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what is the ultimate "you had to be there" game?

I have no idea how this was ever considered playable, much less good. It's absolutely god awful in every sense. It has absolutely zero redeemable qualities. It's worse than the average licensed shovelware.

There are some critically acclaimed retro games like Crash and Goldeneye that I shit on for being drastically worse than their contemporaries and undeserving of their acclaim. But I can at least understand how someone might have enjoyed those games had they not played Super Mario 64 or Quake first. But Metal Gear Solid not simply overrated or bad relative to it's contemporaries. It's legitimately a fucking horrible game and I have no idea how anyone ever enjoyed a second of it, even in 1998.

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>>7146950
The first big moviegame for PS1, starting Sony's 2-decade long campaign to turn video games into cinema.

Holy shit

I bought a used copy of this over the weekend and it doesn't seem to work. My PS1 just gets stuck at the boot screen before deciding that maybe I've put a music CD in. My PS2 can't read it either, and it actually sounded like it was touching the laser or something--weird scrapey sound when I threw it in.

My other PS1 games work fine. The discs appear to be in great shape. Is something wrong with the PS1 or is there maybe a defect on the disc that I can't see? Like it's warped or something?

I just finished this game, and I now see why the series gets so much attention. For a Ps1 game, this was quite the journey. And that script! I couldn't imagine how much time it took to just flesh out the script alone. And all the characters from Fox squad were quite interesting, including all your allies along the way. For me, this game easily gets a 9.5/10.

I have one gripe though. Throughout the game you get little bits of info about Metal Gear itself. Seeing it for the first time was quite something, considering how the game was making it seem to be this crazy superweapon.

But what I dont get is how all it took to take it down was one guy with a fucking STINGER launcher. Idk seemed kinda odd, but great game never the less.

Thank you Kojima.

>>6055601
I actually liked this one the best. Just the title and thats all it needed

so I made a thread last night asking for opinions on pic related since I beat it last night and liked it but was deleted in less than 2 minutes, what's the deal with that? anyways, what did you think of it?

thoughts?

>dude just backtrack a lot lmao

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>175 replies
>no mention of Metal Gear Solid

and no, I'm not wrong, the stealth in that game is as deep as pac-man. Thief released the same year and shat on it so it doesn't have the "pioneer" excuse

Metal Gear Solid is not nor ever was a good series. Since day one it had a batshit retarded story that only got worse and worse with each sequel and "stealth" gameplay that was barely worth being called that. The fact that it's actually considered a legitimate masterpiece of storytelling only shows how horrendously low the bar is for video games, and the gameplay is only good in that it makes me laugh every time some hipster faggots bitch about FF7 and OOT for being "dumbed down animu babyshit" then go on to praise this game and series when it's a thousand times worse.

this game would be so much better if there was no boring shit in between the bosses
i get why its popular but damn, get to the point

It changed everything
Don't even try to act like it didn't change everything because IT. CHANGED. EVERYTHING.

>>3497152
Cutscenes over gameplay and graphics whoring isn't modern for you?

Why does such a short game need two discs?

what's the best game of all time?

Metal Gear Solid's "plot" is batshit retarded, and would never be accepted in a Hollywood movie. And that's saying something, since the bar for movies is set pretty low. Metal Gear Solid is like... sub-Michael Bay tier.

>Solid Snake goes to Alaska to fight a gang of mercenaries and rescue hostages.
>But actually, mercenaries have new metal gear! We're supposed to be surprised for some reason.
>Solid Snake meets old friend McDonald Miller.
>But actually, McDonald Miller is bad guy in disguise :^)
>And actually, bad guy is Solid Snake's brother :^))
>Yes, Solid Snake has a brother...
>But then Solid Snake meets DARPA chief and ArmsTech man just in time to watch them die.
>But actually, Solid Snake is killing them, with a virus that was designed to kill bad guy :^)))
>And actually, bad guy is clone of Big Boss, who has all of Big Boss's inferior recessive genes :^))))
>Solid Snake meets a friendly scientist.
>But actually, scientist invented metal gear, because he wanted to make anime real :^)))))
>Solid Snake needs to find three keys to deactivate metal gear.
>But actually, it's just ONE key that changes forms :^))))))
>So Solid Snake takes the key to metal gear, and deactivates it.
>But actually, it was already inactive, and Solid Snake just activated it :^)))))))
>And actually, bad guy has all the dominant genes from Big Boss :^))))))))
>And actually, the real bad guy is someone else :^)))))))))
>And actually, the real bad guy is president of United States :^))))))))))

It's like the most convoluted episode of G.I. Joe ever.