Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25168690-20160817194149/@comment-1672596-20160828020322

Jim Logan wrote: To be honest, The Phantom Pain just killed all my ambition, drive, and love I had for this series for nearly a year. A couple days ago, I was bored and decided to go through Guns of the Patriots again, and it just reminded me why I loved the series so much, the different complex characters, the amazing boss fights with their sad as hell backstories, sure the gameplay was leagues behind MGSV, but that doesn't make up for everything that was lacking with it. Sure V had beautiful cutscenes, but it's longest scene was what, five minutes long? And I know a lot of the games' budget just went into the Fox Engine itself, but god damn, would it have killed Kojima or whoever was in charge up there to do some re-shoots on those lines in TPP? Half the time Troy Baker and Sutherland sound like they were rolled out of bed, got that motion capture stuff put on their faces and thrown into the recording studio. I'm not sure I'd say it killed it (I'd say Peace Walker is what killed my love for the series after what they did with Miller and Big Boss and who they worshipped), but it certainly acted as the final nail in the coffin for it.

TBH, probably the only reason I'm still even bothering with the game as it is rather than calling it quits (especially when I've already done 100% of the game in itself without the online features even the codenames and non-Event FOB emblems, with the only thing left is getting the Deterrence and Disarmament trophies, plus the Legend trophy after getting all trophies) is this wiki, namely inputting the recipes for developing various Online items (not to mention developing them), inputting all the Event FOBs and their rewards, trying to get stuff for Metal Gear Online (though actually purchasing the items, let alone their color schemes, will obviously have to wait), and fully completing my FOB4 (I've already completed my FOB1, FOB2, and FOB3). All I can say is, I certainly hope the August update for the Event FOB mode is the last, because I'm getting sick and tired of all these Event FOB prizes, which I still need to make sure I get for the sake of the wiki (and I know that the last reward of the new Event FOB rewards will most likely be in late May assuming every event from here on out is two weeks instead of one due to the uniforms), and I'm also getting extremely irritated at how they aren't actually releasing new emblems at all. Once all of them are confirmed done, I'm free to move on. Fortunately, after my FOB 4 has fully finished development, I can move my PS4 into the Living Room, which will cut down on my trying to jot down everything significantly, so at the very least I can take care of any and all ingredient inclusions by that time, and then I'll do development of any and all weapons and equipment that I have yet to do largely because of that afterwards, meaning the only real thing I've got left is MGO3 equipment purchases and the Event FOB missions which means that, barring any emergency procurement of S++ rank soldiers, I'd probably only need to play the game on Tuesday depending on how things do. I'm planning on leaving the site shortly after May when the Event FOBs are done for (assuming of course they don't pull yet ANOTHER May 10 update unveiling more Event Point prizes, and quite frankly, I didn't really see a point to it other than MAYBE the emblems (which was solely due to the fact that the final ten were blocked off in datamining), especially when there weren't even any new weapons to be released for the Event FOBs (which are pretty much the only ones that, economics wise, would even remotely justify including more prizes due to the microtransactions, since the weapons colors, base colors, emblems, and nameplates don't really need any microtransactions to get at all since they aren't even for the R&D development menu, just the customization menu, and even the only other thing that MIGHT justify including more prizes, the uniforms, only require 5 minutes to develop, and only one measly MB Coin to speed development along, making a microtransaction for it completely pointless since the only way you would even NEED to pay for the development is if you don't have ANY MB Coins at all, though the swimsuits at least have 700 MB coins to justify it economics wise this time around), though I MAY return regarding Survive depending on whether there's anything with that game that needs reporting regarding item descriptions, weapons descriptions, or potentially even DLC.