A Metal Gear Retrospective | Act I

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

I originally intended to upload this as one whole video. Unfortunately KZbin does not allow videos over 12 hours. The second Act of this story can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKfFin2Gp8SIoa8

[@gelwocuthbert1360]

IDK why they change the rules around over and over. I'm not a creator but I've seen kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnbPe3p4jJx1qNU from 8 years ago than 5 months ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/o16bpoNmbLGgh5o But I recall another youtuber about a year and a half ago saying they stopped allowing 24 hour videos and if you look up literally "24 hour video" there does seem to be a gap around 3 years ago to 1 year ago in videos over 12 hours. anyways weird tangent over.

[@Tiptup300]

I'm glad you renamed this. The original name left me completely disinterested. I totally just thought this was a whole new set of videos until I read this comment. Really enjoy your videos. Hope your well. Excited for the real Silent Hill 2 remaster review video.

[@Grinnar]

That's weird, about a month back I watched a 3 day long video. It took me forever to get through. Appreciate your videos, dude.

[@JS-pw8nr]

Dude, I enjoy your videos, but what the hell happened to you? Ok, ya, I've got two tattoo's, both crosses, one above my heart and one on my back, right shoulder, where nobody can see them. Why? They aren't for show. I know they are there and they keep me remembering where my heart and mind should be. I say this because you look like you got into a fight with a tat-gun, and you lost bro. If you were my "famorite son", I'd tell you to shave those twigs off your face and cover those tat's up. I'm not saying you can't do what you want, bro. I'm saying, you built a brand and I've been watching your stuff for years, bro. Now, you look like someone who has to stay half-a-mile away from kids play-grounds and schools. You speak clearly and well. You use your mind well. You used to look like like you carried yourself well. And, your intro used to feature things that reflected being someone who had their stuff together. You wore a button up shirt, for heaven's sake. Ya, I get it. The world these days don't make much of looking like a shit-bag, but it's a hell of a thing to see someone like you being that vapid and shallow. Why? That ain't your brand, or not how it used to be, any way. It makes me think, what are you running from, Bro? It makes me want to ask, are you ok, Bro? Have you ever heard this saying before, Bro? You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy. Ever heard that saying, Bro? Maybe tattoo's and the hammered-shit look is what "all the kids are doing", but you wear it like just plain shit because, my Brother-in-Christ, unless you want to start from scratch and talk like you are some ignorant thug, that ain't you. You don't curse like someone with a 1000 word vocabulary. You speak like someone one with a 1,000,000,000 word vocabulary, smart, clear, clean, and you elivate the video's you make by doing so. That's what hits-the-mark so hard with your videos! Your video's are many things and the subject matter may be, itself, shallow, but you, Bro, ain't shallow. You elivate, Bro, and by so doing, elivate the listener. Not for the public, Bro. Not for us. Do a Retrospective of yourself, of your chanel, and your brand and and all that you have built, Bro. Ask yourself, why am I throwing away what I (you) made, that you own? Brother, ain't nobody throwing away Ferrari's and Lamborghini's. Ya, maybe you sell 'em. Only a jack-ass throws one away. And, Bro, you've got more than that in what you've built here. It's your Reputation, Brother. You do what you've got to do. But, I watch your stuff with my kids and I share my love of games with them through things like this. I can't, in good conscience, let them see that you look like crap, as a person. Why? Because, all young men make dumb choices out of the barn. That doesn't mean I don't want them to consider their own future and where they want to go, never mind me. And, Brother, what we look like is our "Billboard" to the people we meet and what we have to share. You don't piss that down the drain lightly. Why? My kids are going to be who they are, long after I am gone. They are going to get old. Their tattoo's are going to show long after they have become old white dudes, and father's in their own right. So, ask the question's, Brother. The hard one's. The one's that young men should ask. What would I want for my own children, when I become a father? What do I want to forge into my legacy? Time to get serious, Bro. I still like your video's. I can't deny that your presentation, personally, has turned into shit and I've lost some respect for your work because of it. Watch old Kevin Samuels video's. He died, but he has something to say to men and women. Watch some Jordan Peterson. He is alive and he also has something to say to men and women. You are worth it, "Yourfavoriteson".

