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Nice! These seem like good choices to me. Good luck, @thatpinguino and @fisk0! I hope you can be a good help to the community here. :)

Please don't skip the first game. It's so important. And there is auto-aim and analog.

MGS is a classic. It's a bit clunky, similar to how something like Super Mario 64 is kinda "clunky", but they're still games worth checking out and enjoying for what they are.

@chaser324 Yeah, the controls in the HD version of Peace Walker are definitely good. The original PSP controls were probably only a tad above the original MGS though(if at times even worse). HD version or on an emulator all the way.

Glad to hear it! I am really enjoying MGSV, and while everything is still really confusing, this stuff helps give a lot of things greater weight.

@billymagnum: Sure, duder. I'd be cool with trading my copy of Ground Zeroes for that poster. I'll PM you. :)

You sure those interactions weren't partly hallucinations, too? How much of that scene was actually real?

I hope they return to that in some way.

After some download nuttiness and Visual C++ stuff, I finally got MGSV to work and have enjoyed about 4 hours now. It's really something.

It is quite a good-looking game, too.

After two hours, my MGSV Steam download broke. Just said nah it needs to be redownloaded. So now I'm here waiting again.

This is why offering preloading helps so much. I might not even get to play tonight. :\

@voshinova: Glad it may have been of use! MGSV is downloading on my PC right now. So close!

@demoskinos Yeah, I believe the Data Cassette is that bald guy's tape, and it doesn't have audio data. The data is all the info Kaz got on what they were really doing at the black site.

The real classified intel tape(Data Cassette)? If it's the one I'm thinking of, the exact details of it remain unclear(as you aren't shown the data), but Kaz explains at the end of the mission when you get it that, when put into their computer, the tape is full of data on how the Cuban base was converted into a black site. There's no audio to be found; it's just data of planning, layout, tactics, and funding of the base. Your informant originally tries to trick you since they were holding his family, but if you interrogate the Cipher agent, you get the real data.

Unfortunately, when the base was blown up, all you were left with is data that can't be corroborated. Cipher effectively covered up what his network, the CIA, and other countries were doing there.

Less than 24 hours!

I played more Ground Zeroes last night to refresh my memory, and that Skull Face tape definitely seems important. Looks like GZ's base was being used by Cipher agents, and Skull Face may have been operating under Cipher's orders even though his larger plan is to kill him. He wanted Big Boss to suffer before he killed him, and he does not appear to have expected him to survive their encounter. That's the only thing that went off his script.

Also of note, by the end of GZ, Paz appears to have finally accepted how much she cares for Big Boss and his crew, and despite what Chico was forced to do, Paz still cares about Chico and thanked him for trying to save her.

On top of that, a tape in that mission briefing mentions that in anticipation of the nuclear inspection, MSF sent a lot of their staff(including the Sandinistas from Peace Walker) to other countries. So, presumably, they may be part of rebuilding Mother Base and returning to the significant military force they once were.

Soon so much of this will be answered. (and so many more questions will probably arise! ha)