include Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 (edited) but I have absolutely no idea what's going on. I hazard to guess I'm about 40% into the game (after the Raiden-Vamp fight scene), but nothing so far has made any sense to me. The story is incredibly heavy-handed and clumsy...it assumes we're all somehow read up on the series or something. I've played every MGS game except for MGS 3 and I understood most of them (not really, it was such a long time ago - pretty sure I didn't understand any of them). It may be that I have a short attention span, but I have a feeling I'm not the only one who gave up trying to guess what the hell the characters are talking about (wtf is fox die..gray fox, solidus, metal gear rex, liquid, ocelot, hal [he's otacon too, right?], Sunny, patriots, PMCs, nanobots?!)... Maybe someone can at least give me some idea of what's going on?! Edited October 9, 2009 by include Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 yeah you need to really know the whole structure and story of everything as the game really just ties up all the loose ends and unanswered questions which were left from other games which you should have played or play before playing 4 and periods in between etc wikipedia pages with the backgrounds and stuff on them may help brush up quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Horizons Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Wikipedia has pretty decent plot summaries of all the games in the series. That's what I did before playing MGS4 -- a lot of reading. And I remember someone made a video summary of all the older games, but I can't find it. That's the only bad thing about MGS, its plot is so long and convoluted I think even Kojima gets confused from time to time ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted October 9, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted October 9, 2009 but I have absolutely no idea what's going on. I hazard to guess I'm about 40% into the game (after the Raiden-Vamp fight scene), but nothing so far has made any sense to me. The story is incredibly heavy-handed and clumsy...it assumes we're all somehow read up on the series or something.I've played every MGS game except for MGS 3 and I understood most of them (not really, it was such a long time ago - pretty sure I didn't understand any of them). It may be that I have a short attention span, but I have a feeling I'm not the only one who gave up trying to guess what the hell the characters are talking about (wtf is fox die..gray fox, solidus, metal gear rex, liquid, ocelot, hal [he's otacon too, right?], Sunny, patriots, PMCs, nanobots?!)... Maybe someone can at least give me some idea of what's going on?! You should know most of that if you've played MGS1-MGS2 :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
include Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 You should know most of that if you've played MGS1-MGS2 :p Yeah, they ring a bell, but I completely forgot. And there's too many of them...it's good that I remember the protagonist, Snake...and I do know the others, just I don't remember their weird back-stories, which are featured in this game extravagantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+shift. MVC Posted October 9, 2009 MVC Share Posted October 9, 2009 Might be a good idea to re-play those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treemonkeys Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 You should play MGS3 too, it has a few tie ins to 4 and it's the best in the series IMO. Wikipedia will help you out if you don't want to replay 1 and 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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