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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT2| A Franchise Robbed Of Its Future
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I would like to know the answer to this as well.
Are you just getting failed login repeatedly? This happened a couple of times last night, but closing the game fully and starting jt again worked.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
I've yet to create FOB. Question: When you get invaded, do your friends get an alert to defend the FOB if you're not present, or do you have to manually invite people?
Phoenix944
Member
Well fuck.. I've lost 20 men on a FOB attack... I want to retaliate but the game won't let me 
Sumio Mondo
Member
They already were going to do something like that with MGS4, but obviously it's well documented that Kojima had to throw out the idea of an open battlefield where players could decide which side to choose and make an entirely linear game again. Back to MGSV, I honestly think some of the missions level design is really tight, some even with a linear pathway. I do like the old school Metal Gear design too, but this fresh and new for MG fans. I much prefer this style over Peace Walkers design or MGS4's hap dash collection, out of the more recent Metal Gear games. I like having creative freedom to do what I want and can approach a situation in so many different ways. Not saying all of the missions are well designed, since they're not, but there's been some that have been amazingly designed. I won't hold anyone's opinion about this game against them, since I can see where people are coming from, certainly, but I still love it and am really, really addicted. It's the perfect sandbox stealth/action experience.
Armored transport, not a tank btw.
Sumio Mondo
Member
I can't say that I deny missing the indoor infiltrations though. If they got to make a sequel to this, I bet they would have put more of those in. Indoor infiltration is classic Metal Gear game design, after all.
Phoenix944
Member
I didn't fight them, just went past them. They scare the shit out of me honestly :/
Have to have people specifically add you to support you. And its random people, not friends.
There was a guy back in OT1 who said
he managed to sneak up on her and even CQC her.
They got the core gameplay right to such an umpth degree that for me, I am over 25 hours in and I have no fatigue whatsoever. In fact I just want to get home and play it more! It's so amazingly polished.
Most open world games keep me hooked because of the story, the chaos, the exploration, the side stuff and upgrading.
You could strip this game to its barebones of just gameplay, infiltration and mission scenarios and I would still be satisfied. As much as I loved The Witcher 3, GTAV, Fallout or Elder Scrolls. I can't say that about them. I loved them, but it was more because they were the sum of their collective parts.
Wait, they can show up on Mission 20?
I confese I didnt play yesterday, does this makes me a monster?
Going back on track today, This is game is right now competing with my personal GOTY against Witcher 3, I have to admit that MEtal Gear is probably my favorite Video Game franchise. I just wish I had more time to play, I bought myself the Special Edition Strat guide for my second playtrough of course.
Im loving the open world approach of the game.
EDIT: This MGS thread sure is moving fast that my post came before another guy!
Going back on track today, This is game is right now competing with my personal GOTY against Witcher 3, I have to admit that MEtal Gear is probably my favorite Video Game franchise. I just wish I had more time to play, I bought myself the Special Edition Strat guide for my second playtrough of course.
Im loving the open world approach of the game.
EDIT: This MGS thread sure is moving fast that my post came before another guy!
bobs...onGaf
Member
Agreed! I'm not far enough through the game to know if this happens but the whole hiding in lockers and waiting for enemies to walk past to allow sneaking past seems to be a thing very much of the past which sucks.
Would love a proper remake pack of the series to play through
Dabookerman
Member
What part of the game does the music "V Has come to" play? It's not at the very beginning.
Climbing towers in Far Cry 3 and 4 are actually a cool moment between combat sections, at least for me.
I looked forward to doing them, perhaps not much but certainly more than 75% of The Phantom Pain's Side Ops.
Wait what? I played Mission 20 earlier and nothing like that happened. Dafuck.
There is no doubt that the level design here surpasses anything in any other Metal Gear game, and does so by leaps and bounds. And the areas in which you do missions are just so fucking good. In particular, Mission 2
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My question is just... why did all of these amazing levels have to be in the same location, connected with 50km of road? The early mission where you have to ride around blowing up tanks is a good example of using all of that space, so I'll give them that. But most of the time it's completely unused and unnecessary, and then those times when you find yourself 2km away from your goal and without DHorse it's absolutely frustrating.
No but you're a demon.
Anyone else annoyed by Miller's tone, when he goes:
It took me ages to get this.
Fucking dying.
They showed that in a trailer, too, and it was like wtf
He really is a demonic little shit!
Luckily
that's not the case.
Agreed on all counts.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
You could just go to the mansion the long way and avoid it?
Like if you change the chopper location on mission 1, you avoid the fight there aswell.
