The first time I heard about MGS, or Metal Gear in general, was at my local videogame store. The store was small, hidden in a part of town where you'd probably wouldn't ever look to find one. One friend at school actually recommended it to me. Over the years, I fell in love with that small store, and became a regular. At one faithful day, the store owner told me that I need to see something that he just got the week before. What he showed me blew my mind. It was the japanese version from MGS. Of course, I didin't understand anything at all. But the atmosphere and gameplay had me hooked right from the start. And so began my feverish wait for it, to come to the west. The day was september 2nd 1998 (the german release), I was 15 years old. To this day, the Metal Gear franchise is probably my favourite videogame series of them all. And like Pulp Fiction made me to not only to watch movies, but understand them, Metallica made me to not only listen to music but make music, Metal Gear Solid made to not only play videogames but to love them and core for their story and characters. Thank you Hideo Kojima.
It changed the way I thought about not just video games, but the military, foreign policy, concepts like nuclear deterrence, personal identity, and doing something you believe in despite impossible odds. It’s not just a ground breaking game, but a series that truly stands out as a work of art and social and political commentary.
I played Metal Gear 2 : Snakes revenge when I was super young. It was my first foray into this world. Then much later in life as a teen I rented MGS1 from a VideoWarehouse. I thought I had anyway. It was actually the VR missions. I still enjoyed the heck out of it without realizing I hadn't played the game proper. Another year after that. I finally got to borrow the proper game from a friend. It was hard. It was unforgiving. It's narrative was a punch to the gut. I didn't know it would be a meme factory at the time. MGS is okay I guess.
Before I clicked, I thought, "Man, I wish there would be one of these videos for Snatcher or Policenauts. They never get as much attention." Imagine my delight.
Liquid doesn’t want to honour his fathers memory, he just wants to prove that he is better, by accomplishing what Big Boss couldn’t. Soldius is the same, only Solid Snake ends up being the only clone that finds his own dream and purpose to fight and live for. Solid Snake is better than Big Boss and all his sons, despite what his genes state he should be.
Metal Gear Solid is one of the first video games I bonded with my own father and older brother on. My dad, and his dad, are both veterans, driving trucks and tanks, serving in Eastern Europe during the 70's and 80's. So to see not only realistic action and relevant military history being portrayed in this game was an entry point for me to understand them a little better. That, and it was just cool being put in the boots of a suped-up soldier/spy shooting helicopters out of the air. This game franchise is near and dear to my heart and is a series I revisit often for the nostalgic storytelling and that haunting, melodious soundtrack. Now that I'm significantly older, I find a new appreciation for MGS1, but also the MSX games, as I do research and watch retrospectives like this one. I hope the best is yet to come for this series of retrospectives, I look forward to watching them as they come out. P.S: Thanks for the shout out, it really means a lot! So surreal.
I religiously listen to metal gear story videos to go to sleep cause it all just blurs together and makes no sense so now I have one of my favorite channels to go to sleep to as well! Looking forward to this one
Son, I've been playing Metal Gear Solid for a long time, I mean growing up and watching my Dad and his brothers play. It's my inspiration for wanting to tell stories in video games. I fell off of it after MGS V because it didn't live up to my hype personally, despite being a phenomenal game that I have recently poured another 160+ hours of my life into. Recently I have gotten addicted to Metal Gear again, and have even beaten the 1987 original for the MSX2 computer for the first time. I've been showing one of my best friends MGS2, my favorite game in the franchise and of all time and I'm reminded why I loved this series growing up, putting all the story pieces from the prequels together as I revisit these classics. AND NOW YOU RELEASE THIS (What a coincidence)!!! AWESOME!
Yes! Metal Gear franchise has always been a favorite of mine. I’m really glad that you’ve covering this. You go into such amazing detail with all of your content
Son, I am so glad to finally hear your apt analytical acumen on display with one of my favorite game series of all time. Thank you for being an incredible channel!!
I’ve seen probably every video essay on the topics of metal gear and silent hill that TH-cam has to offer but always look most forward to your videos. I really appreciate all the work you put in man.
My love for this game will never die. I remember playing the demo and was beyond excited when my cousin invited me over to play the game when it came out. I beat it in one night! It felt like I was watching a movie and I could not stop until I saw the ending. Metal Gear Solid 3 is my favorite game of all time. I cannot wait to see you do a retrospective on it :)
some of my fafourite games by one of the best youtubers? count me in! love your videos, they are some of the best videos to get into a series of games or if you already know the games your videos are still interesting. this is video is gonna be great, i know it
Been waiting for this ever since you teased it well over a year ago. As many as I've watched about this exact subject, you always do them better. The detail and research you do are unparalleled. You are one of the best doing it.
I first played MGS and beat it when I was about only 8 years old. It has had such a lasting effect on me even as a kid because it was probably the first video game to ever make me feel such raw emotion response wise.
