The last 2 hours of this game was a mindfuck of epic proportions and the wildest ride I've ever had in videogame history. I will never forget playing it for the first time.
In my opinion no video game, no movie, no book or any other concievable medium matches the atmosphere of this game, and ESPECIALLY the atmosphere of the last two hours. No horror game has come even close to terrify me and creep me out as much those last two hours did.
even if they're right, there's something more important to remember. They're just manipulating him lol. Sure, what they say is true, but it doesn't make what they're doing right. They are a bunch of AIs after all, they only deal in absolutes
Raiden, disregard what I just told you, the most important thing for you to do now is enjoy a mouthwatering delicious Egg McMuffin sandwich from McDonald's all new all day breakfast menu. And Raiden, remember: I'm lovin' it
Don't forget that I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce, don't be frontin son, no seeds on the bun, we be up in the drive thru, order for two I've got a craving for a number nine like my shoe, we need some chicken "What kind of chicken" you you ruined the rap. "I know but u said u wanted a #9 we've got grilled or crispy" ... "big mac?""big mac" "big mac" "big mac" I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce, don't be frontin son, no seeds on the bun, we be up in the drive thru, order for two I've got a craving for a #9 like my shoe, we need some chicken up in here, in this hizzle, 4 rizzle my nizzle extra salt on the frizzles, doctor pepper my brotha another for your motha, double double supa size and don't forget the fries ... (pause) (people in background, saying "just-just say crispy") crispy. Got it Snake?
You know the more I play this game, the more I truly do think this is the best incarnation of Solid Snake. He’s not as cold as he was in MGS1 or 4. And he truly feels like he has a personal purpose in the fight against metal gears. I really do think Kojima was right not making Solid Snake the main character, because he feels so much cooler here than ever.
"We can tell other people about having faith, what we had faith in, what we found important enough to fight for. It's not whether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have, that decides the future." -Solid Snake. Such an under rated quote. Truly awe inspiring
@@take5transfat No we got the legit version on PAL. However, the american versions of MGS have always been heavy altered, even the alertmode in MGS1 isnt original in murica.
@@Leo-xn8ti god, it would have been awesome to play as a girl for full contrast with Snake being a man abd her fangirling (but instead of Rose she has a boyfriend)
Man....mgs2 just can’t be outdone. Never will be. Masterpiece of a game and story. So relevant to today’s times. The ending is actually really deep man.
For some reason this ending really makes me want to visit New York and walk around listening to Can't Say Goodbye To Yesterday and Solid Snake's speech.
Mike Keller Yep! Read the box on your masks “DOES NOT PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COVID-19!” To prevent the spread of a sickness , disease, virus YOUD NEED A HASMAT SUIT! A fricking masking wont prevent anything when it can enter from eyes, ears, penis,butt, etc
Don’t bother trust me I’m a new yorker myself born and raised the place has gotten dangerous and more crimes increasing and nyc is no longer nyc anymore thanks to that bastard mayor de blasio caused alot damage to this city ever since. And now we have mayor adams he’s even more worst
I love how after the patriots long winded and depressing speech about humanity’s apathy and control how snake consoles raiden about how you always have a choice and that no one can take that from you
I remember hearing that John Carpenter, the director of Escape From New York (a movie that heavily inspired Kojima and Metal Gear), played this and said something along the lines of “Snake finally came back to New York.” Pretty cool if you ask me.
3:21 this is a very unnoticed detail When we start a game for the first time, the game will ask us for a name, country, date of birth and gender, as players we think that it is an unimportant survey in the game's plot But if we pay attention to this scene we will see that everything we put in the survey is recorded in the dogtag It surely has something to do with what Snake says to Raiden about choosing our path and decisions
Yeah i put in Raiden as name and Turkey as nationality but totally forgot about it and when i saw that i thought for a second, that Raiden is Turkish 😂
What I love about Snake's speech is how it's almost as meta as the GW codec call, but in a different way. He's not really talking to Raiden, it's Snake basically having a conversation with you, the player. Raiden was always a mirror for the player, but it's at this moment that the ruse is finally fully revealed, and Snake finally has a chance to speak to us directly about everything that happened. It's ironic too, because a lot of what he says is what the players who were mad they didn't get to play as Snake needed to hear the most, and it's like he's consoling them, telling them to find themselves, their own truth, to think for themselves.
