Hi all i just thought id share what metal gear means too me. When my son was in year 4 at school we found out that he had a reading problem (he couldnt read.) So the teacher suggested that i find something for him too read that he really liked. I tried everything comics all sorts of stuff, it was really hard. Then one day he found a book that i had come with a nintendo game i had bought (metal gear) The book was Metal gear and was written as a bonus for the game. over the coming weeks him and i read it it was hard at first but we finally got though it and since then we havent turned back.

My son recently joined the arm services and asked me when he was sent to iraq if he could take the book with him, i of course let him take it.

metal gear too me means a lot more than most things and i get real emotional too think that this may stop as it has been a huge part of my life

Wow dude that does sound really big for you. Thats really cool. Metal Gear means alot to me but I dont have a story like that man that was deep.

My story isn't as dramatic as you, but Metal Gear will always have a special place in my heart. I first played the game when it first game out in 1998, when I was only 8-years-old. Not many 8-year-olds played a game that graphic back then, but I was able to beat it and avoid having nightmares (alright i had a FEW ahah but i was a little kid). Metal Gear reminds me of my childhood, especially when I replay MGS1.

Nothing really, to me it's just a game that I find to have the best story in any game before it.

The game reminds me of my childhood as well.

I started playing it when MGS1 came out, I was 10 years old. After that, MGS2 was a huge game for me, bigger than most kids were to halo 2. When Christmas came around and I got my PS2, that was all I did for the rest of my holiday break. After I beat MGS2, I would play MGS1 and so on. It was a game that my friends and I bonded to. It was a game that got people like us together, thinking of things that could happen. It is more than just a game, it is a story. An alternate reality that each of us dive into when we pop in the disc and see that familiar Konami logo.

I don't give too much meaning in things, I prefer giving it to human who know that they are going to repay me someday.
MGS is a great game, one of it's kind but that's it, nothing more.

i like to play metal gear solid 1, 2 and 3 with my dad who is a real techie, and when he says that metal gear solid's storyline is kinda over the limits he does say that the technologie(shagohad, metal gear rex, other stuff) made up by the devs are really convincing to be real. so that's pretty cool i guess.

and besides that i always get that strange proud feeling if i beat mgs3. i really have that feeling like you did it yourself.

nothing beats metal gear solid 3, although mgs4 comes dangerously close.

I have had quite an unhealthy obsession with MGS4 pretty much ever since I saw the end of MGS2 for the first time. I knew that wasnt it, that Snake was going to have one last showdown with Liquid. I dreamed of how epic it would be when it happened.

When I was in school I was a major recluse (I would just lock myself away and play games) and over the past few of years have been trying to break of of it and get a real life. For me MGS4 represents the absolute end of that stage of my life. There is really no other game that I feel attached to like I do with MGS.

So I guess that for me MGS4 is the light at the end of my tunnel, once I see the conclusion to the MGS series I will feel like I have broken all ties to my old life and can finally move on from obsessing over games.

cos its kinda pathetic..

What means to me Metal Gear Solid that was the first game i had play i was on a 7 and when i start to play first moment i was thinking what boring game but few minutes after that when i was already in the bunker i like the game very much.

i too remember getting mgs for christmas in 98. i was a little young playing a mature game but i guess my dad didn't think it looked too bad when i showed him the demo. my parents wouldn't let me get resident evil 2. wow, i'm glad i was able to get mgs even though i wanted resident evil.

i played it a lot and enjoyed it but i became a more obsessed fan after i beat mgs2. after that game i longed for the sequal. i admit i was dissapointed when i heard that mgs3 was a kind of prequal. i actually didn't play mgs3 until about the time i joined the forum. i thought it was just history and had nothing to do with the other games but after seeing so many references to it,i bought subsistence and was blown away.

and know after 7 years ( since mgs2), i'll finally witness the conclusion of the series. the game was also a way to deal with lonliness and struggles a bit i would say. the series was like an escape for me. i would say that the series does mean a lot for me in terms of the events of my life.