Was MGS4 severely overated??

[Mandalore76]

I remember being EXTREMELY disappointed by this game after all the hype about it when I played it on my brother's PS3. There were so many things about that game that sapped my enthusiasm to play it right from the get go. Here's my first impressions: Watching Snake smoke for what felt like forever (in a time when I was used to just popping a disk in and getting started) while the disk installed, imagine my surprise/irritation when this followed by having to sit through an Exercise Video on top of that. When the game finally begins and Snake gets dropped into a combat zone, I'm asked to hide under a truck so they can give me a rifle shooting tutorial while my comrades are being blown up around me. I couldn't help but think how ludicrous that is when Snake is supposed to be in his forties (looked like 50's) at this point, yet he requires in-combat training for how to fire a weapon. Couldn't the game have opened with a flashback to Snake in bootcamp if they want to force a gun shooting tutorial into the first mission? Next, a robo-centaur bursts onto the scene that actually makes "mooing" sounds. WTF? Okay, so this is your first boss fight? No. You are instructed to run away. After running away from the mooing robo-centaur for a time, Snake finally stands his ground. Okay, boss fight now? Wrong again. Snake destroys the mooing robo-centaur in a Cut Scene. Thanks for letting me play the game instead of watching it. Now, I readily admit that I did not play the game to completion (as I said, I borrowed my brother's PS3 at the time before he moved 4 years ago), but a 10/10 game should suck you in from start to finish, and Guns of the Patriots did not do that for me in the least. It was the polar opposite of my experience playing Metal Gear Solid on the first PlayStation. I still remember being at the mall with my girlfriend (now wife) and buying that game. The woman cashier looked at it and said to my gf, "I hate this game. My boyfriend hasn't stopped playing it since it came out." And, that's exactly what happened. I couldn't stop playing. The characters in the game would tell me to go to sleep, because I was playing it so late into the night. Guns of the Patriots never ignited that passion in me. That's why, for me, I think it's highly overrated.