Should I get Xbox 360 now or wait for PS3?

[WhatsHisFace]

stop fighting no one can win battles like this it's just opinion and mine is MGS all the way i playd one Splinter Cell and wont ever touch it again but then again i have a mate who likes both but he says MGS is better anyway

Fascinating. Here's the deal, as games, and in everything that makes games games, SplinterCell bests Metal Gear Solid.

SplinterCell has better levels, better moves, a FAR superior stealth system, and a story that is both reasonable AND coherent.

 

[Horrorfan]

Fascinating. Here's the deal, as games, and in everything that makes games games, SplinterCell bests Metal Gear Solid.

SplinterCell has better levels, better moves, a FAR superior stealth system, and a story that is both reasonable AND coherent.

And better characters.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

And better characters.

With better names, backstories and motives.

 

[Horrorfan]

With better names, backstories and motives.

Plus no mullets or silly mustaches or old man skin with liverspots.


God, I really can't wait for double agent. I saw a video of the shang hi and war torn levels and WOW

 

[Spidey-Bat]

And Sam Fisher wasn't based off Kurt Russell's character in a stupid movie.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Why didn't you bring up the gay vampires, the bullet-manipulating Beyonces or the Russian Cowboy with a talking arm?

 

[Horrorfan]

Why didn't you bring up the gay vampires, the bullet-manipulating Beyonces or the Russian Cowboy with a talking arm?

Not to mention the whole walking robot nukes , and the ultimate spy hiding under a cardboard box thing.

Wow you know the sad thing re-reading this? Not ONE thing we've mocked is made up

 

[ReptileOrion]

The Splinter Cell games are rooted in reality and the stealth system is amazing. Sam Fisher is a bada$$ especially with Michael Ironside doing the voice acting. I have enjoyed Metal Gear over the years. Metal Gear Solid was a classic, MGS 2 was a great game (a bit disappointed that I had to play the rest of the game as Raiden), and MGS 3 Snake Eater was good. It was something about Snake Eater that I didn't care for. It was an enjoyable game but it was something I just can't put my finger on. MGS 4 looks amazing and I think it is going to be on par with the first Solid. The story sounds damn good so far and the graphics on the PS3 look like its going to be the showcase for the system. Both of the franchises (Splinter Cell and Metal Gear) are classics. I think it just depends on your cup of tea.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Not to mention the whole walking robot nukes , and the ultimate spy hiding under a cardboard box thing.

Wow you know the sad thing re-reading this? Not ONE thing we've mocked is made up

The box thing is so dumb. How ******ed does a guard have to be to think nothing of a box getting from one end of the hall to the other?

Where is hippie_hunter? He'll want to kill us.

 

[Extromaniac]

Apparently, they replaced all the guards in MGS with the half-blind back ups, just in case some guy who is wearing a box as camo doesn't come in.

 

[Mr. Credible]

apparently you all have not reallly payed attention to the 'box hiding' mechanic in the MGS games... if you hide in a box in a random place (like the middle of a hallway), you'll get caught... if you hide in a box that says "crazlachistan" or "shell 1" or where ever and you're somewhere else that that box ought not to be, you'll get caught. it's really not as simple as you haters make it out to be.

 

[Extromaniac]

apparently you all have not reallly payed attention to the 'box hiding' mechanic in the MGS games... if you hide in a box in a random place (like the middle of a hallway), you'll get caught... if you hide in a box that says "crazlachistan" or "shell 1" or where ever and you're somewhere else that that box ought not to be, you'll get caught. it's really not as simple as you haters make it out to be.

Still what kind of secret agent, one that is supposedly "better" (don't make me laugh) than Sam Fisher, hides in a cardboard box. And why the hell do they just leave empty human-sized cardboard boxes lying around anyways? That's a ridiculous concept.

 

[Mr. Credible]

as ridiculous as countless shadows so dark that some guy could crouch behind them, and have a guard walk right by him, and still not be seen? even when he has 3 big green lights on his face?

what's so weird about finding cardboard boxes lying around?

 

[Extromaniac]

as ridiculous as countless shadows so dark that some guy could crouch behind them, and have a guard walk right by him, and still not be seen? even when he has 3 big green lights on his face?

what's so weird about finding cardboard boxes lying around?

