Your post-launch MGS4 Impressions?

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I think this is probably one of the best games I've ever played. I love the control scheme, I don't really understand why people complain about it so much. I mean, in what other game can you grab a guy, shoot his 2 buddies with a tranquilizer gun, slit the guys throat, whip out an RPG and shoot the APC, then whip out your M4 with red-dot scope, silencer, and M203 grenade launcher and take out the rest of the enemies? Then look at a Playboy to reward yourself on a job well done (not that I've done this...)

I love the graphics. The in-engine cutscenes are amazing. The character models are very well done. The environment is hit or miss, but overall was good.

Acts 3 and 4 were very nice surprises. Game is about as long as MGS3. I beat both MGS3 and MGS4 in about 14-15 hours my first time. I do wish the game was longer, but that's only because I love the MGS series so much, and wish it never ends.

The first boss fight was okay. The second and the last boss fights weren't that great. But the other 2 or 3 were awesome (depending on your definition of a boss fight).

Ending wasn't that great IMO. It's unexpected in a "wow this feels completely random" instead of a "wow, I wasn't expecting that to happen" way. Which is bad. But it does give a fair amount of closure to everything which is pretty impressive considering how many things he had going on in the previous games.

Some of the cutscenes dragged on (well a lot of them), but for some reason it didn't bother me as much as the cutscenes in MGS2 or MGS3, where I would get restless halfway through a cutscene.

I'd rate the MGS games in order. Four being the best, 1 being the worst. Based purely on gameplay of course. Because in the end, that's all I really care about. Story wise, I'm not too sure how I'd rank them. Probably 4 -> 1 -> 3 -> 2. But only because 4 "finishes" the story.