GI.net: "Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus is quite a mouthful, isn't it? Let's just go with MPO+ instead. MPO+ is a first-person shooter set in the mercenary underworld of South America in the early 1970s. This isn't just another run-and-gun shooter; the missions are stealthy, and a violent run-in with a couple of bad hombres at once can be permanently discouraging. In fact, stealth is such a major factor that you have a constant gauge monitoring the sound you're making as well as the sounds of nearby enemies, and an additional icon shows up (a chameleon!) when you're hidden from view.
MPO+ is based on the popular Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, but it's designed primarily for multiplayer gaming, which is why there is little or no plot to be found in it. The higher levels are (or at least seem to be, if they're not) completely random. There's no real story to the game - no way to justify your missions. You're simply going on mission after mission (called "infinity mission"), capturing or killing enemy troops across unpredictable, but similar, urban battlefields. Capturing them is much more rewarding since prisoners may end up joining your team!"
David Hayter, the original voice of the legendary Solid Snake, opens up on the Metal Gear series, discovering the character's iconic voice, and why Snake is still so meaningful to people.
So you want to get into Hideo Kojima’s magnum opus of storytelling before being dragged into his newest trip featuring Norman Reedus and a fetus? There’s no other story-driven video game out there like the Metal Gear series and what better way to prepare for Death Stranding then by playing the games that skyrocketed Kojima to fame.
However, though he might be a master of storytelling in video games, understanding Kojima’s complete vision can be overwhelming.
I hope that you don't drive or reproduce because that's a scary thought. Telling other people they can't enjoy something because you don't find it enjoyable is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
Foxhound922, telling other people they can't have an opinion just because it doesn't align with yours is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard! At least we don't have to worry about you reproducing, you'll never get a woman down in your moms basement. (Well not legally anyways)
It's not meant to be played chronologically. If you start with 3 you'll miss a lot of references.
You left out Metal Gear 1&2. The proper chronology is MGS3, MGS5, MG1, MG2, MGS, MGS2, MGS4.
Yeah play the order they were released.
Some people suggest chronologically, but the way certain reveals happen in certain games the narrative was purposely written in a way that it makes most sense to play them in release order. There are certain callbacks or references in MGSV to the first metal gear solid for example. So if you played them in chronological order you will have no idea what those references in V are referring to
Start with Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 from NES. Then play the Metal Solid series in the order they released.
You can actually access the proper versions of Metal Gear 1 and 2 if you have MGS3 in some form on your device, and those are the canon games. I would recommend playing those first, yes, although MGS1 isn’t a bad jumping on point either. However, the NES games are an interesting curiosity, for sure.
A book of essays examines Hideo Kojima’s sprawling and bewildering video game franchise.
