Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4913740-20130628164607/@comment-42.98.58.155-20150919162429

I think it is very hard to tell what actually happened to MGSV when Kojima and Konami's relationship became so bad. We outsiders really have little clue to whether the game was designed grand and cut to what it is now, or was it planned to be this way. Time will tell but it will take many years, if not months, I believe.

Story side, I must say I am a bit disappointed when Mantis wasn't given a speaking role and that Liquid's mission 51 was cut. These two really deserve much more interaction with both Big Boss (be it the real or fake one) and Skull Face (particularly for Mantis as it was never explained how he ended up with Skull Face and why Skull Face tolerated him killing XOF people, and what drove him to turn against Skull Face at the end). But for now, at least I can be assured that MGSV is in the middle of the timeline in all previous games so there is no worry that it will change the MGS1, 2, 4 story.

In any case we should not forget that MGSV has the best game play ever to exist for stealth game, although the story really, would be the last thing I thought to have missed the expectations.