[@azure5584]

Then how did Josh Strife Hayes upload a goddamned 77hrs video lol?

[@rhyslloyd5590]

Never heard of this channel before, but a 7 hour video on MGS that says Act 1 is exactly what I need in my life right now.

[@jasonrapp5209]

Part 2 is up already and it’s 6 hours

[@rex_jupiter]

+1

[@arturo182]

I won't let the fact that I've already watched all the individual parts stop me from watching this!

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Round 2

[@Daftanemone]

@@YourFavoriteSon1how are you remotely proud of this shit? You have been working in KZbin in such a little amount of time that you don’t deserve any sense of legitimacy to post 11 hours of nonsense

[@PhantomPain7778]

@@YourFavoriteSon1is this new? Or just a longer version of the individual videos? Either way I’m watching them all

[@GrimMorningstar5430]

THATS THE SPIRIT BRO WE GOTTA SUPPORT OUR FAVORITE SON!

[@ItsNikolai]

I’m proud of you son, wake up your brother we are going to Wendy’s.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

I'm more of a Burger King kind of guy

[@yatomii2140]

Lol

[@JCBOiii]

​@@YourFavoriteSon1 nah, man, if your parents named *any* fast food venue you'd say YES, because if you didn't snatch this opportunity or decided to be picky, you may not get another one for like weeks

[@funkerndrummer]

Can't be more proud of my favorite sun than I am. I'm the proudest here.

[@gabrielauman2863]

Words that grill

[@WeaverDudeSkater]

I'm so happy this has finally dropped! Absolutely stunned by your efforts here, you've clearly put in the work and for a series so close to my heart too, thank you Son

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Thanks! This has been my favorite series to cover by far. Can't believe it's finally done.

[@EmmaBonn96]

3:48:25 semper fi is a marine motto It tipped stillman off that he was not a seal

[@docdingus6961]

"None of them stick like Metal Gear." Peacewalker. Final fight with PW, the cutscene of Big Boss in the AI core pounding on the conaining wall screaming "WHY! TELL ME WHY! BOSS! BOSS!" while the Kazuma Jinnouchi score crescendos and NORAD is bordering on mutiny because of the radar spoofing of the nuclear launches. It lives in my head and solicits emotion every single time. What a masterclass.

[@gamerboy6787]

0.0 Bravo, son. Bravo. And I see the notification for both parts. Definitely bookmarking both parts to watch later. I can't even imagine how long this must have taken you. High fives and fistbumps for days, son. Your old man is so impressed, I'll give you a bonus for your allowance next month. 👍

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Hope you enjoy!

[@jamessullysolipsist4860]

Act1: 7h Boy, we in for a ride

[@DJArkum69]

I don't even sleep for that long. Lol

[@pwncakes420]

It's so awesome seeing all this love for Metal Gear. It too is my favorite game series of all time and while I haven't seen the individual videos before this, you can bet your bottom dollar I will be watching through every second of this! Thanks for all your hard work and dedication. "You're pretty good" xD

[@jasperfox6821]

Always love a good 6 hour long metal gear solid retrospective :3

[@sushrutpathy3171]

Ok we're gonna need 2 cigars for this one. Gracias Son.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Double it up

[@Darthemed]

Fantastic work, son, you clearly put an astonishing amount of research and effort into this. Just remember, ‘disect’ and ‘dissect’ have different pronunciations. Proud of you.

[@omfgitsfat]

So I know the gene thing is confusing at first glance, and it's easy to get wrong. Solid DID get the dominant genes, the genes most common. Liquid did get the recessive genes, genes less common. However, the recessive genes are the ones that would make a better soldier. Quicker reaction time, better eyesight, problem solving, etc. Liquid just heard recessive and thought that it was bad. Solid being the inferior clone is why the "don't be chained by your genes" message is relevant. If the soldier genes that the project was trying to exploit were dominant, then they wouldn't be worth exploiting, they'd be readily available in the population.

