I've always been a Splinter Cell guy myself. I love Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. The first three of the series were great games. They took it in a new direction with Double Agent and Conviction that, while good, is not the same as before.
Metal Gear Solid always seemed strange to me. I played the demo of Peace Walker on my PSP a couple years back and I kind of liked it. The HD Collection is available on Xbox 360 but I never have bothered to look at it. I did not like the way that the bullets hit the target. Too many circles and numbers pop up on the screen. Hit Markers annoy the crap out of me. (They were horrible in Black Ops 2) It was better in Splinter Cell when you would shoot a target and it would slump over in pain or just keel over and die. That's the kind of thing I'd rather have. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory had the ragdoll physics that were GREAT! (Another thing for the CoD devs.....INCLUDE RAGDOLL PHYSICS!!!! It makes a world of difference. Instead of falling flat after an explosion, I'd rather see the body fly around a bit. Add SOME realism please.) You could shoot a sitting man and he'd slump at his desk instead of falling out of the chair. You could throw a guy down some stairs and create a "rolling snowball" with some people climbing the stairs. MGS Peace Walker didn't have good physics IIRC. The MGS Games seemed TOO farfetched and I couldn't get into the storyline. Splinter Cell is crazy...but MGS? Somebody was smoking dope at Konami.
Ubisoft. If you are listening, make Splinter Cell like you used to back in 2002-2005.
While I'm going to keep an open mind until I play a console version of MGS, I'll always be a Splinter Cell guy. It's much cooler IMHO. The first three games will always be in the top 10 Xbox games of all time. C'mon. Who doesn't love sneaking around in the dark with night vision goggles? Who doesn't love being a kick-ass spy? (Although you are NSA....and in real life, they just do SIGINT
)
The Splinter Cell series even has good companion books to the series. I've read them all. They are some of the best that the David Michaels pseudonym has to offer. Tom Clancy's Endwar was also great. I'm reading the HAWX book now and it is actually rather bad. The characters are flat and the storyline is annoying and cliche. So...avoid HAWX and definitely read EndWar and the Splinter Cell books.
I think MGS has only Graphic Novels...which turn me off to a series.
If you have only comic books to tell your story...well....count me out. I like reading...not fancy picture books.
Sam Fisher used to have the most awesome voice in the video game world until they ditched Michael Ironside for Eric Johnson. Splinter Cell Blacklist will be a total screwup in the voice department for me. It'll be like the voice acting in Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow but worse. Voice Acting in MGS was nothing special from what I remember. Splinter Cell started out with voices that you could really remember. Terminator Salvation came out and I was like "Hey! It's Sam Fisher!" when it was the General guy in the movie. I instantly recognize Ironside's voice anywhere. Jester from Top Gun....that kid's abusive dad in Major Payne....etc.
And to solve your problem about "fighting the game"....you are playing
CONSOLE Games on a
HANDHELD Device. I had the same problem with the original Rainbow Six on my PSP. The games aren't meant for handheld devices. If you are going to get the HD MGS Collection, I wouldn't bother with the PSVita. Get the console version and play it how it was meant to be played.
I guess I would be a Splinter Cell Fanboy....
Certain things will make my inner nerd tick....
BattleTech.....Military History....Splinter Cell.....Flight.....