Because I have yet to see any top-secret military organization, or terrorist organization that would have cardboard boxes, big enough to fit a human under them comfortably, everywhere.

And actually, when you're wearing all black, it's hard to see people in the dark of night, especially when they're standing in any kind of shadow. Ebony dark or not. And you know.. most of the times.. you are not standing in the shadows waiting for a guard to pass.. usually you're concealed in a hard, or hard-er to see place.

But the green lights argument, should that event transpire, is pretty much accurate. Still not as ridiculous as somehow finding cardboard boxes that you can slowly inch around in without anyone noticing, or being able to find those cardboard boxes in the first place, anyways.

 

[Mr. Credible]

whatever... i really hate you.

 

[Extromaniac]

whatever... i really hate you.

Glad to hear I've made such an impression upon you.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

MGS 2 was a great game (a bit disappointed that I had to play the rest of the game as Raiden)

I'm a bit disappointed that the whole game is just running around in the same areas, backtracking for this, that and the other thing.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

But the green lights argument, should that event transpire, is pretty much accurate. Still not as ridiculous as somehow finding cardboard boxes that you can slowly inch around in without anyone noticing, or being able to find those cardboard boxes in the first place, anyways.

It's been said both by the developers and in the game manual that the glow from Sam Fisher's goggles aren't seen by the enemies.

Nightvision/Infrared goggles don't glow in real life. They just had it that way in the game because they wanted the "three lights" to become instantly recognizable for the character.

 

[Topdawg]

Mgs Is Better!!!!

 

[Extromaniac]

Mgs Is Better!!!!

Proof?

 

[ReptileOrion]

Splinter Cell has realistic equipment and enemies. It is rooted in realism and that is definitely a good thing. The Metal Gear Series is great but Splinter Cell keeps getting better and better. The new game Double Agent is different from the other games in the series but I will definitely be picking it up when it released.

 

[Extromaniac]

Splinter Cell has realistic equipment and enemies. It is rooted in realism and that is definitely a good thing. The Metal Gear Series is great but Splinter Cell keeps getting better and better. The new game Double Agent is different from the other games in the series but I will definitely be picking it up when it released.

Yeah, I have to agree. Though MGS is an applauded series, they're sort of stuck at a stagnant level which never rises or falls. SC is getting better with every new iteration.. and is quickly becoming a gamers' favorite.

Besides, I don't see what's so sneaky about crawling around in a cardboard box.

 

[Horrorfan]

like spidey bat says, and others...I can suspend my desbelif for most things in videogames, but when it comes down to it, I can't respect a top stealth agent who uses a cardboard box, and an army that doesn't notice it suspiciously moving by itself from place to place.


Back to SC, they have been fine processing this ''moral decision'' things through all the games, but I really have only noticed it recently, re-playing the last SC and splinter cell essentials....they have been trying things out (for example, in one mission you're requred to order an air strike on a plane crash wreck, but you can choose to either ignore orders and save the pilots or just get on with the strike).

But it's good to know it's not just some gimmick and they really have been playing with the idea for a while.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

MGS got me into the stealth action game so for that im thankful, however, Splinter Cell made me fall in love with that genre and for that im greatful. Both games are great in their own way. MGS has always had a much better story, with much better characters. SplinterCell, i feel, has much better gameplay. I like the way Splinter Cell plays out, in that you can go back and do each individual mission as if it was its own, while in MGS its like a movie, its just one long story. I would buy MGS4 in a heartbeat if i was going to get a Ps3, but i have a 360 and there is NO need for me to egt a PS3. Some of you fail to realize tho, that MGS is less serious than Splinter Cell. That why you have actions like hiding in a cardboard box and finding little green frogs. That doesnt make the game worse, just different. Some ppl like that little bit of humor to cut inbetween all that serious action, me personally, i prefer the straight faced action that is found in the Splinter Cell games. If i could only play one for the rest of my life, id have to choose the SplinterCell series, being that they are just more fun to replay, but im not saying MGS is garbage or anything like that. I mean guys, if there was never a Solid Snake, there probably never would have been a Sam Fisher.

 

[Phaser]

I also think people are taking the cardboard box way too seriously. It was meant to be strictly tongue-in-cheek from the start. The MGS series has always had it's fair share of inside jokes.