what's the best metal gear solid

[Onyxmeth]

d21lewis said:
In the middle of my replay of the Metal Gear Solid saga. Took a week off between 2 and three. I just finished taking on The End on Sunday. Metal Gear Solid 3 takes the cake.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is missing something. There were so many easter eggs and twists and turns, and just plain innovation in MGS1-MGS3. I haven't gotten to it yet (for the replay) but MGS4 is unfortunately not as good.

I think the overall problem is that the first three games didn't have to be responsible in their story-telling, leaving MGS4 to clean up the pieces. Think of it like how the Presidents keep thinking of short term solutions to long term problems and eventually someone will have to come along and finally right them for good instead of pushing them under the rug. Then again, MGS4 did just explain away everything with "nanomachines are responsible" so maybe it was yet another solution to brush the problems under the rug for Kojima. I'm pretty sure he had absolutely no idea where the story was going after MGS1 and it shows.