Why Was Metal Gear Solid So Good? 

why didnt you play it on a ps3 with upscaling?

@@orimna lol almost every VPN ad is incredibly misleading and often lying Tom Scott or Kitboga have way better explanations than I could ever give

@Soloman Grundy milathemute, it's in the videos description

my impression of you is getting REALLY good. sometimes i narrate certain things in your voice when im bored. speech patterns and accent are on point....my girlfriend makes me narrate our sex in your voice.

@@greenkoopa Paramedic: That mushroom is highly poisonous and deadly Snake: Ok, but how does it taste? Paramedic: Im done

How did I not catch that?

@@00kamina39 You can't call during the torture scene, pushing select submits to Ocelot.

wow, is this legit? and I thought I've uncovered all the secrets in mgs... more than 20 years later and still learning new things

@@matibuce search "revolver ocelot torture and cutscenes" and skip to 21 : 30.

@@kloroformd confirmed. This game never cease to amaze me.

@Shoudday Cha oo thanks sorry.

Well it is the ultimate tool for espionage

Lol nice

We all know Korea is a Japanese colony.

Chad

Seems the PC port has few of it's stories during the production phase. I never got to play the PC port but from what I know back then the graphics hasn't improved much from PSX version, unlike the GameCube port, or remake if I would stated. That was a feast of an eye to play Metal Gear Solid again, with great graphics.

@@fikri565 Well that's just wrong. I've played the PC port it definitely has superior graphics to the PSX version. It definitely doesn't look as good as twin snakes but twin snakes has its own set of problems that the PC port does not have.

For real. Figuring out Meryl’s codec on the back of the case. Beating mantis by switching ports. Mgs along with the ff7,8,9 and some of the survival horror games made me spend the most time playing my ps1 even more than my other consoles at the time like the snes sega. The maturity in gaming was just unmatched at that time. It’s hard to understand if you weren’t there at the right age.

Yeah especially not having a clue what to do now we have RU-vid lol all the good old days we where so lucky

bro i feel you i only just turned 20 and just recently played all of the mgs games and theres hands down my favorite game hope one day there will be a remake in my lifetime 😂

That's what I told myself today after finishing mgs 3

@@dennisgorospe6744 Unfortunately we won't see any official remakes. Kojima himself said every game looks and plays exactly how it should and Konami owns the rights, a company he no longer works for. His philosophy is reflected in games like MGS4 where you see flashbacks of older games with their original graphics, as well as in MGS2 with flashbacks to MGS1.

EXACTLY!

I was so blown away by MGS JUST OFF THE DEMO DISC! Played the dam demo over and over for at least 4-5 hours straight. It’s just as you described it: cinematic.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that I'd have enough to fund a better remake.

@@GuyOnAChair LMAO

As someone who despises the way The Twin Snakes turned what was otherwise a pretty grounded story into over-the-top Looney Toons nonsense, I have to admit that is a pretty good way to interpret the game as head canon (nothing in the game supports it unfortunately) It won't change my stance on the game, but thinking about it through this interpretation, I can't help but laugh at the idea of Hal's perception of Snake. LOL, good job there.

I always saw Twin Snakes either as the MOVIE Adaptation of the Events of MGS1 that Natasha wrote as a Novel of what happened after the Game or Raiden's VR Version of Shadow Moses that he did since Canon-wise he "Experienced" those events but this being Otacon's interpretation also works pretty well too 😆

@@OmniNexuz I remember the movie thing being mentioned somewhere, "did you know gaming" i think

theres a lot of classics today too but they're overshadowed by the constant soulless corporate dumpster fires

look at Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. half of the game was cutscenes with the finale being an hour long one

@@4TIHZ the greatest form of fan service is any medium ever. I bought a ps3 and 60inch telly with 5.1 in uni specifically for that game. I paid those off a few years ago 😂😂

Are old, when gamesdo it today you guys complain about it and that's ridiculous

It's funny I came across your comment. That's how I first played MGS as well. I went out and bought the game as soon as I could after playing that demo!

Very similar but my demo came from the UK official playstation magazine just had the first section up to the lift. I was instantly hooked with storyline and cinematic style.

i remember that pizza hut demo disc...had mgs, midievel, crash bandicoot 3 and tomb raider on it!!

materia

A fellow man of culture.

Don't give up hope. There's always the next part of the Remake!

Breed is such a cursed term lol XD

same.

i’m replaying twin snakes right now it’s so ridiculous lmao

Nah, Snake wouldn't exaggerate it like that. Otacon, however...

