Massively, I remember thinking these years ago. It's like as the world was changing I wasn't surprised because this game introduced those ideas into my mind when I was young. Crazy
I always saw mgs2 sticking out from all the rest. Films in the US at that time never had that depth then this game did. It was like a barrier and this game opened up more then anything. It was interesting for years but didnt know what that was but stayed at the back of my mind. 2021 it alright now but 2016-2020 was sure a polerising years. It's a brilliant game with hinted implications.
Let's just not forget how amazing of a villain Solidus was. A character with depth who had a kinda relatable purpose despite his very evil ways, written long before this whole trend of empathetic villains we now see in Hollywood. The voice acting by John Cygan (R.I.P.) only made him even greater.
I'm not so sure honestly, the closest thing that MGS has to a big bad villain would be Liquid or the Patriots AI, but Liquid died in Solid and calling the AI a villain is reaching because the only thing they do is react and follow patterns. Solidus was a "hero" in the same way Big Boss and the Patriots were, crossing all lines in order to "save the world" and given the themes of the series if Solidus had actually succeeded the only thing he would have done would be creating another Outer Heaven and that would just repeat the events of the original Metal Gear
Lmao death stranding has already become true. Isolation and fear from an invisible threat, reliance on delivery services, and a reliance on long distance communication.
@@Real.Mad.Hatter story wise and gameplay for it's time was mind-blowing the story alone shits on every AAA game i played in the past 10 years besides maybe red dead redemption 1&2
Still remember playing till 3am in the morning and the colonel calling me and telling me to "its just a game radian, take a break" or something to that effect. No context no nothing. Creeped me out to no end
The pull up challenge to improve grip and aiming was cool, what was weird is letting Raiden get urinated on by an enemy being an achievement or finding a naughty poster zooming in and out as snake lmao
I love the fact that trophies weren't a thing on the ps2 and that he didn't put those into his game for silly trophies. He just put them in to be silly, to add some depth to the world, and just because he wanted to
Excellent game! I purchased it the day it came out. I'm 54 and still get butterflies thinking about it...Ignore that last statement, it was a lil creepy.😳
You'd have been 33-34 when it came out, a little older than I am now. So, not creepy at all that you still get "butterflies" thinking about it. Keep Gaming! It has nothing to do with age! I remember being so excited about the power that was available to games in my OG Xbox & PS2 as a teen. And now I type this message on a laptop with 8 cores, 8 threads and 16 GB ram. Time is a bitch, but the memories are so sweet!!!
Seemed the most outlandish and weird at the time, and with what we know now, it was easily the most prophetic. It becomes more relevant as years pass, which is the reverse of what happens to basically every story.
I encourage anyone interested in MGS2's story to watch Super Bunny Hop's deep dive into mgs2. It is one of the best breakdowns of any story point blank
"Kojima's predictions." I'm not so sure. I think the person who influenced the story the most was Fukishima, who left after MGS3. A notable decrease in story quality after he left is evidence towards my claim.
@@thecarrotmonster8827 we’ll see u weren’t a actual big fan and didn’t care to get all the questions answered. Most people invested in the stories from NES actually wanted to see how it all wraps up and it did it. Was mgsv or 3 your fav?
@@tvoyager7 agreed I loved that game so much. Really opened me up to a game that was part movie part game with how long cutscenes were but I was so interested in the dialogue and characters it never bothered me. That last fight had so many mechanics I still would see or do that I never performed even after playing through 6 times
@@PersianGamer36 MGS1's my favourite and the greatest video game ever made in my opinion then 2, 3 and 4 in that order. V was a massive disapointment and the only one I didn't complete and have no interest in doing so tbh. Just a wasted opertunity. Not sure what you mean about the NES games as their stories aren't cannon. Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake for the MSX was a phenomenal game though
So many memories. My first Metal Gear Solid game and what caused me to fall in love with the series. I remember this was given to me by my close friend Nicho.
I have a personal attachment to this game, as it is the first MGS game I played and defeated. I still love it to this day and it’s my favorite MGS title.
