I got MGS recently...

[KeithHybrid]

The original Metal Gear Solid, that is. A friend gave it to me as an early Christmas present.

I have found myself pleasantly surprised by the challenge this game offers for someone like me who's experience with the series comes from being used to the later games, myself being unaccustomed with having to work an old game system.

Anyone else have an experience like that?

[TheMaster]

I found it in a bargain bin a few years back (I say bargain bin, it was still like £15), after losing my original copy ages before that.

I've probably played it more times than every other game I own put together.

[Jerkapotamus]

Metal Gear Solid has aged incredibly well. There's a bunch of PS2 games I've bought that I can't get through, generally because something in the game just feels dated. Metal Gear Solid, however, still felt like such a brilliant experience when I first played it a year ago. I think it's really the engaging story and interesting characters that hold it together. The Kojima-humor certainly doesn't hurt either. Even when stripping all that away, it still offers some awesome, varied gameplay. Plus it has some of the best boss battles in videogames and my favorites of the series. Now why isn't there a PSN release...?

[SlipperyMooseCakes]

It's just a box.

[Smukeeg]

Metal Gear Solid is a simple classic. When I first witnessed it's excellence in 1998, my eyes were wide with adoration of the game. It had such a deep (but kinda confusing) plot and the characters were some to remember! Even the enemy soldiers had their own personality, "SHUT UP IN THERE WILL YA!" OR "Whose footprints are these?"
In the game, you felt a mix of emotions from panic, to strength, to laughter, to love. When I finished the game for the first time, I was simply amazed. I didn't want the game to end, but it was brilliant! Kojima defiantly knew what the audience would like, he's a pure mastermind.
The quotes from the game were quite neat too, the voice acting was superb! "Can love ever bloom on a battlefield?"
I also liked how there were two endings you could get, that sure was nice.

[LTmatt]

At 12/20/08 05:53 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: It's just a box.

I don't get it.

[Fleshlight]

I want to buy that game but I don't feel like buying a ps1 memory card just so I can play one game

[xscoot]

At 12/20/08 11:46 PM, Xtesh wrote:

At 12/20/08 11:21 PM, LTmatt wrote:

At 12/20/08 05:53 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: It's just a box.

I don't get it.

Snake tells Raiden at one point in MGS2 about the usefulness of cardboard boxes.

He then says not to abuse the bx and to treat it with love/care because "it's just a box".

Also, in MGS3, if you talk to sigint while using the box, this conversation will begin:

Sigint: Uh, Snake...what are you doing?
Snake: I'm in a box.
Sigint: A cardboard box? Why are you...?
Snake: I dunno. I was just looking at it, and suddenly I got this irresistable urge to get inside. No, not an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.
Sigint: Destiny...?

[zero-gravity]

Oh man. The cardboard box made the series worth it. Without that box it would have been just another game.