My Top Ten: MGS Quotes
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Article written by colossalblue in Features, on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 13:00.
I know, the Metal Gear Solid coverage on TSA is quite full on today. We’re celebrating the eventual release of the PSX classic on the EU PSN. There might be a little video later too, if you’re good. Anyway, if any game is full of quote-worthy moments it was this one, it ran the whole gambit from profound maxims on life, love and war to bizarre questions of perversion and weird sexual innuendo. Here are ten of my favourites, use the comments to see if you can remember any of your own!
- “That’s it, Snake. Hurt me more. Make me feel alive again.” No, not Meryl or even Otacon. This was Gray Fox who apparently likes to hitch-hike down the pleasure/pain highway of love.
- “What are you playin’ around with that ketchup for?” Said by the Prison guard if he catches you acting the numpty with a ketchup bottle in an attempt to stage the most school-play prison escape in history.
- “ You wanna pull each other’s ears?” Snake asks Vulcan Raven if he’d like to do a spot of ear-pulling. Yeah, I don’t know why either.
- “I am like you. I have no name.” Said by er… Gray Fox. Who does have a name. It’s Gray Fox. He says it to Solid Snake who um… also has a name. Solid Snake.
- “I watched the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rifle.” Sniper Wolf shows that amongst all the clearly bizarre dialogue there is a certain amount of profundity to be found.
- “Video game players, huh?” Snake lets slip Hideo Kojima’s deeply hidden disregard for the medium he works in. We know Hideo, you want to be a movie director. You’d be good too. That’s it little fella, let it all out…
- “We’re gonna launch that nuke and ride it all the way into history.” Revolver Ocelot pretends he’s in the worst kind of 80s action movie. To be fair this could be a quote from Modern warfare 2, MGS is really holding up!
- “You two are an embarrassment from the 1970’s” Jim Houseman, Secretary of Defense gives Solid and Liquid a good talking to. Presumably about those dodgy mullets they both sport.
- “Whatever, weirdo. Don’t call me again.” Mei Ling who refuses to let Snake save his game after spotting him in the ladies toilets. Snake makes up some excuse but we all know he was sniffing toilet seats after Meryl’s recent visit…
- “You know a lot about science, but you don’t know how good a cigarette tastes in the morning.” Snake tells it like it is. Remember: it is big and it does make you look grown up, cool and sophisticated. I mean talking smack to nerdy science geeks, obviously. Not smoking, no no, that’s gross.
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Raen | 20/11/2009 09:46
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I forgot how weird MGS was. Maybe I should get PS2 and play through it again
skibadee | 20/11/2009 13:09
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i pray that the ps2 titles get the god of war treatment
tantalus_blank | 20/11/2009 17:08
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+1
MGS2 is my favourite of the series
Gastos84 | 20/11/2009 11:08
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I got to the first one and spat Lucozade on my keyboard; because you made me laugh not because I do it for fun!
Brilliant Top 10. I have to say my favourite so far.
nofi | 20/11/2009 13:05
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I always wondered if the isolated phrases were the results of poor translation. Now I’ve seen 10 all in one go, I’m certain that’s not the case. Kojima is bonkers.
Mike | 20/11/2009 13:07
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Don’t forget the classic “Snake? Snake? SNNNNNAAAAAKKKKKEEEE!!! mixed in with the brilliant game over music.
TRiLoGY | 20/11/2009 13:13
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I’ve not played it for a long time, so not sure if i’ve got this right, but I liked:
“Huh, a surveillance camera?” the first time you come across a surveillance camera on the first level..
I’d be suprised if i came across a surveillance camera in a High security complex too.. erm.. lol
brillerment | 20/11/2009 13:36
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My three favourite quotes: “Hmm”, “Huh!” and “What!”
TRiLoGY | 20/11/2009 13:41
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Awesome!!
Sympozium Necropolis | 20/11/2009 22:12
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Huh!!
Lorcan | 20/11/2009 13:38
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It’s a good job you didn’t include the second game otherwise that entire list would just have been dominated by the Colonel’s freak out at the end.
superjag86 | 20/11/2009 13:56
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I remember that bit really freaked my little brother so much he refused to play it on his own!
clank250 | 20/11/2009 16:46
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“61! I NEED SCISSORS!”
Redlac | 20/11/2009 13:58
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For me and my friends, there’s one MGS quote that rises above the rest, so much so that when anything MGS is mentioned it gets quoted.
“Metal Gear!?”
BadBoyBoogie | 20/11/2009 14:50
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I forgot how many ‘great’ quotes there were in MGS!! For great, substitute with weird!!
jonny_bolton | 20/11/2009 15:17
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“Huh? A Hind-D? What’s Russian gunship doing out here?”
Or,
“Huh? A surveilance camera?”
Brilliant couple of quotes right from the off on Shadow Moses!
mynameisblair | 20/11/2009 16:33
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“I’m no hero, never was, never will be. I’m just an old mercenary doing some wet work”
“War… has changed”
Some great MGS4 ones there
gordon_strange | 20/11/2009 22:16
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Otacon: Have you ever… loved someone?
Solid Snake: That’s what you came to ask?
Otacon: No, I was wondering if even soldiers fall in love.
Solid Snake: What are you trying to say?
Otacon: I want to ask you. Do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield?
Solid Snake: Yeah. I do. I think at any time, any place, people can fall in love with each other. But if you love someone, you have to be able to protect them.
rht992 | 21/11/2009 17:19
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i think you’ve got mixed up with broke back mountain
colossalblue | 21/11/2009 18:09
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Metal Gear Solid is full of tense homoeroticism. Seriously.
gordon_strange | 22/11/2009 19:07
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i always suspected Otacon had a bit of a man crush on snake. it makes you wonder what he was really doing in the locker during snakes fight with gray fox. perhaps all that testosterone was too much for him….
spooner_22 | 20/11/2009 22:57
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I can’t believe you missed this one out!!!…
“No, it’s no good, I can’t do it!”
Surely everyone remembers that!
S1nghSat1onal | 21/11/2009 01:09
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“Snake makes up some excuse but we all know he was sniffing toilet seats after Meryl’s recent visit…”
Hahaha priceless
SYY2127 | 21/11/2009 17:08
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You know its kinda funny how MGS4’s opening is “War… has changed” and Fallout 3’s is “War… never changes”