“Here’s to hoping that Death Stranding isn’t as accurate” You mean where humans are forced into isolation and delivery men essentially become heros? Hmmm
i still load up the tanker mission and just mess around.. there is endless things to do and mess with esp on the tanker as it really feels like a tech demo. game was ahead of its time in so many ways
The whole metal gear solid series was ahead of its time and one of the main reasons it’s my favorite game of all time. There is, and has never been nothing like it since.
I gave the smallest bit of thought to what the last couple hours of this game was portraying back in '03-'04, but couldn't really imagine the world it was showing that we were heading into. As of about a decade ago though, almost everyday I wish Kojima was wrong
I remember fans hating MGS 2 only because of Raiden and missing the whole point of the game's plot, theme and mechanics. Finally it's getting the recognition it deserves cause MGS 2 is far superior to 3 and 4.
@KurdRipper for me I wanted a true snake adventure.they really made us think snake was gonna be the main character and got lied too.I loved 2,but I prefer 3 and 1
@@paulsmith9192 I get that people feel like that. For me when ut comes to storytelling the best thing that could happen is to sursprised and even fooled. But I guess thats up to how you want to be entertained.
Played this at about the age of 6, was amazed at how ridiculously hard it was. So tried again with metal gear 4 and actually passed it, full circle moment.
MGS2... A incredible piece of art in the gaming history. Combining themes of the real-life aspects such as politics, civilization, culture, technology, war economy and so on.
I played this for the first time the other week and it was one of the best games Iv ever played, The story is amazing. carnt wait to play the rest. Iv fallen in love with kojima’s style of story telling.
MGS2 will always be my favorite of the series, Substance in particular. I'll never forget how freaked out I was playing the game late at night and late in the game Colonel Campbell called and demanded I turn the game off, then all the weird shit started
The only game that was more ahead of it’s time is MGS1 for completely different reasons. MGS1 was my first MGS but 2 will always be my favorite. That final act…
The best part to me was the message of the game being disinformation and having all the hype and adverts for the game feature solid snake, even going so far as to show him in the big shell as the main character. Some high quality meta trolling right there.
Yea, ahead of its time even with game mechanics. I'm going through the HD version on the PS3 and it clearly reminds me of the button sensitivity in the PS2 controller and supposedly PS3 controller. I'm going through the VR Missions right now and this mechanic is driving me insane.
One of THE most ingenious things I've never seen in any genre of games due!!!! In the middle of and intensity playing the game there is a point were in the game one had to call a freiequency that labeled only in the back of the actual case that holds the disk of the game itself. The time is so limited in the actual actions that there is no time to look it up while playing. No other game had done that. Not to mention the last few boss fight where one would have to actually get up and switch ports of the controller on thier own Playstation, system just to beat the boss. No game has ever done that before. And still to this day No game challenges that to that level of difficulty. I will give credit where credit is due. "Sons Of Liberty" deserves credit because it left a lasting impression on me. I'm thankful for that.
This game was by far my favorite PS2 game of all time and I pray one day we get a true remaster of it for PS5. I would pay full price for that in a heartbeat
Remember getting the vhs intro free with psm2 magazine, and watching it a billion times! I miss the days of something being released that not only lived up to the hype but wasn't ruined by all the spoilers we have today. Such a shame Konami have killed their IPs....
This was and still is the best MGS title. Not sure why the ending went over people’s heads at the time. Hearing that people didn’t like Raiden is news to me...
Made in Japan. That says everything. 22 years later and still worth of mentioning it, and some playing it. I think I will always remember it for great graphics in that time, big levels to explore around, realism, uniqueness and depth of story. 👌 It was expensive back in that time but definitely title worth of owning.