Fun fact: the translator behind the fan translation of Policenauts, Marc Laidlaw (no, not the Half-Life Marc Laidlaw), would later go on to be one of the translators for MGSV and provide translation for additional materials on the Master Collection (namely the Master Books and the non-dialogue parts of the MGS1 screenplay)
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Thank you for making this video! MGS1 is a very special game to me in many of the same ways it is for you, and it feels great hearing that same love in your video.
I've been hoping to see you cover this since I discovered your (beautiful) Silent Hill retrospective and I'm super stoked now! Proud of you son, you're my favorite 🎉
I’ve watched a lot of metal gear solid videos/retrospectives lately so I wondered whether I’d find this video interesting still, but I really enjoyed it! I love that you took the time to talk about the earlier games leading up to MGS1 because I don’t know much about them. It really set this video apart from the others I’ve watched lately :) Great work son!
Son, you really hit the nail on the head with the feeling of this game. When it came out I played it into the wee hours of the night as I had just graduated from high school and was taking a year off before heading to college. Everything was cool, and yet so meaningful and touching. I hadn’t even realized how much it had impacted me until I played the Twin Snakes remake years later. Its themes have been baked into my personality in ways that surprise me. Thank you for showing so much love to such a great game from my youth. It brings me joy to watch you get so much from it even now so many years later. Now go mow the lawn before it rains. I’ll have some ice tea waiting for you when you finish.
🥹🥹😭😭 I’m so excited to watch this, Son. When MGS came out, my parents got it and a PS1 and we stayed up super late that night watching dad play. I don’t remember where we stopped, I just remember all of us being completely blown away. We’d played computer games before, but never seen anything like this, and everything was so…cool! So intriguing and tense and wild. We loved everything about it. It became the first game each of us beat on our own, and is prolly the whole family’s favorite game of all time. It is so wonderful, so quirky and fascinating and perfect even in everything that makes it imperfect. I love this game, and I love that you’re covering the series. ♥️
The more distance from the original release we get, the more special the game becomes. It's an amazing thrill ride from start to finish, with exciting set pieces and a huge story with fun gameplay and a great, consistent yet unique style. With the passage of time we get perspective. We can look at the experience with a new swt of eyes, and I think the game pulls of some stuff that is just completely wild. Like how the whole game is voice acted! Every single piece of dialogue is voice acted, every codec call, optional or not. The enemies emote and also speak, the bosses cry out in pain, nothing is sidelined, no character, no events are deemed less worthy or care or attention. It is in stark contrast to contemporary games from its time, where only select cutscenes would get treated with voice acting, if at all. Genuinely amazing stuff which only grows more impressive as time moves on.
Fantastic video for a Sunday where I have a few hours to myself to paint miniatures. Great analysis. Great overview. I learned a lot. I remember beating this game 8 times as a kid to try and get some secret unlock costume. What an amazing experience. It is rare when a game makes you feel invested in it's world and characters. I've enjoyed your channel. Keep it up. (Although I do not understand your father/son schtick. You may want to explain that one day.)
Metal Gear is one of the greatest proofs that when it comes to storytelling, absolute cheese and deep, earnest, substantial storytelling are not mutually exclusive.
Amazing video as always I actually have never played this series but have been very curious about the lore and Kojima in general, you’ve done an incredible job here breaking everything down and I really enjoy your pacing of videos in general. Your content is some of the best on the tube 🤘
my fav part of this retrospective is that TH-cam recommended me this video in the side recommendations so that I can watch it twice. 10/10 watched again. Good job son.
When you're talking about the sum of the parts adding to the feeling, I can't help thinking that isn't that the case always? The combined impression from various parts is what gives pretty much any media it's intended effect.
Great vid as always ❤ but was nearly dying at the section where you said “otacon shoots the key and we have to go grab it” 😂 I knew you meant ocelot but had to rewind a few times to be sure 😂
You could destroy the crane in the Blast Furnace? I had no idea, it's been decades, I'm still learning new things about this game. The amount of content and details in this game is amazing. I've learned a few more things through this entire video, but that's the thing that stuck out most to me. Hearing about Policenauts and Snatcher was also awesome. This video was great and going as far back as those games and the first two Metal Gears to tie them all together is something a lot of other channels don't cover.
What a flawless video. Kojima is a genius, you can hardly get people to sit down for a 3 hour movie, but through video games kojima gets you to sit down for 5 to 8 hours... more than enough time for a team to create a vision beyond the confines of traditional movie run times. Brilliant video.
You could decapitate liquid and I swear he'd still be like "Snake! It's not over yet! The man survived unharmed being the center of the hind exploding, multiple stjnger missiles to the face, having rex blow up on him, getting the shit beat out of him, falling multiple stories, and finally two jeeps colliding into each other and he was only a little dizzy from all that.
