History YMMV / MetalGearSolid

* AccidentalInnuendo: In the Spanish translation of the game, Gray Fox's banter "that's good, Snake! Hurry up and catch me!" was translated as "¡Bien hecho Snake! ¡Snake date prisa y cógeme!". While "cógeme" means "catch me", the word has been used as slang for "fuck me" in countries like Argentina and Mexico, meaning that one could interpret the translation as Gray Fox asking Snake to [[FoeYay have sex with him]].

* FirstInstallmentWins: For some. It's probably the most consistent fan favorite after ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' and remains in the public conscious more than the other games.

* GenreTurningPoint: Before ''Metal Gear Solid'', action games traditionally had nothing more than ExcusePlot. This began changing after the game became a critical and commercial smash hit, with its story particularly being pointed out for praise, and noticeably making the gameplay and action segments more intense than almost anything else on the market. For games as a whole, the production values, strong voice acting (at a time where most voice acting in games ranged from mediocre to awful) and gripping story showed the potential video games had for cinematic storytelling, and brought a possibly permanent shift in the acceptable GameplayToStoryRatio.

** Liquid's insinuation that soldiers like Big Boss are no longer valued in the modern day, and that in the Cold War, warriors were valued - even ''desired'' - becomes bitterly laughable in subsequent games. The treatment of The Boss in particular is a smack in the face to Liquid's notions.

* The fact that Liquid disguised himself as Master Miller may now call to mind Miller's rather [[MemeticMutation memetic]] line from [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain MGSV]]: he played Snake like a ''damn'' fiddle!

** One Codec call has Snake and Mei-Ling discussing how memories can be theoretically stored into data- or rather, Snake telling her she can't do that. Many years later, [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed a certain franchise revolving around digitized memories]] would be born, exploring that very concept.

** -->'''Otacon''': My name, my father, my grandfather. [[Foreshadowing ...It felt like all those things were a ball and chain around my legs, dragging me down...]] But now that I think about it, I realize that I was blessed. At least I know who I am...where I came from...

** The redone voice acting. A major point of contention were the removal of Mei Ling's Chinese accent and Naomi's British accent, which fans of the [=PS1=] original thought made them really stand out and either sound cuter (Mei Ling) or sexier (Naomi). Retconning the accents was intentional though as the characters' backstories made their original accents moot as the former was born in America, while the latter had been raised in America since her childhood. When ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' later made the American accents canon, [[NostalgiaFilter PS1 purists either blamed the remake for "ruining" Mei Ling and Naomi]], or just went ahead and reluctantly accepted the new canon accents.

* {{Adorkable}}: Revolver Ocelot. In his appearance in ''Snake Eater'', he has a tendency to twirl and juggle his guns to show off to everyone involved. Even when Naked Snake tells him everything he needs to know about revolvers, he still shows off his new weapons every time they meet. Considering he's 19 or 20, it makes sense, since he is a young inexperienced gunfighter but a brilliant manipulator and spy.

* AwesomeBosses/VideoGames:

* {{Woolseyism}}: Most of the script was modified during the localization into the English version:

* PacifistRun: While low kill runs are possible in the original ''Metal Gear Solid'',[[note]]The maximum allowed for a Big Boss rank is 24, and with a little SequenceBreaking it can be as low as 12.[[/note]] this is the only ''Metal Gear Solid'' game where it's impossible to get ''no'' kills, since there's no mechanism for non-lethally dealing with bosses and several combat encounters can't be beaten without casualties. In ''The Twin Snakes'', this is doable thanks to the inclusion of non-lethal weapons such as the tranquilizer firing M9 and the inclusion of the stamina meter for the bosses.

* BreatherBoss: Vulcan Raven is pretty easy once you know where to set the mines or find a area you can fire the Nikita without him spotting you.

* PacifistRun: Doable this time thanks to the inclusion of non-lethal weapons such as the tranquilizer firing M9 and the inclusion of the stamina meter for the bosses.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In ''The Twin Snakes'', during the Psycho Mantis scene when he's forcing your controller to move, he begins laughing. A second later, three photos in the back, which show real people in them (specifically, Creator/HideoKojima, Ryuhei Kitamura, the game's cutscene director, and Denis Dyack, head of Creator/SiliconKnights), come to life and begin laughing in extremely high pitched voices that serves as both [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments quite]] [[MostAnnoyingSound hilarious]]. That's never explained nor mentioned again, though it's not entirely out of the realms of possibility that it's all an illusion created by Mantis.

** Liquid desired to murder Big Boss in revenge for either allegedly being knowingly given the inferior genes by Big Boss or being told by Big Boss repeatedly that he was inferior, and hated Snake partially for stealing that chance. Liquid's voice actor, Creator/CamClarke, would later voice [[Disney/TheLionKing a character]] who attempts to avenge his father after discovering that he was murdered by his uncle in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.

* AccidentalInnuendo: In the Spanish translation of the game, Gray Fox's banter "that's good, Snake! Hurry up and catch me!" was translated as "¡Bien hecho Snake! ¡Snake date prisa y cogeme!". While "cogeme" means "catch me", the word has been used as slang for "fuck me" in countries like Argentina, meaning that one could interpret the translation as Gray Fox asking Snake to [[FoeYay have sex with him]].

* BootstrappedTheme: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI1VpElKWF8 "Encounter."]] It's eventually used for the first part of the Snake/Ocelot FinalBoss battle in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' as well as one of the themes for the Shadow Moses Island stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''.

** When Psycho Mantis reads your memory card in ''The Twin Snakes'', one of the games he can read is ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee''. Snake would show up in [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl the third game]] four years later.

** The Hind D is pretty tough since you get a limited window to hit it and the final attack can take a good chunk of your health away, or even one-hit KO you if on a higher difficulty. Hope you didn't waste your rations beforehand. Also, you are supposed keep track of the Hind by listening for it with stereo speakers on the television, but god help you if your TV only outputs mono audio.

* AccidentalInnuendo: In the Spanish translation of the game, Gray Fox's banter "that's good, snake! Hurry up and catch me!" was translated as "¡Bien hecho Snake! ¡Snake date prisa y cogeme!". While "cogeme" means "catch me", the word has been used as slang for "fuck me" in countries like Argentina, meaning that one could interpret the translation as Gray Fox asking Snake to [[FoeYay have sex with him]].

** Liquid desired to murder Big Boss in revenge for either allegedly being knowingly given the inferior genes by Big Boss or being told by Big Boss repeatedly that he was inferior, and hated Snake partially for stealing that chance. Liquid's voice actor, Creator/CamClarke, would later voice [[Disney/TheLionKing a character]] who attempts to avenge his father after discovering that he was murdered by his uncle in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.

* AccidentalInnuendo: In the Spanish translation of the game, Gray Fox's banter "that's good, snake! Hurry up and catch me!" was translated as "¡Bien hecho Snake! ¡Snake date prisa y cogeme!". While "cogeme" means "catch me", the word has been used as slang for "fuck me" in countries like Argentina, meaning that one could hear of Gray Fox asking Snake to [[FoeYay fuck him]].

* EvilIsCool: FOXHOUND completely steals the show. It helps that two thirds of them are {{Recurring Boss}}es.

** Cyborg Ninja is the first of Snake's allies to die [[spoiler:onscreen]], and his Japanese voice actor Creator/KanetoShiozawa was the first of the main cast to die in real life at only 46.