I never touched the Metal Gear series before, where should i start?

From the first one

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Bumpo

play them backwards. from 5 to 1

1-4 for the main body,

PW/GZ/V for glorified DLC

Rising for th real MGS5

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>>385341519
Suicide.

Solid 1 and Solid 2, stop there, the franchise becomes fanwank from then on

You can try the MSX ones too, but never the NES port

>>385341519

>>385342927
I was gonna suggest start from 1 but I'm leaning to playing it backwards.

Barring Hayter's butthurt phase, I really enjoyed him voicing snake.
Sutherland was hot garbage with 5 lines or so and many stupid grunts.

>>385341519
I did it chronologically, including the two nes games
>3
>pw
>v,gz/too
>both nes games
>mgs1
>mgs2
>mgs4
>rising
God tier playthrough friend, you'll know EXACTLY what's going on, the game will make actual sense

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In this order:
>Metal Gear 2
>Peace Walker
>Metal Gear Solid 4
>Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
>Metal Gear Rising Revengeance
Skip MGS 1 and 3, they aren't canon

>>385343394
What the fuck did you just say?

>>385343394
>no Snake's Revenge

It's literally the best game in the series

Play MGS1/2 back to back and realize the series never EVER reaches those heights again, except sporadically in MGS4

>>385341519
MGS3
MGSPW
MGS
MGS2
MGS4

All the others (the originals, rising, v, acid, etc) are optional

>>385343372
this is what i was going to say but how they they were released is probably better

>>385341519
From the PS1 game and then by release order.

Metal gear 3 Snake eater

>>385343768
Chronological is a meme since it only focuses on the surface plot.

Release order is better if you want to witness the evolution of the series and see how each game interacts and responds to the ones before it.

A lot of people say release order, but really it makes some sense to start at V because you're playing an amnesiac. Some shit won't make sense until you play the other games, which is what I experienced, so I went back and played 3 and Peace Walker to understand Big Boss, then I went on to MGS 1 and 2 and that shit blew my fucking mind it was so good

Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 for the MSX are optional but worth playing. You get a little bit of backstory on Solid Snake and Big Boss in them.
For the Solid series:
>Metal Gear Solid 1-4
>Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
>Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes
>Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain

>>385343372
First NES game is a heavily altered port of Metal Gear which should be considered non-canonical (doesn't even feature the Metal Gear boss battle)
Second NES game was developed for the US by a completely different studio and is in no way a part of the Metal Gear Story.

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>all these people recommending the chronological order instead of the release order as it was INTENDED

You guys really okay with the gameplay fluctuating as you progress? You'll go from current gen to MSX and PS1-era graphics and gameplay. The story already evolves when you're playing in release order. There's a bunch of foreshadowing and dramatic irony that you won't understand unless you play the games in order. Like, you won't understand things like who Raikov is a reference to or why Naked Snake's character arc is so important to the overarching plot until the end of PW or V if you're playing chronologically.

1
2
3
PO
PW
GZ
V
4

1,2,3 then stop.