This ending means so much more now ever since we had the cornavirus, Metal Gear Solid had no nation no country and no state or family but only leaving memories we have and continue what we do as human beings. We make our own life and we continue and make the world continue.
I only just watched this, and I feel like I've lived the whole frickin' game. That really was an incredible ending to a game. I should probably play some Metal Gear, actually.
After the Big Shell Incident Raiden made contact with Big Mama AKA EVA in exchange for the information to find Olga’s child. She also requested Raiden to locate the remains of Big Boss but was captured and and imprisoned at Area 51 where he was subjected to cybernetic modification surgery by the Patriots. Raiden was later rescued by Paradise Lost Army, who succeeded in acquiring the remains of Big Boss. They also recovered Solidus Snake’s body later using it to rebuild that of the comatose Big Boss, along with parts from Liquid Snake. Paradise Lost Army an PMC with that were war orphans formed together as an Anti-Patriot Group. After the skirmish in Eastern Europe, the PLA disbanded. But the surviving members of the later went on to join the Nevada-based American PSMC and formed a new outfit Maverick Security Consulting Inc. by member Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov and got most of the members work including Raiden. Boris and Sergei Gurlukovich were good friends back during the USSR. The rescued Olga’s orphaned child Sunny and Hal Emmerich adopted her. Sunny had attended school but because of the Patriots experiments on her, she was too far ahead of her peers and only stayed for a year. Thanks to Otacon's connections, Sunny began working for a company called Solis Space & Aeronautics, rather than going for a tertiary degree in computer science. 4 years later Raiden requested her help in getting him to Shabhazabad air base at Pakistan, in order to stop the Colorado senator and 2020 Presidential candidate Steven Armstrong whom at the time was believed along with World Marshal to be planning to instigate an assassination on President Hamilton. She aided Raiden by allowing him to use a Mach 23 RLV so he and his new friend LQ-84i renamed Blade Wolf could infiltrate the country and stop the president from landing there.
Thanks man, I never played MGS4 because I don't have a ps3. So I didn't know who Sunny was in MG rising. Now I understand a bit more, now I finally know what happened to Olga's child.
I can't get over how good this whole sequence looks, the bigass arsenal gear parked in the street, the tall-ass buildings, the federal hall, they really captured new york well, i've studied the place in google maps, it's spot on.
@@alefsilvavieira8442 He didn't. He had problems fiding a job because of his cyborg appearance. He never had time for his family ever since he starded working for PMC's. And to be honest, Rising's Raiden is worse than this one.
This "videogame" has burned into my mind a message of freedom unlike any other art form, it made me question, refine and redefine aspects of my person, giving me a path, this along Persona 3, made me understand how a simple, honest life is all you need. No grandeur, no greed, not burning your life for a chance to shine. Honor your past, take care of those who need you now, and build a hopeful future.
Me watching the video: "Yeah, Snake's right, I gotta trust that I can decide who I am for myself." Me after the video: "Who am I?" "How can I trust my conclusions about myself if I've been so wrong about myself in the past?" "What am I supposed to do?" "Am I being dumb about this?" "Please help me..."
3:53 Cop kneeling in the top right, you hear a sliding noise, pretty sure he was supposed to be pulling the US flag off Solidus's corpse in the "real" ending
I listen to this everyday 2024, lost, and alone, but still here I took a heroic dose by accident my first time of pshycdelics, and this scene has so much truth in it, it's incredible, thank you kojima ❤
Vamp: This ending...sob...is so beautiful...what was I supposed to be doing again? Oh wait, I gotta take my nanomachine shot! That's why I can regenerate in the first place!
Can you imagine being a voice actor for a metal gear game? Like one who has any extended amount of dialogue? You'd probably be thinking "wtf am I talking about"
There's a lot of good stuff in this section, but one quote seems to get left behind. "You can find your own name, and your own future. And whatever you choose will be you." It's oddly poignant, at least to me.
There's some grain of truth to this, but it reeks of the whole new age self help "You are what you think" nonsense. If that's the case, then we'd all be what we think we are, but we aren't.
This ending won't make sense unless you've had an honest-to-God identity crisis at some point. It's true that reality is objective, but the great thing about people is that we get to choose the way we perceive reality. Not the other way around. You are who you choose to be, not what you think you ought to be given the circumstances. Subjective interpretation of the facts as a way to guide your own moral compass and identity is a valid way to view reality too. It's necessary, in a way. That's what it means to be an individual: seeing things your own way regardless of how you were molded by your environment or genetics. Free will means the ability to recognize these factors and choosing to act with or against them. You can still think of yourself as a bad person, but if you choose to do something good, it's still something good, even if you believe it's only for selfish reasons. You are not a slave to what society, genetics, or your own mind say. You never were.