I think of the Twin Snakes as a VR Simulation that Raiden went through that's obviosuly filled with lies and exaggerations. Raiden even mentions having done a Shadow Moses VR mission in MGS2

Imo Twin Snakes is what actually happened and MGS1 is either the official account of the story told in the book Nastasha Romanenko wrote or how Snake tells it to people so he won't seem insane The tone of Twin Snakes isn't too far off from what MGS eventually had in it, really, so that's why I'm saying it

@@NobleRaider2747 No because MGS4 uses dialogue from PS1 MGS meaning Kojima himself probably doesn't consider it a replacement over the original

Shit, I never even thought about the evasion alarm! I still use the codec ringtone and alert notification, it's at the point where hearing the alert sound from anything else is weird.

Damn crazy

The series in general has so many small details to count. I've played 1-5 many times and always learn something new from playing or watching videos. I never get tired of playing them.

@@Dynamo33 ive played it numerous times and made that long trek every time. I thought you had to because Snake was pissed at Otacon for telling him he had to go back

Truck? We'll I'll be a monkey's uncle.

@@Dynamo33 I did it myself for years haha, part of the game I told myself.

Its actually not just because of that scene. Its also because during the Psycho Mantis scene she acts super sexual towards Snake and begs him to ''take her'' while under his control. Snake gets flirty in a few codec calls as well which I imagine pre 2000 got the old mums up in a tizzy as well :P

Azazreal oh shit didn’t even think of that. I haven’t played it since I was like 13 so maybe I was to young to notice haha

@@Azazreal oh yeah, that bit in the psycho mantis fight was uncomfortable considering my mom was sitting next to me, luckily she doesn't speak english but you don't need to understand it to get an idea of the situation.

@@javierortiz82 the voice acting in Japanese seriously makes me turn my head around to confirm that no enemy might be in the area.

So you had a good mother then

Old grafix are leet

Ya ps1 graphics are basically a art style at this point but ya this game does hold up exceptionally well for a ps1 game.

The graphics of MGS1 were way beyond what even game developers themselves at the time thought was possible, just to get an idea about it.

I was under the impression that he salvaged it from the chopper you shoot down with Stinger? Makes sense cos after you shoot it down and proceed to the snowfield, there is a parachute seen in the trees which hints liquid landed there so the Hind wouldn't be far off. Then from there you go to the underground base where raven is in wait with the gun from the chopper

@@himynameis3664 No. A Hind-D is a russian gunship. They don't use Vulcan cannons for armament.

@@sevenproxies4255 aw shit I over thought the whole thing, thought it would have fit together nicely. Guess I should've done a quick Google before I went on a rant

@@himynameis3664 I learned that my first time fighting Vulcan Raven because I was all 'Oh no! How do I beat this guy!? Call people and see what they can offer' as I was like, 7 or something like that, only to hear that little tidbit. Now I didn't think much of it until later but once I did it elevated Vulcan Raven as amazing.

Cringe

@@Janfey you must be a irl loser lmao

You can thank, MilaTheMute for that.

Tits sell but who's buying

It kinda gives a new ring to the code name "Solid Snake"

Just like one of my Japanese animes..

Yeah Mila is a... nsfw artist

Yeah that fucked me over too playing it on an emulator.

@Stefano Pavone I genuinely didn't know that. I just Googled the answer after I got tired of searching aimlessly.

Yea, this was before my house had internet access and I didn’t have the original case for the game when I originally played it in ‘98. If it wasn’t for good ol’ video game mags like EGM and GameFan having it printed in their Tips and Tricks sections back at that time, I couldn’t say HOW LONG this would’ve taken me to figure out. (To the OP: I also thought at the time it was referring to an in-game CD case lying on a desk or something that I had to find.)

i tried to somehow investigate the data baker gave me😅

Yeah, that was a real stonewall for a rental in a generic Blockbuster box.

I like to imagine he kept trying to introduce himself like: Im shallalla.....shalal....shaskalala.....fuck it.....Im REVOLVER OCELOT

@@Azazreal Revolver " Revolver ocelot" Ocelot. Revolver Ocelot.

@@Azazreal Shalash...Shalasih..salashini.. OCELOT!

*spin revolver menacingly

@@returnedtomonkey8886 (Revolver Ocelot)

Ya the girl that makes them is in the description

Eric Skalicky oh , I didn’t realize that thanks dude.

Snake should have his rear facing the viewer to maximize views.

GuyOnAChair ​​ he is dummy thicc though.

Ewww

U do flinch when shot in cod

@@User-ge7ni Yup. You slightly move your head when you’re hit. Definitely the same thing.

If I remind it correctly, you could also shoot the two statues in the room and that would do the same trick as switching controller port. What a legendary game this was.

@@vredeling i did not know this

Happy birthday!

Stribor Mutić thank U

Αντώνης Πυροτρέλας thank you🤑

Happy birthday! Cheers mate 😊

Happy Birthday my dude, hope you have a great day in this time of year.

