@baillie: People who come to Metal Gear for the ridiculous story and not 60+ hours of open world stuff care.
I can understand this sentiment, but it does make me frown just a tad since it's clear that a game is being judged not on it's own merits, but by a completely different standard. I'm not sure I am eloquent enough to formulate an argument either way.
I can see what you mean, but even if I judged the game for what it was, rather than what I expected, I still don't think I'd be into it. I'm not an open world game guy, I liked the other MGS games for their balls out weird stories. I knew going in to MGSV that the story was supposed to be thin, I just didn't realise exactly how thin it was gonna be. I was absolutely ready to forgive a different style of game so long as I got my fix of strangeness, and after the hospital intro (which I seem to be in the minority of people who loved that stuff) I thought I was going to get that. Instead I found myself slogging through a bunch of gameplay I didn't care for to get to the tiny slivers of story that were there. Even the audio log stuff just didn't hit the right buttons for me.
In fairness, if you kept all the cutscenes but trimmed down the length of the gameplay parts it'd probably be closer to what I wanted. And again, maybe thats unfair to the game, cos I'm obviously not who it was made for. All I know is that I was bummed out by basically the whole thing, and I think thats a valid perspective on the fifth entry in a series thats been going as long as MGS. It's easy to feel like you know what you're going to get in that situation and I feel like I got the exact opposite.
This must be how everyone else felt back in the day, slogging through hours of story they didn't care for just to get the tiny slivers of gameplay they wanted ha.
PS2 games with trophy support sounds awesome. I'm not exactly a big trophy guy, but it's a nice touch for sure. I hope they put out Persona 3: FES on PS4, I reeeally wanna play it.
I love reading these. I want you to play all the Final Fantasy games. I want to see how you react to things like Cloud's real past, or the final boss of FF9 being completely fucking unrelated to the rest of the game. But I know you won't and it makes me sad inside.
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