[@JustGensin]

Thank you for putting everything together. I don't think any of my friends will get it, but I'm gonna send it to them regardless. That way they understand my fixation on this serious. You done good Son. You done good

[@Axariful9]

Let's go another Metal Gear Retrospective. Love watching/listening to these in the background.

[@Gloomdrake]

You fit a lot of game history into 6 minutes and 51 seconds. Very impressive, Son

[@mbe102]

7 of the best hours I'll watch

[@rayvanderlinde2919]

I am proud of you, son.

[@LuckWickedYT]

God this is PHENOMENAL, thank you for your work

[@donaldbarnett7168]

You're always so insightful and creative son.

[@iBMcFly]

That first area of mgs1 is tough lol

[@DBigRedMan]

This is going to get me through work today. Even though I already listened to then separately 😂 Definitely makes me wanna play through all of them!

[@bjg8638]

I've watched all of these videos individually, but I'll watch them all again anyway lol Metal Gear is one of the best video game series of all time and Son loves these games as much as I do.

[@Dante-RB]

Bro, i just recently dicovered your channel and content and been devouring every video that I can, it's amazing how stupidly good you are. Of course I wil watch a 7 hour video essay on Metal Gear. Keep it up son 👌🔥

[@SmokingRat11]

You made me proud of being a subscribers of this channel. Commencing the Virtuos video NOW!

[@hsx7576]

Metal Gear Solid is my all time favorite video game franchise as well. As you ve rightfully mentioned in the beginning of the video it sticks with you after you play the games and enter its world. Everything from music design artwork gameplay etc is so freaking good and above everything its story dialogues and cinematic. Such a deep franchise, its main entries will forever leave a mark on the video game industry and imo in arts in general. like he says ;) « we need to pass the torch (…) building the future, and keeping the past alive, are one and the same thing »

[@nilus2k]

What is funny is despite it being a bad port and disowned. For a lot of us older gamers the NES Metal Gear was our entry into the series. Also with the coverage of Snatcher and Policenaughts, you could add coverage of Death Stranding and just call this a Kojima retrospective One more edit as I watch. The need for a manual for Metal Gear 2 was probably as much a copywriter protection scheme as it was an immersion tool

[@GameChallenges]

I absolutely love these retrospectives. And metal gear being one of my two all time favorite game series, I really hope you work around to getting to Assassins creed retrospectives for the whole series as well. Amazing videos man thanks!

[@gregoryderpwrld111]

2:12:44 Fun fact, I didn’t remember that Diazepam existed at this point in the game, I thought Snake couldn’t fire a sniper rifle or something properly, so I abused savestates (since I was playing on EmuDeck) to get past this bossfight

[@Florescent6Muffin]

I can’t wait to settle down with this video and a game later tonight tbh ;; everyone is in for a full evening/night with just part one LOL

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Hope you enjoy the video(s)!

[@MaxBoomingHere]

3:13:50 HD collection is also on Xbox 360 and Vita. Legacy collection adds MGS4 and is PS3 exclusive

[@mikel3510]

My favorite son made a video! I'll let it play every time i sleep until i actually watch it like any good father should

[@ramonmartinez7775]

I really wanna see how some of the games mentioned in 3:23 that I feel have nothing to do with Metal Gear but do. I'm ready to find out.

[@tricd0444]

1:19:50 Shinkawa leaving absolutely made a difference in quality of the games. The optional codec calls are huge in filling in backstory, and adding depth to characters. MGS4 has next to no optional codec calls, and all of the characters fall apart as a result.

[@coldwarmike]

I’m confused, did you mean to mention Fukushima? Yoji has been a part of every team up to death stranding. His role was dialed back in 4 on the design level but he was still integral for the art. Fukushima is the one often used as a reference for when the game lost a step in terms of dialogue and depth regarding characterization. But the fact that there’s a huge mystery around the man and whether he was even really doing what he was credited for is a whole rabbit hole in and of itself unfortunately.

