No, Xenogears' and Planescape: Torment's stories are way better than any MGS, and the complete series, and that isn't an opinion :)

However, MGS has the best plot in a non-rpg game, and better than 99% of the rpg genre.

You know theres a gang around here called bullshit ? so technically you could call bullshit XD

Damn you squill man :p I know you're sarcastic.. but !.. I really dig naruto XD

Hey! I wasn't dissing Naruto!

I disagree with you whole-heartedly.  The media is simply doing their job- if they think the game is good, that's what they'll review it as.  Basically what you're saying is they should give it worse scores so people don't get as excited about it so it's not seen as a failure?

Your post fails.

We're the ones who hype it up, not the media.  All they're doing is playing the game given to them and telling us what they think.  We're the ones making Uncharted 2 GOTY! threads and Uncharted 2 will sell 15 million copies! threads.  We were going to give the game unrealistic expectations no matter what because of how good Uncharted was. 

To be precise they are talking about the storytelling, not the plot. There's a great difference, as you can have pretty mundane plots told in mold-breaking ways (Half-life 1) and interesting plots that fall flat in their unraveling (MGS, though it goes so far into cheesy that it comes out great from the other side).

I'm not reading it to avoid spoilers, but from Uncharted I expect a tongue-in-cheek "Doc Savage" plot with great cynematic setups and pacing, witty dialogues and great acting. It might very well be the most perfectly cinematic storytelling the writer ever witnessed, however good the plot is.

Fair enough, Pharancheyez. But, like inFamous, Killzone 2, Resistance 1 & 2, and many others, this game will be good. I'll buy it. It'll get rave reviews. If it's a 9 or a 10/10 game, so be it. I hope it is. I'm buying it, day 1. Still, some of these bold claims seem too good to be true.

I've been doing this for a long time. Games that truly push the art forward are few and far between. I think U2 will be game of the year worthy (hell, it WILL win it this year in most unbiased reports.) But some of these claims? I'll believe em when I see em.......next month.

So now that the game is here:

Agree or Disagree?

Agree. I classify this as by far one of the best games i've ever played. Perhaps the best.

My only issue was that drake sometimes didn't use the cover i wanted. For instance i press circle and he leaps off a mountain instead of standing up against the socket :p it only happened a few times though.

They did review it. 9.5.