I agree man, great honest way to put it. Haven't seen anyone else on here explain that it in a simplistic way like that. I've wanted to just didn't know the right words to explain that out because most people don't know or care what you just said. They should because that is what matters in life. Respect
But you are. Everything is based on what came before. Reality runs on cause and effect. I didn’t choose to have a short temper and I can manage it but that doesn’t change the fact that my temper is still the same, I just don’t show it. I don’t show it because my dad would yell at me when I yelled. My experiences and genetics influenced me. I don’t choose my wants or desires. There is a reason why twins who share the same genetics still act similar even if they were raised in completely different environments. There is a reason why an adopted son acts more like their biological dad than adopted dad. If someone was given the exact same decisions with the same experiences and genetics, they would choose the same thing every time. A person could grow a tumor on a part of their brain that makes a pedo (this happened to a teacher who used to be nice to everyone until a tumor was discovered growing on his brain). A man had a metal pipe destroy a part of his brain and it completely changed the man. Your brain picks and chooses what it wants to remember. You hear so many things yet your brain only picks up about 50% percent of it until you become conscious of it. Your emotions are controlled by your body, not you. There’s a reason why people become more agitated when hungry. How you think is determined by your genetics and experiences. Free will is just an illusion, but it’s such a good illusion that it doesn’t matter if you believe it or not.
3:59 "We've inherited freedom from all those who fought for it." To my fellow Americans, this Memorial Day let us remember those who fought and died for our freedom. Let us remember with a grateful heart that freedom is never free, and that many before us have paid a heavy price in blood to ensure that freedom lives today. Honor their courage, their sacrifice, and their memory. I, for one, have faith in freedom; it's too precious to take for granted.
It's too bad that practically everyone have been ignoring this very cutsnece for 20 years and only look at the Patriot A.I. when that wasn't even the point of this or any Metal Gear game. I just wished that people actually took this cutscene to heart but I guess not.
Fun fact: when at 3:20 Raiden takes off his dog tag I had the name « Raiden » written on it when I first saw this which made me pretty confused when he said « never heard the name before » !
This whole game was a dope ass existentialist tale akin to Arthur Camus but involving the Internet and AI and i find it so dope with how relevant it is to our generation.
I'm surprised there isn't more snake AI content in the same vain as the "Master Chief helps you with X" stuff you see. I mean, snake canonically pulled Raiden out of a loss of self identity crisis in the span of a few minutes.
I played this game so many times as a kid not only just to try and understand the ending but also because I would spend hours fucking around with the guards like putting 50 mk.2 bullets in a guy to make him look like hell raiser
Releases in 2001. Plays and finishes MGS2 in 2006: "What the heck happened? Waw!" Seeing 2016: wtf? .......... *looks over at the mgs2 case. Me: alright now your creeping me out.... Seeing 2020: :0 .......... looks over at mgs2 Me: wtf are you.....
While I really like Revengeance, the dog tags scene makes me think playing as Raiden again is, in concept, a bad decision. The dog tags serve as a symbolic link between Raiden and the player. Throughout the game, Raiden represents the player as much as the player represents Raiden. And then, at the end, he holds this link in his hands and decides to discard it. He has had enough of being used as a pawn by forces beyond his control, and that includes the player as well. It's also the game symbolically telling the player, "you are like Raiden, too. Cast aside everything you were told to believe and find out for yourself what's important to you." So it feels wrong to me that we get to play as Raiden again after that moment. Then again, Kojima is partially at fault for this by bringing Raiden back in MGS4. Raiden's ambiguous yet hopeful future was also meant to be our own among but hopeful future as well, and now that parallel is gone now. But I can't help but appreciate the joke: people thought Raiden was lame in MGS2 and didn't like being forced to play as him, then in MGS4, everyone now thinks he's cool but aren't allowed to play as him.
*FUN FACT* During the end credits (around the time Raiden looks at his dogtags) ,the camera will pan to reveal a taxi in the background. Vamp is visible in front of the taxi if the zoom function is used.
The last 2 hours of this game was a mindfuck of epic proportions and the wildest ride I've ever had in videogame history. I will never forget playing it for the first time.
Me too
Same here man! Snakes speech is so inspirational
same man..