Yeah my bad, I was remembering the mission wrong when I saw the "Mist in the valley". It is similar to the other mission at that point.
Randomizer123454444
Member
Is there any way to just discard dispatch rewards you get? I'm doing rank E ones, and those that pay best GMP also gives you tons of completely useless D and E -rank staff. I don't want to leave them in rewards menu either.
Sorry if this was mentioned earlier in thread (I tried to search a bit, didn't find), but I want to avoid spoilers as best as possible.
Sorry if this was mentioned earlier in thread (I tried to search a bit, didn't find), but I want to avoid spoilers as best as possible.
Ahh okay, was already afraid I wouldve missed something lol
Sumio Mondo
Member
I wouldn't mind it if whoever makes the next Metal Gear decided to remake Metal Gear 1 and 2 with the Fox Engine and we would have the best of both worlds, since MG1 and MG2 both have plenty of both outdoor and indoor infiltration. MGS3 was probably the best example that has the best of both worlds. Groznyj Grad was great and the jungles were great.
Who knows what Kojima decides to do next. I kind of get the impression that he would want to have a go at another genre entirely from stealth action though, but who's to say. I bet he takes all of the best talent from his studio with him wherever he ends up.
WTF, how the fuck do you figure that out!? I mean maybe the initial 5 hint at that, but WTF.
Yes. But outside of
Quiet trying to pull the teeth(?) out of the guard that is mentioned in that "identifying the infection" tape, they're still "I DUNNO ¯\_(ツ_/¯ LOL" toward it.
_/¯ LOL" toward it.That's what I'm doing (well until I did the above answer) but I dunno if that stops
the crisis completely since at the end of mission 28 you get a "TO BE CONTINUED..." so...
For me it wasn't just '50km of road'. For me it was a journey across the savanna, ordering Quiet to scout out bases as I go. It was that moment two guys were in the road ahead of me and I swerved out the way and dived out of the car. It was coming across an 'Eliminate the armoued vehicle unit' right in the way of the mission, which I did after a couple of tries and lots of planning.
Then it was rock-climbing up a cliff face to find the mission deployment box, starting the mission and restocking my gear, then crawling through the misty cliff face area, dodging
Skulls to reach the Mansion.
It was a proper MGS3-level adventure. It wasn't just dropping into a hotzone or driving through dull terrain.
I make sure I deploy with a car every time I deploy, and the open map is never an issue for me. I get to my objective within a minute or two no matter where I am.
See, in the trailer I thought he did it. But in the game there's no indication at all that he's a bad dude, so I was like 'No way, can't buy that.' So it made sense when he didn't. Of course 5 minutes later I wished he had, lol. Move you fucking runts!
a) I have never done the bolded, and maybe that's a difference. But you can't do that for the majority of the game anyway. And
b) I've had a couple of those experiences, but not enough to offset what I feel the game loses. My biggest memory of the world outside of bases is just the constant sprint towards objectives.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Can the S. Link still increase when I am not playing as Big Boss?
Vaudeville Villain
Member
FOB is utter garbage. At least my experience thus far.
Everyone I've invaded had no materials, I don't know where to find them. There was one instance where I fell through a wall and died, so that was cool. I was invaded last in night when I was offline, asleep. No way I could possibly defend myself. Cool.
Everyone I've invaded had no materials, I don't know where to find them. There was one instance where I fell through a wall and died, so that was cool. I was invaded last in night when I was offline, asleep. No way I could possibly defend myself. Cool.
one of the casette tapes pretty much gives it away. something about the quiet-soldier incident and why she was targeting specifically that soldier's mouth. the word mouth gets mentioned so often that it becomes obvious tbh.
Aces&Eights
Member
Sorry to repost but I'm going crazy over here trying to figure this out:
When I'm running around the open world, about every 20 or 30 minutes I hear a "ping ping" sound. It sort of sounds like a submarine sonar. I can't tell where it's coming from, I'm not using night vision our anything with a battery, I don't have my sonar arm equipped. I thought at first that maybe it was telling me a diamond was near by but every time I hear it and look around, nothing. I've come upon diamonds and didn't hear it so....
Please someone help. It's driving my bonkers because I feel like I'm missing something.
When I'm running around the open world, about every 20 or 30 minutes I hear a "ping ping" sound. It sort of sounds like a submarine sonar. I can't tell where it's coming from, I'm not using night vision our anything with a battery, I don't have my sonar arm equipped. I thought at first that maybe it was telling me a diamond was near by but every time I hear it and look around, nothing. I've come upon diamonds and didn't hear it so....
