Hostile Faceoff: Metal Gear Solid vs Super Metroid

Thread: Hostile Faceoff: Metal Gear Solid vs Super Metroid

Which is the better game?

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Each Weekday here on D-Pad we pit two highly rated games against each other, to ultimately find out the best game of all time. Voting is open for 24 hours, with different time zones it's best to just look at the time the first post was made. For a full list of the top 95 qualifying games, along with the results so far, see this thread here.

What is your favourite game and why? Perhaps you can convince others in the comments below.

Today we have;


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Hm. Tricky, tricky.

There's far too many variables to list here, but I think overall Metroid ever so slightly edges out a win for me.
I can't say I massively care for either game, but I have been playing games from both series, and I like both. But I've played and liked more Metroid games than Metal Gear games.

So, Metroid it is I suppose.
 
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MGS. The first game with a plot and characters that genuinely felt up to the standards of a competent novel. Fantastic gameplay, amazing boss fights, and full of rewards and Easter eggs for those willing to hunt them out.

Also the first game to make me cry, and while I've become a cynical bastard with a scarred over soul that is above such womanly behaviour today, I still appreciate how surprising it was at the time to experience a game that could actual move me like that.

Also Metroid Fusion and Dread are better than Super.
 
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I've never seen the GOAT qualities that others seem to see in SM. It's fine, and it inspired many, but I don't recognise its greatness as a game.

MGS was special, even if I think it's been surpassed since. Very memorable.
 
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I'm suprised Metal Gear stuck around as long as it did, considering it got TWO last minute saves. Think its lucky to get this draw for me as Snes/Genesis games mean nothing to me now.
 
Metal Gear Solid gets my vote. One of the best PlayStation games with cool characters, story, and atmosphere. Not really my favorite stealth game but its cinematic presentation, concepts and ideas from Kojima and his team were all pretty memorable and spawned some great sequels.
 
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Can't think of the PS1 without thinking of MGS. It still is influential to this day and extremely memorable.
 
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Don't forget General @HE1NZ a single game will have a last chance at the end of Round 4 (tomorrow).
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You should hold a Loser's Bracket where all eliminated games are voted on at once, then two best-voted ones are matched with each other, and then the winner of Loser's Bracket goes up against the overall winner in one final attempt to try and depose them.
 
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This is a tough one. I love both. I went with Super Metroid simply because it was the apex of the genre that spun off into countless other iterations. Hell, even Soulsborne games owe a lot to Metroid.

MGS1 is groundbreaking, and like SM it's the apex of its genre... however its' genre is more niche and it is eclipsed by its' own sequels in 2 and 3.
 
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Going with Super Metroid. Still a pretty strong game overall.

With MGS, it was good for the time but I don't think 3d Metal Gear's gameplay was properly realized until MGS2 (Part 1 having the better story and characters, of course).
 
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I used to hear about some saying Super Metroid was the best SNES game out of the entire catalogue. Used to think to myself there's no way that's true when there's Super Mario All Stars, A Link to the Past, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country, and all these other amazing looking games to play. But when I finally ran through the game I saw what they were talking about. It's almost a perfectly crafted game. There are very few like that made in the gaming industry
 
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I used to hear about some saying Super Metroid was the best SNES game out of the entire catalogue. Used to think to myself there's no way that's true when there's Super Mario All Stars, A Link to the Past, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country, and all these other amazing looking games to play. But when I finally ran through the game I saw what they were talking about. It's almost a perfectly crafted game. There are very few like that made in the gaming industry
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Probably my favorite non-RPG SNES title

DKC trilogy comes close though
 
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Franky Family said:
I used to hear about some saying Super Metroid was the best SNES game out of the entire catalogue. Used to think to myself there's no way that's true when there's Super Mario All Stars, A Link to the Past, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country, and all these other amazing looking games to play. But when I finally ran through the game I saw what they were talking about. It's almost a perfectly crafted game. There are very few like that made in the gaming industry
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It really is.

It takes a LOT for me to put a game over (almost) any MGS game... Super Metroid just brings everything to the table. Gameplay, music, atmosphere, action, mystery, all of it.
 
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