I look forward to seeing you cover the rest of the series, especially 4 and 5. One thing I've realized about Kojima is that his basic themes are extremely dark: no matter what our heroes do, people keep fighting. The goofiness is then deliberate, moments of farce among the melodrama. I find it perhaps telling that his post-Konami series is Death Stranding, where you most emphatically are NOT killing people.
There is never too much talking about Getal Mear in this era. Start yapping and we start clapping. Kudos to taking a review for Kojima's other works too as you can see his evolution as a story weaver. This is gonna blow up.
Im so glad you mentioned “the feeling” kingdom hearts has it too without the “a job has to be done” aspect. I did NOT grow up with the kh series but every time i play kh 1 or 2 it feels like I have and it was part of me all my life and yeah the story might be cheesy and kinda bad but its just so charming and oozes childhood nostalgia matter your history with the content
Two hours video with my favorite son and he upload on a Sunday and with my favorite game franchise. Better get some popcorn and soda out because this is going to be a great video.
You know what’s fuckin funny? I decided to start a new MGS3 run today, with the idea in my head that as I play I’m explaining the game and showing how cool it is to my late father who would’ve loved this James Bond Cold War wilderness survivalist shit. Just wish I would’ve fell in love with this game while he was still around, his reactions would’ve been priceless 😂 Just the connection w myfavoritesun doing a mgs video the day I get this idea in my head such a crazy coincidence
It's not just a game review, it's six all rolled into one! But in all seriousness, thank you for putting this together. Three hours of Metal Gear history is indeed a treat when presented this well
Small thing I noticed, at 2:24:20 you say Otacon instead of Ocelot here, just so you’re aware, great video though can’t wait for the rest of the series 👍🏿
I love your videos, they make great listening material for my long drives for work especially going into games I haven't played before but have had an interest in learning more about. Also my great-grandfather on my mother's mother's side was the American portrayed in the movie The Great escape and he actually meet Steve McQueen and the motorcycle scene outside of the prison was improvised but added because they both loved motorcycles so much.
When I was younger I used to put on Long plays of this in re-experience it like a movie and even showed friends in such a format to get them interested, they almost always were. God that first playthrough was like a drug.
I remember playing the Playstation magazine demo of Metal Gear Solid for hours. When Christmas of 98 came around all I asked my mom for was MGS, Christmas day I played the hell out of that game. I loved it so much that I snuck out into the living room after everyone went to sleep and beat the game by morning. One of the first games I remember playing for the characters and story, and that it felt like playing an action movie.
Damn you are the first and only one who really talk true about MGS. I have watched alot of Kojima related videos, but most just go "Yeah MGS using in-game model for CG and is first to explore stealth game", they mentioned that MGS is good and ahead of its time, but never really explore why, while you did it. A lot of people say Kojima is not what he was when making MGS, and is "fall from Godhood" (This is somehow how we call it in Chinese) while he is making Death Stranding, but from your video I can finally confirm my suspecious, he is just a dude that want to make game that he vision. MGSs, PT, DS, these are just what he and his team envision and finally made into a product, he is still the same in his core, it is the view on him that changed through out the time.
Metal Gear Solid was of my first games ever. Played it when I was 4 YO and I was obsessed with it. Personally, the story became too convoluted in 2 and a bit eye rolling but I still love the characters, specially Solid Snake.
Mgs 1 was the first game i ever played on the ps1 back in 2003 i was 12 years old and dam the emotions i felt playing that game i just cant put in to words and made me a kojima fan to this day .cheers dude ❤
Son, I'm so proud of you for covering my favorite franchise, and full obsession (I have the Tiger Electronics Snakes Revenge. I need help) Metal Gear. :salutes, allows one manly tear down cheek:
15 minutes in and you really hit on a big point - back in the day games weren't just what you saw on screen, there was an element of imagination to them too. I don't know when exactly I stopped playing them like that, but it was something sort of related to reading, almost. I wasn't full-on imagining anything realistic on the screen, but I understood that what I was seeing was just a representation, and in that space I could fill in some detail. Modern games can afford amazing textures and mo-cap and all sorts of things but I think they lose a bit of magic in there. Or maybe as I got older I just lost the ability to feel that magic, who knows? Another banger from you though, I'm proud of you son
Metal Gear Solid has everything Metal Gear 2 had already done, but keepnin mind most people hadn't played those games before, for many of us Metal Gear Solid was the first in the series, for us everything was new, amazingly smart, something we haven't seen before
Replayed it recently. There's actually much less stealth gameplay than I remembered. It's just boss fight to set piece to boss fight after the stealthy parts at the start of the game. And the boss fights are quite clunky. I don't think the gameplay has aged that well. But the story, characters, music, voice actors, artistic design, and overall atmosphere are still brilliant to this day. It was great to be taken away on an adventure on Shadow Moses Island again.
