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So I just played the prologue for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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In terms of gameplay it's up there with Hitman. The beauty of MGSV are the many ways you can complete missions. It's limitless.
I will defend chapter 1 of MGSV to the grave. It's after that that the game shit the bed. I still love it. I also disagree that it doesn't tell a full story, but it is sparse. Gotta listen to all those damn tapes to get it.
Congrats on beating the best part of the game! Best quit now, because it only goes downhill from here.
For real, i don't particularly like the Open World stealth concept, the basic gameplay is excellent. But having it completely stretched onto a massive open world just wasn't fun for me. I also hate Mother Base, and had no interest in micromanaging it.
Ground Zeroes is easily the better game TBH, they should have just stuck with it's concept of having chunky individual levels with items unlocked by completing objectives in them.
Ground Zeroes is easily the better game TBH, they should have just stuck with it's concept of having chunky individual levels with items unlocked by completing objectives in them.
I mean, to be fair,
MGSV's ending is straight up unfinished, by the admission of the dev team.
I think it's tied up well enough. The deleted chapter explains one thread, but it's not really that important in the grand scheme if things.
Well, not that the entire game is really that important to the mythos. It's just sort of there to explain something that never needed explaining. *cough*
I replayed the intro again recently...talk about one of the biggest whiplash moments in gaming, going from some really well thought out cinematic gameplay to the game proper, which while really well done, doesn't come close to capturing the intro's atmosphere or tone. Kojima is really good with character and unique enemy/boss introductions, showcasing a bit of their powers, the mystique behind their backstory etc. Other MGS games managed to convey this well throughout, and while I didn't want the runaway auteur moments of MGS4 repeated, it would have been nice to have seen a lot more of those moments than what we got in V. It's like I had to do a double take at the box that this was indeed a Kojima game with the extreme lack of cutscenes. Well, Death Stranding certainly looks to correct that!
That said the initial reveal of the intro along with the whole fake dev studio and the bandaged dev shenanigans with the awkward Kojima bandage unraveling moment was one of the more memorable ad stunts from last gen that's for sure.
That said the initial reveal of the intro along with the whole fake dev studio and the bandaged dev shenanigans with the awkward Kojima bandage unraveling moment was one of the more memorable ad stunts from last gen that's for sure.
I honestly hope you enjoy the gameplay, because the story is never coming back for the rest of the game. In terms of narrative it goes downhill from there.
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To be fair, I think you could rush the game and be done in under 10 if you really wanted. It just gets easy to wander around in the side missions (which is the majority of the game, damnit).
82 Hours for extra content included 164 if you're a Completionist
I was thinking more along the lines of the YouTube video called interior semiotics. But it's what I recall whenever I see the word semiotics.
It's NSFW.
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I don't play games longer than 10 hours unless I am 100% hooked my God nonono
I will look it up when I get home. I'm always curious about such things.
great game
fantastic gameplay
the story is great too, though like 2 back in the day, it went over most people's heads
fantastic gameplay
the story is great too, though like 2 back in the day, it went over most people's heads
I sort of agree, but I don't think people will ever come around to it like mgs2 due to the unfinished nature of the game.
The gameplay is literally the only reason to play and you only ever hear Kiefer on audio tapes. The story is pretty disappointing.
The gameplay is so good.
The gameplay is so good.
Awesome intro, you can't ask for something more jaw dropping than that at the time and you wouldn't expect anything less from Kojima.
There are plot threads that I'm interested in that will never be addressed outside the chance someone at Konami is allowed to make another Metal Gear title that addresses events of the main timeline and isn't some whack-ass survival game set in a pocket dimension.
Wish the whole game was like this.
MGSV somehow failed to deliver what it promsied by instead delivering some of the best open world stealth gameplay in its place, if not the best stealth gameplay ever period. It's like yes, this is cool, but it's not what I ordered off the menu. And I was waiting literal years for it to get here.
Ground Zeroes was awesome, though.
MGSV somehow failed to deliver what it promsied by instead delivering some of the best open world stealth gameplay in its place, if not the best stealth gameplay ever period. It's like yes, this is cool, but it's not what I ordered off the menu. And I was waiting literal years for it to get here.
Ground Zeroes was awesome, though.
Gave up on the game around 20 hours doing LOTS of side missions in the first map and once I learned how little story was left once I pushed away from doing those and getting back on track...well my motivation died.
I keep meaning to go back and pick up where I left off, but four years later, it never happened. And I'm someone that has finished damn near every prior game multiple times, even Euro Extreme on MGS2 and 3!
Honestly, the few hours I played to get the plat in Ground Zeroes was wayyyyy better than the 20 I put into MGSV. :(
Mechanics and gameplay were great. The story and how it "ended" was terrible.
I finished the game without even realizing I finished it. The way the last mission was gave absolutely no indication that it was over. I played for a few more hours looking for the next story mission but never found it ...
Just play the first open world mission.
The next thousand missions that comprise the game's "story" are all pretty much the same. You can quit playing at that point, unless you're a fan of the sophomoric plot for some reason.
The opening is easily the worst part of the game. I was gearing up for another feeling of disappointment similar to MGS4 after that start.
Thankfully, the rest of the game is nothing like that.
Thankfully, the rest of the game is nothing like that.
Except when you have to do it AGAIN at the end. Fuck that noise.