I was at E3 the year the trailer was shown to the public, and it's really hard to express just how big of a deal it was at the time... I actually had to go do a quick search of what the big companies showed off that year, and there are a few things I remember thinking back that might seem like a joke, but it's not. 1. Sega had crap covered crap with crap filling. Seriously, space channel 5, samba di amigo, shenmue (sorry, but it isn't good)? I liked the dreamcast, but resident evil wasn't enough to keep it alive. 2. Nintendo would've absolutely won E3 with Conker alone (if not for MGS) the trailer was a big hit, and they gave out CBFD beer mugs w/ beer while you watched it (still have the mug!) Part of me wishes it ended up on GC, but it eventually showed up on XB, so it's cool. 3. Nobody else will care, but working designs had a cool little booth showing Lunar 2 for PS1, and I was really excited for it. Lunar 1 and 2 are in the top 10 best RPGs of all time, and WD was one of the last companies to go out of their way to make all their releases feel like Christmas. They went far beyond what anyone else was doing, and I hope they know how much some people appreciated their work. (Excuse me... I have something in my eye) 4. Ok, MGS 2... I'm sure you can find endless accounts from people saying how people showed up every hour to watch the trailer, how great the graphics were, blah blah blah. You don't understand... PEOPLE SHOWED UP EVERY HOUR TO WATCH THE TRAILER!!! At first there were maybe 30-40 people, the second showing had 100, and it just kept growing each hour until the floor was completely covered (everyone was sitting down from being tired of walking all day). I think I went back 5 times to watch it, and that's saying a lot because these were the E3s where they gave out great stuff, and wasted time meant less free stuff! They put text on it that said "in game graphics", but there were definitely some doubts, it looked like CGI and really didn't seem like it was possible! If MGS 2 wasn't shown, things would've probably turned out to be very different! The PS2 showing was a complete bomb (except for MGS)! People were joking about how bad the games looked, there was nothing exciting... Sony should be blowing Konami for the foreseeable future based on what they did for them. We would be living in a world where Dreamcast 5 was the hot shit if MGS 2 didn't hit PS2, without a doubt.
I fucking hated Raiden, and he alone is why this game gets a 7 instead of a 10 from me. To this day, I am still angry about him being the star of this game.
Can you talk about how underrated shadowman was? It just got a rerelease and was one of my favorite retro open world style RPG, no hand holding, great gameplay, action, puzzles, mazes and only slightly janky control. If you haven't played it you really must.
Man Kojima is like the Steven Spielberg of gaming... loved all of his games... but i was too young when MGS and 2 came out, i was too young.. now it feels too clunky to play :/
@Sully mgsv was least favourite. the fact we weren't big boss,I wanted to see big boss turn to bad,the weak boss fights and no codecs just ruined it for me.the rest were great
Bruh the AUI in this game is waaay ahead of its time. The clearing, footsteps, the radio, hell even when they detect you with your foot. Others pale in comparison to this one. And yeah I'm looking at you mgs5
@@Omar_E11 Mgs5 was great and all but the level of quality and attention to detail in mgs2 was beyond its time. The guards were unpredictable, thorough, when they investigate, you know that you fell on thin ice. They even do status reports! It was horrifying when you thought it was gonna be easy when you knock the guy in your way then suddenly the radio goes off with “why are you late with your status report” then they send in a clearing squad. The different level of alert phase was mind blowing. I could go on all day. In short, they felt real to me. But hey that’s my opinion.
I'm having trouble with this gen, its supposed to be the thing we all hope for but it's what our generation knew and grew up with that seems to linger away. Strangely the old that were persusing its goul had in the end wasn't the point. It was the journey not the overall goul that made it special.
🤔 There's only one answer to that question team 🎮⚡ . . . MGS2: SoL was way ahead of its time . . . because . . . nanomachines son Thanks for the videos guys 💕🤗💖 Be safe and STAY blessed everybody 🙏
Most who played the game know if you knock out a guard when playing in the hardest difficult mode, and that guard wakes up it would be an automatic alert. Which affects the grade of completing the game stealthy. That's just going through the game without offing anybody including boss fights to unlock the ultimate actual hardest mode.
Light years ahead of its time 💫⚡🎮. Its crazy how I remember playing this game as kid thinking about how confusing it was with all the Artificial Intelligence/ AI, data stimulation metaphilosophical mumbo jumbo... thinking what kinda drugs #HideoKojima was one when he wrote the story follow up for this.... but now seeing the world we live in today were technology machine and big tech/data runs our lives.... I realize Hideo had a crystal ball 🔮 and was prophecizing what was to come. #JakeHunter88 well done Hideo 🤖 👏
i remember playing this game and thinking now way that this could happen, at the time internet was so simple , no social media, plenty of chat room, and to get anywhere you pretty much had to memorize website addresses since astalavista and yahoo were only search engines
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The ending was way ahead of its time and perfectly predicted today's world
Massively, I remember thinking these years ago. It's like as the world was changing I wasn't surprised because this game introduced those ideas into my mind when I was young. Crazy
I always saw mgs2 sticking out from all the rest. Films in the US at that time never had that depth then this game did. It was like a barrier and this game opened up more then anything. It was interesting for years but didnt know what that was but stayed at the back of my mind. 2021 it alright now but 2016-2020 was sure a polerising years. It's a brilliant game with hinted implications.