As a kid, I thought having to interact with the instruction manual was so cool and clever, but now I can't help but question if it was a veiled DRM attempt.
Great retrospective. Snatcher was the first video game I ever played. 7 years old, 30 years ago. Thank god my dad picked up a Mega CD (UK) at random and picked the game off the shelf (at random) as it shaped so much of my tastes.
I played this game religiously trying to find anything extra that I could. I would play it alongside vr missions damn near daily. I loved this game with all of my heart. I could not stand anything after.
MGS back in the day made me cry. I grew up when video games was still in the platform era. When this came around, everything changed, videogames evolved, they where not "toys" anymore, they became something that would rival movies
The people who point to Fukushima as a secret mastermind are the exact same people who don't play the actual stuff he did write, he wrote Ghost Babel and all the Snake Tales in MGS2. They are excellent. Also great video
My buddy and myself had to metal gear ourselves into playing this before Christmas in 99... We had to sneak into his gifts. We beat it weeks before Christmas and then he had to act surprised when he got it... That's when I learned, that it's really easy to bypass a lock if you can get to hinges o.O.
Great video, but could not help but notice the double brain fart at the section about the thermal memory alloy key. You can change it's shape by warming *and* heating it, then *otacon* shoots it out of your hand? Crazy times we live in!
It's not just an MGS thing. I guess, but the ps1 Konami intro still gives me goosebumps, Every time i hear it. It's so simple, but something about it get to me
Dude, it just occurred to me that you didn't have a segment in the Cobes doc where you guys discussed video games. Such a missed opportunity! Shit, I'd watch a podcast where you and Josh talk classic gaming.
How do you feel about Metal Gear Solid? 🔫
The first time I heard about MGS, or Metal Gear in general, was at my local videogame store. The store was small, hidden in a part of town where you'd probably wouldn't ever look to find one. One friend at school actually recommended it to me. Over the years, I fell in love with that small store, and became a regular. At one faithful day, the store owner told me that I need to see something that he just got the week before. What he showed me blew my mind. It was the japanese version from MGS. Of course, I didin't understand anything at all. But the atmosphere and gameplay had me hooked right from the start. And so began my feverish wait for it, to come to the west. The day was september 2nd 1998 (the german release), I was 15 years old. To this day, the Metal Gear franchise is probably my favourite videogame series of them all. And like Pulp Fiction made me to not only to watch movies, but understand them, Metallica made me to not only listen to music but make music, Metal Gear Solid made to not only play videogames but to love them and core for their story and characters. Thank you Hideo Kojima.
It changed the way I thought about not just video games, but the military, foreign policy, concepts like nuclear deterrence, personal identity, and doing something you believe in despite impossible odds. It’s not just a ground breaking game, but a series that truly stands out as a work of art and social and political commentary.
Sounds like a healthy bowel movement to me, son.
I played Metal Gear 2 : Snakes revenge when I was super young. It was my first foray into this world. Then much later in life as a teen I rented MGS1 from a VideoWarehouse. I thought I had anyway. It was actually the VR missions. I still enjoyed the heck out of it without realizing I hadn't played the game proper. Another year after that. I finally got to borrow the proper game from a friend. It was hard. It was unforgiving. It's narrative was a punch to the gut. I didn't know it would be a meme factory at the time. MGS is okay I guess.
It means a lot to me, it always has. Thanks for all the work on this. I want more people to fall in love with the story.
Talking about Metal Gear for way too long is just keeping in line with the spirit of Metal Gear.
Just doing my part
It's the only way
Facts
Metal Gear?
It would have been cheekier to have a five hour long video entitled “A Short Overview of Metal Gear Solid”
Before I clicked, I thought, "Man, I wish there would be one of these videos for Snatcher or Policenauts. They never get as much attention."
Imagine my delight.
All in one.
YOOOOOO that's fucking awesome 😂
Dude right? Didn't expect him to review the original two MG's as well as the adventure games Kojima made
Liquid doesn’t want to honour his fathers memory, he just wants to prove that he is better, by accomplishing what Big Boss couldn’t. Soldius is the same, only Solid Snake ends up being the only clone that finds his own dream and purpose to fight and live for. Solid Snake is better than Big Boss and all his sons, despite what his genes state he should be.
Metal Gear solid isn't just a video game it's an experience one of the best in the series
I wholeheartedly agree. Nothing quite like it.
Yeah, definitely. It really changed my perception of what kind of experiences games could be.
