Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
The story is canon but the details in the game aren't.
If you want to know more about the MG story then play it.
If you want to just finish the series and remove it from the backlog then sure go ahead and skip it
Whether Kojima considered it canon or not (he clearly didn't) it's just a shitty game. I'm not the biggest fan of PW but it's miles ahead of PO in every way. "Calling to the Night" is good though.
>The story is canon but the events in the game are not
This is legitimately the most moronic excuse ever shat out. What parts are canon and what aren't? It doesn't matter because the game sucks and all the events that occur during it suck too.
Just watch your favorite eceleb moron if you're not interested in the story.
Whether Kojima considered it canon or not (he clearly didn't) it's just a shitty game. I'm not the biggest fan of PW but it's miles ahead of PO in every way. "Calling to the Night" is good though.
>The story is canon but the events in the game are not
This is legitimately the most moronic excuse ever shat out. What parts are canon and what aren't? It doesn't matter because the game sucks and all the events that occur during it suck too.
Mostly everything is canon except the details like Nulls history etc
A lot of it conflicts with PW though. The Metal Gear stuff. Hot Coldman. The general poverty of MSF at the beginning. It's also an absolute turd on its own merits, from gameplay to plot. Portable Ops is terrible.
MGSV follows from 3+PW chronologically
BUT thematic and narratively it's plays off MGS2 to the point it's essential
BUT MGS2 requires MGS1 to really understand what the game is trying to do.
honestly you could skip 4 but given it's the chronological end of the series you might as well play that too.
then there's the MSX games which you should watch a recap on at least.
Other than emulating it (which requires a very good CPU) no. It might be part of the second volume of the Master Collection but I wouldn't hold my breath.
>get this game because Ganker was talking about it a lot >get a 1/4 way through it and have no idea what the frick is happening >decide to get the HD collection and restart playing >play through every game >restart v >actually understand the references
you can just jump in if you really want to but it won't make any sense at all
Even with context nothing makes sense and the payoff is terrible. Good thing the gameplay is amazing but even then shit like mother base feels half-baked
I would at least play MGS because there are some references to that game. You could most likely get away with skipping MG 1/2 and MGS 2 and get most of the references.
AND preferably you would skip TPP entirely, because it's unfinished and just shit.
Pic very related.
You're forgetting Ground Zeroes, which is literally the first chapter of MGS5, and a direct sequel to PW.
It's also the superior, only good part of the MGSV as a whole.
I still highly recommend just sticking to the release order. That's the way the saga was written.
No. It's a clusterfrick and an empty husk of a POTENTIALLY good game, ruined by israelitenami's greed and various modern cancers.
The gameplay is shit, filled with waiting and grinding. Map design is trash, as in there really ain't any, and everything's piss easy to cheese.
MGS has never lacked quality, double so in audio-visual department, but TPP absolutely dropped the ball there.
It's a fantastic game, but it's a shit Metal Gear game. I know that's a tired saying everybody's sick of, but it's true for this game. I'm thankful Kojima dialled back the obscene amount of cutscenes compared to games like 2 and 4, but Chapter 2 should have been half the length in terms of story progression. All the recycled bonus missions should have been their own thing segregated from the story.
What you don't like a shitty open world that is actually super linear because there are mountains you can't climb on both sides of the road? Don't worry you unlock africa halfway through that is basically the same shit without mountains and a few more trees.
The events that take place in Peace Walker is whats moronic. You don't have to play it to get whats going on in V, especially when many of it's characters are killed off beforehand.
Kaz is one of the most important characters in Peace Walker and V what the frick are you talking about and the entire base building fulton shit is a direct sequel to PW
This was tons of people's first metal gear game and they loved it despite not knowing wtf was happening. But if you want the direct events that lead to ground zeros and phantom pain just play mgs3 and then play peace walker. But metal gear is weird and the bigger storyline and themes and shit won't be fully understood unless you play all the main games in release order. So I'd say play mgs1, mgs2, mgs3, mgs4, mgs peacewalker and finally ground zeros and phantom pain. Now alot of people would say play the original metal gear and metal gear 2 as well but those games get retconned alot just in mgs alone and imo they're kind of dated bit if you really wanna be a completionist start with them. It's alot of games but it's one of my favorite vidya series full of high quality games and it's got a batshit story most people either genuinely get into or like because it's so weird and Japanese
Just Ground Zeroes. Dont listen to these gays. I played GZ, it was my first Metal Gear game. I got it for free from Plus. Then YEARS later ater I beat Death Stranding I played V and was hooked.
