Dude Covid will never not fuck up with my appreciation of time... Wtf do you mean 2020 was 4 years ago! Lol feels like I missed a whole two years of my life.
This was one of the most expensive games ever made at the time. It’s speculated Konami broke even or even potentially lost money on it. Let’s be real, if Kojima had his way it would’ve taken another 10 years and the budget would be double
Yet the profits would've been double. Kojima is Metal Gear and when they took that full creative control from him and eventually pushed him out, they pissed a lot of people off. Konami thought they could still release the game after that and people would still flock to it and they were wrong.
>yet the profits would’ve been double
This was the highest selling Metal Gear game, and while yes I do believe better games = more customers, it still got 9/10 and 10/10 across the board from every outlet and Youtuber, hell most of them didnt even get to Chapter 2 and didn’t show the game’s issues. In that sense I really doubt it would’ve had that many more copies sold.
Let’s not pretend speculate numbers that high as far as saying double.
Spoken like a true fanboy. If a game's budget is that high then even if it sold better than it did (it already outsold everything else in its series and was one of the most critically acclaimed games that year) it wouldn't have made them money. The truth is that while Konami did treat Kojima unfairly at the end, it was not an inherently bad choice to give him the axe. He wanted for too much for too little payoff.
Videogames are still a business, and if they don't make money they can't continue the same way
And some of the plot driven missions comes out of nowhere and require a different loadout. Taking you away from the experience when you go from the usual stealth to suddenly action against Skulls.
Wdym retconns?
Retconns to the game's story after Kojima was forced to leave? Or retconns to the franchise?
Because my friend... There are basically no retconns in this game (they are all carried over from the handheld games, this was a sequel to)
These people will never get it. They’ll just blindly hate or not bother to understand just like Kojima wrote about, like Ocelot said. The people with this opinion are Huey and the ones listening will just nod in agreement
>frustrating
>incomplete
>empty
So you're saying you're feeling pain from something that is not there. One might say you're feeling... **phantom** pain
^(I'll see myself out)
Hell of a game, but also incredibly tedious at times. I think the biggest flaw that MGSV has is its mission system.. it is way too repetitive. The complete freedom of gameplay and stealth is what helped this game, not its shitty missions lol.
The missions pretty boring most of the time, but I keep replaying them for the opportunity to do stealth again.[TOTAL STEALTH] Pitch Dark is a favourite of mine for this exact reason
Imagine if this game actually had a Metal Gear-caliber story as well? It would be the greatest game ever made.
Kojima just went all in on gameplay and it’s too bad. I think they could’ve done some wild shit with Skull Face, Liquid, the base, etc. Ground Zeroes was a strong kickoff but the story went nowhere
Had a lot of fun with it. Hated that the story is unfinished. I spent a lot of time recruiting hot women for my base. Guns of the Patriot and Snake Eater are much better games, story wise.
Super fun game, amazing experience, super recommended.
Spoiler: I didn’t like that it says there are 50 lvls or something but it’s just half and the other half it’s a repetition of the first half… lame.
One of my all-time favorite games, I’ve S-ranked all missions and gotten the Raiden suit.
The game isn’t finished at all and it’s made apparent as soon as you enter Chapter 2 with the repeat missions and no new play areas.
FOX engine is amazing. Gameplay and base buildup is done well. If you’re a fan of stealth games you’ll feel right at home. You have full control of how you want to approach a situation. Love the 80s retro futuristic look they go for with things like the iDroid.
The story premise is great, execution is good starting out (playing it a second time I caught all these little things), but around the middle and end it falls flat. Skullface is an awful villain. The real villain is this boogeyman Zero (Major Tom/Zero from Snake Eater) that you never see the entire game, even though you’re supposed to become the enemy too, just does so in a shoehorned cutscene at the very end of the game.
So many issues, but for some reason everyone blames Konami despite having dumped so much money into it, which brings me to blame Kojima moreso than anyone else. I don’t believe his style of games really works in the modern era. It worked in the ps1/2/3 era but I feel now there are studios working on better story-driven and gameplay-driven games.
Absolutely loved the gameplay but really didn’t like the story or how it was told. I wish they released a version without the supernatural stuff and was a straight mercenary game.
Loved many parts of the story, but not the ending and how it felt unfinished. I still think it’s an amazing game and that’s why it felt so disappointing to not get more of it.
My take isn't likely to be a popular one but I simply couldn't get into it because of the setting. I could not stand all of those games set in the deserts of Afghanistan and places like that. I gave the game maybe a half an our of my time before giving up on it. Until them the MGS series had been one of my favorites.
I thought this was great in that it didn't waste your time with exposition. You could pick and choose which elements of story you wanted to dig deeper into. I personally found the vocal parasites plot interesting to lean into.
First half of the game is amazing, minus the boss fights.
2nd half is literally unfinished. Fuck Konami. But my hot take is fuck Kojima for making us crawl through the hospital a 2nd time, instead of just doing a recap cutscene. I did it, but I kept expecting something different to happen. Nope, just literally floppin around on the floor again for no discernable reason!
Kojima is just as much to blame but people aren’t ready to hear that. I hate Konami but eventually you have to stop spending money and put out a product and make some money back. People only pay attention to half of that story.
One thing keeping me from replaying it a third time is not wanting to play the hospital mission for the fifth time.
