Recent content by bar901

Well, I hate to say it, but in the end it's really one of those "you had to be there" kinda things. A few others here have tried to explain how good it was for its time, but really there is no subsitute for having been a gamer at the time, picking up a copy of HL2 and having your mind blown.

It is only "run of the mill" because so many aspects of the game were adopted by later titles. Did this really require a thread just because you played a game 7 years late?

Back when I first got MGS the original I received the game christmas day of.. 2001? Somewhere around there anyway. Sat down at about 12, got up again at about 6 having finished it in my first sitting. Not amazingly fast, but at the time I was like 10 so it wasn't too bad.