If you want the 1% of story that exists in MGSV to make any sense to you what-so-ever you're going to have to play, >MGS 1 >MGS 2 >MGS 3 >MGS 4 >MGS: PEACE WALKER
You won't have to play MG1 and MG2; the story in those is pretty basic and you can read it on Wikipedia but there will be a major spoiler for MGSV if you do ("the reason the game exists-tier" spoiler).
But really you can just play MGSV without any idea what's going on. It will be confusing but then again it was confusing to people who played all the prior games as well because MGSV is an unfinished piece of shit.
3 and Peace Walker are mandatory for understanding the timeline
1 and 2 are heavily recommended for thematic reasons
The 8-bit games are not at all necessary, the rest of the series gives you the broad strokes of what happened and that's all you need
You should play 4 at some point just to get a conclusion, and Revengeance because it's fun even though it's completely disconnected from the rest of the series
Nothing. The best experience for MGSV is being just as out of the loop as the protagonist. If MGSV wasnt your first Metal Gear game, you missed out on something truly special.
Watch MGS3 and Peacewalker 'movies' to get core lore then just play. The gameplay when they were released were already archaic back then and nowadays is just not necessary to put yourself through.
Kojima's proven himself to be not as good as writer that the games melodramatic cutscenes put on, half of the story is gibberish.
twin snakes
mg 1, 2
mgs 1, 2, 3, 4, peace walker
lube your arse
He's on Ganker, thats redundant instruction.
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
>Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
This definitely is not required. It also sucks.
The story is canon but the details in the game aren't.
If you want to know more about the MG story then play it.
If you want to just finish the series and remove it from the backlog then sure go ahead and skip it
Whether Kojima considered it canon or not (he clearly didn't) it's just a shitty game. I'm not the biggest fan of PW but it's miles ahead of PO in every way. "Calling to the Night" is good though.
>The story is canon but the events in the game are not
This is legitimately the most moronic excuse ever shat out. What parts are canon and what aren't? It doesn't matter because the game sucks and all the events that occur during it suck too.
lol. far better than peace walker
The shitty level design, Gene, and Null make that impossible.
skill problem
i can see myself replaying portable ops one day. But i definetely never ever will replay peace walker
why?
it really isn't and I don't even like PW
You also need to play Super Mario Bros and 2 if you want to really understand red skulls reasoning for his actions.
Just watch your favorite eceleb moron if you're not interested in the story.
Mostly everything is canon except the details like Nulls history etc
A lot of it conflicts with PW though. The Metal Gear stuff. Hot Coldman. The general poverty of MSF at the beginning. It's also an absolute turd on its own merits, from gameplay to plot. Portable Ops is terrible.
I had fun, especially with 60 fps emulator patch.
Cool characters
I mean if you really want to understand everything you essentially need to play all the games in release order
MG1 > MG2 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > Peace Walker
The game is a most directly sequel to Peace Walker, which is also a most direct sequel to 3 so at the minimum those 2.
MGS1-4, PW so you can remember how it felt to experience joy before this game sours it.
MGS4 was a much bigger disappointment than MGSV, on top of being worse in general.
Nothing, the story in mgsv is basically nonexistent.
Nothing, it was my first Metal Gear game and after that I had no desire to play any of the rest.
MGS 3 and peace walker
MGSV follows from 3+PW chronologically
BUT thematic and narratively it's plays off MGS2 to the point it's essential
BUT MGS2 requires MGS1 to really understand what the game is trying to do.
honestly you could skip 4 but given it's the chronological end of the series you might as well play that too.
then there's the MSX games which you should watch a recap on at least.
tl;dr All of the Kojima directed games.
Nothing really but you should play peace walker anyway because it's a better game with the same ideas.
Is there any way you can play MGS4 without a PS3?
Other than emulating it (which requires a very good CPU) no. It might be part of the second volume of the Master Collection but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Is a 5600 a good enough cpu?
For most games with RPCS3, yes, but maybe not MGS4. As the emulator gets better it will probably get less demanding, but MGS4 is especially taxing.
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>get this game because Ganker was talking about it a lot
>get a 1/4 way through it and have no idea what the frick is happening
>decide to get the HD collection and restart playing
>play through every game
>restart v
>actually understand the references
you can just jump in if you really want to but it won't make any sense at all
Even with context nothing makes sense and the payoff is terrible. Good thing the gameplay is amazing but even then shit like mother base feels half-baked
MGS3 and Peace Walker are technically the only games you need to play prior to V to understand what the frick is going on, at least for a Kojima game.
I would at least play MGS because there are some references to that game. You could most likely get away with skipping MG 1/2 and MGS 2 and get most of the references.
ALL the games.
In release order.
AND preferably you would skip TPP entirely, because it's unfinished and just shit.
Pic very related.
You're forgetting Ground Zeroes, which is literally the first chapter of MGS5, and a direct sequel to PW.
