Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game)

Metal Gear Solid is a stealth video game released in 1998 and the third installation in the mainline Metal Gear series. It tells the story of former US Special Forces operator with the codename "Solid Snake" being sent to eliminate the terrorist threat on Shadow Moses Island. thumb|"You're a natural-born soldier. You're not the grow-old-gracefully type. Same for all of us who've seen real action. The only place we can feel truly alive is on the battlefield. I'm a soldier too. I know those feelings of powerlessness, frustration that you feel every day. You've tried to play the boy scout out there in Alaska, but you can't race dogs in the snow forever. Why don't you come back to us and be a soldier again?" —Col. Roy Campbell thumb|200px|"Listen, Meryl. Everybody feels sick the first time they kill someone. Unfortunately, killing is one of those things that gets easier the more you do it. In a war, all of mankind's worst emotions, worst traits come out. It's easy to forget what a sin is in the middle of a battlefield." —Solid Snake thumb|200px|"Didn't you know that two-thirds of the world's greatest assassins are women? Do you want to die now? Or after your female friend? Which will it be?" —Sniper Wolf thumb|200px|"Six bullets. More than enough to kill anything that moves. Now I'll show you why they call me... 'Revolver'." —Revolver Ocelot thumb|200px|"The Raven has put the mark of death upon you. Blood from the east flows within your veins. Ah... your ancestors too were raised on the barren plains of Mongolia. Inuit and Japanese are cousins to each other... We share many ancestors, you and I..." —Vulcan Raven Dialogue Mei Ling: Dont forget to save your memories of me too. Snake: You can't save memories, even on that system of yours. Memories are fragile things. After you reduce them to binary numbers and send them through the air, they're not memories anymore. Mei Ling: I wouldn't be so sure of that. There's nothing that my system can't do. Snake: Memories aren't just sounds and pictures. They exist somewhere between the sounds, between the pictures. Mei Ling: I don't get it. Anything can be done digitally. Snake: If that's true, why don't you go ahead and try to save what I'm thinking right now. Mei Ling: I can't save that type of thing. You have to put it into words at least... Snake: That's right. And that's what memories are... wordless. Mei Ling: I don't know about that.... Snake: No matter how far data technology advances, you'll never be able to penetrate the human heart. Mei Ling: You're wrong. It's just a matter of time... Character quotes Gray Fox Gray Fox / Frank Jaeger: It is nothing so trivial as revenge. A fight to the death with you. Only in that can my soul find respite. I will kill you or you will kill me... it makes no difference. Frank Jaeger: We're not tools of the government or anyone else! Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at, but... At least I always fought for what I believed in... Psycho Mantis Psycho Mantis: And each mind that I peered into was stuffed with the same single object of obsession. That selfish and atavistic desire to pass on one's seed... it was enough to make me sick. Every living thing on this planet exists to mindlessly pass on their DNA. We're designed that way. And that's why there is war. But you... you are different... You're the same as us. We have no past, no future. We live in the moment. That's our only purpose. Humans weren't designed to bring each other happiness. From the moment we're thrown into this world, we're fated to bring each other nothing but pain and misery. Otacon Hal "Otacon" Emmerich: The secret behind the new nuclear weapon! Just as I thought, the nuclear warhead is designed to be fired from the rail gun, like a projectile... It doesn't use fuel so it isn't considered a missile. That way it can get around all sorts of international treaties. Otacon: The whole reason I got into science in the first place was that I was no good with people. I was scared of them. I was scared of life. I thought that I could never understand them because they're so illogical. But I've finally learned how to like people. I'm not afraid anymore. Naomi Hunter Naomi Hunter: Genes exist to pass down our hopes and dreams for the future through our children. Living is a link to the future. That's how all life works. Loving each other, teaching each other... that's how we can change the world. I finally realized it. The true meaning of life... Naomi: Each person is born with their fate written into their own genetic code... it's unchangeable, immutable... But that's not all there is to life. I finally realized that. I told you before. The reason that I was interested in genes and DNA. Because I wanted to know who I was... where I came from. I thought that if I analyzed my DNA I could find out who I was, who my parents were. And I thought that if I knew that, then I'd know what path I should take in life. Liquid Snake Liquid Snake: It was his dying wish! When he was young, during the Cold War, the world needed men like us. We were valued then. We were desired. But things... are different now. With all the liars and hypocrites running the world, war isn't what it used to be... We're losing our place in a world that no longer needs us. A world that now spurns our very existence. You should know that as well as I do. After I launch this weapon and get our billion dollars, we'll be able to bring chaos and honor... back to this world gone soft. Conflict will breed conflict, new hatreds will arise. Then! ...We'll steadily expand our sphere of influence. About Metal Gear Solid I was making games like Policenauts, and I heard rumors about a console on which polygons could be created in real-time. This really grabbed my attention, since one of the major attractions of games is the sensation of action, and I was intrigued to see what I could achieve with those polygons. Metal Gear is a hide-and-seek game and the thought of doing this while adding a camera that could change position really excited me. So I stopped making script-based games and went back to asking for favors from programmers for this 3D world. Hideo Kojima "Hideo Kojima Reflects on 25 Years of Metal Gear" Lorenzo Grajales, Playstation.blog Category:1998 video games Category:Stealth video games Category:PlayStation video games Category:Metal Gear