Metal Gear Solid is one of the first video games I bonded with my own father and older brother on. My dad, and his dad, are both veterans, driving trucks and tanks, serving in Eastern Europe during the 70's and 80's. So to see not only realistic action and relevant military history being portrayed in this game was an entry point for me to understand them a little better. That, and it was just cool being put in the boots of a suped-up soldier/spy shooting helicopters out of the air. This game franchise is near and dear to my heart and is a series I revisit often for the nostalgic storytelling and that haunting, melodious soundtrack. Now that I'm significantly older, I find a new appreciation for MGS1, but also the MSX games, as I do research and watch retrospectives like this one.
I hope the best is yet to come for this series of retrospectives, I look forward to watching them as they come out.
P.S: Thanks for the shout out, it really means a lot! So surreal.
Thanks for watching! Keep up the great work
"the best is yet to come"...I see what you did there, @meganimaniac!
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 😉
Thanks for making this for me son. I knew pestering you all those years would pay off.
You did it!
You timed this perfectly, uploading during my current MGS video essay hyperfixatio! Looking forward to this!
A movie for my favorite game from our favorite son. Awesome
Hope you enjoy!
I religiously listen to metal gear story videos to go to sleep cause it all just blurs together and makes no sense so now I have one of my favorite channels to go to sleep to as well! Looking forward to this one
You ever have that thing where you fall asleep for half a second but it sounds like the volume just wrnt quiet for an eternity?
@@flandyc4513 all the time and then i shoot back up and realise my volume is all the way up and then i go back to sleep
Metal Gear is a dolphin
- My favorite son
And I stand by that
@@YourFavoriteSon1 i couldn't agree more
What about them cow sounding machines in MGS4 lol
He is a wise man
We raised Son right.
Son, I've been playing Metal Gear Solid for a long time, I mean growing up and watching my Dad and his brothers play. It's my inspiration for wanting to tell stories in video games. I fell off of it after MGS V because it didn't live up to my hype personally, despite being a phenomenal game that I have recently poured another 160+ hours of my life into.
Recently I have gotten addicted to Metal Gear again, and have even beaten the 1987 original for the MSX2 computer for the first time.
I've been showing one of my best friends MGS2, my favorite game in the franchise and of all time and I'm reminded why I loved this series growing up, putting all the story pieces from the prequels together as I revisit these classics.
AND NOW YOU RELEASE THIS (What a coincidence)!!! AWESOME!
They're all such a joy to play.
I'm just happy someone else on this planet remembers Policenauts exists. I had no idea about any of that Rising Sun stuff, very fascinating
Yes! Metal Gear franchise has always been a favorite of mine. I’m really glad that you’ve covering this. You go into such amazing detail with all of your content
Thanks! been waiting to cover this one for a while
Son,
I am so glad to finally hear your apt analytical acumen on display with one of my favorite game series of all time. Thank you for being an incredible channel!!
I’ve seen probably every video essay on the topics of metal gear and silent hill that TH-cam has to offer but always look most forward to your videos. I really appreciate all the work you put in man.
My love for this game will never die. I remember playing the demo and was beyond excited when my cousin invited me over to play the game when it came out. I beat it in one night! It felt like I was watching a movie and I could not stop until I saw the ending. Metal Gear Solid 3 is my favorite game of all time. I cannot wait to see you do a retrospective on it :)
Well, that was almost 3 hours of my life gone! Time well spent!
Great Job Pal! ❤
‘…his adventure game Snatcher, which we’ll be talking about very soon’. Hype intensifies.
Such a great game
Please!!
some of my fafourite games by one of the best youtubers? count me in! love your videos, they are some of the best videos to get into a series of games or if you already know the games your videos are still interesting. this is video is gonna be great, i know it
Thanks so much! Hope you enjoy this one
Love the video, your stuff is constantly solid. But I'm gonna go crazy if I hear you say "brüch" again
Seriously!
Been waiting for this ever since you teased it well over a year ago. As many as I've watched about this exact subject, you always do them better. The detail and research you do are unparalleled. You are one of the best doing it.
Another great video.
Hopefully you have the sequels in the works 😊👍
Already working on them!
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Awesome, can't wait 😊
I first played MGS and beat it when I was about only 8 years old. It has had such a lasting effect on me even as a kid because it was probably the first video game to ever make me feel such raw emotion response wise.
Fun fact: the translator behind the fan translation of Policenauts, Marc Laidlaw (no, not the Half-Life Marc Laidlaw), would later go on to be one of the translators for MGSV and provide translation for additional materials on the Master Collection (namely the Master Books and the non-dialogue parts of the MGS1 screenplay)
Wow that's awesome, thanks for the info!
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Thank you for making this video! MGS1 is a very special game to me in many of the same ways it is for you, and it feels great hearing that same love in your video.
I've been hoping to see you cover this since I discovered your (beautiful) Silent Hill retrospective and I'm super stoked now! Proud of you son, you're my favorite 🎉
Great video, I hope your doing this as a series, can’t wait for the vids on 2, 3, 4 and 5
They're on the way!
