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[VulcanRaven]

Metal Gear Solid was released on September 3, 1998 in Japan. Maybe my favorite game ever. I remember seeing a trailer of it on a PS1 demo disc and after that I had to get the game. I was only 6 or 7 years old but it still became one of my favorite games. Can't wait to play it again when the Master Collection releases.

It was a shorter version of this trailer:

 

[JimboJones]

Absolute classic, it's sad that we have to resort to emulation to get a better version of the original though.

 

[kanjobazooie]

And the best is yet to come, baby. (unless the collection and MGS Delta bomb lmao)

 

[RagnarokIV]

Master Collection day one on every system. Fucken bookmark me ya kunt

 

[zeldaring]

MGSV was so good. Fuck the haters.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Still my favorite intro jingle all these years later.

MGS1 was THE killer app for PS1. Man, that 98' Christmas season was all about MGS1 for me. LOVE that game.

 

[Urban]

And still never played one

Spoiler

 

[SenkiDala]

Played it in Japanese and even though I didn't understand that much the story (I had try every frequency to find the codec of MERYL), I loved it. I played it again once it released in my country and since then played all of them on day one (except MGS4 I got a PS3 a bit late).

Will buy the collection on day one for sure. I want they rerelease all of them and get a sequel from Kojima. A deluxe version of MGSV Director's Cut with the missing part.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[proandrad]

This game should have received the remake.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

This game should have received the remake.

It's already been remade... and the third one is the best game in the series... so...

 

[ManaByte]

A game that almost didn’t come to the US thanks to Bernie Stolar’s five star approval process at SCEA.

 

[proandrad]

It's already been remade... and the third one is the best game in the series... so...

Wrong, MGS2 is the best in the series.

 

[RoboFu]

I was huge fan of the nes game before MGS came out so I was FLOORED when I got to play it. Literally nothing else on that level was out for the genre.

 

[Synless]

MGS1, man… what a fucking game that was back in the 90’s.

People can’t possibly know how influential that game was back then unless you were there.

 

[Krappadizzle]

MGS1, man… what a fucking game that was back in the 90’s.

People can’t possibly know how influential that game was back then unless you were there.

MGS and Half-Life really brought storytelling to the forefront in really cool ways. It changed the standards of the time in a big way.

 

[Bojji]

Wrong, MGS2 is the best in the series.

Exactly. MGS1 was amazing (I played it in 2001) but MGS2 completely destroyed me (in 2003), I finished it more than 30 times for sure (and finaly got platinum in MGS HD collection on PS3).

I completed Twin Snakes few days ago, it feels like MGS2 expansion and it's good but MGS1 is kinda broken with MGS2 mechanics. Not to mention cutscenes are ridiculous LOL

 

[Mr Hyde]

Easily the best in the franchise. Never cared for the later sequels, thought they were all rubbish, but Metal Gear Solid is truly a remarkable game; innovative, exciting, tense and super fun to play. Hideos magnum opus.

 

[ByWatterson]

Still my favorite intro jingle all these years later.

MGS1 was THE killer app for PS1. Man, that 98' Christmas season was all about MGS1 for me. LOVE that game.

Iconic. Will never forget that sound.

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

I wish I could go back, lads

 

[VulcanRaven]

Wrong, MGS2 is the best in the series.

I like 1 and 3 more. MGS2 is a great game but I wasn't a big fan of Big Shell.

 

[TheKratos]

Man when I played it I was absolutely shocked. I did not know games could get THIS good only to be blown away by MGS2.

 

[ArtHands]

crazy its been so long

 

[GrayDock]

The memory card 'mind Read', the controller massage and the controller telekinesis were so 'out of the box' moments that I couldn't believe at the time.
And the story... The Miller Liquid revelation and the key card trick....
Pure masterpiece.

 

[Aggelos]

and this is the MGS1 Unveil Trailer from back in April 1996.

 

[phaedrus]

Still my favorite intro jingle all these years later.

MGS1 was THE killer app for PS1. Man, that 98' Christmas season was all about MGS1 for me. LOVE that game.

The full theme is even better :

 

[phaedrus]

Seriously, that Shadow Moses level in MGS3 MGS4 was the most nostalgic I've ever felt playing a game.

Kojima already had a perfect template for remaking MGS1, if only...

Edited: got my wires crossed

 

[adamsapple]

It's already been remade... and the third one is the best game in the series... so...

Seriously, that Shadow Moses level in MGS3 was the most nostalgic I've ever felt playing a game.

Y'all celebrating weekend already ?

 

[MarkMe2525]

I wish I could go back in time to relive popping disc 1 in for the first time. When Pyscho Mantis read my memory card, I about shit myself

Edit: btw, would anyone recommend snake eater on the "new 3ds"? I have access to it, but just can't imagine it being a good time with such a low resolution and the circle pad. Just looking for thoughts on it from people who played it.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

and this is the MGS1 Unveil Trailer from back in April 1996.

Downgraded. Can't believe we keep letting developers get away with this.

 

[phaedrus]

Y'all celebrating weekend already ?

I'm not drunk, just old .

Now shoo, go play your Han Solo Simulator.

 

[Bond007]

Makes me feel old as dirt.
I was 13 in middle school and saved a whole month worth of my lunch money and not eating to get this game.
Worth it. Ended up being my favorite game of all time.

 

[delfrickintree]

I was huge fan of the nes game before MGS came out so I was FLOORED when I got to play it. Literally nothing else on that level was out for the genre.

Thats a trip. I had the cartridge but the gameplay was so frustrating to have to repeat things after dying, never finished it until I printed out a gamefaqs walkthru. The fuckin keycards didnt stack, so level 9 card wouldnt work on a level 8 or below. What!?

