Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-109.193.182.64-20150909104238/@comment-175.159.163.39-20151005091754

I have not been to this forums for days and didn’t know I miss 20+ posts on this topic.

I totally respect people’s differing views towards the game. MGSV’s story is not a total failure, but the missing missions 51 is certainly a huge negative. In addition, various evidences suggest that there should be 3 Chapters and that Chapter 2 is supposed to be more than just a combination of a few new missions and a few replay missions. These facts (irrelevant to whether you see them from the perspective of an old fan or new comer) certainly tells you the story is below what is expected. That aside, the positives includes the Quiet line, the whole hospital escape. Before Skull Face, Liquid (MGS1) has been my sure no.1 villain in MGS, but I’d now say in certain area, Skull Face has surpassed Liquid. What I feel lacking in Skull Face however, is that he only says a brief hello in missions 6, 12 and 20 before he delivers key story elements in mission 30 and 31 (which last merely 20-30 mins) and additionally through cassette tapes after you beat mission 46. In a sense, you would probably not miss much of his part of the story jumping from GZ to mission 30. Liquid was a new character in MGS1 too, but even if you exclude him playing Miller, he still has more to do in the story than his speeches on top of MG Rex -- let alone Liquid gave three boss fights and a chase before dying. Killing Skull Face without a fight is unwise when the story was cut to what it is now. As to Fake Boss, I said earlier that I am open to the idea of fitting him in but what I am not comfortable with is the WAY he is fitted in.

As for the point on misleading fans by the trailers, I’d say Kojima has all the rights to do edit the trailer into a misleading context, but if he purposely does that by fitting in cutscenes that will not feature in the final game (such as the child soldiers and Camp Omega scenes in the “Sins of the Father trailer” and the starting sequence of the “Nuclear trailer” -- all of which are not found in the final game (yet)), then I’d suggest him to spend his time on something more productive than on beautifying the trailer. Of course, what I believe had happened was that Konami wants him to cut the story and these scenes ended up not used.

I also have some new views on game play (I am up to mission 20 and 22), I didn’t know that much about FOBs until reading the few posts above. I initially thought we are safe from invasion as long as we stay offline, but it seems I was wrong and it will be bothersome if (usually) the same person realizing I’m not as good as he is and keep stealing resources and people from me, like how I kept being rocketed when I just started GTAV online with a pistol. The sniping boss battles are nice but I still think the rest of the boss battles are only gaming harassments (just see how many negative comments on the Youtube clips regarding mission 16).