Please someone help. It's driving my bonkers because I feel like I'm missing something.
GavinUK86
Member
So I accidently stumbled across Quiet while I was doing side ops, only up to mission 7 in the main ones, and I didn't know that encounter could happen early. I presumed it was a set piece that would trigger automatically during the story, pretty cool.
The cutscenes with her on MB is weird though because Ocelot says "but she saved the Boss' life" to Miller yet she didn't, I was fine, I just bumped into her randomly.
Her cell is hilarious though, with 80's tunes blaring and with her top unstrapped, getting a tan lol. No Kojima, sure she isn't a sex object lol. Stefanie Joosten is hella cute though.
Wasn't sure if I should tag anything here, all this was in the trailers so I presume it's fine not to.
The cutscenes with her on MB is weird though because Ocelot says "but she saved the Boss' life" to Miller yet she didn't, I was fine, I just bumped into her randomly.
Her cell is hilarious though, with 80's tunes blaring and with her top unstrapped, getting a tan lol. No Kojima, sure she isn't a sex object lol. Stefanie Joosten is hella cute though.
Wasn't sure if I should tag anything here, all this was in the trailers so I presume it's fine not to.
Zombie James
Banned
Lunch break, time to tackle Mission 31. The joys of working from home.
It isn't dense enough to be MGS3-level, imo. When I think of that I think of very close-quarters, dense feeling stealth.
The navigation just isn't fun. Driving isn't fun. D-Horse isn't fun. Perhaps if I was climbing trees, or swimming into underground caves, it would be. But it's very basic navigation. When you're an open world game, and I don't have something like a wingsuit so the navigation isn't fun, your open world really is just a cumbersome level selection menu.
I do understand where you are coming from, though. I could have done without all the roads. It's just un-entertaining space, for me.
Sumio Mondo
Member
MGS3 is definitely the more tightly designed game thanks to just how linear it is, but it also doesn't have the same ambitions as this game does. It's a typical case of apples and oranges, which style you prefer for outdoor infiltration.
Yeah, I get ya. D Horse shouldn't have been a Buddy and been a "vehicle" instead or something. Traversal does sometimes take way too long, even with the "fast travel". The open space would have been better populated I reckon if they had more time, but it's pretty obvious that they were just taking too long with the game and Konami put the foot in and forced them to hurry up and finish. Like I said earlier, I bet a sequel would have streamlined and taken off a whole lot of the fat this game has. Constantly hearing how later missions are
Just seems to go to prove that the game is clearly unfinished. At least the game doesn't have any real technical flaws (outside the shit with the servers) anyway, which is a bit of a miracle in this day and age, honestly, especially for such a huge game.
I'd like to play another game on this same engine without the flaws and more locales with indoor infiltration. Something like that.
Yeah, I get ya. D Horse shouldn't have been a Buddy and been a "vehicle" instead or something. Traversal does sometimes take way too long, even with the "fast travel". The open space would have been better populated I reckon if they had more time, but it's pretty obvious that they were just taking too long with the game and Konami put the foot in and forced them to hurry up and finish. Like I said earlier, I bet a sequel would have streamlined and taken off a whole lot of the fat this game has. Constantly hearing how later missions are
padding and repeated missions from earlier, just with added challenges.
I'd like to play another game on this same engine without the flaws and more locales with indoor infiltration. Something like that.
Not me. I can fuck with the system in a bunch of different ways in this. I can't climbing towers. I've had my fill of tower climbing after the far Crys and ACs. So much filler bs in those games. It's all become so meaningless.
Wow, that worked. Thanks.
I just sent a request for a refund to Konami, I guess I'll cancel that for now unless the servers continue to disconnect.
MAX PAYMENT
Member
There's no friend searching? WTF.
GavinUK86
Member
Yeah I was wondering that, and is there anyway to interact with him as a pup?
That's what I'm talking about. How the hell did you just figure
The Kikongo language is the one you target
languages being the cause and more so people that speak the Kongo language is the target
It's only later during the scene in Mission 28 that you find out
the parasite is targeting non-English
12+ variables to go through
There were no invasions in Peace Walker. AI couldn't co-op with you either. You're thinking of Ad Hoc Partying with people and/or playing online in the "HD" re-release of Peace Walker.
impliedsignificance
Neo Member
I'm disappointed that the iDroid companion app isn't usable with the PC version, but I'm loving the game, overall.
Same, hopefully it'll be addressed in a patch soon.
Same, hopefully it'll be addressed in a patch soon.
You must've overlooked the dozens of material containers then.