Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-86.45.17.40-20150909104026/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150911171409

Paranoid Donkey wrote: Honestly this is all born from our inability to accept the fact that we were shipped an incomplete game. I don't want to get my hopes up, so I'm gonna poo poo this thing.

I can almost guarantee you that Black Hound has nothing to do with Metal Gear Solid, though maybe it has something to do with Kojima. But to be quite frank the logo looks pretty crappy so nothing Black Hound related has me expectant or excited in the least.

All the other stuff, such as the unplayable cassette tape in Ground Zeroes (which I had ASSUMED would be explained in TPP) has me asking a lot of questions.

64.33.250.214 wrote: I've said some harsh things about Kojima and MGSV since the story was leaked. If it turns out the ending to Chapter 2 was a ruse, and there's a bigger twist which will elaborate on the "true ending", then I may be able to forgive the game for it's shortcomings. If it's all a hoax, then at least it's been a fun one. These conspiracy theories are almost a game in themselves. I want for this to be true as much as you do. While I loved Metal Gear Solid V and TPP was easily one of my Top 3 games of all time, there are PLENTY of faults with it, the overall plot being the most obvious one. This is simply not what we've come to expect from Kojima - and whatever the reason, possibly Konami breathing down his neck and rushing him, maybe not, we can't say - the game is not whole. I will add that it seems very strange to me for the game to have a Prologue, Chapter One and Chapter Two, that's just bizarre. I wanted to love this game, and be able to proudly place it in my 10 ten favorite games. I let the hype get to me. All the trailers and speculation about the trailers. They sold us on the descent of Big Boss. Who it turns out wasn't in the game but for a bizarre moment when he appears fully clothed in a leather jacket with beard, when a second earlier he was nude wearing a hospital gown with bandages and both eyes. Then we hear Boss again when the game jumps to Outer Heaven. There was no build up for it whatsoever. No signs of Solid Snake, Gray Fox, or the bosses we encounter in MG1.

I might be in the minority on these boards when I say the execution of these scenes ruined the immersion for me. They left me with more questions than answers. If there's story that got cut due to time or budget constraints, if there was any shred of explanation left at all for these plot twists, then I could see myself forgiving Kojima and the game's odd misdirections. Mentioning the S3 program in particular could redeem the story for me. If Big Boss had a hand in the program then it'd be an effective way of portraying him as a villain. But I somehow doubt that was the message Kojima was trying to convey...

Maybe nothing will happen. Maybe today we'll learn Silent Hills will be produced by Kojima under a new name and company. Although tt's highly unusual for game developers to reserve important story elements for online download only.