To me MGS4 and Peace Walker were the least successful MGS games as they were not really stealth games. Stealth in Peace Walker was pitifully easy and all the boss battles involved fighting vehicles, or metal gears which seemed more advanced than stuff that was supposed to be made around 30 years later. MGS4's first two acts were decent but even then you didn't need to be that stealthy once you got to the MKII. The enemies were busy fighting the militia and in Act 2 you can often just walk on by without even needing to try and be stealthy.

I believe it.

Snake Eater is for me (and for many) the best MGS game ever made

My personal order.

Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater.
Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty

Soon to add will be Metal Gear Solid 5, and though not canon Metal Gear Revengence.(Its a metal gear game and my hyper fighter replacement since im nixing DMC(reboot.) so for me its a win.)

It's the best one in the franchise.

Comparing the Metal Gear Solid games is like comparing the bites taken of a perfectly cooked steak.

"Snake Eater – The least successful Metal Gear Solid game?"

Surely you jest!.

Best Metal Gear Game to date IMO.

My top MGS games

MGS1
MGS3

My personal order.
Metal Gear Solid (PS1) was my first MGS experience !
Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater.
Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
Metal Gear solid ops portable is the worst of all

I like all MGS ^^
- MGS 1 is mind blowing when the 1st time i played it
- Son's of the Libery upgrade the gameplay mechanic (hide enemies body in the locker, cover fire, etc)
- Snake Eater gave more advanced gameplay mechanic (camo system, catch / eating animals instead ration, etc)
- Guns of the Patriot gave more and more advanced gameplay mechanic (octocamo, scout with MKII, upgrade weapons, etc)
- Peace Walker gave moreeeee advanced gameplay mechanic (four co-op, epic metal gear battle, recruit people, etc) even though there's no octocamo.

Overall, i can't wait what Kojima's cooking for Ground Zero ^^

What the hell is this guy on about!? MGS3 was my favorite out of all of them. Sounds to me like he just didn't like the story and really sucked at the game. How the hell do you spend 10 minutes trying to get out of alert mode!? With all the implemented gameplay mechanics in MGS3 I could get out of alert mode in 3 mins. CQC, tranq. gun, camouflage, stun weapons/items. What is this idiot crying about!?

WTF? Snake Eater is probably one of the best games of all times.

this guy obviously is not good at the game. the "extreme" difficulties are the only way to replay mgs games. no radar, game over when spotted, etc.

Out of all the MGS games ive played, Snake Eater has by far been the best. Got so addicted to it.

Then again ive only played Snake Eater, Portable Ops and Peace Walker

Snake eater was one of the best MG games. One of the best boss battles was the sniper battle with The End.

MGS2 is my fav

Snake Eater is the only game that I rank even with, if not slightly higher than, Ocarina of Time. *OoT was the first game to ever blow my mind.

I actually finished Snake Eater for the twenty-somethingth time yesterday. First time in HD, and man it looked better than I remembered.

**SPOILERS FOR METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER**

I loved replaying the game...yet again. I kept having(after all of the times I have beaten it) these "son of a ....." moments when I would catch something that Para-medic or Major Zero would say that gave away the endgame. I mean there is a scene where Ocelot calls Snake "Snake", when he should obviously have no idea that his codename is Snake.... Something tells me that he may be giving me the business.... ;P

I consider Snake eater one of the best games ever made, sure it was a departure from the high tech base infiltration of the first two games but it managed to perfectly capture the kind of rough survival based stealth it was going for.

I can't be too rough on this guy though because I seem to be in the minority that hates MGS4. I mean hate. I hated the fact that most of the stealth consisted of crawling slowly across a wide open field or desert floor to avoid enemies who were standing a hundred meters away looking in your direction, either that or standing up and quite easily slaughtering them with one of the ridiculous amounts of machine guns this stealth game provided us with. I constantly felt like I was being wink and nudged toward playing a clunkier controlled third person Call of duty. Trying to sneak through the early levels felt like sneaking through the Normandy beach landings, only with enemies constantly spawning and respawning all around you.

The MGS games were always extremely cheesy and melodramatic but with the previous games this just felt like a cultural thing. The Japanese often tend to go for overblown iconic characters rather than realistic humans, it just feels like a holdover from their style of theatre and once you get used to it it makes for some beautiful moments (the boss confrontation(s) from MGS3 come to mind) but MGS4 just felt cheesy and overblown in a bad way. When Raiden mentioned it raining on the day he was born and Snake told him, 'you were the lightning in that rain' I cringed so hard I almost broke my back. I don't see how anyone without an emo haircut could watch half of those cutscenes and not want to bite their own face off.

I tried replaying it after playing through and loving the MGS collection, thinking playing them all back to back might give me a better appreciation of it. I made it a fair distance too. I made it past the bosses that lack any kind of strategy, I made it past the hours of emo cutscenes. I made it past the one amazing part of the game (the snowy walk back into Shadow Moses) but I had to give up after taking my time stealth killing my way to a clear room only to find that the enemy had been respawning as fast as I could take them out.

Phew, just had to get all of that out. You may now click disagree or claim I'm trolling and try to take my ability to respond away.

MGS3 came out late in the ps2 life cycle and it was based in the past when we were looking forward to the future. That's why I missed it anyway. But I got it for vita so I'm pumped to play it.

Mgs3 is the highlight of the series imo. 4 was the lowest point. Hardly any stealth, machine guns everywhere, retarded story devlopments, shoehorning in Eva and Shadow Moses, the list goes on and on. That said its Mgs and i still love it but it wa a letdown. I played Twin Snakes first, Mgs2 second, and then 3 and 4 respectively. I loved Twin Snakes. Even after playing MGS i prefer Twin Snakes for its updated controls and graphics. I also loved Portable Ops and Peace Walker. I missed the human bosses in PW, the crawling, and other stuff but it was a better made game. I hated draging people back to the trucks. Man i want PO on vita so badly.