The game pretty much summed up humanity decay
I was just too young to understand any of it lol
I remember the rain effects on the tanker, jaw dropping at the time! Still looks good 20 years later!
indeed.. i sometimes go back and watch the trailer of the game, remembering how hyped everyone was for the game to be released
We are currently living in the reality MGS2 predicted.
Let’s hope MGS4 doesn’t happen
@@tsp1999
Let's hope metal gear rising revengeance doesn't happen!
@@Menaceblue3 It did. Still waiting for the kill.
And soon deathstranding
TH-cam algorithms = La Le Lu Li Lo
Let's just not forget how amazing of a villain Solidus was. A character with depth who had a kinda relatable purpose despite his very evil ways, written long before this whole trend of empathetic villains we now see in Hollywood. The voice acting by John Cygan (R.I.P.) only made him even greater.
I agree. It’s a shame that Solidus wasn’t mentioned much throughout the series but I loved his character and the voice acting.
@Solid Snake don't worry, your brother didn't notice that either
@Solid Snake nanomachines, son
The real series plot twist was Solidus Snake was actually the Hero trying to defeat the patriots.
I'm not so sure honestly, the closest thing that MGS has to a big bad villain would be Liquid or the Patriots AI, but Liquid died in Solid and calling the AI a villain is reaching because the only thing they do is react and follow patterns. Solidus was a "hero" in the same way Big Boss and the Patriots were, crossing all lines in order to "save the world" and given the themes of the series if Solidus had actually succeeded the only thing he would have done would be creating another Outer Heaven and that would just repeat the events of the original Metal Gear
Not quite a hero. His methods were catastrophic.
Lmao death stranding has already become true. Isolation and fear from an invisible threat, reliance on delivery services, and a reliance on long distance communication.
Yeah that's crazy.
This game is still better than some games today
Shit mgs1 is still better than most games today
@@Real.Mad.Hatter story wise and gameplay for it's time was mind-blowing the story alone shits on every AAA game i played in the past 10 years besides maybe red dead redemption 1&2
@@SALEH-98 mgs1 is still the best game of all time imo lmao
@@Real.Mad.Hatter Its a lot more creative and has better level designs than most of the games .
I can't go back to the control scheme. My brain just can't adapt to it despite how much I played this as a teenager
Colonel? I’ve got Emma Emmerich here… we’ve managed to avoid drowning!
GOOD JOB
“Raiden, they’ve got Rose!”
“WHATEVER!”
Such an amazing game. One of the best soundtracks ever! The la-le-lu-le-lo!!!!
Sons of Liberty was my first Metal Gear Solid game - it’s also my favourite. Totally blew my mind playing this as a kid when it came out.
Still remember playing till 3am in the morning and the colonel calling me and telling me to "its just a game radian, take a break" or something to that effect. No context no nothing. Creeped me out to no end
@@elloowu6293 Lol, I just wrote nearly the exact same thing. Completely freaked me out as a kid
@@Drforrester31 yea and there was really no internet to run to and fact check. I only had the walk through book. So I had to just, live with it. Haha
@Ello Owu when he said turn console off,did you?alot did
@@paulsmith9192 absolutely not. After playing MGS1 with no memory card and turning it off to switch the disks, I learned my lesson.
The pull up challenge to improve grip and aiming was cool, what was weird is letting Raiden get urinated on by an enemy being an achievement or finding a naughty poster zooming in and out as snake lmao
I love the fact that trophies weren't a thing on the ps2 and that he didn't put those into his game for silly trophies. He just put them in to be silly, to add some depth to the world, and just because he wanted to
Excellent game! I purchased it the day it came out. I'm 54 and still get butterflies thinking about it...Ignore that last statement, it was a lil creepy.😳
wasn't the feeling of buying a new game i6n release day so magical and rewarding?
