Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.31.149.225-20131209223650/@comment-210.56.88.130-20131210111804

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Soul reaper wrote: I'm honestly not sure why people have an issue with the content of these missions. They're bonus missions, similar to the VR missions of MGS1, and 2, the Snake vs Monkey missions of MGS3 and all the Extra Ops missions of Peace Walker. They're non-canon. They have no reason to conform to the strict rules of the fictional universe. It's like protecting curry with a Sniper rifle, fighting a giant version of the enemy soldiers or shooting down enemies strapped to balloons. They're fun little distractions, nothing more.

The real issue is the exclusivity. It's a slap in the face to the fans and simply continues Konami's poor approach to handling digital content, especially in regards to the Metal Gear franchise. First we had Rising with it's store based pre-order DLC, then the region specific free give away of VR missions, and now they've screwed it up even more by making the story based DLC free in the US, and on Xbox in Europe, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, but still full price on PS3. And though they've bundled all the pre-order DLC into the new Japanese special edition, it remains unavailable elsewhere. Now they're making it impossible to get all the content for GZ unless you buy it twice. That's after trying to get people to pay 150% of the cost of a new game to get the full MGSV experience AND not counting any DLC they release in the future. Actually, MGS1's VR missions were canon, because Raiden directly referenced them in MGS2. And I'm doubtful that Peace Walker's Extra Ops missions were non-canon, considering that not only did you have to complete them to even unlock what is effectively the true ending (even if it preceded the second ending chronologically), but there were more than a few hints that at least most of the Extra Ops missions were canon (such as the ZEKE mock battle being directly referenced by Huey in the second ending, the mention about retrieving head parts from AI weapons, heck, even the vehicle missions were implied to be canon due to the second ending including Hind helicopters, which could only be gained via those missions and there being absolutely no hint elsewhere about even gaining those aircraft, not even in the briefing files.). The Monster Hunter missions, however, would qualify as actual non-canon bonus missions specifically because of how you have to pull more strings to unlock them than other Extra Ops missions.

And tell me about it regarding DLC. I had enough problems even attempting to get the DLC for Peace Walker, setting up the wi-fi to gain enough DLC to add them to the wiki. The existence of VR missions are canon, the exact content of them are disbutable at best. In the completely canon part of the game (the story mode) they talk about VR missions being used for actual military training. Some of MGS1's missions fit into this, others certainly do not. Same goes for PW. There are missions that are canon such as the one where a normal MSF soldier must be used to recover Snake's gear. Others have no canonical sense and are simply there for fun and humour. These missions fall into that category and exist more in line with Snake Tales and the like. They're just bonus content made for fun and nothing more. When they announced that there would be exclusive content, people should not have thought it would be substantial, that would have just been stupid.