I have played, if not the best this decade, and I thought mass effect 2 had that title sealed, how wrong was I.
I love all the little touches like the flashback moments to the older games and appearance of old characters, excellent.
No real purpose for this thread, thought I'd just share my thoughts, actually I do have one question.
At the end of the game is it possible to go back and re-watch all of the cut scenes as you could do in MGS3?

No spoilers in the replies please guys

GTRacer · 5 Jul 2011 at 21:48

Sadly there isn't a theatre mode, what I did on a second play through was to create a separate save before each major cutscene.

Robbo · 5 Jul 2011 at 21:48

I bought my PS3 originally just for this game.

Marky · 5 Jul 2011 at 21:49

Robbo said:
I bought my PS3 originally just for this game.

I bought my PS3 just for this game also

I haven't bought any other games for it - so it is currently there for MGS fixes and blu ray movies

K1LLSW1TCH · 5 Jul 2011 at 21:51

I'm planning on flogging my 360 and picking up a 160GB Slim again very shortly and this will be the first game I pick up for sure. It's absolutely epic, I love the way it ties up some of the loose ends in the story and for some parts I was like "WOW".

The presentation is flawless, the attention to detail is amazing, the cutscenes are better than the majority of movies that I've seen, let alone other games. It's my second favourite game of all time and only Metal Gear Solid surpasses it in my opinion. The only criticism I have is that the game doesn't have trophies, but even that is sort of a blessing as there's no temptation to just do certain things for the trophies.

Dyson · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:32

K1LLSW1TCH said:
I'm planning on flogging my 360 and picking up a 160GB Slim again very shortly and this will be the first game I pick up for sure. It's absolutely epic, I love the way it ties up some of the loose ends in the story and for some parts I was like "WOW"

Welcome back (soon), think you're still a plus member at the moment too!

Feel a bit guilty for saying, but I've had this for eons and never played it! Absolutely loved Peace Walker, but have been put off of this by all the talk of it being all about the cutscenes. Must give it a go one day...

CliffyBiro · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:51

Superb game tbh. First game that actually brought about some emotion in me.

Limenote · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:55

this game is nothing but win on every single level, master piece in modern gaming

K1LLSW1TCH · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:10

Dyson said:
Welcome back (soon), think you're still a plus member at the moment too!

Feel a bit guilty for saying, but I've had this for eons and never played it! Absolutely loved Peace Walker, but have been put off of this by all the talk of it being all about the cutscenes. Must give it a go one day...

Thanks!

I am still a Plus member I think, but I'll more than likely make a new PSN account so I can start fresh. You'll be the first person I add!

skippi90 said:
Superb game tbh. First game that actually brought about some emotion in me.

[no homo]I actually shed a few tears in some of the cutscenes.[/no homo]

Robbo · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:14

I think I felt a bit emotional when I played Snake Eater, years and years ago.

K1LLSW1TCH · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:19

Robbo said:
I think I felt a bit emotional when I played Snake Eater, years and years ago.

When you played Snake Eater? Is that a euphemism?

Nanoman · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:19

Masterpiece

Robbo · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:20

K1LLSW1TCH said:
When you played Snake Eater? Is that a euphemism?

How dare you sir!

It most certainly is NOT! :mad:

K1LLSW1TCH · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:25

Robbo said:
How dare you sir!

It most certainly is NOT!

V4NT0M · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:32

I got a PS3 about a month ago now and this was the first game I played through and it was fantastic. It was strange coming away afterwards and feeling like I'd watched an epic animated movie rather than just playing a game.

The only criticism I had with it is that I wasn't really motivated to use many of the weapons or gadgets.

vintage-x · 6 Jul 2011 at 01:10

bought this on release day finished it the next day played it pretty much non stop and WOW loved every single moment.
When I have some time I'm going to play it again from the beginning and go through it properly looking for everything

Tom84 · 6 Jul 2011 at 01:14

Still no trophy pack

EDIT: I know it's never coming out but still

K1LLSW1TCH · 6 Jul 2011 at 01:18

vintage-x said:
bought this on release day finished it the next day played it pretty much non stop and WOW loved every single moment.
When I have some time I'm going to play it again from the beginning and go through it properly looking for everything

I would recommend that. I hope you watched all the cutscenes too! If I remember rightly the final cutscene of the game was easily over an hour long. I loved it though.

TheVoice · 6 Jul 2011 at 01:29

Skyfall said:
The only criticism I had with it is that I wasn't really motivated to use many of the weapons or gadgets.

I agree with you there, a lot of them didn't really serve much purpose. I was rather blown away by the choice of weapons to start with, but you soon realise it's just easier to stick with the M4 with all the attachments - nothing else is really any better.

Noel Gallagher · 6 Jul 2011 at 02:15

I really couldnt get into it :/

I put maybe 5-6 hours in.. ended up giving up