You'd have been 33-34 when it came out, a little older than I am now. So, not creepy at all that you still get "butterflies" thinking about it. Keep Gaming! It has nothing to do with age! I remember being so excited about the power that was available to games in my OG Xbox & PS2 as a teen. And now I type this message on a laptop with 8 cores, 8 threads and 16 GB ram. Time is a bitch, but the memories are so sweet!!!
Seemed the most outlandish and weird at the time, and with what we know now, it was easily the most prophetic. It becomes more relevant as years pass, which is the reverse of what happens to basically every story.
I encourage anyone interested in MGS2's story to watch Super Bunny Hop's deep dive into mgs2. It is one of the best breakdowns of any story point blank
Sounds interesting, thanks
Super Bunny Hop’s analysis is the ultimate analysis of MGS2.
True I also watches his content it is great.
Futurasound productions also has great content explaining metal gear. He still uploads content till this day.
Super Bunny Hop does a great job with the entire series!
One of the best openings of a game ever conceived...
"Kojima's predictions."
I'm not so sure. I think the person who influenced the story the most was Fukishima, who left after MGS3. A notable decrease in story quality after he left is evidence towards my claim.
No doubt. Still can't find anything on the guy after his work on mgs.
Funny how people think Kojima does every single thing on MGS while the rest of the team worked just as hard if not more
Metal gear solid 4 is a game nobody will make again. A game explicitly for the Fans of the series and we wanted a movie with answers. I loved it
Awful, apart from returning to Shadow Moses
@@thecarrotmonster8827 The final fight with Liquid Ocelot was epic too
@@thecarrotmonster8827 we’ll see u weren’t a actual big fan and didn’t care to get all the questions answered. Most people invested in the stories from NES actually wanted to see how it all wraps up and it did it. Was mgsv or 3 your fav?
@@tvoyager7 agreed I loved that game so much. Really opened me up to a game that was part movie part game with how long cutscenes were but I was so interested in the dialogue and characters it never bothered me. That last fight had so many mechanics I still would see or do that I never performed even after playing through 6 times
@@PersianGamer36 MGS1's my favourite and the greatest video game ever made in my opinion then 2, 3 and 4 in that order. V was a massive disapointment and the only one I didn't complete and have no interest in doing so tbh. Just a wasted opertunity. Not sure what you mean about the NES games as their stories aren't cannon. Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake for the MSX was a phenomenal game though
So many memories. My first Metal Gear Solid game and what caused me to fall in love with the series. I remember this was given to me by my close friend Nicho.
I have a personal attachment to this game, as it is the first MGS game I played and defeated. I still love it to this day and it’s my favorite MGS title.
For me it's MGS for the PS1 although MG3 may be considered the best MGS game. MGS4 is not too far behind.
The fact that it ran on PS2 as well as it did looking as good as it did still boggles my mind!!!...
That tanker section that it begun with, one of the best parts I've played in any game.
I played this game religiously. The story just intrigued me so much! And I liked played as Raiden. It was actually the first Metal Gear game I played
I see a video about my favorite game of all time, I click. Game was so prophetic… Brilliant Kojima.
YES! This game is easily my favorite of the PS2 era and in my top 5 all time
“Here’s to hoping that Death Stranding isn’t as accurate”
You mean where humans are forced into isolation and delivery men essentially become heros? Hmmm
Metal Gear series is the series that defined me as a gamer, and with that I can say that MGS2 is peak Metal Gear for me.
i still load up the tanker mission and just mess around.. there is endless things to do and mess with esp on the tanker as it really feels like a tech demo.
game was ahead of its time in so many ways
This is my Number 1 video game of all time, I know it has its flaws but this game just changed how I played and experienced games period.
How many MGS2 deep-dive videos have you seen on TH-cam?
Me: Yes
Every once in a while there's a work of art that fundamentally changes your whole world view.
Hideo Kojima is a modern day Nostradamus.
The whole metal gear solid series was ahead of its time and one of the main reasons it’s my favorite game of all time. There is, and has never been nothing like it since.
This game graphically wise still holds up quite well actually
I gave the smallest bit of thought to what the last couple hours of this game was portraying back in '03-'04, but couldn't really imagine the world it was showing that we were heading into. As of about a decade ago though, almost everyday I wish Kojima was wrong
This is only two sentences
Best game in the series and my favorite game of all time!