@@peanutbutterdijonnaise check the description, he has a link to her Twitter

Yes, been loving these

MILKIES!!!

More covered up than usual

Who is that blonde lady in the thumbnail? She looks like Lien Neville from the King of Fighters

That's why the game had such an impact. At that time you just never saw that level of character development or convincing voice acting. I think it was probably the first game to do this and it basically changed how people perceived games and what a game could actually be story wise.

Pretty sure this one of the first games I've played where it actually scared me as a kid first playing it. The ninja scene and psycho mantis always gave me chills, and the ninja part I was thinking ghosts and stuff. Then I learned after getting the camera 📷 you could catch pics of actual ghosts hidden in the game. When I first discoved it was taking a picture of myself in the women's bathroom after Meryl, and to my horror after developing it what I saw.

"What're you talking about..."

I was supposed to before an UNNAMED COUNTRY started a once-in-a-century plague.

@@merces47letifer4 that's super passive aggressive....

@@potatoman1000 yeah nobody could ever figure out what I meant by that one. CHINA IS A COMMUNIST SHIT HOLE AND THE PEOPLE ARE BEING OPPRESSED. Better?

@@merces47letifer4 You're just salty China was able to actually contain it quickly relative to other countries despite discovering it and being the first known large outbreak (and no, it hasn't been scientifically established that it started in China) and the US, with its unhealthy, paranoid, and diabetic population, is suffering immensely with politicians more concerned about using it as an opportunity to shove money at rich people and coercive electioneering rather than putting in place basic life-saving measures and making sure people aren't crushed with medical bills for the gall of going into the health care system

@@BobsRevenge Thank god China did everything in its power to suppress information while it started to spread outside the country. They even imprisoned a doctor who was trying to spread the news to his students and other people.

I wake up everyday to the ALERT music 😂

@@WeOnlyEatSoup I hate customising my alarm. Makes me hate the songs/sound effects that I use.

InternetIntrovert same the msg alarm is literally a negative trigger for me after years of being a phone alarm for work

Lol I have a xyborg ninja wallpaper

i feel this way about alot of games now vs then. games back then felt more like a game, nowadays games feel more like simulations

Don’t know if you’re going to see this but I believe I have found out why new games don’t feel like the old ones. In short It’s soul I think today games have less and less soul/self associated with them. I think. To some degree. There is a sort of fatigue. A fatigue that all the stories have been told and that there’s no real point of pushing as hard as those guys did because they already got to the top of the mountain. So there’s a lot less passion and drive to achieve what has already been done. Soul is the reason games coming out today feel lifeless.

I know the feeling. Have it for my text messages. lol

I’ve got the codec call for my text ringtone as well. Love it.

wow, me too! hahahaha message ringtone, never gets old

I wasn't too smart I put the Metal gear solid alerted mode on for my incoming text messages. I always get nervous when it goes off! I'm like who can see me?

I got it on my mobile, I gotta see if I can get that working again for This particular phone.

MilaTheMute, he is worth supporting

@Bubba Ssshh!! I just got off.

@Bubba My ooga booga senses are tingling.

Metal gear solid 2: The back door.

"Whose footprints are these!?"

Huh? Just a box.

"Whose footprints are- UGHUGUHGHGUHUGHGHGHHUG *snap*"

"Huh? What was THAT noise?"

Liquid!

I was so dumb as a kid that i thought that Campbell meant the back of the CD case you get in game..... i spent days trying to figure out how to look at it.... finally i asked my dad to help and he said, "Why dont you look at the back of the real CD case?" Biggest face palm ever

It killed my run on.the PS Vita.

@@Ozzianman Are you serious? You only had to look the answer up on the internet, unless you're dense.

It's many years ago and it did not occur to me at the time. Have finished it now.

Annoyed me on PC as the discs didn't come with a case in the bundle I bought it in. And this was around 1998-2002 era pre broadband internet.

Doesn't make it any less stupid.

That's just a fan in joke to be fair, not actually an in universe explanation for why Twin Snakes is so bad. 😅

@Starscream91 *Calls someone edgy. Proceeds to be the aggressor here.* Congratulations, you played yourself.

@Starscream91 I only said, "They're stupid" (paraphrasing), and you jump on me and call me "kid," tell me to get the stick outta my ass, etc. From where I'm standing, you're the edge boi here, kid.

@Starscream91 You better get that stick out of yours and quit telling people what they can and cannot enjoy.

100% Agreed

I like 2 more but this is true. Just don't tell Razorfist this lol

There was TIME CRISIS with the handgun.

Shin, shouldn't you be at Area 88?

Sorry Shin, although Metal Gear on PS1 was apparently more popular, for me it was Tenchu : Stealth Assassins with the TV brightness turned down ultra low so you can only really see the Ki Meter. I'm so sad.

