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Portable Ops is a Shambles.; It's awful...
Topic Started: Sep 10 2008, 09:16:17 PM (2,437 Views)
XenonSnake
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Portable Ops is definitely the worst MGS canon title ever and heres why:

1) The cinematics are the best part of MGS and the Portable Ops cinematics are stupid and unenjoyable.

2) What was the point in the gameplay changes, as in the creating a team. No. I don't want to kidnap a soldier and make him join my Justice League of baffoons.

3) The story was uninspired and quite frankly a load of rubbish. I mean Sokolov surviving and becoming some sort of survival aid, it's like something out of the MGS database.

4) It reminded me of MGS3.5 as in a little carry on of MGS3 that was made as a bit of a joke like, for lack of a better example, Jak Jak Attack.

To be fair the online is okay but has been blocked out by MGO for PS3 and the graphics are suprisingly good. Also MGS:PO had no relevence to MGS4 so I therefore proclaim not canon.

Thanks for reading and please debate, I do like a good debate.





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Wayno
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I don't even try. Why would I?

1) The Cinematics cannot be put on a UMD. We'd prefer the previous types with the models yes but I personally thought they did a good job with the art work.

2) Other than Jonathan at the beginning who else do you HAVE to recruit? You can go through the game just as Snake if you want.

3) Surely Sokolov surviving is no more 'rubbish' than Gray Fox coming back from Zanzibar or
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4) No idea what that is.

The story is canon as it shows how Big Boss amasses some of his funds to create outer heaven. Two key characters are introduced to the series. How the Patriots were founded and who the patriots were (The Man with the Same Codename as Null). Which in its self sets up MGS4.
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May I ask, have you played MPO from start to finish?

I can understand you wanting to voice an opinion, but your points are irrelevant, and come down to what you enjoy as a player rather than believable fact. You dont like the cinematics, to be honest I prefer 'proper' ones. For example, if I said I hated Sport games, my reason would be is that you can just do that yourself.

It seems a little pointless coming to an MGS Forum and say you dislike a game of the series, there would be few who agree with you here, as only PO fans come to this section.

Sokolov surving? No, that is not stupid. BB was reasemmbled with parts from other people, Gray Fox was reconstructed, a true fan would not complain about these things. Hell, we even have a Bisexual knife juggling vampire is the series.

What is Jak Jak attack?
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...Actually, I agree with the topic starter. I don't like Portable Ops, and I don't even consider it an official metal gear game. I don't care if they gave lotsa money to mr.Kojima so that he would authorize them to make the plot "canon". Actually, Kojima took those only few decent plot elements of Portable Ops, and used them for MGS4, just to demonstrate that Portable Ops is canon game and so you should buy it and make Konami happy.
But I didn't fall for it. Portable Ops is nowhere as good as a MGS game, and the definite proof is that while all of the canon MGS games always mesmerize me to the screen so that I can't stop playing, well, Portable Ops...... Portable Ops bores me big time.
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freddiegibbs


I dont see what you mean. It isnt going to be as good as another MGS game, the worst in the series undoubtebly. But its Portable, you cannot play MGS4 or 3 or whatever wherever the hell you want. Certainly one of the best portable games out there.
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jaydendrums111


portable ops u either love it or you hate it
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freddiegibbs


^^Simple but correct. I dont see the turn off. I think its mostly donw to people who dislike the PSP and cant get it, the rest is because of the new cinematic. They are not as good, but still affective, and the story is brilliant anyway.
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jaydendrums111


i reckon i think mgspo is great
perfect for a handheld and a new sort of mgs gameplay
i enjoyed it :)
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freddiegibbs


Maybe you should stretch your taste a bit more? I sincerely doubt Xenon has played it for longer than an hour, certainly not from start to finish. If he can name a far better handheld game I'd be perplexed, but if its Pokemon Ill just groan lol.
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Wayno
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I don't even try. Why would I?

To be fair, The Special Pikachu Edition = awesome.


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freddiegibbs


Haha, I said groan because they are undoubtably the most popular series of portable games, I do prefer PO however.
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I dont see what you mean. It isnt going to be as good as another MGS game, the worst in the series undoubtebly. But its Portable, you cannot play MGS4 or 3 or whatever wherever the hell you want. Certainly one of the best portable games out there.
You're right with that. Heck, I can't say that Portable Ops is a bad game because it isn't. It IS well done (expect for the camera controls that aren't too immediate, but still not impossible to master).

But my problem with that is how I can't avoid comparing it to the other canon MGS games. And that's what makes me suddenly think that Portable Ops is a very disappointing game. For example, if Portable Ops was a game by itself, and not a MGS game, I would have liked it a loooooot more. But it's MGS, and I compare it to the others, and I feel disappointed and unsatisfied.

(Ok, it's a portable game, but.... I found the God of War for PSP to be as satisfying as the PS2 ones, if only a bit too short maybe.)
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jaydendrums111


i understand wat your saying but yeh i guess wat can ya do lol
maybe if u pay attention to the story line an get into it u mayb yuo will have something for the game
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I don't even try. Why would I?

But God of War is THE best game on the PSP. Infact probably one of my fave games ever.

MPO is canon and does add to the entire story. But I agree it isn't as good as the rest of the series, although that doesn't mean it isn't a great addition.

Lets face it it has a lot to measure up to. MGS on the PSX is probably the defining game of the Playstation era. Not only that it was a groundbreaking game in itself with voice acting and a storyline which in my opinion have still never been equalled. I've personally never played SoL but from the people I know have played it and the reviews they say it's a magnificent game. MGS3 is an awesome game, another great storyline, fantastic voice work (although I hate Zero's voice work) and the gameplay I have yet to find anything to equal it. And judging by the reception of MGS4 it's another masterpiece.

The game has great gameplay, good replay value, a really good storyline which ties up some loose ends, and leaves a few things for MGS4 and the rest of the series to pick up. The voice work is great. I think it's a great addition to the series.

But that's my opinion and you have yours, ah well.
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did you not pay attention to mgs4, they did mention it, it was an asset in order to show the emotions big boss had and to show how, and why he made outer heaven, which btw is the basis of the entire canon of the mg series
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They rarely mentioned Portable Ops.
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i do agree with the topic starter,
the story was not compelling, was pretty crap imo, gameplay was mediocre, (well it is on psp) changing view using d-pad and moving using analogue stick=fail.
Cutscenes were a bit shabby but yeah this is what u get when u put games on portables.(except crisis core)

After all other mgs's i was awestruck by them, buy this one didnt in the least bit

Thats my opinion like jayden said u either hate it or like it.
btw: i HAVE played it start to finish plus online. both portable ops and +
dont get me started on + though, story SUCKS, online=pretty good
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freddiegibbs


^^There is no story on +. The entire point of the game is to play online.

Valid points above, PO is explaining the events that lead up to the tragedy of Big Boss, which is the epicenter of the series. If this game dosn't make you awestruck as in the other MGS's fine, because it is the worst in the series, but you have to bring it to a portable level, don't compare it to other MGS's, but to other portable games. The game is obviously not going to be as good as the others, its portable.
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When i said Story i meant single :S
I dont expect it to be as good as the others, ive seen the power of portables, its not great.Just pointing the obvious
But also true about it being multi, but one question, whats the different between online with po and po+
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when people are bagging out mpo wat did u expect there 1st portable game to be?
an awsome 20 hr long (if u went slow ) game with awsome graphics and cutscenes an almost the same as mgs3?
hmm i dunno about that
how about u look at some psp games that have come from the ps2
than u look at mpo
mpo shreds them all!
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