METAL GEAR SOLID 4: Guns of the Patriots - Master Collection Version

I'd been waiting for 18 years to play this game, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Thank God, Konami finally found a way to free MGS4 from the prison of PS3. Hideo Kojima is a genius of gaming design but it was very foolish of him to make MGS4 exclusive on PS3. Sony and any company that encourages making games exclusive shall be terminated. Games shall be accessible for all the gamers. The tragedy of MGS4 has already shown us how being exclusive was harmful to both the gamers and the gaming companies.

I'm a newcomer to the series and I binged the first three games before starting this one. I had no expectations of it being good or bad other then absolutely loving mgs 1-3 so I was hoping that mgs4 would seal the deal with the Solid Snake story line. Unfortunately, I cannot say that this game has a satisfying ending. Kojima seems to have made fan service a priority over a good story. Almost the whole game is fan service slop that feels made specifically to evoke emotions from the player. This is why I believe much of the community likes this game since they've been playing the series for much longer then I have so those nostalgia bait and fan service moments hit harder for them. To me the just seem cheap. Secondly, I believe MGS4's story even ignoring the fan service is not up to par whatsoever with the first 3 games. It feels like Kojima wrote himself into a cage, and this game is him trying to explain everything for the community, but I'm not happy with the explanations and I don't see why he felt like it was necessary TO explain everything. It's ok to leave things unknown in your game. Overall, the first two acts of this game felt like they had a lot of potential, but after that it was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ story and fan service.