In my opinion no video game, no movie, no book or any other concievable medium matches the atmosphere of this game, and ESPECIALLY the atmosphere of the last two hours. No horror game has come even close to terrify me and creep me out as much those last two hours did.
yah best video game story of all time
"Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing."
-Solid Snake
What’s disturbing is that most people are saying the Patriot AI was right while completely ignoring what Snake says here.
even if they're right, there's something more important to remember. They're just manipulating him lol. Sure, what they say is true, but it doesn't make what they're doing right. They are a bunch of AIs after all, they only deal in absolutes
@@sakonan4883 so the ais are a bunch of sith lords? after all
*"only a sith deals in absolute"*
@@soldier22881
Hello There.
People also say Solidus is a good guy. Good intentions do not justify war crimes.
Too complex for the average person to get
Raiden, disregard what I just told you, the most important thing for you to do now is enjoy a mouthwatering delicious Egg McMuffin sandwich from McDonald's all new all day breakfast menu. And Raiden, remember:
I'm lovin' it
Raiden: *finally loses his shit out of sustained confusion*
Wtf????? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 it makes sense tho cause of the crazy colonel convos, he might still be in the illusion 🤷♂️😄
Quiptipt Nyqtphimq LSKAAKQANN LMFAOO
Don't forget that I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce, don't be frontin son, no
seeds on the bun, we be up in the drive thru, order for two I've got a
craving for a number nine like my shoe, we need some chicken "What kind of
chicken" you you ruined the rap. "I know but u said u wanted a #9 we've got
grilled or crispy" ... "big mac?""big mac" "big mac" "big mac"
I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce, don't be frontin son, no
seeds on the bun, we be up in the drive thru, order for two I've got a
craving for a #9 like my shoe, we need some chicken up in here, in
this hizzle, 4 rizzle my nizzle extra salt on the frizzles, doctor pepper my
brotha another for your motha, double double supa size
and don't forget the fries ... (pause) (people in background, saying "just-just say
crispy") crispy.
Got it Snake?
MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETTES JACK!
Snake’s speech to Raiden was one of the most inspiring things I have ever heard. Especially after listening to the AI codec scene.
I like how the nearby civilians aren't even phased by the two men wearing sneaking suits. In all seriousness good ending
People probably think those two from some dumb anime convention or whatever.
I thought that was silly at the time but when you move to a big city you realise that actually nobody cares, everyone there is insane.
Also the giant metal spaceship submarine that ripped through dozens of buildings
@@Trigger-chan otacon in the distance: **sees them** *IT'S JUST LIKE ONE OF MY JAPANESE ANIMES!!!!!!!*
New York City for you lol
You know the more I play this game, the more I truly do think this is the best incarnation of Solid Snake. He’s not as cold as he was in MGS1 or 4. And he truly feels like he has a personal purpose in the fight against metal gears. I really do think Kojima was right not making Solid Snake the main character, because he feels so much cooler here than ever.
"We can tell other people about having faith, what we had faith in, what we found important enough to fight for. It's not whether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have, that decides the future." -Solid Snake.
Such an under rated quote. Truly awe inspiring
I listen to this everyday for this part! Glad to know others feel the weight of those words as well
I am the same way I listen to this all the time it really does hit deep it's true man
@@thrashmetalmatters4678 amazing stay strong brother
@@SOLIDSNAKE. Hellyeah same to you dude
A bit cheesy but okay I guess
Wtf I didnt get this ending, in my game Snake started talking about McDonalds
And Raiden, remember... I’m lovin’ it.
i think that was the PAL region version
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Oh you got the good ending too?
@@take5transfat No we got the legit version on PAL. However, the american versions of MGS have always been heavy altered, even the alertmode in MGS1 isnt original in murica.
I love snakes speech at the end. i seriously looked this up just to hear that.
why does raiden have better hips than his girlfriend
InfernalPume hahaha hip thurst Exercise does it job 😂😂😂
the first time i played this game i was 105% sure the MC was a woman
Super old coment but Raiden was original ment to be a girl until Kojima threw a tantrum. So they made a compromise and made him feminine.
@@Leo-xn8ti god, it would have been awesome to play as a girl for full contrast with Snake being a man abd her fangirling (but instead of Rose she has a boyfriend)
Raiden is a guy?
What brilliant is how Snake develops on the idea of living and to live; after the exchange with Naomi from Metal Gear Solid in the happy ending!
