This MGS Game is the Most Addictive! 

I really like that Metal Gear got to live in the era before the predatory monetization of games. A more civilized age

Ah portable ops. The memories I had playing this and Ops Plus. I can still recall every line to Calling To The Night.

I think MPO/+ is an underrated game that people skip because "Kojima said it's not conical". I thought the level designs for both games were unique and never really felt boring compared to a few in Peace Walker (not knocking it, it's a good game too). I did like the different level difficulties run adding unique items or characters each time you played. Nice video and you showed both good and bad sides of PO/+ .

11:21 thats some pro stealth shit bro

This game structure with MGSV gameplay would be a fantastic game

Thank you for the memories. I got this game for Christmas ‘07 (I was 14), I really enjoyed PO (and I was a hardcore fan of MGS since I was 10) and was eager to play the extra characters so I asked my parents for it and strangely they did find it and get it for me (I live in Mexico so I thought the game wasn’t going to be easy to find because it’s a very niche expansion for a not so popular game). I enjoyed the random missions as you mention and I completed/acquired everything available. I even unlocked almost all the playable characters (I think I only missed one or two from Japan). Something I feel weird you didn’t talked about in the video and that was the main draw of the game for me was the online/local multiplayer… Dang, I spent over 500 hours playing that stuff. It was INSANE. At high school three of my friends also had PSPs (we were total nerds, back when being a gamer was much more frowned upon than now) so each day during recess (and any other spare time) we would fire up PO+ and get into some local multiplayer battles. When I was at home I would play online (with my awesome 1mbps wifi) and it was amazing. You could collect (“recruit”) soldiers from other players once you defeated them. That way I was able to get 99% of the special characters (got all Power Ranger genome soldiers, and some other european/Japanese exclusives as well). I was very good at the multiplayer game, too. I always bested my friends and even online I came out on top most of the time. I remember my favorite weapons being the P90 (insane rate of fire and magazine size, very easy to take headshots) and the SAA (great for taking shots around corners, I even managed to get a lot of ricochet headshots this way). I always dreamed of playing in a tournament of some sort, I don’t remember if it was ever any (there was for MGO, but that’s another story), but I remember being frustrated for not living in the US and be able to take a more active part in the MGS community. Those were the days man, back when Konami made some quality stuff (or at least they tried) and the world was blissfully unaware of micro transactions on every game. Just pure unadulterated fun with friends and strangers around the world.

Very underrated game. I think Konami reduced MGS PO to the very essence of how a Metal gear should be. Thats the purest MGS experience I ever had. Love this game. And the story was a nice continuation MGS 3 - To me it started the whole Peacewalker and MGS V mechanics and storylines.

When I got this game in middle/highschool i didnt realize mpo+ didnt include story. But many many hours went into it, and used to stay up super late playing and chatting with folks on the online

Man mgsPO+ was my first metal gear game. I played that game for years

After being dissapointed by Ac!d, MPO was such a welcomed addition for me, ever since I got a PSP back in the day all I wanted was a real stealth based MGS game

This was very helpful. I didn't have any idea what Portable Ops was, and when I tried it, I had gotten the Plus version, not knowing there was another. I would rather play the one with a story first, even if it's not canon. It also shot itself in the foot with me, as I didn't even know I'd get to play as Snake, I thought I'd be stuck playing as random troops, as that's what the tutorial is.

MPO+ was basically just dlc for the multiplayer mode of MPO before dlc was a thing

Great video man, just thought about the same points you make in this video today after playing MGSV again for a few hours. This is my favorite PSP game and perhaps my favorite MGS game, when it comes to gameplay.

This sounds like an amazing Metal Gear game and this is the first time I've ever even heard anyone mention it.

