History YMMV / MetalGearSolid

-->'''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...

--> '''Campbell:''' Excellent Snake! Age hasn't slowed you down one bit!

** One of Kojima's original ideas for this game was to make GameOver into FinalDeathMode, either by deleting your save file or making the game disk unusable. Almost twenty years later, the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 game ''VideoGame/HellbladeSenuasSacrifice'' uses a similar concept for OutOfContinues, where dying too many times will erase your save file entirely. Additionally, the initial release of [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG version]] had the game deliberately ''crashed'' when you game overed due to rendering bug. However, this has been fixed in an update.

* PortingDisaster: The port that's included in the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version of the ''Master Collection'' will drop audio in some conversations, most notably when Campbell instructs you how to use the Codec at the beginning of the game. This is to avoid having to re-record any new audio for the new buttons (- instead of Select, for example.) The text is altered to reflect these changes, but the audio cuts out whenever a different button should be mentioned.

* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The game is still praised for having one of the best English dubs in the history of video games. Even back in the late '90s where most English dubs and voice talent were based in Japan, ''Metal Gear Solid'' was already ahead of its game with a [[UsefulNotes/UnionsInHollywood Los Angeles union cast]] and some of the greatest performances ever to grace UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames.

** Though listed on the main page as ImprobablePilotingSkills, Liquid's shooting down of F-16s with the Hind D feels a smidge less improbable to anyone familiar with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-CATCH J-CATCH]] exercises where fighters usually lost ''five to one''. For bonus points the experiments were actually done in response to the Hind itself becoming a major threat to NATO forces.

** Solid Snake and Liquid Snake are clones of Big Boss.
** The Cyborg Ninja is Gray Fox.

* {{Mondegreen}}: The Japanese lyric for the end credit song, "The Best is Yet to Come", has [[https://youtu.be/6miaTf1gF4g?t=154 one line]] that sounds a lot like "Sony is the shit in our mouth". Doubles as HilariousInHindsight given the close relationship between Sony and Kojima after the latter's split from Konami.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Otacon wonders if love can bloom on a battlefield. ''Guns of the Patriots'' shows with Meryl and Johnny’s relationship that yes, it can.

** 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 as the characters' backstories made their original accents moot.[[note]]The former was born in America, while the latter had been raised in America since her childhood.[[/note]] 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. Another complaint about the redone voice acting is how some of the characters (including Naomi) sound flat or even lifeless compared to the voice acting done in the original game.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** The stealth gameplay may seem rather crude and simplistic compared to later entries in the genre, especially to players who have only played the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' or ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''. The story, which was highly praised at the time, nowadays is considered by the standards of modern gamers as an InfoDump train wreck with way too much ParrotExposition; though it can still hold up as part of the overarching mythology of the series, and is still fondly regarded by many fans of the series.
** The Psycho Mantis fight was groundbreaking at the time, but most new players nowadays don't get what was so mindblowing about it. It doesn't help that the PC version of the battle does not include the controller or memory card tricks.

** Psycho Mantis. You fight against the world's most powerful psychic, who continually [[BreakTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] by reading your memory card (''"You like Castlevania, don't you?"'') and makes the controller move "on its own" by using the rumble feature. You have to break the fourth wall yourself to beat him [[spoiler:by plugging your controller into the 2nd port to nullify his mind-reading powers.]]

** When Liquid Snake takes control of Metal Gear Rex, he is effectively "Liquid Metal".

* PortingDisaster: The port that's included in the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version of the ''Master Collection'' will drop audio in some conversations, most notably when Campbell instructs you how to use the Codec at the beginning of the game.

* PortingDisaster: The port that's included UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version of the ''Master Collection'' will drop audio in some conversations, most notably when Campbell instructs you how to use the Codec at the beginning of the game.