I’ve watched a lot of metal gear solid videos/retrospectives lately so I wondered whether I’d find this video interesting still, but I really enjoyed it! I love that you took the time to talk about the earlier games leading up to MGS1 because I don’t know much about them. It really set this video apart from the others I’ve watched lately :) Great work son!
I just started playing these games again. this was a real treat great work
weird timing haha
Son, you really hit the nail on the head with the feeling of this game. When it came out I played it into the wee hours of the night as I had just graduated from high school and was taking a year off before heading to college. Everything was cool, and yet so meaningful and touching. I hadn’t even realized how much it had impacted me until I played the Twin Snakes remake years later. Its themes have been baked into my personality in ways that surprise me. Thank you for showing so much love to such a great game from my youth. It brings me joy to watch you get so much from it even now so many years later.
Now go mow the lawn before it rains. I’ll have some ice tea waiting for you when you finish.
🥹🥹😭😭 I’m so excited to watch this, Son. When MGS came out, my parents got it and a PS1 and we stayed up super late that night watching dad play. I don’t remember where we stopped, I just remember all of us being completely blown away. We’d played computer games before, but never seen anything like this, and everything was so…cool! So intriguing and tense and wild. We loved everything about it. It became the first game each of us beat on our own, and is prolly the whole family’s favorite game of all time. It is so wonderful, so quirky and fascinating and perfect even in everything that makes it imperfect. I love this game, and I love that you’re covering the series. ♥️
Not me always letting Meryl die immediately so I can get the obviously better new game plus reward. 🤭🙃
I'm so glad to see you cover this amazing franchise. You're a great youtuber, please keep up the consistently amazing content man!!
The more distance from the original release we get, the more special the game becomes. It's an amazing thrill ride from start to finish, with exciting set pieces and a huge story with fun gameplay and a great, consistent yet unique style.
With the passage of time we get perspective. We can look at the experience with a new swt of eyes, and I think the game pulls of some stuff that is just completely wild. Like how the whole game is voice acted! Every single piece of dialogue is voice acted, every codec call, optional or not. The enemies emote and also speak, the bosses cry out in pain, nothing is sidelined, no character, no events are deemed less worthy or care or attention. It is in stark contrast to contemporary games from its time, where only select cutscenes would get treated with voice acting, if at all. Genuinely amazing stuff which only grows more impressive as time moves on.
Powerful analysis, Son. I think this is the best MGS commentary since Steak Bentley.
Now that's high praise.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 You earned it.
Holy shit I just beat this game today lmao. Your timing was impeccable with this
god damn, my joy of discovering this channel the past few weeks, binging so many episodes, and now a MGS episode with more to come? *chefs kiss
wait til you watch empire of dirt for the 6th time
Perfect my dude ❤
Nice
Fantastic video for a Sunday where I have a few hours to myself to paint miniatures. Great analysis. Great overview. I learned a lot.
I remember beating this game 8 times as a kid to try and get some secret unlock costume. What an amazing experience. It is rare when a game makes you feel invested in it's world and characters.
I've enjoyed your channel. Keep it up.
(Although I do not understand your father/son schtick. You may want to explain that one day.)
Metal Gear is one of the greatest proofs that when it comes to storytelling, absolute cheese and deep, earnest, substantial storytelling are not mutually exclusive.
Amazing video, had me feeling some type of way during the Sniper Wolf part. Very excited to see the rest of the series covered eventually.
Amazing video as always I actually have never played this series but have been very curious about the lore and Kojima in general, you’ve done an incredible job here breaking everything down and I really enjoy your pacing of videos in general. Your content is some of the best on the tube 🤘
my fav part of this retrospective is that TH-cam recommended me this video in the side recommendations so that I can watch it twice. 10/10 watched again. Good job son.
I'm so grateful you made this.
I'm so grateful you decided to watch!
I love the way people post thesis level work to TH-cam as a love letter to their favourite things for us to just enjoy. Thank you 🙏
Keep up the great work dude, love the videos
Gosh, that was a treat. Thanks for another solid video ^^
Can't wait for you to do "Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater" . It's one of my favorite games ^^
When you're talking about the sum of the parts adding to the feeling, I can't help thinking that isn't that the case always? The combined impression from various parts is what gives pretty much any media it's intended effect.
MGS4 is my favorite, but this series- all of the entries- is my all time favorite media franchise of all time
Finally, another MGS4 enjoyer
Great vid as always ❤ but was nearly dying at the section where you said “otacon shoots the key and we have to go grab it” 😂 I knew you meant ocelot but had to rewind a few times to be sure 😂
You could destroy the crane in the Blast Furnace? I had no idea, it's been decades, I'm still learning new things about this game. The amount of content and details in this game is amazing. I've learned a few more things through this entire video, but that's the thing that stuck out most to me. Hearing about Policenauts and Snatcher was also awesome. This video was great and going as far back as those games and the first two Metal Gears to tie them all together is something a lot of other channels don't cover.
