I feel sorry for everyone who hasn't played, at least, the main Metal Gear Solid series. It is the greatest story of our generation, powerful, emotional, and relevant. No other story has yet to make the kind of impact this game has upon me. It is a fresh, beautiful story with a psuedo-military quirkiness that only makes everything so much more believable. I've never found myself so heavily invested in a story. Then when you combine the stunning musical scores of every game: "The Best is Yet to Come", "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday", "Snake Eater", "Way to Fall", "Calling to the Night", and "Here's to You" get me every single time.
It doesn't even matter if you don't like the gameplay. I know Splinter Cell did stealth much better, but the story is unequivocal. You cannot and will not find such an emotional piece in another story, let alone video game. Games entirely driven by their story, such as Heavy Rain, while good, are still nothing compared to the Metal Gear Solid series as a whole. While the original is extremely dated... dated to the point where you can't even roll... it is still a mindblowing game with capabilities and insight far ahead of its time. Never has a story made you actually weep for a character that was in it for under one sixth of the total time. You can feel the emotion of every scene. The aftermath of the battle with Sniper Wolf, the end of Metal Gear Solid, the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, the betrayal of Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3, the end of Metal Gear Solid 3, nearly every plot revelation in Metal Gear Solid 4, not to mention the epic final confrontation of Metal Gear Solid 4 in which an iconic theme from every game plays as the two combatants beat the ever living shit out of each other. Every single one of these moments brought me to tears and is forever burned upon my memory.
Bravo, Mr. Kojima. Your stories may be convoluted at times, your humor may be quirky and somewhat intrusive, but your vision has spawned the greatest game series of all time.
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