I hated MGS4 for the longest time but now I can appreciate all the insanity not just within the game, but the hype that surrounded it.
Never again will we get something with so many half-baked ideas coalescing into one video game. A game that would save the PS3 while exposing every single weakness the system had: 10 minute installs between chapters, some bullshit SixAxis thing that I don't even remember, surpassing Sony's terrible online service with an even worse online implementation. 10/10 in 2008!
With a plot that somehow makes the dumbest storytelling decision possible seemingly every single cutscene after chapter 3, shits on characters, retcons things on a whim, and finally ends with the gawd Hideo Kojima making me feel ashamed of ever taking any of it seriously the last decade