2:24:20 "Otacon then shoots the key out of Snake's hand"
I didn't know Otacon was actually Revolver Ocelot all along!
What a flawless video. Kojima is a genius, you can hardly get people to sit down for a 3 hour movie, but through video games kojima gets you to sit down for 5 to 8 hours... more than enough time for a team to create a vision beyond the confines of traditional movie run times.
Brilliant video.
I’ve been waiting for this video for a long time. Mgs is my favorite video game franchise and I love your retrospectives.
You could decapitate liquid and I swear he'd still be like "Snake! It's not over yet! The man survived unharmed being the center of the hind exploding, multiple stjnger missiles to the face, having rex blow up on him, getting the shit beat out of him, falling multiple stories, and finally two jeeps colliding into each other and he was only a little dizzy from all that.
This is a man who had getting blown up in a Hind D **as a part of his plan**
I look forward to seeing you cover the rest of the series, especially 4 and 5. One thing I've realized about Kojima is that his basic themes are extremely dark: no matter what our heroes do, people keep fighting. The goofiness is then deliberate, moments of farce among the melodrama. I find it perhaps telling that his post-Konami series is Death Stranding, where you most emphatically are NOT killing people.
MGS4 is the one I'm most looking forward to covering.
Another one of my all-time favorite games covered by one of my favorite TH-camrs? Son, you absolutely spoil us 💙
There is never too much talking about Getal Mear in this era. Start yapping and we start clapping. Kudos to taking a review for Kojima's other works too as you can see his evolution as a story weaver. This is gonna blow up.
Im so glad you mentioned “the feeling” kingdom hearts has it too without the “a job has to be done” aspect. I did NOT grow up with the kh series but every time i play kh 1 or 2 it feels like I have and it was part of me all my life and yeah the story might be cheesy and kinda bad but its just so charming and oozes childhood nostalgia matter your history with the content
Two hours video with my favorite son and he upload on a Sunday and with my favorite game franchise. Better get some popcorn and soda out because this is going to be a great video.
SONDAY
You know what’s fuckin funny? I decided to start a new MGS3 run today, with the idea in my head that as I play I’m explaining the game and showing how cool it is to my late father who would’ve loved this James Bond Cold War wilderness survivalist shit. Just wish I would’ve fell in love with this game while he was still around, his reactions would’ve been priceless 😂
Just the connection w myfavoritesun doing a mgs video the day I get this idea in my head such a crazy coincidence
It's not just a game review, it's six all rolled into one!
But in all seriousness, thank you for putting this together. Three hours of Metal Gear history is indeed a treat when presented this well
I've been waiting weeks to finally watch this LET'S GOOOO
Man, I was waiting for this video
Absolutely loved it
Bro Ive been waiting for you to cover MGS series for so long!
It's a series I've wanted to cover since I started the channel, so glad I can finally do it.
Small thing I noticed, at 2:24:20 you say Otacon instead of Ocelot here, just so you’re aware, great video though can’t wait for the rest of the series 👍🏿
It's interesting that in 1998 another highly influential stealth game came out, but on PC: Thief the Dark Project.
My favorite son just came out with another banger. I'm proud of you.
Hope you enjoy it!
How did I miss this? Just happen to search your channel to see you dropped a new vid. Lfg!
I love your videos, they make great listening material for my long drives for work especially going into games I haven't played before but have had an interest in learning more about. Also my great-grandfather on my mother's mother's side was the American portrayed in the movie The Great escape and he actually meet Steve McQueen and the motorcycle scene outside of the prison was improvised but added because they both loved motorcycles so much.
Damn, right when I think I’m gonna keep working my way through the Yakuza videos you go and drop this.
Great work, son
Yey another fave son video to fall asleep to, this is not an insult. Its legit praise and this kind of content helps to unwind.
When I was younger I used to put on Long plays of this in re-experience it like a movie and even showed friends in such a format to get them interested, they almost always were. God that first playthrough was like a drug.
I still love how Meryl goes to the effort of walking that really specific path to avoid the mines when you can just crawl and pick them up lol
I remember playing the Playstation magazine demo of Metal Gear Solid for hours. When Christmas of 98 came around all I asked my mom for was MGS, Christmas day I played the hell out of that game. I loved it so much that I snuck out into the living room after everyone went to sleep and beat the game by morning. One of the first games I remember playing for the characters and story, and that it felt like playing an action movie.
Dude, 37 as of last month, you got most of Metal Gear Solid ps1 so right!, loves mate!! < 3
i love this video structure please continue like this
Damn you are the first and only one who really talk true about MGS. I have watched alot of Kojima related videos, but most just go "Yeah MGS using in-game model for CG and is first to explore stealth game", they mentioned that MGS is good and ahead of its time, but never really explore why, while you did it.
