
A G4 writer recounts the story of the Metal Gear franchise from memory after playing the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection.
Fans are invited to participate and add to the discussion, correct him, and generally talk about the epic franchise.
Spoilers are allowed.
"Any discussion of this series should be done chronologically, and that leads off with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Set in the Cold War, players take control of the infamous Big Boss. The purpose of MGS3 is to set up the entire story of the franchise and there is no better way to show this than with the primary villain of the original Metal Gear games."

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD have been delisted from digital stores without warning.
Stupid headline. Should state that they are being updated or discontinued. This makes the crazy people that only read headlines think it some kind of conspiracy to take away peoples already purchased games.
If you want to all of a sudden own them now and haven't played them yet because a remastered is coming out, shame on you. I can't believe people are complaining about this 15 years later when it was bound to happen anyway. "A new remaster is out, quick, I'd better buy the original from the shop."
Gamers: "Physical? who needs physical? everyone knows that digital online games are the future. stop living in the past. we don't need no stinking disc drive"
Same gamers: "How dare the delist a digital game that I own!!!!"

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a remake of the original 2004 PlayStation 2 game from Konami and is now available on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC.

Eight seminal games were released on the gaming market between October 26 and November 23, 2004. Twenty years later, here's Wccftech's retrospective.
You're not gonna include Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal or Jak 3 on that list? Just change it to Fall 2004 Releases and include the masterpiece that is Sly 2.