I like the acid games both are very underrated

Here's the thing, it was never truly deemed non canon. The whole incident about canon started with an interview during the development of MGSV after Ground Zeroes released. His remark on core saga titles being the games he personally headed. Dumbasses automatically jumped the gun and assumed it meant it wasn't canon. Doesn't help even before that event, many didn't view PO positively due to it being on the PSP, and this slipped it. MGS4 and MGS4 Database confirms it's authenticity. MG wiki's retarded core saga tab in every PO and Revengeance doesn't help the situation either.

I've never really got into metal gear games and you singlehandedly made me go ahead and try install metal gear online 2 and metal gear solid portable ops 2. (in a totally legal way btw)

Super interesting video. I didn't know what PO+ had to offer. I remember I got it from a friend but didn't like it because of the lack of traditional camera controls (PSP's fault, not the game itself) and lack of story, but I found it so cool that the game had a lot to offer. Great vid, keep up the great work, man!

Just found the channel and I totally agree never seen anyone talk about this game might have to try and play it

wow, great video, I never knew about mgs po+ not having a story. I always saw po as redundent when compared to pw, but I really ought to emulate this game sometime

Ah,this game. . .is a masterpiece. Perfect in every single part. One of the best metal gear ever. For me is canon in all respects. There's no reason why it shouldn't be.

this and peacewalker are my metal gear GOATS, besides the main console games these are the ones i always come back to

Its nice to hear some love for this game.

Very nice hideo. Was just thinking about these games the other day

I’m definitely going to have to play this. Whenever I heard that it had “no single player” I assumed it was a multiplayer only game.

I used to love this gane so much back when I was in High School, this game gives me so much nostalgia. I used to olay it at night instead of sleeping for school lol. One time I was playing an online match and my wifi was shut down in the middle and I i lost out on a couple of really good soldiers. It scarred me, I never forgot that 😢.

HE DOES NOT MISS

Great video! - I've had my own opinions on the Portable Ops games and never really thought too much about them, but the way in which you explained your opinion and what the game offered did actually make me wanna try them again! :,,,,D

Portable Ops is canon and its much more fun than most of the games.

Such great game. Where is my Metal Gear Portable HD Remaster, Konami???? Great video who put some light in such underrated game, thanks man! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Portable ops + was my first mgs game and oh man, when I found out there was story and cutscenes out there. I tried looking for the cutscenes online and I learned that I needed a ps2 to play the collection games. I went to go buy one. I was bumbed out that PO+ didn’t have cutscenes or “story”, but glad it introduced the game series to me.

I used to play this game for hundreds of hours online when I was a kid. It was incredible

I used to go with my mother on road trips and have access point scan recruitment mode on. I would get random soldiers and crew I have never seen before. I thought it was school

0:10 I'm sorry, did you just say "Spin-off game". Say what you may, Portable Ops (with a lot of evidence), it's shown to be undoubtedly Canon.

I've never been big into online pvp matches, but I loved playing PO+ online. Would love to re-live those days.

PW gameplay (with prone) with PO level design would've rocked my world.

BANGER ALERT

I remember we didn't have wifi. So, I'd go walk to school after hours and could get like, 70% signal from the school wifi at the gym doors to play online. the only way I touched grass, was to play more games...

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omg finally someone who also thinks that MPO+ is actually pretty damn good i always loved + because of how challenging it gets, on the flip side it's super grindy and the game never tells the player on what to do next, but on the brighter side it forces you to be creative in facing enemies, and urges you to recruit the right type of people and get the right type of gear to make your life easier on the long run. sometimes i even prefer this more than the main portable ops, which is weird, but it's amazing

By some twist of fate I only managed to ever play MPO+, not the first, but I played Plus for a total of about 200 hours, with a majority of that being me DROWNING in the game as a kid pre- and mid-highschool era, until I picked it back up in recent years. Now it feels almost easy but I didnt mind it having no real story to it. Still, I think I've gone far past the amount of hours originally intended, or at least it feels that way with the max 200 crew that I have, a lot but not all having max stats, recognizing every level, etc. Its nowhere near 100% but I'm just not sure what to do next with it... especially since, obviously multiplayer is history afaik I had also fallen completely in love with the idea of being some nobody schmuck mook instead of a main character, esp. the genome troops and Tengu Commandos and the camo mechanic. The game feels like a great predecessor to some future refinement; inventory kinda sucks (Tengu swords take up a slot because, balance???), actual content is probably not much more than MPO, and having just one analog stick was never great, and of course, no crouchwalking (I weep) Anyway, seeing vids like this reminds me that I didnt just have these obscure esoteric experiences that nobody else had, and not only that but that others are also passionate enough about them to be singing their praises near two decades later.

