Buy MGS 4 it is on the PS3. Anything not on the PS3 does not interest me.

If you're looking for a good single player game, buy MGS4.
If you're looking for a good online game, you can argue for both.
If you're looking for a good game to play with friends at your house, buy Brawl.

Easy.

Well that sounds fairly easy. I'd almost say too easy but it still sounds correct. I don't know about Brawl's single player portion so I can't say a thing about that (well, except for that usually fighting games tend to have 'bad' single player but Brawl sounds extraordinarily good so I don't really know) but otherwise I think I must agree. Really, you're making it too easy.

Easily Brawl, if you've never played MGS before there's no way you should pick up MGS4. If you somehow get the opportunity to play MGS2 and 3, as well as Twin Snakes, then I might suggest picking MGS4 up after that (even though I'm personally not a fan of MGS4, despite loving the series prior to it), but as it stands now, Brawl.

If you havnet played MGS before, SSBB makes more sense, personally im buying both!

Both are good choices. MGS4 has 9 hours of cutscenes, so even if you haven't played the others, this is the end of the story which means all those loose ends will be tied up anyways, whether you played them or not. People wonder why it has 9 hours of video? Easy... the story is how many years old now? 10+ easy? Alot of backstory to cover as well as MGS4 itself.

Any of the reviews state whether or not the older games storylines are tied into MGS4 to provide backstory for those who haven't played the other 3? I hope so, as it makes sense. I am currently replaying MGS2 just in case.

Damn I love this games music. :)

I'm in the same boat. I want both SSBB and MGS4 but only have time for 1. Having played SSB for years and only playing 1 MGS (twin snakes) there was one clear choice, MGS4 can wait a few months. They're both great franchise but you should go for SSBB especially since you've never played MG before.

 MGS3 will be hard to play without BC but MGS2 is available on PC. MGS4 comes directly after 1 and 2 I believe, 3 is a great game, but I believe majority of the important points in 3 will be highlighted in 4.

You seem to really enjoy smash though so you seem to have your heart set already. Personally I saw it to be no different from Melee. Plus the fact I don't play much with my friends these days as we have work.

I don't think it has been mentioned yet but with Brawl is seems to be slower paced than Melee, which was a huge problem for me as I was a HUGE fan of the original. Brawl seems to fit me better than Melee did. The only Smash game I didn't really enjoy due to it being so damn fast and it was too easy for someone to unleash a hellish combo on you.

If you liked the original, you'll love Brawl.

Only bad part for me is that they completely DESTROYED Capt. Falcon. They nerfed alot of characters but Falcon I believe got it the worst. Used to be my fav character. Samus got nerfed as well, but nowhere near as bad.

Edit- Scratch the Samus comment. From what I heard from Brawl players, other than Zero Suit Samus, the original Samus is damn near unplayable now.

Who was your favorite? I play Toon Link now.

Brawl FTW!!