Some games it's kind of stealth or combat, or just one of them is done compellingly. This is a hybrid - you can do lots of shit that's "loud" in the other games, but get away with it because you could in reality.

The Anthology totally should have come out before 4. Lots of new PS3 users were confused as hell, but at the time my console hopping perfectly aligned with the series.

In this case, it should be more like, "Story for People Who Don't Have a Clinically Insane Grasp of this Convoluted Shit"

Though letting players start the game as Snake and then pulling out the rug can definitely come across as trolling hardcore, I love what they did there.

It has what I call, "memeable faults." Not necessarily real problems, but easy to summarize into a quick catchphrase or term and complain about without actually engaging with why that creative choice was made. A complaint of convenience.

Love Twin Snakes.

I'm not sure 4 will ever be on Xbox.

Uhh, you can still crash and horribly maim yourself?

My D's and E's LIKE their Combat Missions, thank you very much.

My new pet cause is hating on open world games with too much repetitive shit in it (Arkham Asylum killed me), and this game doesn't have that. Flowers you can pick up, sure, but so far every battle I've played out as been slightly different from the last, forcing me to get creative and use all the toys.

I think it adds something in terms of gameplay value. I love the fact that sometimes your escape has to cross miles and you run into more troops on your way. That's the sort of unique thrill the game is giving me, right now.

LES ENFANT TERRIBLES!

"Car good now, but maybe car more for later? Maybe?"

To be fair, teh control scheme for most of these games is garbage, I just love them enough to deal with it.

Yeah, whenever that happens I think, "oh, another soldier for my suicide squad combat deployment. Excellent."

I had the codec sound as my ringer for awhile, then I switched to vibrate permanently and forgot about that until now.

That sounds like the perfect use of him, because I'm too scared to actually take him in battle.

When I heard you could get a pet wolf, I started obsessively hunting down wolves and capturing them - before the building of the zoo.

Yep. I specifically remember playing a different game years back, and being so goddamn angry that I the bullets were pinging off metal right on his nose, despite him just wearing a normal helmet.

I hope the soldiers never find out that's how I recruit them. "Yeah, I looked at you with my binocular computer, and it said you spoke German, so you lived. Barry though? He's only like, a C, B tops. Bullet, right in the brain pan. Oh, sorry, he was your bunkmate? Well, I can assure you your new one is up to our level…