9 Great Video Games You Didn't Understand First Time

2. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots

Beautiful models who started as war orphans, crossed with animals and put in mech suits. An entire futurescape where ID tagged soldiers are controlled biometrically by corporations back home, fighting proxy wars while those at home price a VR headset modelled by David Hayter.

Smoking, coca cola-drinking monkeys in diapers, nanomachines that prevent cancer, characters who died decades ago getting resurrected, and a side character immediately getting married to the leading lady, because they fell in love that afternoon.

Metal Gear Solid 4 was the culmination of Hideo Kojima being asked to do multiple additional sequels, after praying to the fans and Konami to let him move on. He put enough barmy BS into Guns of the Patriots to last a lifetime, but also found time to pay tribute to his father at the very end.

The only way for MGS 4 to make sense is to literally sit with a notepad filled with notes from the previous games, and Charlie Day your own diagram as you go.

Anything less, and it really is like a fever dream from one man desperately trying to write himself out of a franchise.

Of course, even after all this, we still got MGS 5.