I've heard many mixed things about this game. For starters, that it has questionable controls and is ambiguous about whether or not it's canon, so I'd like to hear what other people's thoughts were about the game.
Should I play Portable Ops?
Jace Myers
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Jonathan Rogers
It's better than a lot of the fanbase gave it credit for, basically plays like MGS3 but for the PSP. No fulton means you'll have to manually drag the soldiers you capture wither back to a truck or to one of your guys hiding on site
Dominic Martin
Nah, totally skippable. Play Peacewalker with dual analog controls instead.
Dominic Turner
i had fun
a ton of fun
but if you don't like it you can skip it
the best part was the online
Dylan Flores
YouTube the story
Benjamin Murphy
Better story than PW and MGSV. Great music too.
Gameplay is just okay, make sure you add the characters via codes Konami gave out, it makes it so you don't have to recruit people which smooths out the gameplay.
Also better bosses than PW.
Cameron Cooper
The thing I don't understand about this game is why you need to fulton characters/ add characters into the game with codes. Like what is it for? Did Big Boss already create a private militia prior to Peace Walker? Is PO just a game like PW or MGSV with traditional MGS type gameplay?
Xavier Carter
he builds it in PO
PW was made because kojima was a salty retard, PO does that middle-story better
Luis Kelly
>Did Big Boss already create a private militia prior to Peace Walker?
That's what he does in this game. The codes are basically cheats to get certain units and chars from other titles in the series like Zero, Ocelot and the ACID chicks.
Ayden Phillips
and yeah, trad gameplay but pretty janky since it was a portable title.
Bentley Jenkins
It's a pretty decent portable sneaking game, not bad but not great either. The stealth focuses on hard cover and observing guard patterns to slip past them (as opposed to camoflauge like most games afer MGS3). It's really unpolished and cumbersome though. Also the story just lacks the same charm as "proper" MGS titles.
Julian Bell
PO isn't canon
Luke Carter
how do you enable dual analogue on a vita
Luis Scott
Portable Ops is not very good. The story is awful, the level design is awful, and the controls are unwieldy even if you're playing with a proper controller. There are worse games out there, but the fact they were able to quasi-adapt MGS3's mechanics to the PSP is where the impressiveness begins and ends.
It's not canon, either. PW contradicts it at every turn. At best you can say "some shit happened in San Hierynomo", which is more or less what the game has to say about it too, and Miller's comment about leaving it behind was apropos.
Isaac White
Depending on which model you have, you either hold down on the screen or hold down the home button in game until a menu pops up and you can remap the face buttons to the second stick
Brody Clark
Sure, if you love dragging bodies halfway across the map into your truck for hours on end, then this is the perfect game for you.
Isaac Perez
>he didn't get the codec code
Leo Wood
PO is canon.
The story was pretty MGS to me, way more than PW was which was just retarded.
BB was cool in PO.
Blake Peterson
He got the idea for MSF in PO from some dude.
But then Kojimbo got pissed that someone else made an entirely playable game with an actual story that was interesting and memorable and so he sperged out and said it wasn't canon.
Now canonically we have no idea why the fuck BiBo waited so long to form MSF other than he's just a tard.
Leo Morris
If you have to use cheats to make the game bearable then that's probably a huge red flag.
Austin Stewart
Recruiting is a pain in the ass and most likely, that unit isn't good. Gameplay is nice for being on a handheld, and story is great too. But PW blows it out of the water in every single way, especially if you're playing on vita with 30fps + dual analog patch.
Connor Perez
Story and level design is better than PW, and PW contradicting it should make you question PW being canon more than anything because that game also contradicts MGS3.
Jaxon Ortiz
>so he sperged out and said it wasn't canon.
He didn't even say this. Yas Forumstards have just been parroting nonsense for a decade.
They aren't cheats.
Ayden Rogers
>using a gameplay element built into the game is cheating
Don't bother taking them unless they drop a kero thing or chaff grenades at least.
Jordan Collins
thanks bro
Anthony Murphy
>Story and level design is better than PW
No.
>and PW contradicting it should make you question PW being canon
Not when MGSV is a direct sequel to PW and PO had very little input from Kojima. PO is the odd one out.
>because that game also contradicts MGS3.
How do you figure?
>PO is canon.
No.
Charles Ramirez
It has the beat David Hayter VA as Big Boss
Nathaniel Lopez
MGSV is also a massive contradiction and anyone holding it up as something better than PO is just retarded, no point replying to you further. you're just a kojimadrone.
Jacob Ross
You can get all of these characters without using the codes I think, right?
Are the MG Acid game considered canon?
Adrian Smith
>MGSV is also a massive contradiction and anyone holding it up as something better than PO is just retarded
MGSV is a weird mess of a game and a mess of a story, but it's significantly more interesting than seeing Big Boss have his motivations and goals delivered to him from a lazy copy of his own character, and nothing in MGSV butchers anybody as hard as Portable Ops butchered Gray Fox.
Joseph Cox
No, they're codes only.
And I don't think so.
David Lee
Imagine being such a massive contrarian that you honestly think a shitty B-grade portable game that hardly anyone cares about is better than MGSV.
Angel Watson
never played 3. is it bad if i play peace walker before 3?
