Just buy the MGS4 bundle - sure it's not a 120gb HD, but there's no reason you should ever need that much space on a home console (get a portable HD and hook it up if you do). The Uncharted bundle comes with *gasp* Uncharted, but that just means that the price of uncharted will drop after the holiday season. All in all, the MGS4 bundle PS3 is the best that Sony has offered yet, and probably will offer for another year or so (they may do something unique with FF:Versus XIII).

Non-exclusives that are still on the PS3 and worth buying:

Fallout 3

Bioshock

The Last Remnant

FFXIII

Exclusive Titles on the PS3:

FFXIII: Versus (still exclusive)

White Knight Story

Resistance 2

Killzone 2

God of War 3

Little Big Planet

Disgaea 3

As far as I'm concerned, the 360 has fewer exclusive titles that I'm excited about (Fable 2 and Gears 2 - that's it)

Fallout 3

Last Remnant

Resistance 2

I agree with the poster ahead of me when he suggested FFX for your first foray: it's fairly linear like Kingdom Hearts, which will be an easy entry into the series. I would be the first to suggest FFVII or FFVI becuase they are two of the greatest game ever conceived by man. One of the reasons I suggest VII is because, unlike any of the later incarnations, the sidequests actually develop the story (instead of simply: go to point a to receive item) VII also has two characters that you don't "need" to get in order to finish the game, but if you do get them, it opens up another couple of hours of gameplay.

Just avoid Final Fantasy X-2 like the plague. Also, 8 wasn't that fantastic (characters have the depth of a teaspoon).

We're talking Microsoft here people, we won't have an option not to update after very long, so get used to it. Microsoft likes stealing software apps and ideas and then forcing it with market share. so we don't exactly have a choice, lets all just bend over spread our cheeks and pretend that our sadist masters have been good to us.

GOW was a great game and GOW2 will be a great sequel (unless they fall victim to the dreaded Halo-tosis where the company forgets that the single player campaign shouldn't feel tacked on to a multiplayer game).

I'll wait for it to come out on PC, but I am buying it. Until it's released for the PC, I'll stick to Fallout 3.

MGS2 was an amazing game, but it pales in comparison to the rest of the series with its subpar boss battles (save the final two). The overall experience of MGS3 brought the tactical espionage to a level no prior MG had achieved and (sadly) MGS4 lacked. The boss battle with "The End" was simply epic, but there was always the option to kill him towards the beginning of the game when he's wheeled out in his wheelchair - thereby bypassing him altogether. Metal Gear Solid for the original playstation has it's advantages as well: no other MGS felt the same. What I mean by this is that MGS had a Noir/Cyber/Biopunk aesthetic that didn't really exist in the following titles. MGS2 and MGS3 had the most character development of the four, and before you disagree, Otacon was somewhat two-dimensional prior to his relations with Emma, Snake, and Jack. MGS3 had to develop everyone in prologue, making the audience sympathize with Big Boss.

Then there's MGS4. MGS4 was something unbearably exciting and moving, but there were some problems with it. First of all, if someone can beat the game in 2 hours thirty-seven minutes on the hardest difficulty, then the game is probably: too short and too easy. Second, after the depth of the surreptitious gameplay of MGS3 (jungles, bases, camo, sound, movement, caverns, etc.) I felt that the almost blatant disregard for sleath in MGS4 was a step back for the franchise. Now I know, if one were to actively attempt to be sneaky, the game would be more akin to MGS and MGS2, but 4 didn't even remotely penalize a player for running through as though it were any run-of-the-mill shooter. If I were to go back and play any of the previous installments and attempt to play them in a manner similar to MGS4, Snake/Raiden would die... a lot.

But, because my heartstrings were so viciously tugged, I absolutely adore 4. I can't however, definitively choose which of the serious is the best.

And in defense of MGS2, it does have the best MGS line of all time.

FTW:

"I hear it's amazing when the famouse purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!"