I actually agree that MGS4 was the better game. I'm also a crazy person who plays MGS for the absurd story.
9/10 GOTY from me. Charming game and despite it flaws it adds to more than the sum of its parts.
GOTY twice?
"Controversial opinion"
Lol.
Not that controversial, MGS 4 has many people who love it.
It's a much better game than 5, that's for sure.
Well, from what I gathered so far on the Internet, MGS4 was clearly the "mainline" game (so, excluding Peace Walker, which was a turd to everyone) that was the less appreciated. I can only understand that, there was way too much cinematics, the overall story was too absurd and they essentially destroyed every good characters that MGS2 created. I still liked it as it has many great moments (especially the famous last battle), but overall I would put it behind every others numbered MGS.
That said, MGSV is still the best game I've played this generation so far. The stealth gameplay is beyond fantastic. I never enjoyed so much controlling a character than Big Boss in this game. That's something that very few games managed to do, including Final Fantasy XV. Big Boss was never frustrating to control, it did everything you wanted him to do. A lot of time on FFXV you get confused while toying around with the camera, or with all the warp that Noctis do. None of that confusion happens in MGSV, even with multiple ennemies.
The story was told poorly, the characters weren't that great (except for a few of them), but damn, the gameplay alone and the way it uses the open-world to evolve the stealth genre makes it worth a 10/10 for me.
