/vr/ - Retro Games

Not sure if it counts, but some scenes in the original Metal Gear Solid have stuck with me for a strange reason. For a brief amount of time, it's as if the game really succeeds in establishing a certain tone about war and life and death to create a sense of gravitas over the whole game and it's just great. Unlike in the later games, we don't know much about Snake here or what he thinks as a person, so he's a lot better at selling the idea of a grim super soldier with a pessimistic outlook on life, before the plots of these games got too wacky and Snake became a fan favorite. It was crazy because I didn't actually believe a game could be taken seriously like that. I guess I was right mostly. Games have tried to be taken seriously way more since then but it rarely works. This game is one of the exceptions to me.

I dunno how to fully convey it. The game felt really "adult" back then.