To start at the beginning, I recently got a PS3 (with some nice financing options on the
sony style website it was affordable).
I have been disappointed with the games coming out for Wii. I am not sure if it has to do with popularity or what exactly.
Seems the more popular a console the more crapware comes out for it. In general though you get some really good stuff in with all the crap,
and there are some good games for Wii, but there seems to be a lack of GREAT games. A lot of quick play stuff (games composed of minigames).
So with the lack of substantial games, I turned to the competition -- debated over 360 or PS3 for a couple weeks...
The 360 seems to be hitting its hardware limit, but the PS3 seems to be just getting started, so I went with PS3. Some games I wanted to play are 360 only and some were PS3 only,
and the decision was not so clear. Jon has a PS3 and thought I should go that route (which is what I ended up doing). Came down to free online play and technological advancement I guess.
With the PS3 I ordered a couple games, Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Little Big Planet. Stopped by a used bookstore (which deals in used media of all types)
and found a couple more games for a substantial discount, one of which was Metal Gear Solid 4.
I finally started playing it a couple weeks ago.
First impressions were like good grief there are a lot of cut scenes.
The game counter says it took me about 30 hours to beat. The game counter stayed counting while I had it paused - which was probably upwards of 10 hours.
So with cut scenes and everything I would estimate 20 hours of actually playing. Definitely worth the price of admission - lots of story that was fairly entertaining.
We had the original metal gear game for NES, many years ago (1987 is when it came out - so 21 years ago - wow that makes me start to feel old).
I would say we still have the cartridge around somewhere. So I had a little of the background of the story. I was missing a bunch of the filler story between the original and the latest.
Konami did a good job filling in the story. I was quite impressed with the whole thing - it was essentially a 20 hour movie where you got to act out the battle scenes in first person.
The game was not so much about the killing as it was about getting through undetected. I was not so sure about it before I played, but afterwords I have to say it is a really great game.
Like I said though its more than just a game - it was entertainment!
Not sure how much replay I will give it. I beat it on stupid easy level, instead of anything remotely hard - but if it was any kind of difficult I probably would not have beaten it.
This caulks up the tally to some abysmally low amount of games I have beaten like 6 or 8... But I like the fact that the end of the game was attainable for a non-hardcore gamer such as myself.
Maybe I can finish out Little Big Planet next...
