Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT| The Man Who Sold The World
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Ame
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Not yet. I've been checking my Konami CORE vault the last couple of days. It still says "Come back at the launch of METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN to retrieve your voucher code for this exclusive content."
Vroadstar
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Just received this email from our local game store: WTF
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be slightly delayed. We will post an announcement once we have a definite schedule on the game's new release date. Please stay tuned.
We apologize for the inconvenience and we thank you very much for your kind patience and understanding.
Snake? Snaaaake!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be slightly delayed. We will post an announcement once we have a definite schedule on the game's new release date. Please stay tuned.
We apologize for the inconvenience and we thank you very much for your kind patience and understanding.
Snake? Snaaaake!
Wow I never knew that! Despite playing Ground Zeroes twice (PS4 and Xbox One) and MGSV for about 27 hours now.. this is completely news to me.
Amazing. I just wish Fortunate Son was in the game now.
True, I was trying to simplify things but you're right.
Start that digital preload now.
The Praiseworthy
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Ok I will share my reasons for why after spending 23 hours of playtime I consider MGS5 the biggest disappointment since FFXIII and how it even overtook it spot for me.
First of all you must know that I'm crazy about the MGS franchise since 1998 and it's one of my absolute favorites of all time... and I have a huge amount of respect for Kojima and I think he really is a brilliant man.
I will put my problems with the game in spoiler tag just in case if someone wants to explore these problems by himself \ herself and be surprised by them just like I was.... I will not mention story events \ characters spoilers so don't worry.
MGS5 IMO suffers from the following:
First of all you must know that I'm crazy about the MGS franchise since 1998 and it's one of my absolute favorites of all time... and I have a huge amount of respect for Kojima and I think he really is a brilliant man.
I will put my problems with the game in spoiler tag just in case if someone wants to explore these problems by himself \ herself and be surprised by them just like I was.... I will not mention story events \ characters spoilers so don't worry.
MGS5 IMO suffers from the following:
1- The game opens with one of the best first hour of any game I've ever played... extremely well done and epic, but as some other gafer mate mentioned it goes downhill from there.
2- The story events and the cut scenes are SUPPER SUPPER SUPPER RARE... the reviews prepared me for this already but I did not expect it to be THIS rare, I mean the series is well known for it's amazing touch in the cut scenes and how it even effected the industry with it since 1998.... now it's nothing all gone.
3- The damn cassette tapes.. the game relays A LOT on them to tell the story events and details yet many of them are just fillers with no value information... so you don't know which ones are a must to listen too and which ones are a waste of time.. the only way to know is to listen to ALL OF THEM.
4- Listening to the cassette tapes aren't easy unless you stand still in one safe spot and play them and just set there listening to them doing nothing else... because when someone talks to you on the radio or the enemies speaks the cassette tapes volume gets so low that you can't hear ANYTHING and it doesn't stop no it continues to play so you have to listen to it again to get what you missed... it's so annoying because this happens a lot getting interrupting while trying to listen to them.
5- 90% of the missions feels nothing but fillers and side missions.... it's like playing a whole game build on side missions.
6- The check points in the game can really gets on your nerves... you can spend time gathering soldiers and collecting materials and reach the end of the missions after running around for like 25 minutes, you die and the game takes you waaaaaaaay back at almost the start of the mission losing everything you collected, this happened to me twice today which made me realize why they didn't allow a manuel save? most of the open world games have that option why not here?
7- The game FORCE you to grind... if you did not grind heavenly then progressing in the game can become really hard.
8- Nothing exciting really happens after the first hour that encourage you to keep playing and progressing at less not in my 23 hours of play time.
2- The story events and the cut scenes are SUPPER SUPPER SUPPER RARE... the reviews prepared me for this already but I did not expect it to be THIS rare, I mean the series is well known for it's amazing touch in the cut scenes and how it even effected the industry with it since 1998.... now it's nothing all gone.
3- The damn cassette tapes.. the game relays A LOT on them to tell the story events and details yet many of them are just fillers with no value information... so you don't know which ones are a must to listen too and which ones are a waste of time.. the only way to know is to listen to ALL OF THEM.
4- Listening to the cassette tapes aren't easy unless you stand still in one safe spot and play them and just set there listening to them doing nothing else... because when someone talks to you on the radio or the enemies speaks the cassette tapes volume gets so low that you can't hear ANYTHING and it doesn't stop no it continues to play so you have to listen to it again to get what you missed... it's so annoying because this happens a lot getting interrupting while trying to listen to them.
5- 90% of the missions feels nothing but fillers and side missions.... it's like playing a whole game build on side missions.
6- The check points in the game can really gets on your nerves... you can spend time gathering soldiers and collecting materials and reach the end of the missions after running around for like 25 minutes, you die and the game takes you waaaaaaaay back at almost the start of the mission losing everything you collected, this happened to me twice today which made me realize why they didn't allow a manuel save? most of the open world games have that option why not here?
7- The game FORCE you to grind... if you did not grind heavenly then progressing in the game can become really hard.
8- Nothing exciting really happens after the first hour that encourage you to keep playing and progressing at less not in my 23 hours of play time.
Revengineer
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How are people already playing the PS4 digital preorder??
lazybones18
Banned
Best Buy midnight release is a no-go. Just makes the wait even more suffering
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
Yes.
