Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Arrives Next Spring

There seems to be an error here - They forgot to mention how much the PC version is.

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Spring can't come soon enough!

I'm very, very excited for this! Coming much sooner than I expected.

Here's hoping it has $30 worth of content, and not just twenty minutes of sneaking followed by forty minutes of cutscenes.

Oh no. Too soon. Didn't want to consider next gen purchase yet.

Metal Gear Solid: Case Zero: Prologue: Ignition: Subtitle:

Origins

I didn't know they were releasing this on 360/PS3 as well. Will the Phantom Pain also come out on the current gen consoles?

What is going on??

I think the error is assuming that Konami cares about making PC games

SKULLFACE

Interesting, I like the concept of small downloadable prologues to games. Hopefully it'll be worth the price of entry. Dead Rising 2 did a fairly good job with that, but it was much cheaper to get Case Zero than this will be.

@mortuss_zero: I think a large part of the price is that they know a large portion of the Metal Gear fanbase will buy whatever they make, so long as it's not completely broken. I'm one of those people.

So basically, instead of MGS V being a $60 game, it' s a $90 game split into 2 parts. I can't say that's too surprising coming from the man who once said it would be cool if players had to buy a new copy of the game every time they died.

Except they said there would be a PC version.

I don't see PC listed under those 2 games in the wiki, so therefore, there must not be a PC release coming, regardless of what they said.

Wow I was expecting this so soon and pretty cheap.

gotta keep in mind, patrick forgot to mention this in this post.

ground zeros is apparently one mission

how long said mission is? whos to say

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/04/metal-gear-solid-ground-zeroes-release-date

Ground Zeroes consists of one mission - a Cuban rescue mission - that has been extensively demoed this year, including at Tokyo Game Show in September. It will be out on PS3, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360 next Spring. In the UK it will cost £19.99 on the older platforms and £29.99 on PS4 and Xbox One. In the US, it's considerably cheaper at $19.99/$29.99 respectively.

@jasonleeson: Quite so.

@pie: Lucky for you, you don't have to!

wait... these are two games? Which game have we been seeing trailers for this whole time? With horses, Keifer Sutherland, bikini snipers and stuff?

If there is one thing we need less of in the industry it's "slowly easing players in"

$30 seems steep. I bet just before PP comes out they heavily discount it for the promotional value.

I think @ll_exile_ll might have nailed it.

Well, I essentially payed $50 for a demo of MGS2 back in the day (I certainly wouldn't have purchased Zone of the Enders otherwise), so I can probably justify paying $30 for a demo of MGS5.

That was Phantom Pain, but Ground Zeroes has Kiefer Sutherland as well. And that oil tanker base that blows up, and the Cuban prison camp.

Obviously that's The Phantom Pain.

Ground Zeroes is mostly the Prison Camp that Big Boss infiltrates, 9 years before The Phantom Pain.

@mooseymcman: This is Kojima we're talking about. 20 minutes of gameplay with a full-length movie's worth of cutscenes (90 or so minutes).

@koolaid: I think we've been seeing a mixture of both or neither, it is Kojima and he really likes to mess with us. Plus he has had a ton of time to think of ways to do so.

@mrfluke: Ugh, that doesn't sound very good... I'm not a big enough fan of the MG franchise to buy this regardless of quaity/length, so I'm gonna sit this one out, at least until the internet confirms that it's worth the money. Sounds a lot like the GT 5 Prologue model to me.

Act 1 - Base Infiltration

I'll just go hmmmmmmm on this :

hmmmmmmm

If David Hayter isn't involved in the game to at least SOME degree, then this MGS won't get a minute of my time.

Kojima said he wasn't and that dude is always really straightforward about his games.

Christ, is there a price point that doesn't prompt at least one person to say this kind of thing? We don't have the faintest idea how much actual content there's going to be in Ground Zeroes; how can you already be trotting out the "dollars per hour" value judgement?

30 freakin' dollars/euros/what have you? For real? I love Metal Gear Solid to death, but this prologue better be amazing and lengthy enough to justify paying close to half of what the full game will cost.

Ground Zeroes sounds like lolcat slang.

For those concerned about Ground Zeroes' length:

"MULTIPLE MISSIONS AND TASKS –Ground Zeroes boasts a central story mode and Side-Ops missions ranging from tactical action, aerial assaults and “covert” missions that will be sure to surprise."

This is straight from Konami (of course) and seems to indicate that this game will be a bit more than a Tanker Chapter/$30 demo type-thing, which is reassuring, because that does seem quite steep based on what we've seen so far. Also, no physical next-gen version? Interesting...

Considering it's just a taste I don't think it's impossible for Phantom Pain to come out fall 2014. Current gen releases beyond that are kind of weird.

The messaging for this game is terrible, if I wasn't reading gaming sites I'd have no clue if this was one or two games. It's not been sold to me as two complete MG games, instead it feels like they've either split one game off to get more cash or started two stories and couldn't decide which one to go for.

@bellmont42:

No they didn't

@chaser324 said:

I love when other people put my feelings into words.

The OMG 30 bucks crowd is just hilarious.

Except when he up and swaps out the main character.

Wait a minute, I only paid $5 for DR2: Case Zero. And that had more than one mission.

Wait....so there won't be a retail disc release for PS4/XBO, just a download? But, there will be a download and a retail disc release on PS3/X360? I don't know why, but it almost seems like it should be reverse...somehow.

I am so in for the PS3 disc. I am still kind of opposed to all digital. Look what happened to your game library Xbox Arcade owners. At least with PSN you can kind of play some of the games on your Vita (but even that is very limited and kind of crummy).

Fox Engine's whole thing they keep touting its its scalability, so probably, yeah.

@wickedcobra03: Uh, if I turn on my xbox I can still play my XBLA games. What are you talking about?

PC version or death.

Prologue. Makes it sound like Gran Turismo 5: Prologue which I see some people getting a bit peeved by. It seem like one big paid beta.

taking a cue from RPS. PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PCPC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC

seriously Kojima, fans won't sacrifice the experience and get the current gen version and a lot just don't want a next gen console at all. PC!