
AOTF Writes: "After years of waiting since the mysterious reveal that wasn’t even first announced as a Metal Gear Solid game, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is finally upon us. While we got the original Metal Gear games back in the day, the Metal Gear Solid series did not debut until 1998 on PlayStation.
In that time since, we’ve seen many changes in the series, while also maintaining a level of familiarity. With Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain released now, we thought it would be a good time to look back and rank the previous entries in the franchise."

A quote from Hideo Kojima brings up the notion of the wavering quality of modern day gaming, and a deconstruction of what constitutes a good game and artistic value follow suit.

Hideo writes: "We experimented with magnetic motion capture in "Metal Gear Solid: Integral", and in MGS2, we adopted optical motion capture for the first time. Was the shooting done about 25 years ago? Well, back then, everything was trial and error, but every day felt fresh and exciting."

A chat with MGS Delta Snake Eater producer Noriaki Okamura about the past and future of Konami's stealth-action series.
It's not going to be the same without him regardless so honestly it would probably be better just to try to do your own thing while staying in the same genre and general gameplay style.
The story in metal gear solid 4 was already a huge step down from the first three. Then the story in V was minimized and totally forgettable. One of Kojimas art directors could definitely make a solid metal gear sequel.
Also when you compare Stranding to Kojimas previous games he could easily be a Neil Druckman type where most of his best ideas were from people he worked with.
For example all of the MGS covers and the art style associated with Metal Gear wasn't even created by Kojima.
I think someone could take the torch, but they’d really have to be a mega fan and understand the narrative and quirkiness and humor of MGS and just Kojima’s design principles. Make bosses that revolve around “themes” and “gimmicks” and bring freaking David Hayter back for the English dub.
I have been saying for years that Kojima is not needed to continue this franchise. Revolver Ocelot could have a trilogy on his own with the established lore and it would be fantastic
no way in this planet that mgs 2 is better than 4. BS
Peoples in n4g gotta learn, to respect a person opinion. if he choose 2 over 4 that his choice...
MGS is hard to rank cause they are all so good. I haven't beaten MGSV yet so right now my list would be 3,4,1,2. But we all have our opinions so why even argue. I mean, we all love this legendary franchise right?
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