It's finally time for us to reach the long, arduous, and drawn out conclusion to my Metal Gear Solid 1-3 review blog thingies. Obviously today we are going to look at Metal Gear Solid 1 (released in 1998 for the PS1), because that one was the hardest to play and therefore the last one I finished despite being the first in the series. Here are my MGS2 and MGS3 Reviews for those who missed them, but enough of that, on to the criticism!
 
The story of Metal Gear Solid isn't nearly as batshit crazy as that of MGS2 or even MGS3. What it is however, is a somewhat predictable (now at least. In 1998 I'm sure

It's finally time for us to reach the long, arduous, and drawn out conclusion to my Metal Gear Solid 1-3 review blog thingies. Obviously today we are going to look at Metal Gear Solid 1 (released in 1998 for the PS1), because that one was the hardest to play and therefore the last one I finished despite being the first in the series. Here are my MGS2 and MGS3 Reviews for those who missed them, but enough of that, on to the criticism!
 
The story of Metal Gear Solid isn't nearly as batshit crazy as that of MGS2 or even MGS3. What it is however, is a somewhat predictable (now at least. In 1998 I'm sure

I never finished the original MGS on the PlayStation. I got further along in the remake Twin Snakes. Actually, as much as I liked the Metal Gear franchise, I've never finished any of them.

MGS1 is the best one :( I completed it on extreme when I was like 9 o.o :D

Just because Mei Ling had an accent it's offensive? What kind of accent was she supposed to have? Indian?

The original Metal Gear Solid is one of my favourite games of all time, and this is a hard decision, and some people will disagree, but i belive this is the best of the series with 3 closely following.
 
Sure there are mechanics that probably don't work too good for the new generation. I played Twin Snakes AFTER playing the original, and it just doesn't feel the same, if you think the plot for that game is super cliché now, just imagine it with 60% more bullet time and snake dodging giant fucking rocks, or maybe jumping on MISSLES. 
 
for all the crazy shit that happens in the original MGS (a man who can disguise as any person and goes so far as to drain his own blood for theirs, a cyborg ninja and let's not forget a psychic who can float, read your mind and your memory card. Also, giant fucking mech with nuclear launch capability), it never gets AS over the top as Twin Snakes makes it appear. At some point, the only benefit the developers saw from re-imagining MGS with newer tech, was the ability to make him look like Dante from DMC.
 
Now i never played MGS when it first came out, hell, i played it in 2006 and finished it for the first time then (i had by that point finished MGS2 though) It's a game that tried to be like a hollywood action movie, from top notch presentation to voice acting that wasn't cringeworthy, setpieces every 15 or so minutes. Now MGS isn't the longest game either, for a 2 Disc game, i've managed to finish that game in 2 hours and 29 minutes. But that was on my 3rd run, so i guess by then i knew all the tricks that game had up it's sleeve.
 
Overall, maybe going in reverse order wasn't the best decision to make, or maybe you really don't see what other's see in the original (wheter it just be nostalgia or anything else), but that first MGS is a pinnacle for what a game could be at the time, and it also at the same time doesn't forget that it's a game at the same time, which some people like and some people don't like (there are people who like MGS for the gameplay, for the story, or both).
 
Also, do you really prefer the Mei-Ling from Twin Snakes over the Mei-Ling from the original?

So, you like to play Castlevania? No? What the hell's wrong with you? It's a good game, and this is totally not an in-game advertisement.

i dont see how Mei Ling's voice is offensive.  I have heard a worse accent on my co workers who are actually from china.

MGS is my all time favourite out of all Metal Gear games.

The great tragedy of that era is that it hasn't aged well in any regard and it's games are almost universally unplayable today. Games from the late 90's were a stepping stone and nothing more. That said you really had to be there to appreciate them. MGS1 was amazing when it came out. I remember getting it for Christmas in 98 and being so blown away I played through it 4 times. Twin Snakes was alright, but it didn't feel the same. It lacked the dirty gritty feel of the original release. It was too clean. I don't follow you with Mei Ling being borderline offensive. I thought she was fine.

Man I just played that game for the first time this year, and I dropped just short of despising it. The story was so over wrought and insanely dumb. It was more like a mini game collection set to a mellow drama written by a mentally ill child.