I'm absolutely shocked that there is no thread on this. People love to hype up shitty games like Destiny CoD The Order and whatever shitty Assassin's creed game ubisoft shits out every year etc.. but a game like this while still talked about is flying relatively under the radar . Every time a new piece of information comes out about this game i get even more excited. Don't think Ive ever anticipated a game this much. If you don't know anything about this game then you need to clear the next 70 minutes of your schedule and watch this compilation of gameplay videos. But user RSK I don't really have the time to watch a 70 minute video got anything shorter? No. fuck you watch the video Haven't really played the previous Metal gear games and feel like you will be lost? That's okay too because while chronologically there are two games that occur before this (MGS3 and peacewalker) this game is setting up to be the defacto origin story that shapes what happens in the later games. Here is a list of some observations that critics had when they were allowed to play the game a couple of weeks ago Spoiler - They say the opening hour is astonishing and one of the greatest they’ve ever seen. The original Phantom Pain/Moby Dick Studios trailer didn’t touch on it’s full brilliance. They say it’s completely different in tone to the rest of the game and almost horror-esque. - Early on you can interrogate guards but you don’t understand Russian/African; it’s useless until you do a side-op to Fulton a translator. This unlocks the ability to understand foreign dialogue from enemies. - Can get easily around the map using fast-travel with cardboard boxes. Orange signposts are delivery points and you can collected and dropped off elsewhere like in MGS1 and 3, but far more useful because it’s open-world. - ‘Loadout’ screen like in Peace Walker, you can select the time of mission start, weapons, gear, tools, mechanical arm (electrocution is just one type), explosives, buddies, boxes, starting vehicles and player character. Says you can play as your generic troops, like in PW. You can have a car or lorry with you from the start, if you want. - Lists the Buddies as Quiet, Horse, Dog, and mech-walker. Says the mech walker can go turbo, you can put it on cruise-control, and upgrade its skill-tree to give it more stuff like CQC and a stun-gun. You only unlock the mech when you finish a ‘specific’ mission whilst using the mech (danced around spoilers here). - the dog attacks enemies and finds things in the environment that shows up on the iDroid. The horse is invincible. You can put a prisoner on the horse like in Red Dead. - Says Quiet’s presence actually lowers morale on Mother Base, probably due to being a former antagonist. - Setting off the alarm in a large base causes reinforcements to drive in from smaller, adjacent bases nearby. You can choose to shut down the smaller bases first to stop potential reinforcements, or sever smaller communications dishes in the main base to cut them off. You can also call the chopper to act as a distraction in an adjacent base, which removes reinforcements from the the base you want to get into, thinning out the ranks. - The larger satellite dishes on the bases control automated AA defences. Blow them up and you can call for chopper extraction at closer points. - Cardboard box tobogganing, says you can run and press square and you go into a funny slide, which retains momentum if you’re on a hill. - Named Ah-Ha, Billy Idol and David Bowie as helicopter tunes to choose from. - They had a whole section on his notepad ready for notes on how it performed/technical complaints, and the only thing he wrote at the end of his whole session was that some foliage occasionally pops-in in Africa, i.e it was mostly perfect. - Counted 14 or so major bases in Afghanistan, and over two dozen smaller outposts. - Minor spoiler, they said once you rescue Miller the base you take him from floods with gas. - Minor enemy spoilers about the pale, weird looking soldiers from the trailers: They’re called the Skulls, they can run faster than your horse, have glowing green eyes, and are described as ‘unkillable’ but the word is in inverted commas so there’s probably a way. They’re compared to MGS4’s Haven Troopers in that they fit the enhanced soldier archetype. They hunt you down after you rescue Miller. - This has been said before, but the missions are presented a little like TV eps, with opening and closing credits. They remark how it wouldn’t matter if Kojima’s name was scrubbed from the box art and marketing because it’s EVERYWHERE in the game. - Every mission has smaller side-objectives that bring extra rewards if you check them all off. Reminds me of Assassin’s Creed bonus objectives (or GTAV if you like). Says it only tells you the bonus objectives once you’ve finished the mission once, encouraging replayability without distracting you with it on the first pass. - There’s a great screen of DD riding in a jeep with Snake. - You have to upgrade the Fulton to extract heavier stuff. When extracted, it’s gone from the map for good, so you can’t farm for infinite stuff. - Says that like PW, there’s a lot of cassette tapes to flesh out the story if you want to. - Game structure is open-ended. Numerous missions