Man....mgs2 just can’t be outdone. Never will be. Masterpiece of a game and story. So relevant to today’s times. The ending is actually really deep man.
for real. You would think its message was going to be mainstream shit by now... Cool hateful world, we live in.
Mario better
@@georgejungle138 Yes the message of bing bing wahoo was particularly mind blowing
@@chaosvii4605 when chris pratt said "mushroom kingdom, here we come" it truly sent shockwaves thru the media and societal landscape
*laughs in mgs 3*
Snake was a real bro for that speech.
"We inherited freedom from all those who fought for it. We all have the freedom to spread the word, even me."
What a game!
For some reason this ending really makes me want to visit New York and walk around listening to Can't Say Goodbye To Yesterday and Solid Snake's speech.
NEW YORK IS FREEDOM HATING GARBAGE
Mike Keller Yep! Read the box on your masks “DOES NOT PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COVID-19!”
To prevent the spread of a sickness , disease, virus YOUD NEED A HASMAT SUIT! A fricking masking wont prevent anything when it can enter from eyes, ears, penis,butt, etc
I wish I did that when i lived there. But nowadays NYC sounds like it's mostly dead.
Don’t bother trust me I’m a new yorker myself born and raised the place has gotten dangerous and more crimes increasing and nyc is no longer nyc anymore thanks to that bastard mayor de blasio caused alot damage to this city ever since. And now we have mayor adams he’s even more worst
Be ready for the busted RNG random combat encounters
I love how after the patriots long winded and depressing speech about humanity’s apathy and control how snake consoles raiden about how you always have a choice and that no one can take that from you
Pretty good
Literally THE greatest ending of all video games. This ending message is worthy of classic literature.
It IS classic literature
I remember hearing that John Carpenter, the director of Escape From New York (a movie that heavily inspired Kojima and Metal Gear), played this and said something along the lines of “Snake finally came back to New York.” Pretty cool if you ask me.
He was lying. Ride his horse in Red Dead 2 he can't even do so there's no way he played this
@@christopher8659 ?
3:21 this is a very unnoticed detail
When we start a game for the first time, the game will ask us for a name, country, date of birth and gender, as players we think that it is an unimportant survey in the game's plot
But if we pay attention to this scene we will see that everything we put in the survey is recorded in the dogtag
It surely has something to do with what Snake says to Raiden about choosing our path and decisions
Yeah i put in Raiden as name and Turkey as nationality but totally forgot about it and when i saw that i thought for a second, that Raiden is Turkish 😂
This game needs to be stored in a museum
Agree.
What I love about Snake's speech is how it's almost as meta as the GW codec call, but in a different way.
He's not really talking to Raiden, it's Snake basically having a conversation with you, the player. Raiden was always a mirror for the player, but it's at this moment that the ruse is finally fully revealed, and Snake finally has a chance to speak to us directly about everything that happened. It's ironic too, because a lot of what he says is what the players who were mad they didn't get to play as Snake needed to hear the most, and it's like he's consoling them, telling them to find themselves, their own truth, to think for themselves.
The moment Jack looked at his tag with my name on it and he ripped it off and threw it away... Loved that. It felt powerful
a little late but can you explain why my chicken nuggies are nanomachine infused
This ending means so much more now ever since we had the cornavirus, Metal Gear Solid had no nation no country and no state or family but only leaving memories we have and continue what we do as human beings. We make our own life and we continue and make the world continue.
I only just watched this, and I feel like I've lived the whole frickin' game. That really was an incredible ending to a game. I should probably play some Metal Gear, actually.
Da-Ja Thinks' 'Quality Crap' you dont know the half of it. Start with metal gear solid 1
Did you actually played the series?
Do yourself a favor: play the metal gear solid games. The series is absolutely fantastic and worth every minute.
@@zomboids2100 Fuck, now I have to.
@@YeahTheDuckweed did you?
