Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-64.40.147.86-20141024014837/@comment-1672596-20141025151753

Bluerock wrote: I'm amazed that some people have such a major problem with this, to the point of not wanting to even play the game. I never felt that the guns being real life models were the primary focus of any of the previous games. As long as they're at least based on real weapons, I couldn't care less what they're identified as. "A rose by any other name..." It's more how they decided to do away with real life models than the fact that they decided to remove them in itself. I had little problem with Metal Gear Rising not using any real life weaponry even in cutscenes, as that at least took place 4 years after Metal Gear Solid 4 with explicit references to leaps in technology thanks to the Patriots shutdown. However, the fact that they are using fictitious weapons in MGSV, despite it taking place between Peace Walker and the first Metal Gear, is a blatant contradiction in terms of plot. Not to mention, if they wanted fictionalized weapons, why didn't they just do it much earlier, like I don't know, MG2, maybe MGS at the latest?