With Metal Gear Solid V (and its prequel) on the way, there might be people who have never played a Metal Gear game before wanting to get in on the action.

From what I've gathered from checking various reviews, previews, forum posts and comments on other sources, at least HALF of the "hate" is just because the fact that the game's a sequel to FFXIII, or that it has Lighting as the MC.

Those are VERY rare. Like last one I seriously remember of being anything of the sort was Nana, and that's old. Alternatively there's those grim & bloody series about actual criminals or other questionable groups. With majority of Japanese anime being about high-school students, college-aged cast is already quite…

I'd rather show my kids stuff like this, material with meaning and historical accuracy, than those generic modern 3DCG Disney blockbusters that try to sugar-coat everything.

It's just a dress-up doll program for survivalist wannabes.

Didn't surprise me at all. The early sneak peaks, trailers, developer interviews and then pre-release previews all played the same tune: This game will NOT be a Thief-game, but a linear, consolized, heavily casualized QTE cinematic mess. Hell, you don't even STEAL anything in the last level!

that just means you haven't followed the media or forums at all in the past couple years. This game was doomed to be hated from the day one. Removing the level-up system and headshot bonuses at the last minute don't make it any better.

One big mistake in the listing:

Oh no, I did buy it. I still have the disc on my shelf for some strange reason.

I mean really. Windows 8 is just Windows 7 with more features (and better boot times).

it's simply "cool" to hate XIII. I guess many people were butthurt that they didn't get their 1000 square-mile mega-openworld realtime next-gen FF experience, but a more story-driven and guided experience.

The controls are fine. I seriously replay the old SH games almost annually, and I still don't see any issues with them. The "tank controls", when done RIGHT (like in SH1-3) fit the survival horror genre like a glove.

Japan: the only country to simply NOT GIVE A FUCK.

... It's just that The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo was perfect.

That would be a very, very poor and stupid reason to leave such a magnificent horror game out of the list, especially since there's some old Commodore-era titles I've never even heard of in the video.

That´s a clip shown in the SH3, which also appeared in the original game as well yes.

yes, as that tape is shown in SH3, as the game´s almost a direct sequel to the original.

They're fine showing RE1, technically twice, and almost the whole SH-series, but not the ORIGINAL game?? Wow.

It's just that The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo was perfect.

So that blatant Metro-copypaste is "so much better"?