After the Big Shell Incident Raiden made contact with Big Mama AKA EVA in exchange for the information to find Olga’s child. She also requested Raiden to locate the remains of Big Boss but was captured and and imprisoned at Area 51 where he was subjected to cybernetic modification surgery by the Patriots. Raiden was later rescued by Paradise Lost Army, who succeeded in acquiring the remains of Big Boss. They also recovered Solidus Snake’s body later using it to rebuild that of the comatose Big Boss, along with parts from Liquid Snake. Paradise Lost Army an PMC with that were war orphans formed together as an Anti-Patriot Group. After the skirmish in Eastern Europe, the PLA disbanded. But the surviving members of the later went on to join the Nevada-based American PSMC and formed a new outfit Maverick Security Consulting Inc. by member Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov and got most of the members work including Raiden. Boris and Sergei Gurlukovich were good friends back during the USSR. The rescued Olga’s orphaned child Sunny and Hal Emmerich adopted her. Sunny had attended school but because of the Patriots experiments on her, she was too far ahead of her peers and only stayed for a year. Thanks to Otacon's connections, Sunny began working for a company called Solis Space & Aeronautics, rather than going for a tertiary degree in computer science. 4 years later Raiden requested her help in getting him to Shabhazabad air base at Pakistan, in order to stop the Colorado senator and 2020 Presidential candidate Steven Armstrong whom at the time was believed along with World Marshal to be planning to instigate an assassination on President Hamilton. She aided Raiden by allowing him to use a Mach 23 RLV so he and his new friend LQ-84i renamed Blade Wolf could infiltrate the country and stop the president from landing there.
Thanks man, I never played MGS4 because I don't have a ps3. So I didn't know who Sunny was in MG rising. Now I understand a bit more, now I finally know what happened to Olga's child.
This ending was the reason I picked my career since age 11.
sexy thicc blonde infiltrator? same bro
What career?
@@throbbingfellow1136Tactical Espionage Operations
Confusing people on the Internet.
This almost made me tear up. High-school me didn't understand the greatness I was hearing.
8 year old me didnt understand but i do this game has more truth then the news
I love that Vamp standing beside the car and watching Snake and Raiden talking,this same with Rose
I can't get over how good this whole sequence looks, the bigass arsenal gear parked in the street, the tall-ass buildings, the federal hall, they really captured new york well, i've studied the place in google maps, it's spot on.
Snake's bandana is going insane at 4:16
Snakes bandana went full sicko mode
That also happens in The Twin Snakes right on the part where Snake watch the Hind D about to take off.
Raiden's ending in MGS2 > Raiden's ending in MGS4
Looks like someone watched Steak Bently’s review.... I do agree tho
yeah but, man,he s finaly going to enjoy his family in MGS4
@@alefsilvavieira8442 He didn't. He had problems fiding a job because of his cyborg appearance. He never had time for his family ever since he starded working for PMC's. And to be honest, Rising's Raiden is worse than this one.
Raiden's story should have ended up in mgs2.
And solid snake's in mgs1
@Nahuel 2002.:. Nope. Snake is perfect in MGS4.
This is so inspiring imagine seeing this as a kid and understanding it
Saw it at 11. It was very cool
6:16 VAMP!!!!! LIQUIIIIIIIDDDDDD!!!!!!
This "videogame" has burned into my mind a message of freedom unlike any other art form, it made me question, refine and redefine aspects of my person, giving me a path, this along Persona 3, made me understand how a simple, honest life is all you need.
No grandeur, no greed, not burning your life for a chance to shine.
Honor your past, take care of those who need you now, and build a hopeful future.
David Hayter's voice will forever resonate with me. Iconic and it's really a shame he got cut out of the future games.. Konami made a mistake.
This ending gets me emotional, it's message it's so hopeful!
best ending ever...
Me watching the video: "Yeah, Snake's right, I gotta trust that I can decide who I am for myself."
Me after the video: "Who am I?" "How can I trust my conclusions about myself if I've been so wrong about myself in the past?" "What am I supposed to do?" "Am I being dumb about this?" "Please help me..."
So true man
Have you found who you are?
I remember playing this for the first time when I was a kid. When the colonel ai told me to turn off the console, I was so scared I actually did it.
Forever my favorite Metal Gear
3:53 Cop kneeling in the top right, you hear a sliding noise, pretty sure he was supposed to be pulling the US flag off Solidus's corpse in the "real" ending
Never noticed that!
3:41 6:18 6:30
This person don't want to interfere ...awkward xD
The last spoken line from Raiden, and the swelling of music, always gave me goosebumps. I'm glad I got to experience this game.
This game was waaaay ahead of its time!
if you dont know who your are, become who you want to be so that you in the end really know who you are
Solidus and Rosemary are my favorite characters from this game.
I listen to this everyday
2024, lost, and alone, but still here
I took a heroic dose by accident my first time of pshycdelics, and this scene has so much truth in it, it's incredible, thank you kojima ❤
This ending always makes me tear up!
