Is Metal Gear Solid 1 worth playing in 2019?

As a little kid growing up in the ’90s, I gamed my way through puberty with consoles such as the PlayStation One and the Game Boy Color.

[lptmg]

honestly... I'd go with Twin Snakes instead. Never understood the absolute hatred towards it

[The_Sage]

The cutscene differences are the largest complaint. I have both... The original is better, in my opinion.

[naruga]

original MGS can be played in decades to come and i m playing through it once in a year....plays like eating an expensive chocolate .... for me is up there with legendry classics like RE1 (original PS1 ) , Sonic 2 , Castlevania , FF 7 , Mario ,and if we place it among classic movies--- Terminator 2 and og Star Wars

@Iptmg WTF ??/ Twin Snakes its like a chinese garbage copy in comparison to the original ...(i wonder how Kojima gave premission to be made) ....

[Vandamme21]

I could never get into the 1st metal gear solid . I thought it was boring compared to Syphon Filter.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

haha

[NecrumOddBoy]

I replayed it about 8 years ago and it's definitely an archaic game, controls-wise. If you can manage to play it with a little more patience to learn how we gamed on PS1, then YES, because it's a phenomenal title.

[TheFirstClassic]

When I first tried to play it I thought it had aged really poorly, but man, once I gave it some time I was hooked. Top 5 favorite games for me, despite its age, you just have to get good at the awkward mechanics of putting enemies in chokehold without alerting them. It eventually becomes second nature tho.

[SegaSaturn669]

It's a bit too easy and disrupts the nature of the gameplay with the additions. I'd recommend upscaling on a ps1 emulator.

I'm surprised it's never been remade in HD.

[Nu]

Retro games were best played in their original released generation. If you didn't experience a game i n it's release console generation, it's difficult to appreciate. I thought Zelda Ocarina was mind blowing at it's time. Same goes for Metroid prime. Sometimes it's difficult to go back into nostalgia..

[TheFirstClassic]

The voice acting honestly was much weaker in twin snakes.

[jelloaceomega]

Problem with Twin Snakes is that Revolver was supposed to be ambidextrous, and Revolver had a scene that is non-canon. Where he can't hold his gun with he left hand.

[gamerben]

first person shooting in twin snakes plays a role. It's a more modern mechanic yes but the game was never designed with that in mind so it makes it way too easy

[generic-user-name]

Not only did they turn the cutscenes into something from the cutting room floor of a matrix movie, they took the mechanics from mgs2 and plopped them straight into mgs1's level design. It was incredibly lazy.

The only improvement were the visuals.

[2pacalypsenow]

Lol yes.

[Iltapalanyymi]

yeah

[shaun mcwayne]

A good game is like a good book, or movie, timeless.

[Gardenia]

Timeless indeed. I bought this game back in 1998 on the PS1, and I still play it from time to time. One of the best games ever made

[Rangerman1208]

Definitely. I might even say that this PS1 stealth game is far superior over Left Alive, a stealth game released in 2019.

[TheColbertinator]

Twin Snakes instead.

[ANIALATOR136]

Voice acting and cutscene direction is worse in Twin Snakes

[TheColbertinator]

Yeah but FPS camera when aiming :P

[Godmars290]

And the "Duh" award of the year, if not decade, goes to...

[Miss_Vixen]

It's a timeless classic and still one of my favorite games I've played even today.

[AnubisG]

Imagine if we would get a remake like Spyro, Crash, Sadow of the colossus got..... would be amazing.

[JonTheGod]

We had a tease of what could be at the end of MGS4.

[Stanjara]

Definitely yes, although remaster would be better solution khm khm Bulepoint ...khm khm.

[Flewid638]

With a Twin Snakes engine, yeah. Heck...I never even played that version. I just remember looking at it when it came out, thinking it would be nice if I could play it over in those graphics.

[patriotZero]

of course

[MaxiPower90]

twin snakes was awsome. dont listen to the plebs that say its cutscenes are over the top. plenty of worse things happen in kojimas own orognial games.

[The_Sage]

Yeah Yeah... And The Phantom Menace was better than A New Hope because of CGI, right? Smh.

[MaxiPower90]

in peace walker, one of the mechs in that game. the name of it escapes me stomps on snake but he has the strength to hold it off which is utter bullshit or is that fine cause its kojimas own vision?

