So I just bought MGS 4


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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?!

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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.

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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 ;)

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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

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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.

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