Seriously, I recently played through MGS1 for the first time via emulator after loving MGS5 and was so ready to get invested in this series. MGS1 was campy and silly and full of heart but had genuinely sharp and incisive commentary on the state of the world hidden within. I loved it... And then my computer wasn't able to emulate MGS2 properly. And there's no PC ports of half of the games... and they're all locked away on consoles that range from inconvenient to buy to obsolete. This has to be one of the hardest franchises to get into for a newcomer in gaming, and some damn remasters or at least proper ports to PC would let me and many others finally join in without having to go out of our way to get all these old consoles and games.

Even if it happened I'd never buy it. MGS rights are held by Konami who did such scummy things with their company in recent years I could never do it justice in a comment.

Scott Jones buy second hand, nothing goes to Konami then

@@tommyswain3762 or you could just pirate it

@@tommyswain3762 also the person who bought the game first would have given to Konami.

Considering the style looks the same as some of his recent thumbnails, I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's an artist he's throwing money at to make them for him, so basically the source would be either Gman himself and/or the artist.

His Aussie kangarooski of a chode is able to surpass Metal Gear.

@@OCTO358 yessir

*beat tifa

Don't you need friends for that game?

@@BobsRevenge Best played with friends but possible to soloQ. If you play solo you're at a disadvantage but if you play with silenced weapons then use tactics/stealth to take out players.

@@MrTHotz tbh I was just trying to direct a burn at gman because I was miffed at the death stranding joke lol, I have almost 100 hours logged and love the game

@@BobsRevenge Real question, where is the fun in death stranding?

@@zaikolebolsh5724 Sadly, only when you're fighting something which isn't exactly common.

Me too! My favourite game of all time, ever! To this day! And it’s been 22 years! MGS1 will always be number 1 for me!

I would only put FFVII on the same level for me, that is how important this game is to me

This, resident evil 2, and final fantasy 7 for me.

And if you have the patience to sit through and stare at her long enough, eventually she will slap Snake, to the point where Snake can be killed with a slap.

Its getting worse with every new game he puts out MGS V, the Intro Mission takes control away from you pretty much every 30 seconds, and it takes forever, but at least once your dropped in Afghanistan, you get a full mission with only 2 or so little cutscenes. Death Stranding... for the first 3 hours of the game, you get to control yourself for 5- to 10% of that time. The entire rest are cutscenes. And they are NOT that interesting. Almost refunded the game because of it.

@@kenobiwanobi889 I completed MGS4. I felt it concluded the story og Solid Snake and didn't feel like looking into further sequels. The cut-scenes were so long they had to introduce, not only a pause feature for the cut-scenes, but a SAVE FEATURE in the middle of cut-scenes. What has Kojima been smoking!?

@@sevenproxies4255 Yes, havent played 4 myself, but Ive heard its the worst in the series when it comes to cutscenes, some of which take an hour or longer. Along comes Death Stranding, doing the same thing, except the story is pretty bad, so its not really worth all that time

@@kenobiwanobi889 There was only one long cutscene in MGS4, at the very end of the game, it was a 1,5 hour movie basically. AND IT WAS FUCKING GREAT. Just imagine, it's 2008, you just completed one of the best games ever on a new console generation and then you get a full feature movie as a treat. Compared to a dozen extremely dissapointing and boring ending I would take another 2 hours long Kojima cinematic anytime.

@@WARXion Fair point. As I said, I never got to play MGS4, but after what people told me, I imagined it to be similiar to newer Kojima-Games. It was hard for me to really enjoy MGS Vs story, not because of the length and amount of cutscenes, but more the many times youre expected to have played other games to understand the plot (There were two non-main-MGS-titles for the PSP or Vita, dont quite remember, which are set directly before MGSV), and just that the plot goes three different directions at once, you never know what it really is all about, and it ends so abruptly. Although that isnt so much Kojimas fault as Konamis.

Wow, i cant believe u would play that long! How's the sneaking mission?

Twin snakes is a great remake with the graphics and mechanics of mgs2

Milathemute, it’s in the description

@@waggel. Thanks, appreciate it

Yeah, @waggel had it right, if you see what appears to be original art in the thumbnail or on the intro of a video, just expand the description. These content creators are big on promoting the work of the folks that help out with their channels so you can likely get all that info in the description and link up with the creator directly

Eyyy I think I saw that.

have it for my message tone

!

I thought his favorite stealth game was jacking off on camera? 😅

@@GuyOnAChair I laugh louder than I should lol. I'm a fan of the guy but that was good.

BROTHA

Mgs4 is the worst but ok lol

"Alongside MGS4" Said no one ever lmao

That's what I thought too.This morning I decided to Marathon the series and suddenly Gman uploaded a video about mgs :D