Metal Gear Solid or Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes?

[Aleus]

I'm currently playing through the entire series, just finished the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. I originally assumed TTS would be the improved version with more content, but now I'm hearing that they poorly redid the cutscenes, and that the voice acting was sub par. This may be the wrong place to ask, as for many of you The Phantom Pain might be your first Metal Gear game, but if anyone could give some advice it would be much appreciated.

[Spider]

İlk olarak Aleus tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak DEATH MAGIC tarafından gönderildi:

Just play the original first, then play TTS if you want a different, yet familiar experience.

If I were to play TTS later, would it be better if I did after playing Sons of Liberty? I'm not trying to rush through the series (though I admittedly did rush through the original Metal Gear games, as I really want to get to the main series), but I know they implemented lots of changes from sons of liberty. Or should I just work my way through the series as a whole before I start experimenting with remakes/spinoffs.

Yes it would be better after Sons of Liberty.

[The mathematicyst]

wasnt TTS just updated to look more appealing in terms of graphics?

[Red]

İlk olarak DsR Spider tarafından gönderildi:

They didn't "poorly" redo the cutscenes they just added a lot of over exaggerated matrix style jumps and scenes (one scene Snake jumped like 30 feet and kicked Rex)

They did poorly redo the cutscenes. Even the ones without matrix jumps are ♥♥♥♥. The part where you interrogate baker and snake flips his ♥♥♥♥ and aims at his ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ head, the sniper wolf dialogue when she dies, the intro scene not having the correct song, the elevator scene having out of place music.

TTS is full of flaws. Everywhere.

İlk olarak DEATH MAGIC tarafından gönderildi:

with the same lines and same script

Not true at all, they even went as far as ruining several lines in the script to make everything worse.

[98.7]

Honestly play both if you can. I would play MGS1 first and then can appreciate the John Woo remix cutscenes even more when playing TTS. At one point during TTS Snake, no ♥♥♥♥, jumps 8 feet into the air and then back flips off of a missle midair and returns fire with his own. Single greatest moment ever.

[Misa]

the voice acting and action sequences in mgs twin snakes is terrible yuck.. if you care about graphics then play that.. but by all mean play the original and still the best please

[Antonio Neto Kosovo]

tts crap

[Keelah]

Twin Snakes should be played as a supplement to the original, not a replacement. The added gameplay mechanics from MGS2, while fun, completely break the difficulty of quite a few parts of the game. It was almost as if MGS wasn't designed to be able to aim in first person, or be able to hang from ledges.

The cutscenes are pure ridiculous, fun to watch, but again, I would recommend the original experience first, as some changes to Twin Snakes are not only ridiculous, but change the way some characters come across. Noteably a scene early on in Twin Snakes where Snake points a gun in frustration at a hostage he is supposed to be rescuing because the hostage forgot a codec frequency. It makes Snake come across completely differently than he did in the original.

The voice acting is actually mostly better in the Twin Snakes, as they don't reuse voice actors for multiple characters, or mispronounce words like "respite" and "shaman". I prefer the original voice acting just because it is what I'm familiar with, but the voice acting in Twin Snakes isn't bad. Would rank them the same, personally.

So yeah, original would be my vote. Then play through Twin Snakes at a later time. They are both great games in their own right, but Twin Snakes plays pretty loose with the game mechanics.

[Jacopo Beanman]

İlk olarak Xarathox tarafından gönderildi:

The graphics are much better over the original, obviously. But, if you play TTS I hope you enjoy backflips...because Snake does one in every. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. scene.

this.

mgs 1 is already over the top, but the twin snakes is WAAAAAAY overboard to the point where its a little disgusting. feels like you're watching a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ john woo movie.

[Aleus]

Also one last general question, when I play MGS should I use a guide? I really can't bear the lack of direction most games pre-2003 are, I used a guide for Metal Gear 1 and 2. I guess I'm asking if a guide is necessary, like Dark Souls or something, or if its intuitional enough. I'm also supposing that its probably not got a quest system with markers like Morrowind or something like that.

[Misa]

twin snakes appeal to nintendo youngsters

[Sir Loin of Beef]

I haven't played MGS1 in a long time, but I can't think of many situations where you would just be stuck and not know what to d-

Meryl's codec number, you might want to look that up when it becomes relevant. And you might get confused by Psycho Mantis, just call Cambell a lot to figure it out.

[Misa]

Meryl's codec frequency: 140.15

you're welcome.. ask me anything MGS1 psx related if you wish :P

[Keelah]

MGS is pretty straightforward. There are a lot of items you can miss on your first play through. Most aren't super important, like the mine detector, body armor, and gas mask, but some are pretty handy to have. Most noteably the suppressor and thermal goggles.

[Misa]

I'll give you the rundown: Twin Snakes is an enhanced remake of the PSX version of the game. The vast updates were in the gameplay and graphics so it could be similar to MGS2: Sons of Liberty. You still have the areas and enemies from MGS1, but with new ways to fight them like having First Person View. And instead of being spotted and quickly in Alert Phase, they contact via radio to get reinforcments just like MGS2 (& 3). The voice acting re-recorded, with most of the original voice cast from Metal Gear Solid returning (most since Greg Eagles, who plays both the Ninja and the DARPA Chief in the PSX version, only did the DARPA Chief in Twin Snakes).

The "Matrix-style" fights scenes was talking about: they were directed by Japanese film director Ryuhei Kitamura (you did a populat film call Versus, and also did Godzilla: Final Wars). The fight scenes were done reflecting his signature style of bullet-time photography and choreographed gunplay. The cricitism is that at times, it delayed getting to the point of an action or the scene. And maybe because he didn't do the first game, Harry Gregson-Williams didn't do the music for Twin Snakes.

[Misa]

Now go! save Meryl!!!