are open at any time and you don’t have to go back to Mother Base in between. Some ‘Important’ side-ops open up new story missions. The game rewards you constantly with new blueprints and tapes. - Some side-ops have you rescuing ‘crazed’ survivors from your MSF base-destruction 9 years ago. - One side-op you have to tranq and extract a ‘legendary brown bear’. - New Mother Base is in the Seychelles. Compares MP to Dark Souls invasions, which can simply turn off in the menu. - Goes over the base management, tl;dr sounds like a richer version of PW. Outer Ops seems to be back to send your Combat soldiers to. - Wash blood off of Snake at the Mother Base showers, do target practice or fight with new recruits. Says MB starts off disappointingly small, but soon grows and adds new layers and levels. Morale of your men will drop if you don’t visit it often enough. - The item to view enemy soldier stats in the field before Fultoning is back from PW. - Mission completion times are recorded to the thousandth of a second. - There was a lot more they saw, but not allowed to talk about yet Also if you're so inclined here is an extended really well written preview the playstation magazine recently released for it http://m.imgur.com/a/zuirZ "It's the biggest Metal Gear ever. It's the deepest Metal Gear ever. And after poking and prying and experimenting and playing inside its many places and menus for two whole days, I'm utterly convinced that this new vision for Metal Gear Solid is a masterstroke. Moving the mechanics into a sandbox environment is as big an evolutionary step as when Metal Gear made the transition to the Solid series and three dimensions. The wait for September is going to be excruciating, but when MGS V finally arrives it's going to be so much more than anybody but Kojima himself had envisoned." Release date is September 1. Should be more info coming out at E3. There are a lot of good games this year Bloodborne Witcher 3 Arkham Knight but if The phantom pain is as good as I think it is then it will have Goty locked up.
It will come out for ps3 but don't do that to yourself this game needs to be played on next gen you'd be doing yourself a massive disservice imo.
Man i really suck at mgs compared to this guy. Id never played peace walker, so i ordered the collection and get it Monday. I am excite.
Overrated as fuck man. I mean some of those scenarios are kind of staged doubt anyone actually plays like that buts the beauty of it you can play it however the hell you want. Peace walker was awesome though you'll enjoy it.
Agreed fuck konami and their bullshit. They actually included micro transactions in this game likes its some fucking cell phone app. God damn cunts
my dad played 2 video games with us when I was little. Bases Loaded (not very often) Metal Gear He retired from playing video games with us when he beat Metal Gear. It was very neato to watch as a 4 year old. they need to bring back the cardboard box. GOAT accessory in video game history
Reviews are dropping. IGN gave it a perfect 10. http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/24/metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-review
GameSpot 10/10 http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-review/1900-6416224/ Its going to shit on every game that will come out this year and this a year of fucking fantastic games.
Basically Konami has embraced their fuck everyone give us money plan. I hope the company burns to the fucking ground.
Love Metal Gear, MGS was such an amazing game. Since then i've learned to appreciate the batshit insanity of playing these games. Although a few times while playing Guns of the Patriots I would get up and do dishes/household chores because I only have so much tolerance for 30 minute cutscenes
Nah, that's just typically with downloads that are already open. MGS 5 isn't open until September 1st, so the timer pops up.
Didn't think I had a chance in Hell in getting it in the first round of discs going out with such a major title, but I just saw that MG5 has shipped to me via Gamefly should be here by Friday.
its amazing i have always liked these games so much because i really suck at staying hidden. I'm only through episode 3 but so far just so impressed with the layouts and look and feel. They truly created these 'anything can change/anything can happen' type missions. Really fun.
I just finished mission 5i think. I love how you can go about them many ways. I play really slowly, taking my time to Scout and find all the enemy troops before going in. I have this goal of trying to lure a bear into an enemy camp and seeing what happens
I guess I have too much time on my hands; I'm on episode 23. Game is pretty well done, having the options to go about it however you want. The FOB option gets opened up after mission 22, btw.
I also take my time I just have a habit of making a hasty move once I have infiltrated. Love the bear idea Also I dont think the whole strapping guys to balloons will get old to me. I find it hilarious every time.
Once an alert goes off i go all to hell and take off running like Usain bolt Ive not mastered the time slow down shot yet
Good luck. It's a fun game, but the grind will begin later on. In a good way, perhaps. Maybe. Depends how many of you play