[MaxiPower90]

or old snake crawling through a microwave... dont know about you but living creatures dont last more than a few seconds in microwaves before irreversible damage is done... but its fine cause its kojima...

[MaxiPower90]

so yea a man doing a backflip and landing on a missile isnt rhar farfetched in comparison..

[The_Sage]

Snake stopping Zeke from stomping him was stupid. In 4 it wasn't a microwave, there were microwaves. He was told it would kill him. He survived just barely.

Back flipping onto a 500mph rocket?.. I literally laughed out loud, as did my buddy who was watching me play.

[TheSinsibleOne]

Yes. And it'll be worth playing in 2050.

[Bane35]

They should remake metal gear 1,2,3,

[strayanalog]

Are any games worth playing 10 or 20+ years after their release? I would like to think so. There's a reason certain titles are called "classics." So, better question, how many more articles with this type of subject do we have left before we realize that it's a ridiculous question?

[Bane35]

Thats what sites like this do and its gonna stop

[strayanalog]

If anybody can break this it's you, Bane.

[Tross]

I would say, yeah. A quality game is a quality game regardless of when it's played. I mean, obviously games look better now and game mechanics have evolved too, but I also kind of miss the pre-DLC era and between you and me, while I think it's great that there's a lot more to the most recent Metal Gear Solid games, I also kind of miss the simplicity of just being Snake and stealthing through Shadow Moses.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

These articles with these random questions are always funny. Metal Gear Solid is a classic for good reason. If you want to play it in 2019, then it's worth playing in 2019. It's not like there's some application process you have to go through first.

[Chumdiddy]

Yes. It probably holds up better than any PS1 game.

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

If you enjoy any game it is always worth playing it again no matter how long ago it was made.

[FanboysKiller]

Yes.

[Imortus_san]

Every game is worth playing if you like it, it doesn't matter how many years it as.

[AK91]

Sure why not

[LoveSpuds]

My love of MGS is completely intertwined with a healthy dollop of nostalgia so I couldn't really comment on how the game would be perceived by a younger gamer who has never played it before. I am not saying it isn't a classic, nor am I suggesting its isnt a historically important piece of software, but it has aged somewhat.

I still play the whole series every couple of years though, I love the MGS games.

[MWH]

It's a timeless classic, so the short answer is Yes.

[carcarias]

Yes, although, if I'm not mistaken, it was remade on the Gamecube so maybe that'd be a better choice for younger gamers.

Classic game that I played through again just a few years back on emulator. Perfectly legal before anyone cries foul, since I own the original disc and console still :)

[Sophisticated_Chap]

A remake would be nice, but I'm not sure that Konami has the talent or the balls.

[babadivad]

No

[Chocoburger]

Seeing as how its one of the greatest and most memorable games of all time, the answer is a resounding YES!

MGS is so different from today's games:
No need to 'patch it later'.
No grinding.
No microtransactions.
No toxic online player base.
No fake controversies.

MGS came from a time when gaming was interesting and amazing, and this game in particular stood among the elite. If you've never played MGS before, don't read up on it, go into it blind and enjoy this masterpiece!

[CDbiggen]

It'll be worth playing until the end of time. This headline alone will probably make me play through it again.

[MadLad]

By today's standards; eh.
Nostalgia does wonders, but I don't think it would blow the minds of new players.

[Al_Simmons]

naw.

[Mr Marvel]

I’d prefer a full remake in 4K of this PlayStation Classic. If not on PS4, then PS5.

[Gatsu]

It always is.

[Djinn]

I’d say yes, more so than most older games. Which i usually hate.

[NapalmSanctuary]

Honestly I think its the one of the best. Seriously, head to head with MG2: Solid Snake for best in series. And I didn't play either game until 2015 so I don't wanna hear about any nostalgia crap.

[Good-Smurf]

If you're playing for its story then you wouldn't be asking that question,Metal Gear Solid still have better story than many if not most of the so called AAA games released today.
Sniper Wolf death is still one of the saddest moment in gaming.

[cell989]

My little brother at age 8 played the living crap out of that game. He had the bandana and the tuxedo. This game will survive the test of time

[CrimsonWing69]

Yes, because it’s a damn good game and still there’s really nothing like it that breaks the fourth wall.

[QuePasa87]

Of course!