There's little yellow/orange loading platforms near each main helipad, equip the cardboard box when on it and it'll bring up the triangle prompt.
EU/AU/Other places probably?
chronic_archaic
Member
What... the ... fuck?
I spent about an HOUR on a mission and at the very end, trying to extract, I rode my horse out of the mission area and the game abandoned the entire thing right there. I have to do the whole thing again. So frustrated.
EDIT: This mission probably required the most stealth so far in the entire game. Having done all that and having to restart... fuck, why would they design it like that? Why didn't it tell me to turn back? Thinking about just going to bed for now.
I spent about an HOUR on a mission and at the very end, trying to extract, I rode my horse out of the mission area and the game abandoned the entire thing right there. I have to do the whole thing again. So frustrated.
EDIT: This mission probably required the most stealth so far in the entire game. Having done all that and having to restart... fuck, why would they design it like that? Why didn't it tell me to turn back? Thinking about just going to bed for now.
| Praxis |
Banned
Are you getting the console version? You can have up to 100 custom songs on PC if you're getting that.
One of my favourite gaming memories was getting into a chopper full of Russian dudes in Arma 3 and as we were flying to a mission one of them started playing Fortunate Son. It was amazing. We all died soon after, but amazing.
Ugh. This is very alarming and worrying.
Thanks!
Vroadstar
Member
Unfortunately I already pre-ordered and paid for it "just yesterday" and there is no way to refund the money, another option I can do is replaced it with another game or just wait for it
I think you're looking for reasons to reinforce your worry.
If you don't like the tapes, less cut scenes etc.. this game may put you off.
You want 50 hours of cutscenes?
People stop panicking yourselves from early impressions.
Physical stores should give you a refund. Kick up a fuss.
Unfortunately I already pre-ordered and paid for it "just yesterday" and there is no way to refund the money, another option I can do is replaced it with another game or just wait for it
Physical stores should give you a refund. Kick up a fuss.
The Praiseworthy
Member
I have to say that the gameplay mechanic itself is very well done, perfection... but the experience got ruined by the problems I've mentioned in my post above.
Well... a few hours and you guys can experience it by yourselves.
Well... a few hours and you guys can experience it by yourselves.
Dude tapes/less cut scenes isn't Metal Gear Solid.
Someone hijacked the delivery truck. lol
Yea it's funny right? The complaints about MGS4 was the god awful long cut scenes. Now people are complaining their aren't many even though the story is fleshed out in tapes which is nothing but a similar mechanic to the codec.
D
Deleted member 80556
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Tell that to the series creator.
I certainly want more than 15 minute cut scene and 10 hours game play.
Is MGO just delayed on PC? I thought it was delayed for all platforms. I hope FOB is online for steam too.
EroticSushi
Member
Is there anyway to do Mission 8 with the
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2 tanks and 1 truck without killing them all
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
Dude, cancel your order and wait or something. You're ignoring the myriad positive impressions and obsessing over the negative ones; it's clear that you don't really want the game. So rather than agonizing over it, just get a refund and wait until you've heard more impressions.
You have not played Peace Walker then. Which IMO was great because of the tapes.
The Praiseworthy
Member
No it's not... you don't get interrupted almost all the time while listening to codec conversations.
When a codec conversation happens the game stops and focus on it... but in tapes anything can interrupt you.
If he were in front of me I would. He set expectations of what MGS was in MGS 1-4.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
Tbh Kojima is just lazy for not including the equivalent of every episode of Game of Thrones aired so far.
Stallion Dan
Member
The invasion thing sucks. I'm in the middle of a single player mission, like F-off?
Nightengale
Member
If you ask around , PW is apparently hot garbage, so I don't know mang. /s
We went through this in the review thread. What a person perceives as "Metal Gear Solid" or any series or brand is very individualistic. I'd counter that Metal Gear (including MG1, 2 and spin offs) as a whole has always had great gameplay and MGSV sounds like it's no exception.
You do you have some control over the expectations you set.
D
Deleted member 80556
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Am I the only one who chills out in the ACC to listen to the tapes?
Now this is exaggeration. There isn't 10 hours of gameplay between cutscenes.
That's on you to be honest. But agree to disagree then. It's clear you have made up your mind on this issue.
sssstententen
Member
Play offline?
Toonami 99
Member
Is the steam version still not set to release at midnight to unlock?
I'd rather listen to tapes at my leisure than have to constantly hit the select button for optional or more details on the story.
Original Man
Member
Gotta love it. Can't win.
Nightengale
Member
And he broke them in PW by changing it up. He even went to rename the tagline from Tactical Espionage Action to Operations.
This thread is going to spin-off into some Lucas-Special Edition type argument isn't it?
| Praxis |
Banned
Two hours and eight minutes apparently.
guitarguy316
Member
what does hardcover have vs. regular? i'm not a mgs collector, but just feel like i might enjoy the game more since it's been years since i've played a mgs game.
i just ran through ground zeroes this weekend and enjoyed it but felt like i had a lot to learn
Vroadstar
Member
I'll try that, even replayed GZ last night in preparation, so frustrating receiving this email today when I'm already getting ready to leave and get the game.
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