The big thing keeping me from playing portable ops is the controls. I love mgs2/3 controls, and the controls in PO feel really uncomfortable in comparison.

I remembered having this game when I was younger...I hated it LOL. I always looked back it at as one of the worst MGS games ever just because it didn't play like the other MGS games (No story and I just sucked at the infinite difficult levels). But after watching your video it really changed my perspective on PO+ and made me think fondly of it now instead. I hope to find a way to play this again now. Thank you for the great video!

can't wait for the switch collection part 2 to bring back this gem, or so I hope

You never know! PO+ could be on Master Collection Vol 2 when that gets announced! :)

I need to try this game out

Really good video since I never had a PSP and never got to experience Portable ops or PO+. Also I completely forgot you had a youtube and have just been waiting for you to stream again if you decide to.

okay so to give some thoughts because I played this a bit and my first metal gear experience was peace walker when I first tried this game it was a bit jarring to say the least lelz. Because at the time I was so used to the Peace walker style of gameplay that this kind of gameplay wasn't my cup of tea not to mention the fact that the second game I've played in the series was Metal Gear Solid 4 which I played with my father's friend whom is very cool because he let me play his ps4 while him and my father and the group that was there was watching me figure out sht. Was good times, but yeah after that small experience I didn't touch any metal gear games until it game to 2019 where in a video game store I stumbled into "Metal Gear HD Collection" which peaked my interest because they were like two metal gear game bundle on there one was like ground zeroes, phantom pain, and some other one then HD collection which I thought had the other games too like Acid and the Novel series (which is ngl I was lowkey pissed that the back part was somewhat misleading lelz) but yeah after booting it up on my ps3 I was fairly surprised on the selection I was sad tho that the og metal gear wasn't on sight and so I tried MGS2 for a shot on the "normal" difficulty and boi it was an experience indeed because I got so used to the PW and GOP type of shooting this og style just made me relearn the game on a whole new level which is after a while it grew on me and enjoyed every single gameplay bit of it. Then after like hours of playing it I've completed it in an goofy way because of how bad I was at it, then came MGS3 Snake Eater and dang that was an experience too that I'll never forget doing especially on the fun things to do. Of course despite having a blast with the controls I still haven't got the used of it but still pressed on cause it is what it is lelz. Although yeah it was very fun indeed to mess around on the stuff you can do especially by just exploding the food supply cabins they'll just be hungry and had fun with the bosses too even tho some of them were lowkey ridiculous yet charming. But because of playing MGS3 I came to understand PW more because ngl I was so confused on what was happening on the series itself and with that in mind I've already caught up with the lore that honestly the only metal gear type of story can be made is in regards of Snake's mentor which is the The Boss/Joy and how the cobra unit were born. But anyways I'm getting hugely off track here to go back to portable ops I honestly didn't appreciate it as much as I could because of the controls but honestly what I wished it had done is just kept the "classic controls" then just added the "modern" one other than that tho might give it a try now because I've made ppsspp worked although honestly I wished it worked on normal pc controls but hey it is what it is lelz. So yeah if they ever re-release this "HD collection" for whatever reason I hope it has both options of shooting just like how they have two options for camera "angles". Other than that sorry if I wasted your time thinking that this was an Portable ops discussion but was instead an MGS experience discussion lelz.

I consider Portable Ops as part of the Canon because if it wasn't for this series, Peace Walker and The Phantom Pain would either have not existed or have been completely different games.

