In a way, it is.
Good ole codecs telling me the obvious since metal gear 1.
I started with MGS4 because I just picked it up from the bargin bin, then when I played MGS4, I was amazed at how great it was and I had to play the originals to end the mind f**k.
I liked Raiden too
Plus my girlfriend is kinda becoming a fangirl of him lol
I will make fun of those heels because he is wearing high heels regardless. Raiden evidently wasn't feminine enough already. I don't think Raiden looks that cool. He is really that anime/final fantasy looking girly man in Metal Gear that just doesn't strike me badass or cool. F*ck the anime hair, we'd rather rock the mullets with a bandana and an eye patch. Or Gray Fox's mask. That mask alone is really cool. I need to get one.
While I love Kojima, that dude can talk for hours and say nothing.
Metal Gear Solid is not a spinoff of Metal Gear, it's a direct sequel.
*gasp*
Would you say The Dark Knight is a spinoff to Batman Begins? No, because it was still a direct sequel to Batman Begins. It is the same exact thing with Metal Gear Solid. Metal Gear Solid is a sequel to Metal Gear because it does pick up after the events in those older games. Solid was a way to not only say that it's a sequel to Metal Gear but also Metal Gear brought to the new generation. I've played every single Metal Gear and while you kind of don't need to play the originals to get Metal Gear Solid it does tie directly with the events of those older titles for the NES.If it was a direct sequel, wouldn't Metal Gear Solid be called Metal Gear 3...? It's a continuation of the Metal Gear universe, but it's its own series spun from the MSX titles. It's a spin-off series, just as the others are.
Ghost Babel is the same way - it's a spin-off sequel from the original MSX titles too. The original Metal Gear series ended, and literally two different continuations were made; Solid, and Ghost Babel. Solid just kept going, and unfortunately nothing else was to be done with Ghost Babel
You're giving MGR way too much credit. The amount of forced QTEs in MGR is hardly minimal and you're over-exaggerating the amount of QTEs in God of War.
I said to a minimum that I liked for gods sake! This is all my opinion!
It is Metal Gear 3 making it a sequel. Look it up if you have to but Metal Gear Solid the third canonical release in the series. It is NOT a spinoff.You've pretty much just described what spin-offs are :/ A starting point that also acts as a continuation of something that preceded it. Metal Gear Solid is definitely a series, and it plays into a much larger Metal Gear Series, but it's still a spin-off of the original.
A comparison with Nolan's Batman trilogy doesn't quite work since Metal Gear established a use of regular sequential naming conventions (with numbers and all). A spin-off takes a point from a series and literally spins off into its own tangent. Whether or not that tangent is a one-off or creates its own is just up to them - I again point you to Ghost Babel, which jumps off from the exact same point as Metal Gear Solid does. Ghost Babel is a direct sequel, too, by your definition, but then now we have a discrepancy - two sequels to the MSX series. It's actually a little silly to just state that the Metal Gear series as a whole is Metal Gear (MSX) to Metal Gear Solid 4 when we have Ghost Babel sitting there right alongside the Solid series.
Ghost Babel and Solid suppose two different divergences from MSX series. One is just infinitely more popular and did more to help the franchise skyrocket into fame.
Also - the originals Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake were on the MSX computer system, not the NES. The NES version of Metal Gear was a butchered abomination
