Why not Portable OPS?

[Hollywood]

So I see almost everybody here suggest to play MGS3 + MGSPW, but not MPO, why's that?

As far as we're concerned, it is canonic, therefore should be played, so why'd you guys think it's not worth playing?

[BaRt]

mainly because kojima doesnt work on that one, and annoying ass mechanic without fulton, if guys who hate fulton read this, play ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ portable ops i dare you

[☠Big Balls☠]

portable ops was a great game considering it was made for the PSP.

[Hollywood]

True, it was annoying as hell to have to drag soldiers yourself to the back of the vehicule, it took ages.

But overall, I do believe it was a decent game, and storywise, it was interesting.

[Glymner]

Originally posted by GamingReviewz.Com:

portable ops was a great game considering it was made for the PSP.

Doesn't say much. It would need even more treatment than PW to be ok outside of the psp.

[平和ThePhantomPainウォーカ]

Parts of it can be considered canon. A majority of it isn't, so in return, the entire game is usually cancelled out from the timeline.

[sillyskeleton]

It felt like a crappy handheld version of a console game. Everything felt smaller, clunkier, and in the case of the new characters and story, irrelevant.

Peace Walker on the other hand isn't just a great handheld Metal Gear Solid game, but a great MGS game in its own right. It may as well have been called MGS5, because Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are pretty much direct sequels to it.

Nothing is a direct sequel to Portable Ops. Portable Ops is the weird, red headed step child that the other games pretend doesn't exist.

[hoob]

Kojima has shown that he's not really interested in acknowledging the game, and only considers it partially canon in the first place. Peace Walker pretty much totally disregards Portable Ops.

It's very likely that MGSV will either ignore Portable Ops or actively retcon it.

[Mattee]

Portable Ops wasn't really made by Kojima I don't think. It is canon to me, but I'd rather watch one of the Youtube video movies for that game rather than play through it myself. Part of that reason is because of what I just said, another is because it's on the PSP which I don't have. And as far as I know you can't play PSP games on the Vita.

[Law]

Portable Ops just isn't very good.

[Chunkarock]

Kojima has already stated in his interviews that the games with "A Hideo Kojima Game" tagline is canon while those without it or only shows "Produced by Hideo Kojima" even though it's made by Kojima Productions is non-canon. With Portable Ops, he considers it half-canon, half-bull ♥♥♥♥♥.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AoSmr6PijU

[Zorpen]

Originally posted by Centurio:

Kojima has already stated in his interviews that the games with "A Hideo Kojima Game" tagline is canon while those without it or only shows "Produced by Hideo Kojima" even though it's made by Kojima Productions is non-canon. With Portable Ops, he considers it half-canon, half-bull ♥♥♥♥♥.

So, TPP is not canon then? ;) (joke)

[R!SK]

FYI MGS PO use the same engine and gameplay as MGS3 Snake Eater. It has more gameplay mechanics like crawling, first person view, etc. If you say "It would need even more treatment than PW to be ok outside of the psp." you're wrong and the game is slightly under PW. It's my opinion of course.

[Xray_Doc]

I would say you only need to see the ending call with Ocelot from PO for the major story. Not much else is important, still a good story though.

[Samurai]

It's not part of MGS Legacy which is, if you don't already own a bunch of MGS titles and a PS3 as a console, is the best way to experience pretty much the complete series.

Personally i wouldn't recommend anyone to buy a psp or vita to play that game tbh.

[Xray_Doc]

It isn't canon and gameplay isn't very good. But the story is really good, so I would just watch the cutscenes on YouTube.