Last game you beat

[gamemaster1991]

Last year I played Metal Gear Solid 3 for a game challenge. I found it a slog to get through and pretty much gave up on the 3D Metal Gear games. This year, there's another challenge, so I did the same thing with Metal Gear Solid 2.

It is a very silly game that wants to be a serous game and put forward a serious message. However, unlike MGS3, this feels like Mr. Kojima knows what he's talking about.

MGS3? Don't you mean MGS2?

You're right. I LOVED the message of "You can't trust any one on the battlefield" and "War is hell and is not fair." I LOVE the fact that Spoiler:the three people that betray someone are laid out so that you can guess at a sight who they are. The person who repeats over and over "Don't trust anyone" is the person who betrays someone not once but twice. Hell, the game has Ocelot as a main bad guy and if the previous two games are to go by, he's going to be a double agent. I LOVE the fact that Big Boss/Naked Snake, who we're told is a great soldier and is the best at what he does, is love sick over his teacher for the entire game and doesn't know what to do around girls.

I'll give you that MGS2 is worst then most of the series. I've only played four/five of them (Solid 2, Solid 3, Ghost Babel, and both the NES/MSX games), so I wouldn't really know at this point. However, having played those games, I'm well aware of the "war sucks" and "someone is going to betray you" messages and each of those games did it better by making me care about the characters (except for NES/MSX). Even MGS1, which I've only seen, does a better job at making me care about everyone I see. I can't tell you a single thing about the The Pain or The End aside from one likes Bees/wasps and the other is an old guy who dies if you forget to play your game for a while. I can tell you a lot about The Boss, but it's mostly stuff to make you feel sorry for her.
Ghost Babel did a bad job at giving depth to there villains but even then, it only asked you to care about Chris and I think they succeeded at that. The three characters MGS3 asked me to care about (Snake, EVA, and The Boss) I really could not careless about. Jack and Rose's relationship may have been...... bad, but you can see a relationship in there and that they do love each other and it's breaking Raiden's heart that Rose might not be the person he thinks she is. We're meant to believe that Snake and EVA would get together after the mission, but I'm still under the impression that he cloned himself because he's uncomfortable around women. And then there is the problem I have with with Adam. I knew who he was, the game told me that I didn't know who he was, and then at the end told me I did know after all. MGS2 may be stupid, but at lest it didn't insult my insult my intelligence.

I'm sorry, but MGS3 has the worst story and characters.

Edit: Sorry if any of that sounded a bit sour. It's just something I've been thinking about for sometime.