Metal Gear Solid

released on Sep 03, 1998

Metal Gear Solid is a stealth game created by Hideo Kojima which follows the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Despite a transition to 3D, Metal Gear Solid's gameplay remains similar to his predecessors. The game utilizes a traditional top-down view and the player must navigate the protagonist Solid Snake through the game's areas without being detected. Detection will set off an alarm which draws armed enemies to his location. Conversations with Snake's allies and cutscenes are used extensively to advance the plot and gain more insight into it. Metal Gear Solid is regarded as one of the greatest and most important video games of all time, and helped popularize the stealth genre and in-engine cinematic cutscenes.


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This is my favourite game of all time. Everything I love in a game is in it. I love almost everyone in the cast to an insane level. It has my favourite character of all time(Solid Snake). So many insanely bullshit twists and stuff happening that just make me laugh in the best way possible. It takes all the great ideas from the first two games and cranks it up to 100. Every boss is unique in both character and just the fights themselves are always fun and interesting.

But the crown jewel is the codec. Metal gear 2 made the codec but solid perfected it. It's insane the amount of minute stupid stuff you do that you wouldn't think about the codec characters comment on. They will comment on everything and even just the advice they give always have character traits sprinkled into them. The codec hijacks a lot of story cutscenes and some of the most insane twists happens in it. You will abuse this poor device but even then YOU WILL NOT get all the dialogue. This is how deep it goes.

PEAK.

I also feel this and the first two act like a trilogy. They feel different from the games that come next. And most of the stuff that happens here are results of what happened in the previous games.

Metal Gear Solid is such a pioneering game that it is hard not to severely appreciate it despite certain aspects of the game not having aged well, particularly in the way the game controls. There wasn't a single boss encounter that didn't frustrate me to some degree because of how awkward it feels to do anything with accuracy or precision in this game. The stealth mechanics also show their age with how limited they are, especially when compared to MGS2:SOL, or even the likes of Splinter Cell, both of which would release just a few years later. Overall, despite those criticisms, I still found the gameplay enjoyable.

In terms of the characters and story, both are absurdly campy at times. However, it's important to remember that 1998 was a point in time where complex storytelling -- especially cinematic-esque storytelling -- was a very new concept in video games. Both Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VII truly paved the way in proving that video games could be taken seriously as a legitimate medium for artistic storytelling; and for that, some of the corniness simply has to be forgiven. Besides, there is a lot of charm to the campiness anyway. Even though I found myself cracking up at some of the dialogue, I still enjoyed the hell out of it, and I fell in love all over again with the cast of wacky characters. Moreover, Snake still comes off as one of the coolest damn protagonists in any video game, just as he did a quarter of a century ago.

While I wouldn't call Metal Gear Solid a timeless masterpiece due to the gameplay not having aged particularly well, it's still such a profoundly trailblazing title, which will always secure it as an all-time classic.

This basically kicked of action games trying to be cinematic and literally nobody has done it this well. Also can we talk about this game's menu is literally the best ever made? The game doesn't start when you hit new game, the game starts when the Disk boots up, you hear the Policenauts jingle and the demo plays - continues through the menus, through various other options besides new game, and doesn't end even when the credits roll. Truly nobody understands this shit as well as Kojima.

So ahead of its time and innovative. My first Metal Gear game. Really love the theme of nuclear war. Has great characters and gameplay with some really cool gimmicks. The live action footage is so cool for it to have released in 1998. This game changed the industry and showed people that games can have an amazing in depth story and long cinematics as well as serious voice acting. Can’t wait to check out the rest of the series

A stunning game that i wish the others were as good as

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