It's also the superior, only good part of the MGSV as a whole.
I still highly recommend just sticking to the release order. That's the way the saga was written.
I think everyone forgets Ground Zeroes because they just consider it a part of MGSV
the OP image says GZ + TPP
Acid's story is flatout moronic for both games.
TPP is godlike
No. It's a clusterfrick and an empty husk of a POTENTIALLY good game, ruined by israelitenami's greed and various modern cancers.
The gameplay is shit, filled with waiting and grinding. Map design is trash, as in there really ain't any, and everything's piss easy to cheese.
MGS has never lacked quality, double so in audio-visual department, but TPP absolutely dropped the ball there.
You should replay it, it's an excellent game.
MGSV is terrible
It's a fantastic game, but it's a shit Metal Gear game. I know that's a tired saying everybody's sick of, but it's true for this game. I'm thankful Kojima dialled back the obscene amount of cutscenes compared to games like 2 and 4, but Chapter 2 should have been half the length in terms of story progression. All the recycled bonus missions should have been their own thing segregated from the story.
The entire series.
What you don't like a shitty open world that is actually super linear because there are mountains you can't climb on both sides of the road? Don't worry you unlock africa halfway through that is basically the same shit without mountains and a few more trees.
Play MGS1, MGS2, MGS3, and MGS4
then don't bother with anything else
MGSV is a sequel to Peace Walker more than anything else so skipping that if you want to understand MGSV is pretty moronic
The events that take place in Peace Walker is whats moronic. You don't have to play it to get whats going on in V, especially when many of it's characters are killed off beforehand.
Kaz is one of the most important characters in Peace Walker and V what the frick are you talking about and the entire base building fulton shit is a direct sequel to PW
>Kaz is one of the most important characters in V
Not even a little bit.
he is easily among the characters with the most screentime and dialog in both games
Sorry, misread Kaz of Paz.
You don't need to play anything. The game assumes you didn't. Just jump in and press X for awesome.
MGSV is honestly shit, maybe the earlier ones were good but not this one.
would only play ground zeroes or whatever, based on talking to the sane MGS fans.
that will just make OP wish phantom pain was as good as ground zeroes
This was tons of people's first metal gear game and they loved it despite not knowing wtf was happening. But if you want the direct events that lead to ground zeros and phantom pain just play mgs3 and then play peace walker. But metal gear is weird and the bigger storyline and themes and shit won't be fully understood unless you play all the main games in release order. So I'd say play mgs1, mgs2, mgs3, mgs4, mgs peacewalker and finally ground zeros and phantom pain. Now alot of people would say play the original metal gear and metal gear 2 as well but those games get retconned alot just in mgs alone and imo they're kind of dated bit if you really wanna be a completionist start with them. It's alot of games but it's one of my favorite vidya series full of high quality games and it's got a batshit story most people either genuinely get into or like because it's so weird and Japanese
Just Ground Zeroes. Dont listen to these gays. I played GZ, it was my first Metal Gear game. I got it for free from Plus. Then YEARS later ater I beat Death Stranding I played V and was hooked.
>I started with X or Y, didn't know what I was doing, so I'm right! :^)
Yeah.. frick you.
If you want the 1% of story that exists in MGSV to make any sense to you what-so-ever you're going to have to play,
>MGS 1
>MGS 2
>MGS 3
>MGS 4
>MGS: PEACE WALKER
You won't have to play MG1 and MG2; the story in those is pretty basic and you can read it on Wikipedia but there will be a major spoiler for MGSV if you do ("the reason the game exists-tier" spoiler).
But really you can just play MGSV without any idea what's going on. It will be confusing but then again it was confusing to people who played all the prior games as well because MGSV is an unfinished piece of shit.
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2
Metal Gear Solid - > start here
3 and Peace Walker are mandatory for understanding the timeline
1 and 2 are heavily recommended for thematic reasons
The 8-bit games are not at all necessary, the rest of the series gives you the broad strokes of what happened and that's all you need
You should play 4 at some point just to get a conclusion, and Revengeance because it's fun even though it's completely disconnected from the rest of the series
I had a great time playing V but then again I don't take the MGS storyline seriously. I only play it for the gameplay, and it's quite good for that.
Play the good ones instead of that one
Nothing. The best experience for MGSV is being just as out of the loop as the protagonist. If MGSV wasnt your first Metal Gear game, you missed out on something truly special.
Watch MGS3 and Peacewalker 'movies' to get core lore then just play. The gameplay when they were released were already archaic back then and nowadays is just not necessary to put yourself through.
Kojima's proven himself to be not as good as writer that the games melodramatic cutscenes put on, half of the story is gibberish.
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