Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5038094-20160509051551/@comment-25168690-20160514234307

Adachi Did It wrote: ^^ Agreed, I love Kojima, the man is a legend without question. This time however he fucked up. Blaming Konami is all everyone seems to do, blame Kojima and out come the pitchforks. Konami was not in control of story or gameplay, granted from what I heard they did slightly speed up development time.

After 7 nearly 8 years though, it's debateable they were in the right there. Gameplay was perfection, story was near non-existant to me. I agree with both of you I fully think it is Kojima's fault but like you said I can't blame Kojima without people trying to kill me, the whole "being incomplete to give you a true phantom pain" is like the laziest excuse someone can make for not finishing something,

gameplay was perfect but Kojima messed up a lot of things regarding the story, for example I get the cassete tapes, as someone who hated the hour long Codec conversations I welcomed the cassette tapes, mainly cause I could move around freely while listening to them, however a great deal of them should have been cutscenes, for example the fate of Chico should have been a cutscene, also Diamond Dogs finding Strangelove's corpse inside the AI unit should have been a cutscene as well.

and don't get me started on Venom Snake, sure I get it he was created to solve a minor plot hole in a game that has been almost retconed to oblivion, but the thing is we were promised to see Big Boss "go into the dark side" yet the guy just goes who knows where... I wanted to build Outer Heaven, but no instead I get to play as a random dude doing filler stuff, and worse of all if a random medic can be made to beleive he is Big Boss and even gain his superior skill just because he is convinced he is Big Boss then why make clones in the first place? you can grab a bunch of assholes from any place in the world make them think they are Big Boss and bingo instant Big Boss army

sorry for ranting so... where can I follow this fan project?