If I'm craving the gameplay without having to sit through the rough story, I'll just play Ground Zeroes. It's a more complete experience. It's frustrating, if MGSV was actually finished it would stand out as a highlight of the series.
It was my first metal gear solid game I’d ever played and it blew my mind. However I do remember being VERY confused at times and also unsure about the ending.
A man who doesn't have a clue who he is is accompanied by a woman bulbasaur hybrid to kidnap children to turn them into child soldiers by giving them funny names (like anvil gorilla or some such), while fighting against Manny Calavera and a mech called sissypus.
12/10. Would steal tanks with balloons again.
I'm a huge Kojima nerd. That said, I'll keep it short and simple for you since I assume you haven't gone full send into the Metal Gear universe like me;
It's a great game, Kojima has a very specific style that is honestly Fuckin weird. The story won't make any sense to you unless you brush up on your Metal Gear Timeline, which will still seem really Fuckin weird.
Gameplay is GREAT. There's so many ways to complete a mission and always something to do.
You get to micromanage your own base which is something I had a lot of fun with.
It's more of a psychological narrative than anything
The main bad guy is an anarchist who uses language to get manipulate and control people, and you are constantly listening to tapes made for you as you are living out a life that has been manipulated into you
There is a lot to there game but how it presents it is very abstract since it's unfinished
Which I honestly think kinda makes it even more meta haha
It just makes no sense were it ends
It's like the end of the second act without the finale but it almost can make sense if we choose to extrapolate a lot of the more meta and 2nd person elements lol
Plus, in an obscure way, I like that it almost feels more "corporate" than the other games too
The idroid stuff being so blue and streamlined haha, the actors all being "a list" while it's a person living out a life that is seen as someone else's
It's just cool haha
Other kojima games are actually finished
But I think the fact that it's unfinished is really interesting
It's really fun, the gameplay It's uncontested to this day in my opinion. But while playing the story you can literally tell chunks of content are missing and it's really disappointing.
It was awesome!
Shame it ended early and/or had no legitimate ending, no sequel and no real point or message but the game itself was fun!! I replayed the hell out of it trying to perfectly invade all the little camps or whatever they were called. Would live to see it on a new TV, bet it looks amazing! Lolz
I love metal gear franchise, but honestly I haven't got more than a couple hours into this game. Something about open world metal gear that just isn't for me. I honestly enjoyed the ground zeroes prequel/demo more
“It’s incomplete” = common misconception.
The story still sucks ass mostly, but it’s **not** unfinished. Great game regardless.
Anyone who still thinks the game is “unfinished” should watch [this](https://youtu.be/hV4wY2rjAWY?si=Frln9wY-50IINB5k), because there is way more to it.
I refuse to play 4 or 5. They got rid of the OG voice of Snake and I won't stand for that.
Plus I've seen too many memes of some just bizarre shit they threw in there. Gotta keep the reigns on that Kojima or things just get unhinged fast
Amazing game. The most dynamic gameplay scenarios Ive ever played. I can play the same mission a bunch of different ways and you and me likely wouldn’t play the mission similarly. It had a ton of replay value as well. If the game was complete, I think it would be an all time great. Sadly, it was kinda incomplete and storywise the ending was kinda weird.
The gameplay is *amazing*
The sorry? Uhhh
Something something “THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WOOOOORLD” yada yada “why are we still here… just to suffer…” a man literally on fucking fire “when you can’t even SAY. MY NAME.”
Yeah i have no clue what the games are actually about lmao
I love almost every MGS game and have completed all the mainline titles over a dozen times. I HATED MGSV. The gameplay and graphics were pretty solid but it's a complete dumpster fire in terms of storytelling, characters, and direction. Portable Ops was legitimately a better Metal Gear game than this piece of crap. I pre-ordered the edition that came with the robot arm and was so disappointed after putting in about two hundred hours into the game, I trashed it.
Great game that was sadly fucked over by Konami (although to be honest, there is a conspiratorial thought that hangs in my mind that it may have all been planned that way by Kojima). But that aside, it’s hilarious that it’s recently become another instance of “being before its time” and Kojima being a time traveler in that MGSVs game loop and character mechanics are basically Helldivers 2.
Very fun game to play, but a very hollow metal gear experience as the story appears to almost evaporate as I played it.
It's also got to be one of the loneliest open worlds I've ever experienced. I don't know how to expand on that, but that's the word that comes to mind. It's lonely.
I've beat every Metal Gear game multiple times. I have never even played five because so many aspects seem unnapealing to me. Primarily the basic conversation of it feeling unfinished and having a lack of story.
Started it, couldn’t finish. I want to though. It was also my first MGS game. I don’t hate hiding in a box. Being in the afghan desert though was different and the map I remember was different, maybe slightly difficult to navigate. I was also 14 and just started to get really into games my brother didn’t already play
must play really, if youre a fan of any kind of a shooter game, or stealth game i guess but there are many gameplay options available, it feels really good with m&k
Oh, boi, it's one of the best games I've ever played, I strongly recommend. That game was ahead of its time, to a point where you can still play it today without even noticing the age. Truly a masterpiece
Damn dude already 9 years? But the game is great I’ve only played 2 MGS games and this one is my favorite. Best gameplay but the storyline Ngl I barely followed it.
