I have never played metal solid gear series gaem before, if I buy metal gear solid 4, will I understand it?

No its not necessary to play the old Metal Gear game that were for the NES to play the Metal Gear Solid series on the PS2/PS3.

Here is the storyline order of the Metal Gear Solid games: 1.) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (1964) 2.) Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (1970) 3.) Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (1974) 4.) Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (?) 5.) Metal Gear Solid 5 (?) 6.) Metal Gear (1995) 7.) Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1999) 8.) Metal Gear Solid (2005) 9.) Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2007- 2009) 10.) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots (2014) 11.) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2020) MGS3 - MGS Ground Zeroes are prequels in which you play as Big Boss/Naked Snake, everything else is the main storyline, in which you play as Solid Snake, the series overall main character and Big Boss's son. Just incase you are confused about MGS Ground Zeroes and MGS5, Ground Zeroes was announced just a few days ago and it will be a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5, which will also be a prequel but will instead be starring Solid Snake (that was confirmed by Hideo Kojima himself back in June). Ground Zeroes will most likely come out either 2014 - 2015 (unfortunately) and MGS5 will be on the Next - Gen consoles.

And Metal Gear Rising (which comes out next year) is a spinoff that stars Raiden, a character who was introduced in MGS2. Also be warned, because you are new to the Metal Gear series. I don't know if you are aware of this already, but each Metal Gear game has A LOT of Cutscenes!

And I do mean a lot of them, so if you are one of those people who don't like games that have almost as many cutscenes as there is actual gameplay then this is so not the series for you. But if you try to get into it regardless you'll see that this is easily one of the best video game series of all time. You can buy Metal Gear Solid 1 from the PS3 PSN Store, its on there for $10.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is also on the PSN Store for $10. But don't play it until after you beat MGS3 from the HD Collection. Speaking of the HD Collection, Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake are included with the HD Collection and are on MGS3 Snake Eater's Main Menu, making the HD Collection technically 5 MGS Games instead of just 3.

They originally came out for the MSX in 1987-1990, so they're kinda ancient by todays standards, so if you YouTube them and see the gameplay and don't want to play them then that's fine, but at least look up them up on the Wikipedia and then read the stories of both games because the events that took place in both games are canon to the storyline. You can find the HD Collection anywhere that sells games for $40, and MGS4 is $20, but its getting hard to find so you might have to buy it online. Sorry for the long answer, basically yes, the events in the original Metal Gear MSX games are indeed canon to the story, but I personally, as a huge Metal Gear fan, recommend you playing the prequels first then start the Solid Snake storyline with the original Metal Gear games.

But as I said they are practically ancient by todays standards so if you don't want to play them thats fine but you should at least spoil the events in both games by reading the plot of the them off of the wikipedia, or watching a walkthrough of them on YouTube to see what happens.

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