what would you include in a "Best of" soundtrack for the Metal Gear series?

I would start with:
MGS 2 theme
MGS 3 theme

"Legend of the Snake II" - Ruben Kee, OCREMIX (R.I.P Ruben)
"The Best is Yet to Come" - MGS1
"Debriefing" - MGS3
"Gene" - MGS:PO
"Calling to the Night" - MGS:PO
"Metal Gear RAXA" - MGS:PO
"MGS2 Main Theme" - MGS2
"Enclosure" - MGS1:TT
"Past, Present, Future" - MGS 20th Anniversary Soundtrack
"MGS3 Main Theme" - MGS3

That would be mine.

thanks!

So much to choose from!

My Favorite Main Theme Would be Metal Gear Solid 3 Theme and Cynthia Harrel's Snake Eater as favorite lyrical song of the series.

The Best Of:

Zanzibar Breeze - Metal Gear 2
Frequency 140.85 - Metal Gear 2
Place of the Prophecy - MGSPO
Gene - MGSPO
Metal Gear Solid Main Theme (Tappy) - MGS1
Warhead Storage - MGS1
Discovery - MGS1
Opening Infiltration - MGS2
Vamp - MGS2
Ray Escapes -MGS2
Ocelot Youth - MGS3
Escape From the Fortress - MGS3
Virtuous Mission - MGS3
CQC - MGS3

^^That list pretty much sums it up for me too, although i would add:
The best is yet to come (instrumental version)

Which was in game but i could never find on the net.

Where's the NES love?

The Beginning from Metal Gear

Don't forget "Infiltrator vs Parasite" (Psycho Mantis) and "Man vs Machine 2" (Hind D and Rex) from The Twin Snakes.

Where's the NES love?
Yeah really.
You can't just leave out this classic:
http://zhxhome.net/zen/Operation_Intrude_N313.mp3

Yeah really.
You can't just leave out this classic:
http://zhxhome.net/zen/Operation_Intrude_N313.mp3

Yeah. That's the track I was referring to. I have it listed as "The Beginning." It's a good one.

Operation IntrudeN313
Zanzibar land tune
VR training music from MGS 2
....etc

"Legend of the Snake II" - Ruben Kee, OCREMIX (R.I.P Ruben)
"The Best is Yet to Come" - MGS1
"Debriefing" - MGS3
"Gene" - MGS:PO
"Calling to the Night" - MGS:PO
"Metal Gear RAXA" - MGS:PO
"MGS2 Main Theme" - MGS2
"Enclosure" - MGS1:TT
"Past, Present, Future" - MGS 20th Anniversary Soundtrack
"MGS3 Main Theme" - MGS3

That would be mine. ohh woops old thread

i thourght taffy did the title track to it, the best is yet to come is from shadow of the collosus :-\