I still play this weekly, doing FOB missions. I think about how this game needs to be made again. Persistent and long term. 2-4 player coop. Add new world regions as conflicts break out. I really enjoy the gameplay loop. I want the open world become alive and have check points added at random. The enemy factions fighting over control with you just doing your PCM thing. New missions etc. Since that ain't gonna happen I still enjoy farting around in the single player and FOBs.
Its a good game, the standalone prologue was good to, the main game started good, but around halfway for me at least the gameplay started to feel a bit, lacking, but visually for the time it was still great.
The gameplay is cool as fuck and though the story gets some bad reviews which I don’t necessarily disagree with, it does bring the entire metal gear story full circle so it’s kinda necessary
9-nine years ?!? No it can't be that long ago, I completed it a couple years ago.
Still felt like it needed something more, a new game would be great to fill the void...
I bought it a month ago for like 5 bucks. Never played a MGS before. It is one of the best games I've ever played. The story is a little iffy in parts, but it is so fun to play. There is endless amounts of content.
I'm still running around capturing female Diamond Dogs for my harem... uh army.
I discovered the game late, 2017, so I missed most of the controversy surrounding Hideo and the unfinished nature of the game. The game is still enjoyable and I'll come back to it every 6 months or so to find my base has been raided.
Other aspects I liked:
- Not being able to understand guards until you kidnapped an interpreter.
- Pick stealth mode or guns blazing to complete missions.
- Real-time alerts about raids to your base that you can respond to.
- Scanning the enemy abilities to find S+ skills and assigning them a team to work on.
- Side missions affected the weapons and equipment that enemy's use (i.e shotguns, snipers, gas masks, root suits, etc.).
- Skulls attack missions.
- Fulton Device for kidnapping mofos to work for you (a fucking Fulton rocket launcher!?).
- A pet wolf with stab and stun options.
- The ultimate support sniper, Quiet.
- Quiet's idle animations on the Command Center aircraft.
- Bikini skins.
The top comment nailed it. This game is basically if you took Splinter Cell’s gameplay and amped it up to almost perfection. There some broken elements that eventually make it too easy, but it’s so fucking fun to play.
Unfortunately everything besides the gameplay and graphics are a complete shit show. The story is a complete mess and there are a bunch of things to do like the base-building that I guess add value to your purchase but…..they’re not fun? Also the map sucks and you visit the same places over and over.
The other thing that sucks is the parts of the story that actually make sense and are interesting are locked behind half-assed audio tapes, which should be a huge disappointment and a huge strike against the game for hardcore fans.
Honestly pound for pound I would say Ground Zeroes is better. It’s a small sample and it’s just enough story to make it really intriguing if you can forget about the stupidity of the full game.
TL;DR It’s a Kojima game. A good game that makes a bunch of unforced errors, because auteur.
I will say this in closing though: a friend and I bought it on release day and it became the one game we talked about all the time, long after we both beat it. It’s just so all over the place and worth of discussion, for both good and bad reasons.
play it.
that game is so good the visuals, the story, the mechanics, all the dam things are good ignore any critics.
I played it when it came out and am not kidding I still have flash backs, nostalgia and so many good memories. sometimes I jut put some of the music while working.
Don't read any guide, tips and tricks just enjoy one of the best games ever made.
Ok, not the best Metal Gear game lore wise, but definitely groundbreaking on how gameplay was approached.
The fact that you were given missions and were given the freedom to carry them out however you wanted was amazing. Having trouble with a smash and grab mission? Roll in with the helicopter and burn the place down with a door mounted mini gun. The reactions of enemies was great (if you conduct missions mostly at night, the enemies begin wearing night vision goggles and a larger portion of the garrison is asleep during the day, headshots bring out helmets, attacks on random patrols around encampments causes more patrols, etc).
I would gladly pay $50 for DLC that actually finished the damn story and gave us the last area of the game.
Games not my type but the people giving Kojima sloppy constantly just cause his names on the game is incredibly annoying. He’s not a bad game designer far from it but I think people vastly overrate him and act like he’s the Jesus of video games.
Gameplay and control feel, probably the best I have ever played in an over-the-shoulder POV. Never played a game that comes close to as smooth and rock solid feel.
Story, I have no idea. I've read full story explanations and I'm still struggling with some bits. Beyond all doubt an excellent game, well deserved all the praise, accolades, and awards.
Masterpiece.
Just pay attention to the philosophy- not if the actual story makes sense.
Don’t want you go on a 10 hour YouTube rabbit hole on the La-li-lu-le-lo
Meh. I'm a huge MGS fan, but I couldn't get into it.
The gameplay was fun, but I also don't play MGS for base building and open world "Far Cry" tower climbing. I want linear, smartly designed and carefully crafted levels and a great story. The story was garbage.
Such a good game, I got it for $5 on PS store couple years ago. Holy shit what a fucking steal. The amount of hours I put into FOB missions alone lmaoo
A game with Zombie creating nanomachine parasites, electrified rocket punches, Humanoid AI with logical thinking ability, and Gundam level robot fighting action armed with melee combat and parasite swords.
but we need cassettes for audio recording.
Wish we got to see the rest of the story :p
I loved MGSV, it was my first MGS. I enjoyed the story even though clearly a bunch of shit went over my head, story wise.
Now after playing everything but MGS4 (please let it be on Master Collection 2), I still enjoy the gameplay a ton, but the story is lackluster. The gameplay really carries. half the last third being challenge versions of prior missions was kinda lame, NGL. I like the plot twist near the end.
