I honor such kind words from such a respected user.

I'm sure I'll do a couple of more runs at it. I'm hoping to get close to 3 hours. There were a couple of areas I could of done faster (especially in act 3), so I'll go through it again after I get the Assassin's Emblem and a couple of others.

It's definitely worth it. It's not too hard, but requires a good deal of trial and error.

Thank you, vienna sausage man.

I remember hearing about some guy beating it in three hours on G4, but it was more fun figuring out paths for myself. It basically just takes a whole lot of trial and error. I got stuck a couple of times, but I just had to set the controller down for a couple of hours and then come back to it.

I don't know how much experience in other MGS games helped. MGS1, 2, and 3 are really different breads than MGS4.

You skip the cutscenes, but flashbacks carry over from previous playthroughs.

I wish you wanted to hand out with me.

I think I have 15 PS3 retail games. I'm really not playing any of the online ones currently though. I was playing a lot of MGO for awhile, but I doubt I'll play much more. I think the next game I plan on buying is Madden 09. There's a bunch of stuff I'll be buying this holiday though.

Use your imagination ; )

Yes, frogs count as kills.

The bike chase was one of the harder parts of the game. From your description, you're at the part where the flying unmanned vehicles come into play, when your health is restored. The flying things can't damage you though, so you only have to worry about the frogs. The first frog you encounter should be in a little alley. Generally auto-aim tranqing will work as you zoom by him. He can take out half your life though.

There's another guy that shows up on a truck. Again, auto-aim tranqing should do the job. Next comes the real hard parts. You'll come to a point where you zig-zag in between two trucks. Before the trucks show up, throw a smoke grenade around where the first truck is going to be (this may take some practice). Switch back to the tranq gun and auto-aim should take them out. The next conflict is where a truck flips over you. Try to tranq the two guys that jump down on the other side of the truck. Now it's time to switch to the solar gun. Continue auto-aiming. The key to remember is that you don't need to stun each from, you just need to make them flinch. Alternate firing and moving the right stick to move targets. When you run out of charge, switch to the tranquilizer or the stun grenades.

That's the strategy I used. You'll have very little health left, but you don't need it to beat Raven.