I would encourage you to check out his list as well, because few people in the press know more about Metal Gear than he does. As it happens, my friend and USG alum Jeremy Parish ended up doing the exact same thing for Polygon. In order to try and remember Metal Gear for what it was rather than what it's become, I decided to sit down and rank the entire series. Every Metal Gear Solid game is memorable, innovative, and totally insane in its own way. It helped codify stealth as a genre continuously broke the fourth wall, and just generally tried to push the limits of the medium as much as possible. Still, Metal Gear continues to have an outsized impact on the history of gaming. Metal Gear Survive might not be that bad, but it's hard to call it a Metal Gear game when it's… well… not. Hideo Kojima is long gone, and so is the outsized studio that he built in Southern California. Unlike The Legend of Zelda, Mario, or any of the other series we've ranked, Metal Gear is basically a finished product (at least, when it comes to the core canon). It feels kind of strange to sit down and try to rank all of the Metal Gear games.
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