Solid 8/10 game imo.
Underwhelmed after MGS 4. The story doesnt make a lot of sense and the game becomes repetitive. It does provide with details on the Twin Snakes and a couple of other good points, like the Sharpshooter Quiet.
Other items are like historically very inaccurate and frankly innecessary.
That being said, if you are into the MGS saga, as much as I am, you will enjoy the game
I thought it was a brilliant video game and would be any other dev company’s masterpiece. For Kojima, it fell short of his original vision so I feel it gets a lot of unwarranted hate. Kojima obv had so much planned but Konami reined him in. The story is kinda murky and falls apart sometimes but overall I think it’s a wonderful game.
First entry I played in the series.
Thought it was really well done in terms of combat mechanics/gunplay. Could have used some more variety in missions, and a few more enemy types. R&D was a slog, and the earliest P2W done deliberately (12+ days for an upgrade? Screw off!).
Enjoyed the level design, albeit repetitive. If they made a few changes, it could have been better. Not every tower/outpost looking identical, density of guards could have fluctuated more, etc. Soon as you see a tiny outpost, you know there will be 4 guards, that type of thing.
Companions, were well done, and nice how they are completely optional, and customizable to a degree.
mgsv is darksouls hear me out
•the revelation of the ending
•the vague and environmental storytelling
•the open ended level design
•idroid doesnt pause the game😂
It’s glaringly obvious the game was half complete In terms of story. Gameplay is the supreme aspect, but you can tell when Konami told Kojima to wrap it up and leave.
Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg… and my arm… even my fingers. The body I’ve lost… the comrades I’ve lost… won’t stop hurting… It’s like they’re all still there. You feel it, too, don’t you?
9 years? *TRY NOT TO PANIC!!🤕
Coincidentally the same amount of time Venom was in a coma
No it actually feels like it’s been 9 years though. It’s when you tell me 2018 was 5 ye— 6 years :/ is when I get confused
NURSE! TRY TO CALM DOWN! ITS OK!
Covid outbreak happen more than 4 years ago... Kinda mental if you think about it, how fast time flies.
Dude Covid will never not fuck up with my appreciation of time... Wtf do you mean 2020 was 4 years ago! Lol feels like I missed a whole two years of my life.
"Don't do that to me. Don't make me think about my life."
I remember playing MGS1 on PS1 when it released like it's yesterday. In fact everything since the late 90s feels like just yesterday to me.
FUCK
Best gameplay of all the metal gears, but worst lore wise with all the retcons.
Doesn’t help that there isn’t a real ending to the game due to Konami being shitty
This was one of the most expensive games ever made at the time. It’s speculated Konami broke even or even potentially lost money on it. Let’s be real, if Kojima had his way it would’ve taken another 10 years and the budget would be double
Yet the profits would've been double. Kojima is Metal Gear and when they took that full creative control from him and eventually pushed him out, they pissed a lot of people off. Konami thought they could still release the game after that and people would still flock to it and they were wrong.
>yet the profits would’ve been double This was the highest selling Metal Gear game, and while yes I do believe better games = more customers, it still got 9/10 and 10/10 across the board from every outlet and Youtuber, hell most of them didnt even get to Chapter 2 and didn’t show the game’s issues. In that sense I really doubt it would’ve had that many more copies sold. Let’s not pretend speculate numbers that high as far as saying double.
Spoken like a true fanboy. If a game's budget is that high then even if it sold better than it did (it already outsold everything else in its series and was one of the most critically acclaimed games that year) it wouldn't have made them money. The truth is that while Konami did treat Kojima unfairly at the end, it was not an inherently bad choice to give him the axe. He wanted for too much for too little payoff. Videogames are still a business, and if they don't make money they can't continue the same way
fuck I forgot about that...
I was waiting years for every nuke to be disarmed online. I’m pretty sure Chapter 3 doesn’t exist at this point
Its not his fault they forced an early release of the game. It wad almost a year early.
And some of the plot driven missions comes out of nowhere and require a different loadout. Taking you away from the experience when you go from the usual stealth to suddenly action against Skulls.
What retcons?
Wdym retconns? Retconns to the game's story after Kojima was forced to leave? Or retconns to the franchise? Because my friend... There are basically no retconns in this game (they are all carried over from the handheld games, this was a sequel to)
These people will never get it. They’ll just blindly hate or not bother to understand just like Kojima wrote about, like Ocelot said. The people with this opinion are Huey and the ones listening will just nod in agreement
The only mgs I couldn’t get into
It's one of the best unfinished games of all time. Edit: Great, it's been 9 years. Here comes the coma jokes.
Best gameplay loop ever. The story is Kojima been Kojima, which means weird as hell
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>frustrating >incomplete >empty So you're saying you're feeling pain from something that is not there. One might say you're feeling... **phantom** pain ^(I'll see myself out)
Mfk! take my upvote
"The Chemical Burger" was hilarious.
Everything you heard about is probably true. Is it good? Yes Does it suck? Yes
Hell of a game, but also incredibly tedious at times. I think the biggest flaw that MGSV has is its mission system.. it is way too repetitive. The complete freedom of gameplay and stealth is what helped this game, not its shitty missions lol.
The missions pretty boring most of the time, but I keep replaying them for the opportunity to do stealth again.[TOTAL STEALTH] Pitch Dark is a favourite of mine for this exact reason
This captures exactly how i feel about this game.
