Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-109.193.182.64-20150909104238/@comment-27016126-20151003104429

The story is disjointed, but you can also call it episodic, can't you. Disjointed is just a negative version of episodic, really. I don't think there's a lot of filler missions though. Maybe there are 4-5 in the entire game, every other one does tie in nicely into the story. It's just that this time around the story of a local conflict plays a big role and most missions are tied into that story. This time around NPC soldiers get all the attention and personally I think their stories are fun and exploring them is very interesting. Malak mission is a great example. His story is not very important to the global story of DDvsCipher, but exploring that story in his mission is fun and the dialogue you hear there is interesting. And almost every mission has interesting story bits related to the characters of that mission alone, not of the global MGS5 cast. I think many people who criticize the story just ignored those story bits, maybe they never found them, maybe they did find them but never bothered to listen and pay attention.