Thomas Taylor
It's the little things. People converse very dryly and to the point, there's no levity or bizarre humor, any jokes attempted are corny Hollywood cliches (don't die on me you owe me form that poker game hehheh) or really flat caricatures carbon copied from Snake Eater (Snake eats things lol, Paramedic is a film nerd, etc.). It doesn't even have any notable geopolitical or philosophical ruminations.
Everything about it just feels like a generic B-action movie plot as written by someone who read a story synopsis and bullet points about the Metal Gear series.
Leo Ortiz
No you can get most of them through the game normally. I remember getting a few but it's a huge pain.
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Alexander Harris
Yes. Very bad.
Robert Hall
and it at least tried to fit in making it better than both PO and MGSV, those games went full retard.
Cameron Carter
Nah its fine, I did the same thing and was really new to the metal gear games. The psp ones is what got me into the series, picked up MGS1 on PSN classic for the PSP then later got a vita and picked up the HD collections of 2 and 3. Actually, I think I got and played MGS1 first though then went for the PSP ones.
Carson Sanchez
>It's the little things.
Unfortunately it's also the big things. Gene is an absolute shitpile of a character. Null is almost as bad.
Angel Clark
It's a great game. Kojima just shits on it because it wasn't directed by him, and naturally all his fanboys follow suits. It's the Creep of video games.
Elijah Rivera
in what way?
Jose Watson
Also I forgot to mention that it was like piecing together the story since I played the PSP ones before 2 and 3.
Jaxson Rivera
Creep is shit.
Chase Robinson
Play the best Metal Gear subseries on PSP.
Jayden Martinez
Keep sucking Tom York's dick
Camden Gonzalez
you kinda have to piece together the story in these games anyway so that doesnt sound so bad. just didnt want somethin in pw to spoil 3
David Kelly
sorry i ment
Radiohead is shit.
Lucas Hill
I liked it, and the multiplayer for plus was some of the best the psp had to offer. But thats the thing, it hasnt aged very well in 2020.
Dylan Mitchell
My LSD nigga. The Acid games were really run but fuck the first game for not letting you have extra decks.
Robert Thomas
>ambiguous about whether or not it's canon
It's very much canon, it was in fact referenced as such in MGS4. Kojima just ended up disliking the fact a game he didn't make could be good especially given the hardware they had to work with. PO > PW, Calling to the Night is kino and Kojima is a hack.
Elijah Anderson
>Calling to the Night
u feg?
Ryder Jenkins
>Zero
>1+2-3
Andrew Hernandez
>it was in fact referenced as such in MGS4
Sure, but the reference was a fairly insignificant one and the contradictions it has with PW are major.
>Kojima just ended up disliking the fact a game he didn't make could be good especially given the hardware they had to work with.
But he's never said anything bad about Ghost Babel, which is an infinitely better game than Portable Ops. And almost every other game in the series. The story is nothing special, but it's still better than PO's.
>Calling to the Night is kino
I agree with this.
Connor Nelson
>didnt want somethin in pw to spoil 3
lmao PW does nothing if not spoil the entirety of 3 especially the ending
Daniel Watson
WHY
DIE
Gavin Ortiz
well alright ill just play 3 then, its near impossible to properly emulate though
Owen White
The CQC Enhancer Suit a second best
Brayden Brooks
>Sure, but
There's no buts, it's there
>the contradictions it has with PW are major
That would be PW's problem now wouldn't it? Especially when like the very first thing you hear in that game is Miller going "now we can leave that crap of San Hieronymo behind" so it's pretty clear where Kojima's heart laid
>But he's never said anything bad about Ghost Babel
Ghost Babel never said it was canon
Christian Diaz
>That would be PW's problem now wouldn't it?
It would be, but that doesn't make PW non-canon when Kojima is ultimately the one that dictates how his story goes and MGSV is a direct sequel to PW. You can have PO or you can have PW/MGSV, but you can't have both.
Chase Wood
I played it perfectly on PCSX2 a few years ago on an i5 and 1060. I do remember it running awful at the beginning but I changed some things and it was smooth 60fps from then on.
Cameron Rogers
>obvious troll was obvious 3 posts ago
Jonathan Price
it has >6 frames of input lag, its a known issue. you might not have noticed it, but to me its unplayable.
Leo King
>but that doesn't make PW non-canon
Never said it was
>You can have PO or you can have PW/MGSV, but you can't have both.
As if Metal Gear was new to retcons. Both MGs and MGS1 are canon, even if the latter retcons Snake knowing BB is his father. MGS3 retcons BB's age at which he got the eyepatch and sterility... etc.
PO is canon and shit went down at San Hieronymo with BB, Campbell and the like. The details that fuck with future games are simply ignored and that's that.
Justin Smith
Not sure if you mean me or him
Julian Gutierrez
that's bullshit.
Zachary Reyes
There's no difficulty setting. The enemy soldiers are so retarded you can run in circles behind them and they won't notice. Boss fights are just firing rockets at shitty robots and the story does nothing to unfuck the absolutely shitty and vague "muh boss" obsession Big Boss has that 3 just never did anything with.
It's a quality portable game (Not saying much) and an awful MGS game. If you're just wanting a mindless time sink of a game in a Metal Gear setting then you're ship has come in.
Michael Allen
Nah. Just play the Peace Walker instead.
It's the far superior "MGS5" to boot.