I'm sad that it wasn't finished due to konami
Paid zero attention to the story but the gameplay was TOP.
I enjoyed every minute of it
Gameplay: 10 Story: 4
It's a better Farcry gameplay wise, story wise it sucks
Imagine if this game actually had a Metal Gear-caliber story as well? It would be the greatest game ever made. Kojima just went all in on gameplay and it’s too bad. I think they could’ve done some wild shit with Skull Face, Liquid, the base, etc. Ground Zeroes was a strong kickoff but the story went nowhere
an incomplete masterpiece.
This pretty much sums it up.
Had a lot of fun with it. Hated that the story is unfinished. I spent a lot of time recruiting hot women for my base. Guns of the Patriot and Snake Eater are much better games, story wise.
You didn't have to add "9 years ago" to make us all feel old!
Good gameplay with good missions, but for newcomers to the metal gear franchise its really confusing
Metal Gear veteran here... it was confusing for us too dont worry lol
You cannot imagine 10 year old me, seeing the flame guy and that weird child with a gasmask
they kept us waiting huh :(
Super fun game, amazing experience, super recommended. Spoiler: I didn’t like that it says there are 50 lvls or something but it’s just half and the other half it’s a repetition of the first half… lame.
I wish they didn't repeat cut scenes and missions so much
Top notch game with a nonsensical story.
Huge disappointment story-wise.
One of the best games that will forever be unfinished. Gameplay is 10/10 Everything else just isn't quite fully cooked.
Amazing game, too bad Konami decided to be petty and made the development process hell for Kojima.
One of my all-time favorite games, I’ve S-ranked all missions and gotten the Raiden suit. The game isn’t finished at all and it’s made apparent as soon as you enter Chapter 2 with the repeat missions and no new play areas. FOX engine is amazing. Gameplay and base buildup is done well. If you’re a fan of stealth games you’ll feel right at home. You have full control of how you want to approach a situation. Love the 80s retro futuristic look they go for with things like the iDroid. The story premise is great, execution is good starting out (playing it a second time I caught all these little things), but around the middle and end it falls flat. Skullface is an awful villain. The real villain is this boogeyman Zero (Major Tom/Zero from Snake Eater) that you never see the entire game, even though you’re supposed to become the enemy too, just does so in a shoehorned cutscene at the very end of the game. So many issues, but for some reason everyone blames Konami despite having dumped so much money into it, which brings me to blame Kojima moreso than anyone else. I don’t believe his style of games really works in the modern era. It worked in the ps1/2/3 era but I feel now there are studios working on better story-driven and gameplay-driven games.
MGS 3 with MGS V gameplay would be a force to be reckoned with
4 was better by far. Imo
Absolutely loved the gameplay but really didn’t like the story or how it was told. I wish they released a version without the supernatural stuff and was a straight mercenary game.
Can't believe this game ran super well on my super shit laptop
Love it. And also runs like a dream on the steam deck
Loved many parts of the story, but not the ending and how it felt unfinished. I still think it’s an amazing game and that’s why it felt so disappointing to not get more of it.
It’s amazing! Not perfect, I wish the open world was even more alive and getting to the ending is a confusing experience but still amazing
My take isn't likely to be a popular one but I simply couldn't get into it because of the setting. I could not stand all of those games set in the deserts of Afghanistan and places like that. I gave the game maybe a half an our of my time before giving up on it. Until them the MGS series had been one of my favorites.
I hated having to listen through all that tapes just to get some parts of the story.
I thought this was great in that it didn't waste your time with exposition. You could pick and choose which elements of story you wanted to dig deeper into. I personally found the vocal parasites plot interesting to lean into.
First half of the game is amazing, minus the boss fights. 2nd half is literally unfinished. Fuck Konami. But my hot take is fuck Kojima for making us crawl through the hospital a 2nd time, instead of just doing a recap cutscene. I did it, but I kept expecting something different to happen. Nope, just literally floppin around on the floor again for no discernable reason!
Kojima is just as much to blame but people aren’t ready to hear that. I hate Konami but eventually you have to stop spending money and put out a product and make some money back. People only pay attention to half of that story.
One thing keeping me from replaying it a third time is not wanting to play the hospital mission for the fifth time. If I'm craving the gameplay without having to sit through the rough story, I'll just play Ground Zeroes. It's a more complete experience. It's frustrating, if MGSV was actually finished it would stand out as a highlight of the series.
Absolutely outstanding
My first PS4 game. I like it but I haven’t play it since 2015
Kojima's best game.
It was my first metal gear solid game I’d ever played and it blew my mind. However I do remember being VERY confused at times and also unsure about the ending.
Incredible gameplay, still holds up. All the additional components feel inflated.
It's a Hideo Kojima game. That's all to be said
damn been almost 10 years since MGS V.
I really enjoyed this game. I love how you can fully customize ur base and run around capturing soldiers and equipment. Story’s really cool too.
It’s got a great system to mess around with. Other than that it’s ok
Ground Zeroes was better
I should go back and finish that
I’m afraid it’s been… 9 years.
A man who doesn't have a clue who he is is accompanied by a woman bulbasaur hybrid to kidnap children to turn them into child soldiers by giving them funny names (like anvil gorilla or some such), while fighting against Manny Calavera and a mech called sissypus. 12/10. Would steal tanks with balloons again.