[@tricd0444]

@@coldwarmike I probably did mean Fukushima and just mixed up the names from hearing both in the video. Regardless of who ends up being responsible, MGS4 takes away the optional codec calls and we lose a ton of that backstory and "extra" that always gave a nice touch to all of the previous games. There is no similar reward to exploring the codec menu in MGS4 compared to previous titles, and I feel like it suffers because of it.

[@coldwarmike]

@@tricd0444 no worries I honestly thought I missed something is the only reason I asked lol. Fukushima is an interesting one though because the case for better dialogue with him is absolutely there, but the fact that he’s just gone without a trace after the first few is so odd and makes it all so weird as far as explaining the why and how

[@alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838]

Otacon needs to keep his genes in his jeans

[@EspressosWork]

son, are you well? a 10 hour video is a new record

[@austinterry1674]

just adding this to save my place in the video great video by the way 4:13:52

[@budwylde7020]

You sir are a god for creating this

[@akirious]

finally. gonna listen to all these repeatedly for work for weeks

[@nubbmarr]

I loved the metal gear games. I bought the master collection so I could play them all again. Funny story, I never fully beat Sons of Liberty for years. I couldnt press the buttons fast enough to avoid choking from Solidus lol. Now I need to play them yet again! Lol. Love the videos dude.

[@lordfizzz]

Ah yes YFS pumping out hella hours of MGS goodness. Thank you dude

[@ForceCubed3]

Missed opportunity to call it "Volume I"

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Disc I would've also been better. Didn't even cross my mind until now.

[@loga8539]

​@@YourFavoriteSon1 Act 1, Liquid Sun

[@putthefuinfun1947]

Best game series ever made

[@solidsadd]

2:26:41 You mean OCELOT shoots the card out of snakes hand. Just teasing. Listening to both these videos while I work. Thank you for your hard work; I am gonna keep my ears peeled for more incorrect name drops💜

[@Hiroth86]

About the codec call where they talk about the internet in MGS2, the first world countries have had internet access for around 30 years, but new countries are still coming online. The internet is still in its early stages, and as more cultures/age groups join, social media clashes will happen more often. Over time, I think these cultures will blend into one global internet culture, something we already see in first world countries where people communicate through memes.

[@sjcgill]

MGS? Check. Hours long? Check. Bring it on.

[@nathanielcapes5022]

Ive watched each video induvidualy but now i have the longform versìon to listen to whille im working....and for that...i say thank you

[@Gggmanlives]

"Act 1" ʘ‿ʘ

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Just short and sweet

[@MorticianCady]

You're telling me, son, that you've made a 6 hour plus long video about metal gear? Interesting. I'm listening to this at work.

[@willb1742]

Appreciate the time stamps

[@lukeskywalker81]

Probably best game series of all time

[@tylerforbes4359]

It's wild that this just dropped because I literally started a replay of snake eater 2 days ago

[@KingOfPirateGames]

Mentioning The Great Escape and not Escape From New York is insane when the main characters literally have the exact same name

[@GeorgeValentineIV]

That feeling you described is accurate 100%! I'll admit that I hadn't played the first MGS due to not being able to find a copy until first class in highschool having already played MGS 2 just months prior to that. It was the first year of the economic crisis and it was the year I'd make new friends and do regular sleepovers almost every Friday to Sunday. MGS as a series always creates Christmas vibes (like Diehard Christmas kind of vibes) to the point that one might feel like something is missing after watching the ending of each entry (especially mgs 2 and 1): what's missing is probably a cover of "let it snow". Sounds catchy and basic but as a person who tends to watch the entire series cutscenes starting from November to finish a week before Christmas and Xenosaga during summers I can tell that these two franchises have their kind of timing to watch them because I've tried watching either of them during different times of the year and it just feels off!

