Metal Gear Solid 4- Does anyone else think it's massively overrated?

[lestatdark]

Domicinator said:
I still don't get the MGS phenomenon. Somebody at work loaned me MGS4. I sort of knew the back story, but not very well, so I read up and got re-familiarized with all the plot lines and characters. I tried playing MGS4, and just absolutely hated it. It looks pretty, but I don't get why the story has to be so stupid.

The problem is that you just read the story, so you don't know how it all fits in the universe. That's the same thing as just reading parts of a massive literature book, say like "the divine comedy" and then try to make sense out if, instead of reading and experiencing the whole.

Most people who hated MGS4 seem to follow the same pattern as you did, meaning never played the whole Metal Gear experience and then jump straight to MGS4 hoping that they would understand.

MGS4 story wasn't made for newcomers to the series, it was made for long time fans, those that could relate and connect the missing strings and tidbits of information that was left out from all the previous games. 

Sure you had read about the overall plot, but only by reading it, themes like the Patriots, the La Li Lu Le Lo, the Phylosophers Legacy and many other things wouldn't make much sense, until you actually experienced it yourself.

My opinion is that you should at least try to play the previous games in order to make sense out of MGS4 story, or at least understand it a bit better, because it may be a little bit convulted, but it actually make sense when you look at the whole scope of the series.