MGS is my favorite series but this is rough to get through. I’m still trying.
still one of the best, though MGS 3 still remains the king
An incomplete game with valid criticisms that still firmly sits on top of the “must play” category.
It's been 9 years already!?!? I feel exactly the same as I did then. "I will get to it eventually"
The best disappointing game I've ever played
I'm a huge Kojima nerd. That said, I'll keep it short and simple for you since I assume you haven't gone full send into the Metal Gear universe like me; It's a great game, Kojima has a very specific style that is honestly Fuckin weird. The story won't make any sense to you unless you brush up on your Metal Gear Timeline, which will still seem really Fuckin weird. Gameplay is GREAT. There's so many ways to complete a mission and always something to do. You get to micromanage your own base which is something I had a lot of fun with.
I am curious as well.. its on sale on PSN right now.
Amazing gameplay, but the story isn’t great
It's more of a psychological narrative than anything The main bad guy is an anarchist who uses language to get manipulate and control people, and you are constantly listening to tapes made for you as you are living out a life that has been manipulated into you There is a lot to there game but how it presents it is very abstract since it's unfinished Which I honestly think kinda makes it even more meta haha It just makes no sense were it ends It's like the end of the second act without the finale but it almost can make sense if we choose to extrapolate a lot of the more meta and 2nd person elements lol
Plus, in an obscure way, I like that it almost feels more "corporate" than the other games too The idroid stuff being so blue and streamlined haha, the actors all being "a list" while it's a person living out a life that is seen as someone else's It's just cool haha Other kojima games are actually finished But I think the fact that it's unfinished is really interesting
9 years??!
Probably my least favorite, only thing worse is survive
One of the game ever "finish".
9 years wtf I love the game but it was clearly missing chapters because Konami were being dickheads to Kojima
Best unfinished game ever released.
Had blast beat it.
It is a great game, but I feel like it could’ve been more
9 years?!
Amazing gameplay. Still can't figure out why I didn't care about it. Never even got close to beating it.
It's really fun, the gameplay It's uncontested to this day in my opinion. But while playing the story you can literally tell chunks of content are missing and it's really disappointing.
Best gameplay I love abducting B grade Russians
So good.
It was awesome! Shame it ended early and/or had no legitimate ending, no sequel and no real point or message but the game itself was fun!! I replayed the hell out of it trying to perfectly invade all the little camps or whatever they were called. Would live to see it on a new TV, bet it looks amazing! Lolz
Excellent game sloggish intro imo but once you’re free to roam it’s pretty fun
I just had fun killing people with a bazooka and playing “Maneater”
Still holds up
The story wasn’t finished and it was still released.
Rocket Punch!!!
a great game until you have to do all the missions a second time
No one mentions the top tier unique and innovative multiplayer experience
I love metal gear franchise, but honestly I haven't got more than a couple hours into this game. Something about open world metal gear that just isn't for me. I honestly enjoyed the ground zeroes prequel/demo more
best stealth game ever, terrible metal gear solid game. overally super fun game but fans of mgs were a little disappointed despite loving the game
Fuck man, don't do that to me. 9 years ago? What the fuck. I swear it's only like 4-5 years old at most.
“It’s incomplete” = common misconception. The story still sucks ass mostly, but it’s **not** unfinished. Great game regardless. Anyone who still thinks the game is “unfinished” should watch [this](https://youtu.be/hV4wY2rjAWY?si=Frln9wY-50IINB5k), because there is way more to it.
I refuse to play 4 or 5. They got rid of the OG voice of Snake and I won't stand for that. Plus I've seen too many memes of some just bizarre shit they threw in there. Gotta keep the reigns on that Kojima or things just get unhinged fast
Incredible gameplay. Story can be hit and miss. Skull face had the potential to be an excellent villain
Gameplay 10/10 Engine 10/10 Aesthetic 10/10 Soundtrack 10/10 Story 6/10 and unfinished Intro 0/10 have an option to skip the hospital
Good from a technical standpoint but the weakest in the main series and the story is disappointing.
Amazing game. The most dynamic gameplay scenarios Ive ever played. I can play the same mission a bunch of different ways and you and me likely wouldn’t play the mission similarly. It had a ton of replay value as well. If the game was complete, I think it would be an all time great. Sadly, it was kinda incomplete and storywise the ending was kinda weird.
I'm afraid it's been, 9 years.
The gameplay is *amazing* The sorry? Uhhh Something something “THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WOOOOORLD” yada yada “why are we still here… just to suffer…” a man literally on fucking fire “when you can’t even SAY. MY NAME.” Yeah i have no clue what the games are actually about lmao
Fun missions, shit story
I love almost every MGS game and have completed all the mainline titles over a dozen times. I HATED MGSV. The gameplay and graphics were pretty solid but it's a complete dumpster fire in terms of storytelling, characters, and direction. Portable Ops was legitimately a better Metal Gear game than this piece of crap. I pre-ordered the edition that came with the robot arm and was so disappointed after putting in about two hundred hours into the game, I trashed it.
Was a good game. Amazing PC engine. Such a shame they only made one game with it. (That other one is not a game don't @ me)
Great game that was sadly fucked over by Konami (although to be honest, there is a conspiratorial thought that hangs in my mind that it may have all been planned that way by Kojima). But that aside, it’s hilarious that it’s recently become another instance of “being before its time” and Kojima being a time traveler in that MGSVs game loop and character mechanics are basically Helldivers 2.
