Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (HD)
Started this the other day despite owning the HD collection since it came out. I'm a huge MGS fan, but truth be told I've ever played through MGS3 once. It came out at a time when I was too busy with work to put more than one play through into it and as much as I enjoyed it, MGS2 stood out as the better game for me (at the time anyway)
Right off the bat the third person camera makes the game so much better, even flicking between the old view and the new view you realise how much the camera was dictating to where you went. I'm near the boss battle with 'The Fear', so I've a good chunk left, and so far I'm having a blast with it. My one and only play through of it when it first came out I sort of blasted through it due to not having the proper time to just strawberry float around with the game, this time I'm making sure to take full advantage of all the tools the game gives you. I wasn't even aware you could poison guards with snakes captured alive
It's also worth noting how strawberry floating great the game still looks. Sure this is the HD version of it, but the same engine that ran on the PS2 is under the hood here and even stuff like the water and grass moving as you wander through it is hardly replicated in most current gen games.
I've a bit to go yet, but it looks like my order of favourite MGS games is getting a reshuffle.