I remember fans hating MGS 2 only because of Raiden and missing the whole point of the game's plot, theme and mechanics.
Finally it's getting the recognition it deserves cause MGS 2 is far superior to 3 and 4.
I think it's pretty great and the narrative is scarily profound, but I don't think it's better than 3.
I agree.
MGS 2 is far superior to MGS 3? Hahahaha
@@revenge1205 That's a pretty popular opinion nowadays believe it or not lol
Way better than 3 in my opinion, and that’s not to disparage 3 in any way
The opening.... The music...
I will never understand why noone sees this as the best in the series.
It is number one for me!
Me too.
@KurdRipper for me I wanted a true snake adventure.they really made us think snake was gonna be the main character and got lied too.I loved 2,but I prefer 3 and 1
@@paulsmith9192 I get that people feel like that. For me when ut comes to storytelling the best thing that could happen is to sursprised and even fooled. But I guess thats up to how you want to be entertained.
Played this at about the age of 6, was amazed at how ridiculously hard it was. So tried again with metal gear 4 and actually passed it, full circle moment.
Last Metal Gear I owned and played.
MGS2... A incredible piece of art in the gaming history. Combining themes of the real-life aspects such as politics, civilization, culture, technology, war economy and so on.
I was a teenager playing this at the time. Love it.
I played this for the first time the other week and it was one of the best games Iv ever played, The story is amazing. carnt wait to play the rest. Iv fallen in love with kojima’s style of story telling.
You'll for sure love 3.
@@Omar_E11 yeah looking forward to it.
Solidus knew what was up. We should have listened
This is the sole reason many PS2 were sold
My favorite Metal Gear Solid game hands down!
One of my favorite games of all time
The first game I played on OG PS2 ❤️❤️
Some people never finished this game and it shows
This game predicted a whole lot of events occurring this time period
I honestly don’t care that Raiden was the main character in this game. He goes through an evolution throughout the game.
I used to watch the games intro cinematic every time I booted this up. Masterpiece!
MGS2 will always be my favorite of the series, Substance in particular. I'll never forget how freaked out I was playing the game late at night and late in the game Colonel Campbell called and demanded I turn the game off, then all the weird shit started
@Dr. Forrester did you turn it off?I know alot did first time
Solidus Snake, the one who could've been Plasma Snake, but ended up being more of a Gaseous Snake and thus, a fart in the wind.
Deep
Kojima didn't call him Gas Snake because it didn't sound cool.
Official information from an old interview.
@@TheMrCHELL Wait, for real? Oh, ha. "Naturally the next would be gas but gas snake is like gas human, not handsome name."
The only reason we all bought Zone of Enders was for this demo.. Don't get me wrong ZOE was amazing but I played the demo more.
I totally forgot about that! (And of course you're correct)
Shoot, Metal Gear Solid 1-4 were all ahead of its time.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Was Way Ahead of Its Time
ME: your goddamn right
Only played 2 because of Raiden my favorite character in the series
The only game that was more ahead of it’s time is MGS1 for completely different reasons. MGS1 was my first MGS but 2 will always be my favorite. That final act…
The creators of this game were amazing artists and geniuses
Ahead of it's time cause of it's too accurate prediction of the future (present) times.
The best part to me was the message of the game being disinformation and having all the hype and adverts for the game feature solid snake, even going so far as to show him in the big shell as the main character.
Some high quality meta trolling right there.
Yea, ahead of its time even with game mechanics. I'm going through the HD version on the PS3 and it clearly reminds me of the button sensitivity in the PS2 controller and supposedly PS3 controller. I'm going through the VR Missions right now and this mechanic is driving me insane.
Not my favorite game, but it has the best ending in any video game ive played.
One of THE most ingenious things I've never seen in any genre of games due!!!! In the middle of and intensity playing the game there is a point were in the game one had to call a freiequency that labeled only in the back of the actual case that holds the disk of the game itself. The time is so limited in the actual actions that there is no time to look it up while playing. No other game had done that. Not to mention the last few boss fight where one would have to actually get up and switch ports of the controller on thier own Playstation, system just to beat the boss. No game has ever done that before. And still to this day No game challenges that to that level of difficulty. I will give credit where credit is due. "Sons Of Liberty" deserves credit because it left a lasting impression on me. I'm thankful for that.