[@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer]

Until this game, I'd never heard 'Shaman' be used as an adjective. Metal Gear: Solid truly broke new ground.

[@BobThe500]

13 hours of information i already know, im eating good tonight

[@abyss9316]

As long as I live and breathe Metal Gear will be with me

[@yatomii2140]

I just finished the whole series individually 😢

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Time for a rewatch lol

[@yatomii2140]

@@YourFavoriteSon1 you’re absolutely right haha

[@wowie-ree131]

HONEY! OUR BOY JUST POSTED

[@SiliconSlyWolf]

I heard a commentary that how the fulton system functions in MGS5 vs. how it actually works makes it look like Kojima and staff went to Wikipedia and read the first few sentences and stopped there. I read it myself, and that sounded spot on. If there's anything I won't trust Kojima on, is things like physics and structural integrity. Also, MGS5 takes place in the 50s I think, and yet they have portable wormhole generators. And I don't think even nano machines can explain Psycho Mantis flying. I think that rule of cool commentary from earlier is all that matters in MGS.

[@alexandernoviello9557]

"Not me tho" hehehe I giggled outloud to myself

[@cleric4933]

I am honored this video came to me after 5 hours of release. Good job KZbin.

[@jobdoneproductions]

Ah, hello my new sleepytime video for the forseeable

[@protoaltus]

Oh my, just as I finished watching TPP retrospective? You must be metalling my gear solid right now man. Time to mindlessly consume media that warns against mindlessly consuming media

[@techdeth]

Great video son, I'll be back from getting cigarettes and milk any day now. I love you.

[@quackmandoo]

Something to sleep to ❤

[@jameserickson7484]

You know what? You are my favorite son.

[@Kinshinobi]

No chapters in a 7 hour video is wild.... I'ma watch it all though

[@FruitSaladFC]

Great video

[@Maxine_luv]

4:59:30 ive come to peace with the fact that this is just how the brain works long before playing mgs2, we take ideas, tear pieces, and make a new personality. Whats the point of sharing ideas if people are allergic to taking them in.

[@tygeta9851]

It's crazy I literally (finished a cpl hours ago) just watched an older 6 hour video on the mg series in timeline order. I was thinking 🤔 I would love a MG deep dive by my favorite son. Welp what's six more hours , I have a long drive home.

[@flarelord8425]

Holy crap this beeg :D

[@bennygerow]

Part 1?!?! We eating real good.

[@muninn9674]

ive already seen the individual videos like 3 times each at minimum, this i imagine will be no different. kept us waiting with the compilations, huh?

[@bobbobbing4220]

"kept us waiting huh"

[@kaymeachem1619]

3:48:24 damper fi It’s not a seals motto but a marines motto.

[@creepycasta9430]

Part 1: The Favorite Sun

[@zeprince1796]

This for like a Kojima retrospect not Metal Gear ain't nothing wrong with that I got to see games no one never mentioned in other retrospecs so good job son

[@CurtisBomB]

Ya did good son.

[@TheStrategist314]

How many PTO days do I have to take off to get through all the acts? They need a 2 week notice.

[@hoobaguy]

I played MG and MG2SS back in the day on imported msx. I really got into MGS and played it over and over. Then MGS2 came along, and i could never get over the whole AI influencing people through social media. I could never play any of the other games because 2 messed me up, and i was afraid the others wouldn't be as good as 2.

[@xemyk359]

Commenting on this video so I will have commented on both videos

[@Anthony-ik2dw]

Metal gear is why I bought my first PlayStation 1

[@DamonVerial]

wow

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

wow

[@Mattznick]

liking and commenting for algorithm boost

[@Ludens1001]

What's your thoughts on the Master Collection. Can't remember you talking about it in your Retrospectives.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

I think it started out pretty rough, but they've made some pretty decent fixes and changes. They've also owned up to a lot of the mistakes they made and have been pretty transparent about changing things for Vol 2. Overall: Not Bad

[@SiliconSlyWolf]

I don't remember how I felt about Raiden at first, but I know I didn't sit there going "I'm not playing Snake?! LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE!!" But think right here, right now, he really is a good stand in for later gen Y and especially gen Z compared to Snake being more like boomer and gen X. Snake is the old guy, that learned the old ways, and did things the "real" way as they'd say. Raiden is younger guy, that grew up with new methods, and learned via technology rather than as direct hands on, and has possibly never seen any of the old methods.

