I Talk For Far Too Long About Metal Gear Solid | A Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Hey Dad,
After all this time, I've finally decided to talk about my favorite video game series. Metal Gear Solid. And this is just the beginning.
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CHAPTERS
Intro 0:00
Version 0.1: Metal Gear: 2:45
Version 0.2: Snatcher: 20:55
Version 0.3: Snake's Revenge: 35:37
Version 0.4: Metal Gear 2: 38:47
Version 0.5: Policenauts: 1:02:14
Version 1.0: Metal Gear Solid: 1:13:24
Final Thoughts: 2:43:22 - Ігри
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
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.
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
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
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!
A movie for my favorite game from our favorite son. Awesome
Hope you enjoy!
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
You timed this perfectly, uploading during my current MGS video essay hyperfixatio! Looking forward to this!
‘…his adventure game Snatcher, which we’ll be talking about very soon’. Hype intensifies.
Such a great game
Please!!
Well, that was almost 3 hours of my life gone! Time well spent!
Great Job Pal! ❤
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 :)
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'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.
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 UA-cam has to offer but always look most forward to your videos. I really appreciate all the work you put in man.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
Holy shit I just beat this game today lmao. Your timing was impeccable with this
I just started playing these games again. this was a real treat great work
weird timing haha
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'm so glad to see you cover this amazing franchise. You're a great youtuber, please keep up the consistently amazing content man!!
Keep up the great work dude, love the videos
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.
Man, I was waiting for this video
Absolutely loved it
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.
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!
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
Another great video.
Hopefully you have the sequels in the works 😊👍
Already working on them!
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Awesome, can't wait 😊
🥹🥹😭😭 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 love the way people post thesis level work to UA-cam as a love letter to their favourite things for us to just enjoy. Thank you 🙏
I’ve been waiting for this video for a long time. Mgs is my favorite video game franchise and I love your retrospectives.
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.)
I've been waiting weeks to finally watch this LET'S GOOOO
Powerful analysis, Son. I think this is the best MGS commentary since Steak Bentley.
Now that's high praise.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 You earned it.
Can´t Wait For The Others Vids, Definitely One Of My Favorite Saga Of All Time
my fav part of this retrospective is that UA-cam recommended me this video in the side recommendations so that I can watch it twice. 10/10 watched again. Good job son.
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
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.
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.
Another one of my all-time favorite games covered by one of my favorite UA-camrs? Son, you absolutely spoil us 💙
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
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.
😢 this video brought back memories of my childhood with my older brother and uncle. The good old days
How did I miss this? Just happen to search your channel to see you dropped a new vid. Lfg!
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.
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:
So stoked for this. Proud of you, son.
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 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.
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
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
Wonderful stuff, Son!
Thanks! Hope you enjoy it
I'm so grateful you made this.
I'm so grateful you decided to watch!
Kept me waiting for this.
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.
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
My favorite son just came out with another banger. I'm proud of you.
Hope 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!
Great video. Can't wait for MGS2 my favorite game. MGS2 Solid Snake is my second favorite..
I can't wait for you to talk about mgs4, omg
Love the video, your stuff is constantly solid. But I'm gonna go crazy if I hear you say "brüch" again
Seriously!
Another 3+ hour retrospective on mgs1? Yes, please.
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.
Son, your' videos never disappoint!
I love having my double disc set still. This game, nothing like it has been made like it since.
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 👍🏿
Just started the video. I need the jingle at the beginning.
I was in grade 5. I think my dad enjoyed it more than me but Grey Fox looked so cool to me.
Mgs2 is my favourite.
The ending of mgs frustrates me sooo much now with the images of the nature we are destroying
Music is great. The best is yet to come is magnificent.
Going to watch now
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!
Ah perfect way to start my Monday morning
Awesome video
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
Yes mate, I love your videos & this holds a special place for me. came out when i was around 14 and it was revolutionary to me. Before that games were cool but mostly headcanon in terms of world. Then this blew the diors open, Funny story ny first copy was ripped online using a DSL 56k took 3 days had a chipped ps1, i got to Meryl & had to physically get a bus into town to the electronic store write down the code off a case & go home 😂
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.
I come back to MGS once a year, like clockwork.
It’s a masterpiece each time. ♥️
You need to mention the ost of metal gear 2! We can hear it but Zanzibar Breeze and Tears are so so so great
Mgs was the first game i completed as a kid, had a copy of driver 2 and had fun with it but a neighbor kid had mgs and wanted to trade and i was hooked ever since. I still have the pics of kojima making the stages out of legos that inspired me to get into world design
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.
Just curious, are you going to do videos on the other Yakuza games? I love listening to your vids while I build model kits
I just got a Ps1 Mini for my bday and it has this gem within it, I Remember playing it as a kiddo but I hardly remember much of it, Gonna do a playthrough of it, see how it goes 👊🏼😎
I grew up watching my dad play through MGS1-3, but now that I'm older I can actually have conversations about it with him
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
Dad's royal seal of approval 🦭👑
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.
Damn you're on a roll, son.
Ah damn I thought this was a series retrospective and then it ended 😢
My favorite son is talking about the game that made me fall in love with gaming, good job son.
Glad you enjoy it!
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
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!
I appreciate you covering Snatcher and Policenauts. I really wish Kojima would go back to those games or at the least make another Jazzy Cyberpunk Detective Noir game with 90's style Anime.
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.
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.
I just finished the whole series (atleast Legendary Collection on PS3 and MGSV) for the first time. Nice coincidence.
I also really loved the instruction manual included in the PS1 box. It had really detailed descriptions of the characters and their history.
Digital downloads have stripped all of these little things away, it’s sad