"Here's to hoping that death stranding isn't as accurate"
Yeah
This game was by far my favorite PS2 game of all time and I pray one day we get a true remaster of it for PS5. I would pay full price for that in a heartbeat
Remember getting the vhs intro free with psm2 magazine, and watching it a billion times! I miss the days of something being released that not only lived up to the hype but wasn't ruined by all the spoilers we have today. Such a shame Konami have killed their IPs....
This was and still is the best MGS title. Not sure why the ending went over people’s heads at the time. Hearing that people didn’t like Raiden is news to me...
I always liked Raiden. I do wish you got to play as Snake in some parts though.
Made in Japan. That says everything. 22 years later and still worth of mentioning it, and some playing it.
I think I will always remember it for great graphics in that time, big levels to explore around, realism, uniqueness and depth of story. 👌
It was expensive back in that time but definitely title worth of owning.
The MGS series is way ahead of its time, period. Such a shame Hideo Kojima left the franchise.....
Personal top 5 of all time, along with FFX, Dark Souls, Skyrim and Half-Life.
Game gets better and more relevant by the years
@El Gato what's crazy still seeing new secrets all these years
There needs to be a HD remake 🙌
There already is
@@SonOftheBattleCry I mean for the current Gen consoke
I was at E3 the year the trailer was shown to the public, and it's really hard to express just how big of a deal it was at the time... I actually had to go do a quick search of what the big companies showed off that year, and there are a few things I remember thinking back that might seem like a joke, but it's not.
1. Sega had crap covered crap with crap filling. Seriously, space channel 5, samba di amigo, shenmue (sorry, but it isn't good)? I liked the dreamcast, but resident evil wasn't enough to keep it alive.
2. Nintendo would've absolutely won E3 with Conker alone (if not for MGS) the trailer was a big hit, and they gave out CBFD beer mugs w/ beer while you watched it (still have the mug!) Part of me wishes it ended up on GC, but it eventually showed up on XB, so it's cool.
3. Nobody else will care, but working designs had a cool little booth showing Lunar 2 for PS1, and I was really excited for it. Lunar 1 and 2 are in the top 10 best RPGs of all time, and WD was one of the last companies to go out of their way to make all their releases feel like Christmas. They went far beyond what anyone else was doing, and I hope they know how much some people appreciated their work. (Excuse me... I have something in my eye)
4. Ok, MGS 2... I'm sure you can find endless accounts from people saying how people showed up every hour to watch the trailer, how great the graphics were, blah blah blah. You don't understand... PEOPLE SHOWED UP EVERY HOUR TO WATCH THE TRAILER!!! At first there were maybe 30-40 people, the second showing had 100, and it just kept growing each hour until the floor was completely covered (everyone was sitting down from being tired of walking all day). I think I went back 5 times to watch it, and that's saying a lot because these were the E3s where they gave out great stuff, and wasted time meant less free stuff! They put text on it that said "in game graphics", but there were definitely some doubts, it looked like CGI and really didn't seem like it was possible!
If MGS 2 wasn't shown, things would've probably turned out to be very different! The PS2 showing was a complete bomb (except for MGS)! People were joking about how bad the games looked, there was nothing exciting... Sony should be blowing Konami for the foreseeable future based on what they did for them. We would be living in a world where Dreamcast 5 was the hot shit if MGS 2 didn't hit PS2, without a doubt.
Metal gear solid has tons of philosophy sneak in, that whole speech about zero and one ,
I fucking hated Raiden, and he alone is why this game gets a 7 instead of a 10 from me. To this day, I am still angry about him being the star of this game.
Can you talk about how underrated shadowman was? It just got a rerelease and was one of my favorite retro open world style RPG, no hand holding, great gameplay, action, puzzles, mazes and only slightly janky control. If you haven't played it you really must.
Man Kojima is like the Steven Spielberg of gaming... loved all of his games... but i was too young when MGS and 2 came out, i was too young.. now it feels too clunky to play :/
One of my favorite games!
It was a blast playing this game on its time of release.. All the mgs games 1 to 5 are amazing.
Facts! Each game is amazing in its own right.