A lot of people say Kojima is not what he was when making MGS, and is "fall from Godhood" (This is somehow how we call it in Chinese) while he is making Death Stranding, but from your video I can finally confirm my suspecious, he is just a dude that want to make game that he vision. MGSs, PT, DS, these are just what he and his team envision and finally made into a product, he is still the same in his core, it is the view on him that changed through out the time.
Can´t Wait For The Others Vids, Definitely One Of My Favorite Saga Of All Time
Metal Gear Solid was of my first games ever. Played it when I was 4 YO and I was obsessed with it. Personally, the story became too convoluted in 2 and a bit eye rolling but I still love the characters, specially Solid Snake.
Some of the best characters ever imo
😢 this video brought back memories of my childhood with my older brother and uncle. The good old days
21:00
I was 100% just thinking that. "Wait, isn't this about MGS? Did I click on a compilation video by accident?"
Amazing as always, thank you! Can we please have the rest of MGS by you, too? 🐢
On the way
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Nooo way, thank you in advance!
Mgs 1 was the first game i ever played on the ps1 back in 2003 i was 12 years old and dam the emotions i felt playing that game i just cant put in to words and made me a kojima fan to this day .cheers dude ❤
Son, I'm so proud of you for covering my favorite franchise, and full obsession (I have the Tiger Electronics Snakes Revenge. I need help) Metal Gear. :salutes, allows one manly tear down cheek:
15 minutes in and you really hit on a big point - back in the day games weren't just what you saw on screen, there was an element of imagination to them too. I don't know when exactly I stopped playing them like that, but it was something sort of related to reading, almost. I wasn't full-on imagining anything realistic on the screen, but I understood that what I was seeing was just a representation, and in that space I could fill in some detail. Modern games can afford amazing textures and mo-cap and all sorts of things but I think they lose a bit of magic in there. Or maybe as I got older I just lost the ability to feel that magic, who knows?
Another banger from you though, I'm proud of you son
Metal Gear Solid has everything Metal Gear 2 had already done, but keepnin mind most people hadn't played those games before, for many of us Metal Gear Solid was the first in the series, for us everything was new, amazingly smart, something we haven't seen before
Replayed it recently. There's actually much less stealth gameplay than I remembered. It's just boss fight to set piece to boss fight after the stealthy parts at the start of the game. And the boss fights are quite clunky. I don't think the gameplay has aged that well.
But the story, characters, music, voice actors, artistic design, and overall atmosphere are still brilliant to this day. It was great to be taken away on an adventure on Shadow Moses Island again.
Damned you, I just finished a 5 hour video on Metal Gear and now I get the privilege of watching another. Life is pain and I am here for the ride.
As a kid, I thought having to interact with the instruction manual was so cool and clever, but now I can't help but question if it was a veiled DRM attempt.
Great retrospective. Snatcher was the first video game I ever played. 7 years old, 30 years ago. Thank god my dad picked up a Mega CD (UK) at random and picked the game off the shelf (at random) as it shaped so much of my tastes.
I played this game religiously trying to find anything extra that I could. I would play it alongside vr missions damn near daily. I loved this game with all of my heart. I could not stand anything after.
MGS back in the day made me cry. I grew up when video games was still in the platform era. When this came around, everything changed, videogames evolved, they where not "toys" anymore, they became something that would rival movies
I’m an hour and forty minutes into this writing this comment and dear lord am I engrossed. Really well put together and scripted video, man.
My favorite son is talking about the game that made me fall in love with gaming, good job son.
Glad you enjoy it!
I played metal gear solid for the first time January 1 of this year at the age of 25. It was wild how good it holds up and surprised me!
So stoked for this. Proud of you, son.
The people who point to Fukushima as a secret mastermind are the exact same people who don't play the actual stuff he did write, he wrote Ghost Babel and all the Snake Tales in MGS2. They are excellent.
Also great video
My buddy and myself had to metal gear ourselves into playing this before Christmas in 99... We had to sneak into his gifts. We beat it weeks before Christmas and then he had to act surprised when he got it... That's when I learned, that it's really easy to bypass a lock if you can get to hinges o.O.
Great video, but could not help but notice the double brain fart at the section about the thermal memory alloy key. You can change it's shape by warming *and* heating it, then *otacon* shoots it out of your hand? Crazy times we live in!
It's not just an MGS thing. I guess, but the ps1 Konami intro still gives me goosebumps, Every time i hear it. It's so simple, but something about it get to me
Dude, it just occurred to me that you didn't have a segment in the Cobes doc where you guys discussed video games. Such a missed opportunity! Shit, I'd watch a podcast where you and Josh talk classic gaming.