[@Jimboslice222]

Very true. I’m sure I was a little bummed at first when I realized I won’t be playing as snake. remember, they advertised basically only the Tanker portion of the game in commercials I’m pretty sure, so it did look like it’d be another game where you play as snake but then you get past the first maybe 45 min- an hour of the game (depending on how you play) and now you’re just some guy 🫤 still didn’t make the game unplayable by any means 🤷 as a matter of fact, MGS2 is still my favorite Metal Gear to this day

[@vincentbatten4686]

Anyone know what the series is to the left of solanin on the bookshelf?

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Goodnight PunPun

[@aroccoification]

So when does Delta come out? 2024 is pretty much over

[@GrimMorningstar5430]

This gonna be a long one. Son bring me my pipe and a cup of tea im gonna be here for awhile

[@edoardodicesare2373]

one plot hole I think it's not been resolved by the series is, how could the gov let Big Boss run Foxhound in the 90s if he established it in 1970 only to then go on to do peace walker, tpp etc...? I mean I don't see how a former army elite turned mercenary/terrorist could then go on to run a top secret US army unit tbh lol

[@Gloomdrake]

He plead “oppose-daisies” and they gave him a second chance

[@SiliconSlyWolf]

I have mixed feelings about things like the "back of the CD" case. I used to rent games all the time, and someone at school was confused when I got stuck trying to find the codec number. Then I was confused how they were so confused I was confused, and then confused at their explanation how it was so obvious and simple. I know Japan is, or at least was different and didn't have rentals, you either bought the game or didn't, but over here, that was almost a lost sale. Renting was a means to try before you buy, and that was almost a lost permanent sale. And while we do have the Internet today, there are games that don't do a good job ensuring you have access to that information within the product, like StarTropics not including any variation of the old physical letter with the online only version of the game on the Switch.

[@creepycasta9430]

Way back when, living in Scandinavia, I was fortunate enough to get all of my PS1 really cheap - didn’t occur to me that the guy who sold them was pirating them, all I cared about was getting a new game once a week (all allowance spend, it reckon it amounts to 10$-ish) so when THAT specific section came along, I had two problems: Could barely understand English as it is and had no clue what was meant by “back of the CD case” so, tenacious as a gamer can be, just started dialing all frequencies until Meryl’s popped up. Cannot begin to comprehend how long that must’ve taken to figure out. Point being - where there’s a will, there’s a way?

[@omfgitsfat]

It's more of an antipiracy thing, a pirate won't have the physical box so it would stop their progress.

[@Ghostie.]

What game am I going to play for 7 hours while this plays?

[@altaryumzolat]

Will you ever touch Metal Gear Survive, son?

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Check Act II

[@altaryumzolat]

@@YourFavoriteSon1 I didn't even get notified there's an act 2. Damn. Thank you!

[@TheHalfishExperience]

Brother we are eating

[@thlkmura]

You did such a good job, I’m not even going to beat you tonight, son.

[@evermoorzknight3685]

I had MGS1 when I was little and never did finish it. I'm now doing my first acctual playthrough at 33 and wondering how the fuck did I get the stealth camo without even progressing past the first hour because I had no idea what I was doing at the time. Anyways it just feels right to finally to get this playthrough going. I dont know what it is but so far this game is beautiful compared to whats been coming out lately. Sure they look good visually but somehow MGS1 looks better and is very fun to my mind.

[@omfgitsfat]

You get the stealth camo as a reward for completing the game and saving otacon

[@nilus2k]

Snake? Snake! Snake!!!!!

[@charaznable8072]

Metaru Geeru!!!!