@Sully mgsv was least favourite. the fact we weren't big boss,I wanted to see big boss turn to bad,the weak boss fights and no codecs just ruined it for me.the rest were great
@@paulsmith9192 It did show the beginning of Big Boss embracing his inner demons.
@Omar I just wanted to see big boss full turn ,go to outer haven and build his army.
@@paulsmith9192 I think if we got an MGS6, that would've been it.
This was my very first metal gear game I ever played. 😂😂😂
While I do still prefer MGS3 as a whole, there's no denying that the narrative of MGS2 was greatly profound and is timelessly relevant.
Well said.
Yea. Mgs 2 had a better story and more important message than mgs 3 imo, but Mgs 3 had the more innovative gameplay and better overall game.
@@BK_Beloved I still prefer the story in 3. It's a lot more coherent and "traditional".
Why don’t executives let people like Hideo Kojima and Zack Snyder finish their work to give fans, consumers what they want? Seriously, why don’t they?
Solidus was Thanos before Thanos
A remake of this would be amazing
Its embarrassing how far ahead the metal gears 2 and 3 were on ps2 at the time
Thank you for these metal gear videos!
When I was a kid I didn't understand this at all, now as an adult, I know it is the best game of all time.
Bruh the AUI in this game is waaay ahead of its time. The clearing, footsteps, the radio, hell even when they detect you with your foot. Others pale in comparison to this one.
And yeah I'm looking at you mgs5
MGSV had solid enemy AI. What do you mean?
@@Omar_E11 Mgs5 was great and all but the level of quality and attention to detail in mgs2 was beyond its time. The guards were unpredictable, thorough, when they investigate, you know that you fell on thin ice. They even do status reports! It was horrifying when you thought it was gonna be easy when you knock the guy in your way then suddenly the radio goes off with “why are you late with your status report” then they send in a clearing squad. The different level of alert phase was mind blowing. I could go on all day.
In short, they felt real to me.
But hey that’s my opinion.
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Exactly.
This game its a Master piece needs to return to ps5 Sony Konami Hideo team made it return just remastered all Metal gear need to be played
Your wish has been granted!
@@RareKami I know I'm so happy can't wait to see some news on Metal Gear Solid Master Piece
@@juancampos8874 same I’m so hyped
@@RareKami me too , now I'm buying ps5 next week I'm ready Snake
@@juancampos8874 let’s gooo Ps5 gang
Back when games were really next-gen
I'm having trouble with this gen, its supposed to be the thing we all hope for but it's what our generation knew and grew up with that seems to linger away. Strangely the old that were persusing its goul had in the end wasn't the point. It was the journey not the overall goul that made it special.
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There's only one answer to that question team 🎮⚡ . . .
MGS2: SoL was way ahead of its time . . .
because . . .
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Thanks for the videos guys
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Be safe and STAY blessed everybody
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Death Stranding is already pretty accurate lol
Most who played the game know if you knock out a guard when playing in the hardest difficult mode, and that guard wakes up it would be an automatic alert. Which affects the grade of completing the game stealthy. That's just going through the game without offing anybody including boss fights to unlock the ultimate actual hardest mode.
whether anyone like Raiden or Not nobody deny the ending of this game was mind blowing.
What a silly statement... nobody likes Raiden 🤣
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I like him. Never had a problem with him.
Light years ahead of its time 💫⚡🎮. Its crazy how I remember playing this game as kid thinking about how confusing it was with all the Artificial Intelligence/ AI, data stimulation metaphilosophical mumbo jumbo... thinking what kinda drugs #HideoKojima was one when he wrote the story follow up for this.... but now seeing the world we live in today were technology machine and big tech/data runs our lives.... I realize Hideo had a crystal ball 🔮 and was prophecizing what was to come. #JakeHunter88 well done Hideo 🤖 👏
only in NY could Snakes disappearing act go unnoticed, that and people walking around like normal after a ship crashes into Lower Manhattan
Raiden was my opening to metal gear i love him
i remember playing this game and thinking now way that this could happen, at the time internet was so simple , no social media, plenty of chat room, and to get anywhere you pretty much had to memorize website addresses since astalavista and yahoo were only search engines
I still don't understand Liquid possessing Ocelot's arm. Or maybe I forgot.