[PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4 *spoilers*

That same thing hit me about 20 mins back!
This game ROCKS!

After this every game will feel bland.
The same thing happened to me when Iplayed MGS3 last year. After playing that every other game just felt so shallow.........

It has happened again, only this time both the gameplay and the story have meshed together so well!The way cutscenes blend into gameplay is so cool!

BTW, I am still in ACT1, just defeated FROGS, so I am not much inside the game as yet, but all my wishes have come true! Even things I hadn't expected, like the multiple gameplay options, have been so well done!

 

Its only just starting.

It took me 30 hours first time.

My only current complaint is

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Lack of a boss battle options after beating the game, and a lack of a viewer for the emblems/medals at the end. I hope they add these two things into the substance/subsistence version, which i would buy in a heart beat IF those two things are included

Everything else, the story/art/cutscenes/gameplay is top notch.

did anyone else catch

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the subtle hint during the video with all the previous MG games that there might be 2 more?, if there are going to be, i would love for one to be set during WW2 with the Boss gathering up the Cobra unit.

 

The end of act 3 is very impressive, but IMO act 4 is even better.

 

What can I say, one of the best games I ever played! (and haven't even finished it yet)

 

I beat it the second day it was out. As for the first day (I picked it up at midnight!) I played for 13 hours straight!

As for the game itself, I found it to be excellent. Only graphical thing for me to complain about was the shadow map jaggies (can some one tell me their method, I don't think it was deferred shadowing) as they were extremely noticeable at times, but as for the actual character models, they looked extremely excellent, at almost all times, I could never pick out a polygon or polygonal facet at all which is extremely impressive. Other than that, I feel accomplished now that the story has come full circle for Snake and this last installment in the series really did the series justice. Many kudos also to the new camera systems for shooting both in the 3rd and 1st as well as balancing them with the rotateable view so the game doesn't have to become another shooter fest (you can only run in 3rd person rotateable). Great game, and about damn time it came out.

 

Beat it last night and these are my sentiments exactly.

 

just finished...

anyone else find the boss battles too easy?

as for gamepro saying its only 1/3 cutscenes, they must have been inching the whole time

 

Beat the game last night as well. Simply unbelievable. Everything from art-direction, game-mechanics, production value, character depth, story telling is imense, truly spectacular. I'm lost for words.

I'll be replaying the game on hard now to see what details I've missed (more than plenty, I'd guess, given how absolutely huge it is).

The boss battles are epic and truly frightning. After Snake Eater, I didn't think they could best them in MGS4, but they have IMO, even when by different means.


Criticism / Disappointment(?) [Only read when you've completed the game]:

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Despite my admiration for the game, I do have to say though, that I would have loved to see more gameplay resembling ACT 2 (or that of Snake Eater). ACT 3 wasn't all that much, besides stalking and the chase sequence and ACT 5 more of an action game with a very narrow path. ACT 3 was great for a MGS game, but apart from the epic boss battle, not all that much. In other words - ACT 1 and 2 were the most enjoyable with the most MGS gameplay parts. I would have loved to have more of them. I guess in other words - I would have enjoyed more gameplay segments where you're droped in to an area under enemy control and have to infiltrate that area by using stealth for the most part.

Despite all that though, and only having completed the game 8 hours ago, I guess I have to let a few things sink in first and playing the game over the entire weekend made it a shorter game to me than it really was. Maybe what I'm feeling is the disappointment of having completed one of the greatest games of all times - and the last one of the series.

Despite it being the last of the series, I would love to see another MGS game on the PS3 - see what else they do with the engine. Perhaps a remake of Snake Eater...

 

Thats why there are 3 difficulties higher than the default. The hardest one you have to unlock by beating the game.

 

Can I play music from my hard disk on the ingame Ipod?
If yes How?

 

Sadly you can't.

 

Not yet...but it's coming.

 

really? I think I read somewhere someone saying that he played Ninja Gaiden music in it and was fun!

 

I can now confirm that IMO the 500USD entry fee for playing this game was worth it.

 

Please tell me you aren't just guessing that you know somehow, i dont care how. Because this would make this game just 10x more epic.

 

I know ! I can't wait to play Rage Against The Machine in the Background and screw stealth and Kill all the gaurds !
(Once I have finished it properly though!)

You guys might find it amusing that I took 6 hrs to finish Act 1 !
I am in Act 2:Snake eater all the way !

 

Holy crap you read my mind.

Calm like a bomb, vietnow, Guerrilla Radio and Bullet in the head would go perfect with Act 1.

 

Ryan Payton says so in the ingame podcast...