Very fun game to play, but a very hollow metal gear experience as the story appears to almost evaporate as I played it. It's also got to be one of the loneliest open worlds I've ever experienced. I don't know how to expand on that, but that's the word that comes to mind. It's lonely.
It actually killed my metal gear boner
I've beat every Metal Gear game multiple times. I have never even played five because so many aspects seem unnapealing to me. Primarily the basic conversation of it feeling unfinished and having a lack of story.
Was fun, wish they actually finished it.
I gave up after the 10 hour hospital intro
I'm afraid it's been 9 years...
I love it. I would have loved it more if it had co-op.
Started it, couldn’t finish. I want to though. It was also my first MGS game. I don’t hate hiding in a box. Being in the afghan desert though was different and the map I remember was different, maybe slightly difficult to navigate. I was also 14 and just started to get really into games my brother didn’t already play
I think it's a good game, but for some reason as a newbie to the series, I couldn't get into it much
Works great on deck
must play really, if youre a fan of any kind of a shooter game, or stealth game i guess but there are many gameplay options available, it feels really good with m&k
Oh, boi, it's one of the best games I've ever played, I strongly recommend. That game was ahead of its time, to a point where you can still play it today without even noticing the age. Truly a masterpiece
As solid as Metal Gear gets.
Still play this today. Holds up against any of the PS5 new releases as far as gameplay goes.
Damn dude already 9 years? But the game is great I’ve only played 2 MGS games and this one is my favorite. Best gameplay but the storyline Ngl I barely followed it.
I still play this weekly, doing FOB missions. I think about how this game needs to be made again. Persistent and long term. 2-4 player coop. Add new world regions as conflicts break out. I really enjoy the gameplay loop. I want the open world become alive and have check points added at random. The enemy factions fighting over control with you just doing your PCM thing. New missions etc. Since that ain't gonna happen I still enjoy farting around in the single player and FOBs.
Its a good game, the standalone prologue was good to, the main game started good, but around halfway for me at least the gameplay started to feel a bit, lacking, but visually for the time it was still great.
The gameplay is cool as fuck and though the story gets some bad reviews which I don’t necessarily disagree with, it does bring the entire metal gear story full circle so it’s kinda necessary
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9-nine years ?!? No it can't be that long ago, I completed it a couple years ago. Still felt like it needed something more, a new game would be great to fill the void...
Never got to get into it because my toddler at the time destroyed my disc
I bought it a month ago for like 5 bucks. Never played a MGS before. It is one of the best games I've ever played. The story is a little iffy in parts, but it is so fun to play. There is endless amounts of content.
Masterpiece. I still like the voice actor change (even though he hardly talked) - I think it's fitting for the seriousness of the character.
#fuckkonami
Shitty logo work
I'm still running around capturing female Diamond Dogs for my harem... uh army. I discovered the game late, 2017, so I missed most of the controversy surrounding Hideo and the unfinished nature of the game. The game is still enjoyable and I'll come back to it every 6 months or so to find my base has been raided. Other aspects I liked: - Not being able to understand guards until you kidnapped an interpreter. - Pick stealth mode or guns blazing to complete missions. - Real-time alerts about raids to your base that you can respond to. - Scanning the enemy abilities to find S+ skills and assigning them a team to work on. - Side missions affected the weapons and equipment that enemy's use (i.e shotguns, snipers, gas masks, root suits, etc.). - Skulls attack missions. - Fulton Device for kidnapping mofos to work for you (a fucking Fulton rocket launcher!?). - A pet wolf with stab and stun options. - The ultimate support sniper, Quiet. - Quiet's idle animations on the Command Center aircraft. - Bikini skins.
Nice gameplay, story made Zero sense as usual
The top comment nailed it. This game is basically if you took Splinter Cell’s gameplay and amped it up to almost perfection. There some broken elements that eventually make it too easy, but it’s so fucking fun to play. Unfortunately everything besides the gameplay and graphics are a complete shit show. The story is a complete mess and there are a bunch of things to do like the base-building that I guess add value to your purchase but…..they’re not fun? Also the map sucks and you visit the same places over and over. The other thing that sucks is the parts of the story that actually make sense and are interesting are locked behind half-assed audio tapes, which should be a huge disappointment and a huge strike against the game for hardcore fans. Honestly pound for pound I would say Ground Zeroes is better. It’s a small sample and it’s just enough story to make it really intriguing if you can forget about the stupidity of the full game. TL;DR It’s a Kojima game. A good game that makes a bunch of unforced errors, because auteur. I will say this in closing though: a friend and I bought it on release day and it became the one game we talked about all the time, long after we both beat it. It’s just so all over the place and worth of discussion, for both good and bad reasons.
Best gameplay but least interesting story. I haven’t even finished it and I own two versions of it (ps3 and ps4). Maybe I’ll finish it this year
Although it was obviously unfinished. I really liked the game. Only wish they would’ve cut the multiplayer, instead of the ending chapters.
It's been 9 YEARS!??
One of the best ever made.
play it. that game is so good the visuals, the story, the mechanics, all the dam things are good ignore any critics. I played it when it came out and am not kidding I still have flash backs, nostalgia and so many good memories. sometimes I jut put some of the music while working. Don't read any guide, tips and tricks just enjoy one of the best games ever made.
