Retromania continues with the ultimate Metal Gear Solid retrospective. My fellow gearheads and I take a 20-plus year look at the game that started a revolution.
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NourishedPsyche ▶ youtube.com/NourishedPsyche
The Kojima Frequency podcast ▶ youtube.com/KojiProNetwork
F1NG3RS ▶ youtube.com/F1NG3RSMUSIC
Garrett Hunter ▶ youtube.com/XghunterX
J’s Reviews ▶ youtube.com/JsReviews
Twitter:
NourishedPsyche ▶ twitter.com/NourishedPsyche
The Kojima Frequency podcast ▶ twitter.com/KojimaFreq
F1NG3RS ▶ twitter.com/F1NG3RSMUSIC
DaysAhead ▶ twitter.com/KendrickLamario
Nitroid ▶ twitter.com/Nitroid
Garrett Hunter ▶ https://twitter.com/GarrettHunter
J’s Reviews ▶ https://twitter.com/JSREVIEWS2
Vector ▶ twitter.com/Dead_Vector
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0:00 – Intro
1:59 – The Twelve Doots
3:13 – Cinematics
4:14 – The Demo
6:20 – Colorful Characters
8:57 – Tactical Espionage Academy
10:39 – Demolition Man
12:19 – Worlds of Power
13:55 – A Very Special Birthday
15:31 – That’s the TEA
16:27 – Gameplay to Cutscene Ratio
17:39 – The Architect
20:12 – I’m Bossy
21:26 – Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
24:31 – A Fantasy Based on Reality
26:28 – Life (or Death) Lessons
28:14 – Outro
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Sweet content doods!
15:00 fax lol
I've been waiting for this, Dead Vector. Thank you 💀
Damn, that was a great YouTube video man, I’m serious. The warning at the end about franchises and fanboyism consuming one’s life is something I needed to hear when I was big in the motorsports community a few years ago, it’s a very important thing that I noticed a lot young people just don’t get.
As for a Metal Gear memory, I think discovering the Metal Gear franchise as late is I did, (I found this a while after MGS5 came out and the MG survive disaster was brewing), and finding out about this whole world of crazy stories and characters, then finding a massive online community of jaded old timers, cultists, casual fans, high skilled speed runners and lets players, and badass content creators (Like you Vec!), was so incredible to me.
I had grown up playing driving games, platformers and and mediocre shooters, and here was this bizarre series that looked familiar but played like nothing else, that hinted incredible themes about politics, censorship, different ideologies, different world-views that I hadn’t seen before growing up in a small town, right around the time a certain election result and subsequent media meltdown threw my own ideas about the world up in flames, while simultaneously some personal events threw my own future into question.
The writing was dumb, the stories nonsensical, but It got me thinking about all sorts of things, the military industrial complex, censorship, even though I didn’t fully understand what was going on I could feel what the games might’ve meant/meant to me, and it deeply inspired me. I eventually broadened my horizons, tried all sorts of games, books, and media I wouldn’t have looked at otherwise, and I learned a whole lot about storytelling, life the universe and everything.
I don’t think the games are the greatest thing ever, far from it in fact, but they are responsible for a creative awaking in me right at the lowest point in my life. Metal Gear, and the things and people it lead me to, helped me become a better person.
I don’t know where I’m going with this little speech, but I’m pursuing a career in writing, and Metal Gear is one of the things that inspired me to go in that direction. I want to explore a lot of the themes The Gear did in my own works, but learn from its mistakes and do it in a unique way. I want to inspire people the same way it did to me.
Metal Gear showed me the power of entertainment, that games can say something, that games can be more than just big numbers+explosion equals dopamine.
Thanks for including me! This is awesome!
Couple minutes in and i'm already glad i came across your streams and subbed.
funny how you said that the boss fights made it good. But to me, the action sequences has been a stain for the franchise. The part where you shoot a ton of guards after meeting meryl, and that long, dreaded staircase sequence… I really disliked it. I really don't care about the giant mechs or emptying mags, I just wanna sneak around
I remember playing MGS on my Game boy advance ages ago. Never got hooked on the rest, hell i haven't even played most of 'em, but damn am i glad Kojimminy cricket made like five of them, cause that means i get to watch awesome reviews by you. Love your style dude. Keep at it.
Follow the collaborators:
YouTube:
NourishedPsyche ▶ youtube.com/NourishedPsyche
The Kojima Frequency podcast ▶ youtube.com/KojiProNetwork
F1NG3RS ▶ youtube.com/F1NG3RSMUSIC
Garrett Hunter ▶ youtube.com/XghunterX
J’s Reviews ▶ youtube.com/JsReviews
Twitter:
NourishedPsyche ▶ twitter.com/NourishedPsyche
The Kojima Frequency podcast ▶ twitter.com/KojimaFreq
F1NG3RS ▶ twitter.com/F1NG3RSMUSIC
DaysAhead ▶ twitter.com/KendrickLamario
Nitroid ▶ twitter.com/Nitroid
Garrett Hunter ▶ https://twitter.com/GarrettHunter
J’s Reviews ▶ https://twitter.com/JSREVIEWS2
Vector ▶ twitter.com/Dead_Vector
OMG this is awesomethankyou
Good stuff as always. Did you mean to set your like/dislike counter to be turned off for this one?
Metal gear solid the Masterpiece that could never be replicated quite the same again no other game today has had such a superb level of voice acting pacing and in-depth exploration of mature themes…and real world problems
Dead vector kept us waiting…
You're like the other side of Jorin Lee's coin.