MGS1, man… what a fucking game that was back in the 90’s.

People can’t possibly know how influential that game was back then unless you were there.

Whats obscure about MGS is how much of it was basically a 3d remake of Metal Gear 2 on the Japanese super nintendo (MSX). I went and played the emulator version back in the day and many of the plot points and gameplay mechanics are the same. Of course they added and changed a lot of things to make the story more comprehensive, but Insanely good game for its time and the soundtrack is incredible. I ended up making a website for it to let people download it, read my walkthru, look at the maps I made, etc. A masterpiece game. So its no wonder MGS had that backbone to rely on and basically port it to modern systems with 3d and voice acting, cinematics, proper musical score, etc.

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

So…MGS collection and Super Mario RPG remake are my most anticipated games this year. I haven’t played MGS since 1998 and I never completed it.

MGS is the game imo associated with PS1. People think ps1 era they think MGS and then FFVII.

1998…when movies were movies.

When Star Wars was still Star Wars. Before smart phones. “You’ve got Mail”, Monday Night Wars, Mulder and Scully!

When you were Buying games at a Mall! Arcades still existed.

When comedies were safe to make! When books weren’t banned. Maris was still the home run king for a few more days! This is starting to feel like a Billy Joel song…

Man, 1998…simpler times…cheers Metal Gear!

 

[abstract alien]

If you know, you know.

 

[DareDaniel]

Forever my favourite videogame series.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Everyone who remembers that launch, how is your back and knees?

 

[MLSabre]

If you know, you know.

"On the back of the package!"

That sort of self-awareness of the game was a real treat.

 

[VulcanRaven]

and this is the MGS1 Unveil Trailer from back in April 1996.

I like that they used some of that in the later trailers. That shot of Gray Fox looked so cool.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

This game should have received the remake.

The games that actually do need to get remade are the MSX games. With 3D graphics and better controls / combat.

 

[RaduN]

This game changed my life.

From the Heliport intro to the Truth mission, this series is the most consistently mind blowing and meaningful interactive storytelling experience ever created.

 

[Hudo]

Metal Gear 2 (MSX Version) still has the best intro of the franchise imho.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I have it signed by David Hayter

 

[KOMANI]

Thats a trip. I had the cartridge but the gameplay was so frustrating to have to repeat things after dying, never finished it until I printed out a gamefaqs walkthru. The fuckin keycards didnt stack, so level 9 card wouldnt work on a level 8 or below. What!?


Whats obscure about MGS is how much of it was basically a 3d remake of Metal Gear 2 on the Japanese super nintendo (MSX). I went and played the emulator version back in the day and many of the plot points and gameplay mechanics are the same. Of course they added and changed a lot of things to make the story more comprehensive, but Insanely good game for its time and the soundtrack is incredible. I ended up making a website for it to let people download it, read my walkthru, look at the maps I made, etc. A masterpiece game. So its no wonder MGS had that backbone to rely on and basically port it to modern systems with 3d and voice acting, cinematics, proper musical score, etc.

the japanese super nintendo isn't the msx. the msx was around before the SNES.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Ah yes. I didn’t particularly enjoy it the first time around, playing it in Italian. That scene with Meryl doing a complete 180 degrees on war as soon as she gets hit by Sniper Wolf is still one of the silliest things to ever be featured in a cutscene (and the ”BRB, gotta find a sniping rifle real quick” that follows is just as hilarious). The Italian dub didn’t help things. I replayed the game in English a few years later and I ultimately liked it. MGS1 is pure Kojima, but at least it nailed the American action movie tone and atmosphere. MGS2’s fever dream vibe turned me off the series completely.

The codec sequence “secret” is a nice memory for me because the first time I saw the game, it was at my friend’s house. You gotta understand that in the PS1 days, the ratio of pirated to original games in Italy was likely 9 to 1. My friend had a pirate copy of MGS. It just happens that the people he got his games from bothered to also make photocopies of the cover and case sleeves, albeit in greyscale. So we (well, actually me) were able to figure out the CD case riddle. Imagine all the people who just got a CD in a plastic sleeve.

 

[Slayer-33]

I remember the day it came out, picking up my reserved copy from a mom & pop vg store over here in NYC, oh man those were the good old days..

What I'd give to go back to those days..

 

[Jack Package]

I wish I could go back in time to relive popping disc 1 in for the first time. When Pyscho Mantis read my memory card, I about shit myself

Edit: btw, would anyone recommend snake eater on the "new 3ds"? I have access to it, but just can't imagine it being a good time with such a low resolution and the circle pad. Just looking for thoughts on it from people who played it.

Snake Eater 3D might be the best way to play MGS3. The features added are so fun. Take photos using the camera to make new camo, crouch walking, but my favourite? The stereoscopic 3D stops working when Snake loses his eye!

 

[RaduN]

Snake Eater 3D might be the best way to play MGS3. The features added are so fun. Take photos using the camera to make new camo, crouch walking, but my favourite? The stereoscopic 3D stops working when Snake loses his eye!

The absolute best way to play MGS3 is still on original ps2 on a quality crt or, thanks to a very recent breakthrough in emulation that allows the post peocessing effects to be fully rendered, via pcsx2 emulation.

Not HD releases, not 3Ds, because all these have massive downgrades in one area or another, compared to original experience.

 

[lifa-cobex]

If you know, you know.

Still one of the best anti piracy methods for it's time

 

[adamsapple]

Still one of the best anti piracy methods for it's time

It's good, but they really should have made Meryl's frequently late in the range.

140.15 is very quick to get to if you're just brute forcing.

I wonder how they're gonna address this in the new port.