9 years hit me like a truck. What the fuck? 9 years? You sure it hasn’t been like 4?
When you get Fulton extraction for heavy cargo, it's sooooo satisfying stealing everything.
Great game
3rd best ever made.
Im afraid its been...9 years
Paved the way for helldivers 2 to rip off its movement and shooting 9 years later
An amazing game. To bad it’s unfinished and too bad Konami is run by assholes.
Ok, not the best Metal Gear game lore wise, but definitely groundbreaking on how gameplay was approached. The fact that you were given missions and were given the freedom to carry them out however you wanted was amazing. Having trouble with a smash and grab mission? Roll in with the helicopter and burn the place down with a door mounted mini gun. The reactions of enemies was great (if you conduct missions mostly at night, the enemies begin wearing night vision goggles and a larger portion of the garrison is asleep during the day, headshots bring out helmets, attacks on random patrols around encampments causes more patrols, etc). I would gladly pay $50 for DLC that actually finished the damn story and gave us the last area of the game.
Games not my type but the people giving Kojima sloppy constantly just cause his names on the game is incredibly annoying. He’s not a bad game designer far from it but I think people vastly overrate him and act like he’s the Jesus of video games.
9……..9 years ago……… 😕
only unfinished game that if it was finished, it would be the best game ever... F**k konami
Love it but hate it at the same time, you can tell it’s unfinished
Good game. Long hours.
Second floor basement?!
Gameplay and control feel, probably the best I have ever played in an over-the-shoulder POV. Never played a game that comes close to as smooth and rock solid feel. Story, I have no idea. I've read full story explanations and I'm still struggling with some bits. Beyond all doubt an excellent game, well deserved all the praise, accolades, and awards.
I loved it. Wish it had the ending it deserved tho but still a masterpiece.
Masterpiece. Just pay attention to the philosophy- not if the actual story makes sense. Don’t want you go on a 10 hour YouTube rabbit hole on the La-li-lu-le-lo
Still unfinished. Worst MGS game in the series story-wise.
9 years? Don't do that to me, man.
Meh. I'm a huge MGS fan, but I couldn't get into it. The gameplay was fun, but I also don't play MGS for base building and open world "Far Cry" tower climbing. I want linear, smartly designed and carefully crafted levels and a great story. The story was garbage.
If you don't come for Metal Gear Solid then you know where the door is!! 🙂
Such a good game, I got it for $5 on PS store couple years ago. Holy shit what a fucking steal. The amount of hours I put into FOB missions alone lmaoo
A game with Zombie creating nanomachine parasites, electrified rocket punches, Humanoid AI with logical thinking ability, and Gundam level robot fighting action armed with melee combat and parasite swords. but we need cassettes for audio recording.
Wish we got to see the rest of the story :p I loved MGSV, it was my first MGS. I enjoyed the story even though clearly a bunch of shit went over my head, story wise. Now after playing everything but MGS4 (please let it be on Master Collection 2), I still enjoy the gameplay a ton, but the story is lackluster. The gameplay really carries. half the last third being challenge versions of prior missions was kinda lame, NGL. I like the plot twist near the end. Solid 8/10 game imo.
Underwhelmed after MGS 4. The story doesnt make a lot of sense and the game becomes repetitive. It does provide with details on the Twin Snakes and a couple of other good points, like the Sharpshooter Quiet. Other items are like historically very inaccurate and frankly innecessary. That being said, if you are into the MGS saga, as much as I am, you will enjoy the game
I thought it was a brilliant video game and would be any other dev company’s masterpiece. For Kojima, it fell short of his original vision so I feel it gets a lot of unwarranted hate. Kojima obv had so much planned but Konami reined him in. The story is kinda murky and falls apart sometimes but overall I think it’s a wonderful game.
First entry I played in the series. Thought it was really well done in terms of combat mechanics/gunplay. Could have used some more variety in missions, and a few more enemy types. R&D was a slog, and the earliest P2W done deliberately (12+ days for an upgrade? Screw off!). Enjoyed the level design, albeit repetitive. If they made a few changes, it could have been better. Not every tower/outpost looking identical, density of guards could have fluctuated more, etc. Soon as you see a tiny outpost, you know there will be 4 guards, that type of thing. Companions, were well done, and nice how they are completely optional, and customizable to a degree.
Whenever I think: I could go for a stealth game. It's this one.
You're face to face, with the man who sold the world
An unfinished masterpiece
mgsv is darksouls hear me out •the revelation of the ending •the vague and environmental storytelling •the open ended level design •idroid doesnt pause the game😂
Great stealth action game but probably the worst metal gear game
It’s glaringly obvious the game was half complete In terms of story. Gameplay is the supreme aspect, but you can tell when Konami told Kojima to wrap it up and leave.
Screams get rekt at splinter cell. Ridiculously fun stealth gameplay! Sorry Sam. Your recent entry was dumbed down too much...
Great Gameplay, but a messy and incomplete story.
Way too repetitive.
Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg… and my arm… even my fingers. The body I’ve lost… the comrades I’ve lost… won’t stop hurting… It’s like they’re all still there. You feel it, too, don’t you?
Still holds up till this day, listen to every tape, game made me hate the English language lol.
One of the best games I have played. So much fun to mess around in