The way they do stealth takedown looks like they are dry humping. Also the fact that I has multiple character is really cool. I would love to play it, but I don’t want to buy a PSP.

Portable Ops is so underapreciated, it's a shame... it's gameplay movements aren't great, but regardless of that, it's my second favorite MGS, second to MGS3

They really need to make vol 3 that includes portable ops, twin snakes and some other special mgs titles. I wanted to play twin snakes since i was 7 years old(Im 23 now), but cant ;(. It would be a special experience to play mgs1 story but with mgs2 gameplay and weapons

Imo, Portable Ops sets up why Snake suddenly has a private army in Peace Walker.

Lollll this game is gem , use to run onlin3 all the time

Nice

I remember playing this on psp but I don't think it was the plus version. I still to this day dont understand the minimap in the top right of the screen though, is it sonar? Found that so distracting as a kid lol.

I see what you did there 8:59

Were have all you people been i been asking help for this game on gamefaqs trying to create the best save data but i already did that now so eat it

Okay okay I do get that this game is a banger but I’m wondering what mod you’re using for mgsv

What suit were you wearing in the MGSV clips?

Is your game running at 60fps? if so how is it a mod or patch?

I doubt we will see MPO and MPO+ on the second part of the Master collection but it would be nice to have it especially with revamped controls its absolutely awful playing it with one joystick imo

Way better than Peacewalker.

can you help please, i dont know how this game works because i keep getting spotted all the dang time. Please help!

15:40 wait there are revival servers??? How do I connect to them??

9:08 Big boss have less hp than old solid snake with terminal lumbago

so, everybody says its so good, should i play it? I dont have a psp or vita is it good emulated on ppsspp?

Finishing extreme felt so good man...

What’s the song at 2:32 ?

Why is your character so caked up in tpp?

It is honestly a Very brilliant game once you 1) starting playing as it is intended to be ie constantly switching characters for tactical advantage 2) consider ALL limitations they had Wish Konami one day makes Spiritual sequel with ALL characters from entire franchise including pre-Solid

I'd imagine this game would become an mobile game if they tried

Yeah, whenever I hear randomized levels or procedurally generated, what I really hear is "Instead of professional game designers, painstakingly designing a level to produce the perfect amount of fun, thrills, fear, etc.. Instead of that we cheaped out and had an algorithm just throw things at a wall. Sure all the levels are mediocre and monotonous now, but look on the brightside, there are an infinite amount of them. yay!!!

Also Kojima really didn't understand rank system that Pops had, like The ONLY difference in gameplay in V between units is that S combat has this super punch while sprinting ability, that's it. Granted V, unlike SurVive also doesn't have stamina factor at all, but even speed of the characters really isn't much different, let alone handling of different weapons. In general when you play V you actually really only play as Venom (who I assume has Some parasites super powers considering his right eye was white , he never eats and drink water only once, he can run eternally, doesn't need to patch himself up to heal, SurVive is really time when you play as normal human being) unless you play FOB as Quiet or Ocelot.

Guys guys I also think metal gear survive is underated.

I do enjoy PO even though I don't consider it Canon (I only believe in Kojima canon as in games written by the original author is canon). I personally like PW more and feel it's much more fleshed out and the multi-player is amazing. I can't stand "Null" as a character and it wouldn't fit in with the time line for MG2. Another issue i have with PO is the writing is far lower quality that what Kojima provides. When Konami made PO Kojima wanted to make other projects so just like Snakes Revenge that had a group make PO. Sadly my comment is gonna come off as "sporadic" but it would take me making a video like this to explain why it's not canon to me and even Kojima has said PO isn't canon.

my least favourite game in the series. I hated playing this game. the story is eh. the recruitment mechanic was awful. and it removed everything that made mgs3 good and kept all the bad. where as peace walker refined the controls by a lot except being prone. But I can understand why u liked the game.

I fucking love this online was so good i would play it so much alone with mgs 4