Nope, I heard it was less nuts, yeah. I may try MGS4. My point was only that I really didn't like the MGS2 plot.

I  really like the idea behind the fourth one, by the way. Very few games have ever tried to tackle the theme of aging in any form at all. Whens the last time you saw a spy that was anything but genetically enhanced and amazingly virile? 

Old man wisdon > youths strength!!! hehehhe, kojima got it!

I've only played through the first one entirely, and it was great. MGS4 looks sweet, too. I saw one of the trailers where they were in a warzone, and they heard that loud "cow" sound, then the soldiers skidaddled off the streets, and ... and these ... things came jumping out of the sky, kicking insurgents and stamping on them and dodging missiles. It was crazy. Are those the new metal gears or something?

Well, I'm going to try to contain myself considering I view MGS games as my favorites of all videogames.  I think the storylines are among the best written and are probably better than most James Bond plots.  MGS2 was confusing at times but really payed off in the end.  Controlling digital information is a real concern, the ending was great as always, and the middle is justified by the end.

MGS3 is even better to me, and MGS1 will remain a classically awesome story.  Even the stories on the NES games are great.

I think some of the dialogue is cheesy, but overall Kojima touches on very real topics and presents very realistic situations, minus the super villians of course.  It's made me cry (mostly MGS when I was but a kid), it's presented realistically emotional scenes, and it portrays love interests well; it crafts crazy plots of back-stabbing, it pays homage to James Bond in MGS3 while maintaining a very MGS feel, and all the while the gameplay is really fun and allows you to play many different ways and use creativity.

I'm not sure what more you can ask for.  I know a lot of people on this site don't like it, so I'm not trying to start any arguments here.  I'm way outnumbered by people that just like the Wii, anyway. 

Again, you're welcome to your opinion, and I don't want to suggest you should have fun any other way but you're own. But comparing MGS to James Bond is probably a bad idea: Bond movies are actually widely regarded as intentionally and spectacularly corny and trite. That's sort of like saying Gigli is a better movie than Catwoman (starring Halle Berry): both of the movies got awful reviews, so saying one is better than other may be true, but doesn't prove much :p

I'm just going to re-empasize that James Bond is known for heavy handed, bombastic plots (again, deliberately so) and that the comparison doesn't do a lot to shine a new light on MGS for me.

MGS 4 ever!