This is one of the most beautiful goddamn endings in a video game.
I beat mgs1 like a month ago n immediately started up mgs2 and the entire time I was blown away dude it was something else entirely new. God
We inherited the fredoom for all those WHO fought it the most epic line ever
3:41 Vamp watching in the background.
Wait, what?
Don't forget 6:17 and 6:32.
Where?
Vamp: This ending...sob...is so beautiful...what was I supposed to be doing again? Oh wait, I gotta take my nanomachine shot! That's why I can regenerate in the first place!
Vamp listening to snakes speech like 🗿
3:45 "I'll find something worth passing on. Also, never mind that I probably klinked some dude on the head with dog tags."
Can you imagine being a voice actor for a metal gear game? Like one who has any extended amount of dialogue? You'd probably be thinking "wtf am I talking about"
good god imagine playing MGS and then expecting more of that coming into MGS2. I have no word for this game other than transcendental.
There's a lot of good stuff in this section, but one quote seems to get left behind.
"You can find your own name, and your own future. And whatever you choose will be you."
It's oddly poignant, at least to me.
There's some grain of truth to this, but it reeks of the whole new age self help "You are what you think" nonsense. If that's the case, then we'd all be what we think we are, but we aren't.
This ending won't make sense unless you've had an honest-to-God identity crisis at some point. It's true that reality is objective, but the great thing about people is that we get to choose the way we perceive reality. Not the other way around. You are who you choose to be, not what you think you ought to be given the circumstances. Subjective interpretation of the facts as a way to guide your own moral compass and identity is a valid way to view reality too. It's necessary, in a way. That's what it means to be an individual: seeing things your own way regardless of how you were molded by your environment or genetics. Free will means the ability to recognize these factors and choosing to act with or against them. You can still think of yourself as a bad person, but if you choose to do something good, it's still something good, even if you believe it's only for selfish reasons. You are not a slave to what society, genetics, or your own mind say. You never were.
I agree man, great honest way to put it. Haven't seen anyone else on here explain that it in a simplistic way like that. I've wanted to just didn't know the right words to explain that out because most people don't know or care what you just said. They should because that is what matters in life. Respect
But you are. Everything is based on what came before. Reality runs on cause and effect. I didn’t choose to have a short temper and I can manage it but that doesn’t change the fact that my temper is still the same, I just don’t show it. I don’t show it because my dad would yell at me when I yelled. My experiences and genetics influenced me. I don’t choose my wants or desires. There is a reason why twins who share the same genetics still act similar even if they were raised in completely different environments. There is a reason why an adopted son acts more like their biological dad than adopted dad. If someone was given the exact same decisions with the same experiences and genetics, they would choose the same thing every time. A person could grow a tumor on a part of their brain that makes a pedo (this happened to a teacher who used to be nice to everyone until a tumor was discovered growing on his brain). A man had a metal pipe destroy a part of his brain and it completely changed the man. Your brain picks and chooses what it wants to remember. You hear so many things yet your brain only picks up about 50% percent of it until you become conscious of it. Your emotions are controlled by your body, not you. There’s a reason why people become more agitated when hungry. How you think is determined by your genetics and experiences. Free will is just an illusion, but it’s such a good illusion that it doesn’t matter if you believe it or not.
3:59 "We've inherited freedom from all those who fought for it."
To my fellow Americans, this Memorial Day let us remember those who fought and died for our freedom. Let us remember with a grateful heart that freedom is never free, and that many before us have paid a heavy price in blood to ensure that freedom lives today. Honor their courage, their sacrifice, and their memory. I, for one, have faith in freedom; it's too precious to take for granted.
We are actually at the edge right now. World will have to choose between freedom and safety. I'm pretty sure people will choose safety.
@@homoxymoronomatura People will choose what LOOKS like safety. Squeezing something too tightly is just as dangerous as letting it run wild.
@@peelsreklaw Ordinary people will choose what makes them safe. And they will be safe. But there are also extraordinary people who will be imprisoned.
@@homoxymoronomatura I mean, that depends how things go, doesn't it? Lots of ordinary people in Nazi Germany got fucking murdered, so...
Video games back then had better plots than movies do now
this is where MGS should have truly ended.
No
In the timeline, yes. It'd been a perfect ending but if we're talking about releases then it should've ended with the story of mgs 5
MGS3 still had to come to tell Big Boss' story. Other than that, nothing more is needed.
