By ZanzibarBreeze July 20, 2010 In the following I make certain claims about Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. In this preamble I want to briefly dismiss some common statements that will surely arise as a result of people reading this. For one, I do not think Metal Gear Solid 4 is a bad game.
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I merely think that it is nowhere near as good as people think it is. It is an average game. I don’t think it deserved any of the awards it received.
It certainly did not deserve the scores it received upon release. I do not think Metal Gear Solid 4 is a bad game, and similarly I do not hate Metal Gear. I was once a devout fan of the franchise. I no longer am. I realized that its story is childish, its narrative is immature, and its script reads like it was written by thirteen-year-olds who think they can make a Hollywood movie with two handheld camcorders (to use an antediluvian term). Furthermore, I realized that there were many, many, many games that were far superior and that better deserved my time and money. Nevertheless, Metal Gear Solid 2 remains one of my most beloved games, and I rank it in my top five “of all time”.
I repeatedly see Metal Gear Solid 4 brought up as one of the games to get when one first purchases a PlayStation 3. This is wrong, as I explain below. Metal Gear Solid 4 is not one of the best games on the PlayStation 3. It does not deserve to be on the same level as Uncharted 2.
I find the notion that Metal Gear Solid 4 is as good as the first Uncharted, let alone Uncharted 2, to be nauseating. But again, I do not think Metal Gear Solid 4 is a bad game. Anybody arguing that Metal Gear Solid 4 is a bad game is plainly incorrect.
Simply put, it is consumed by its flaws and it is not as good as some have suggested. I would also like to point out that I will rarely praise Metal Gear Solid 4 in the following. The game does have some fine portions, though I could certainly count them on two hands with some digits remaining. Instead, the following essentially constitutes a list of the game’s flaws. I posit that you, the reader, should consider the game’s positives in your own time.
I would be very happy to see some of those positives highlighted as comments. Note that I do not make any attempt to mask spoilers in the following.
Read at your own discretion. However, it’s not like you’re missing out on anything. If there’s a part of Metal Gear Solid 4 that is indeed “bad”, it’s the story.
I am a man who readily accepts errors he makes. I have thoroughly read through the following many times over. In certain sections I quote figures – numbers and the like. If I am factually incorrect at any point, I will gladly recant my position and issue a correction without deleting the original text, as I believe is proper practice for errors found in any critical piece. Finally, the following is purely opinion. I personally believe that it is all fact, that it is all gospel, and that I am entirely correct – this I believe in my own mind.
However, I understand and appreciate the nature of opinion, that most if not all that people write about video games is opinion. That’s what this piece is. I do not want to destroy Metal Gear Solid 4 for you.