Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-93.186.157.41-20131104155211/@comment-1672596-20131104203409

93.186.157.41 wrote: Its great mgs V is finally coming out next year but it sucks a bit that they have to cut it in half though. I hope there is a legitimate reason for this that will actually make the game better. To be fair, though, Kojima did say even he wasn't certain whether to release them both together or separately. And honestly, I suspected since GDC it was going to be two since Kojima stated that the clip he showed was the beginning/tutorial of The Phantom Pain (and they generally don't do a tutorial in the middle of the game, not unless its for a new ability).

Anyways, now that we definitely know Ground Zeroes is separate, I'm suspecting there's more to the mission than just Cuba and possibly Mother Base (Big Boss does have to end up at Cyprus somehow, anyways, especially since he has to nearly travel literally to the other side of the world just to be close enough to Cyprus to get himself all "sleeping beauty" for nine years, so to speak.).