Well it's certainly the ending Kojima originally intended, that's for sure. Not even 3 was really supposed to be made.
Metal Gear Solid ending here would have been like how the Teen Titans cartoon ended and most people just didn't understand the message.
It's all so dream-like
the whole game really is
1:36 - Snake knows about Matrix
It's too bad that practically everyone have been ignoring this very cutsnece for 20 years and only look at the Patriot A.I. when that wasn't even the point of this or any Metal Gear game. I just wished that people actually took this cutscene to heart but I guess not.
I missed the clocks rolling over to 2024 because I was rewatching this and thinking about a lot of my life. Looking forward to this year!
And the entirety of this beautifully told ending was basically rendered irrelevant in 4. Boy, time has not been nice to that game.
I thank any people that worked on this story.
Fun fact: when at 3:20 Raiden takes off his dog tag I had the name « Raiden » written on it when I first saw this which made me pretty confused when he said « never heard the name before » !
This whole game was a dope ass existentialist tale akin to Arthur Camus but involving the Internet and AI and i find it so dope with how relevant it is to our generation.
They are so good humans for saving sunny at the cost of raiden's body basically
7:11 Bro Raiden's such a dork lmao
Made me shut my console off in the middle of a mission. Will never forget that😂
MGS3 might be the best MGS game in terms of gameplay. But when it comes to storytelling MGS2 is far superior to everything else.
Gracias por subirlo con subs en español, amigo. Excelente discurso y juego.
3:15 most underrated cutscene
This has aged like fine wine.
Big boss: *coughs in being the player and the player as his body double*
How many people noticed that right before Raiden throws his dog tags, Vamp can be seen in the background standing there watching
I loved this game but I can’t remember why. I think I should play it again
I'm surprised there isn't more snake AI content in the same vain as the "Master Chief helps you with X" stuff you see. I mean, snake canonically pulled Raiden out of a loss of self identity crisis in the span of a few minutes.
That’s the real rose before Jack
Wao now that A.I is a thing we use every day hits different
oh my god! Quickly pause at 6:17 after Rose says "what's wrong?" You can see Vamp in the background looking at them!!
I played this game so many times as a kid not only just to try and understand the ending but also because I would spend hours fucking around with the guards like putting 50 mk.2 bullets in a guy to make him look like hell raiser
"Now do you remember? Who you are? What you are meant to do?"
20 years old today
Releases in 2001.
Plays and finishes MGS2 in 2006: "What the heck happened? Waw!"
Seeing 2016: wtf? .......... *looks over at the mgs2 case.
Me: alright now your creeping me out....
Seeing 2020: :0 .......... looks over at mgs2
Me: wtf are you.....
???
@@Melkac Authur Fleck: you wouldn't get it....
I'm finally mature enough to respect Metal Gear Solid 2 as a great game.
Thank you, kind asmongold commenter for this suggestion
Memes are truly the DNA of the soul.
While I really like Revengeance, the dog tags scene makes me think playing as Raiden again is, in concept, a bad decision.
The dog tags serve as a symbolic link between Raiden and the player. Throughout the game, Raiden represents the player as much as the player represents Raiden. And then, at the end, he holds this link in his hands and decides to discard it. He has had enough of being used as a pawn by forces beyond his control, and that includes the player as well. It's also the game symbolically telling the player, "you are like Raiden, too. Cast aside everything you were told to believe and find out for yourself what's important to you." So it feels wrong to me that we get to play as Raiden again after that moment.
Then again, Kojima is partially at fault for this by bringing Raiden back in MGS4. Raiden's ambiguous yet hopeful future was also meant to be our own among but hopeful future as well, and now that parallel is gone now. But I can't help but appreciate the joke: people thought Raiden was lame in MGS2 and didn't like being forced to play as him, then in MGS4, everyone now thinks he's cool but aren't allowed to play as him.
your the only one who has uploaded this, thank you
*FUN FACT*
During the end credits (around the time Raiden looks at his dogtags) ,the camera will pan to reveal a taxi in the background. Vamp is visible in front of the taxi if the zoom function is used.
5:19 Snake’s rapid aging is starting to kick in
So jack already knew that she was pregnant during the whole mission
This ending always makes me very emotional
Sonic Inflation Adventure. My favorite game.
I can't say goodbye to yesterday just yet.
Tell us all Snake and Raiden is in NYC without actually telling us all.
I know this is New York but how tf do these people ignore these two crazy looking people in the street?