My current trick is getting close but not close enough to a guard for stunning him. In goes DD to keep him busy, and I use that few moments of distraction to creep closer still and batter him.
I love the fact that when new weapons or techniques are revealed, I feel like I want to re-visit missions again and try them in a different way.
Kojima must have tapped into the idea that people were re-playing the older games over and over again. I've literally cleared each of the main four games plus peace walker a couple of times, especially the first three which I have done many many times.
There's been so much hype I suppose. After playing it for hours on end, I took a break and went shopping. In the shop I came across a demo screen. Being removed from it, I realized once again how beautifully it's all put together.
I'll be honest, I can't concentrate at work. I keep thinking about the game. I think I'm in love.
I've been hammering away at side-ops today, and then a mission to capture hostages.
I absolutely sucked today, I kept getting killed over and over again. One question- I have been using air support to bombard. Trouble is, people seem to keep coming directly to the spot where I triggered it from. Why do they do this?
I'd no idea walker was of any use. Is it really worth my GDP investment?
I got Quiet today and have been tinkering with her abilities for a while. It seems her main thing is as a scout, which is also what I use DD for. Do they really get much more use?
Quiet can take down a whole town if you equip her right and direct her to the right spot. I'd have her tranqing the Ruskies while I ran around and fultoned the good ones with out ever being seen.
Done the bastard. Not 100% with all the picky little shit but all the missions are done. Fuck you game, 3 months, a game surely hasn't taken that long since the 90s.
Quiet becomes very useful when you work out the obscure method of opening the map, pressing down on the d-pad and giving her specific instructions and locations.
Done the bastard. Not 100% with all the picky little shit but all the missions are done. Fuck you game, 3 months, a game surely hasn't taken that long since the 90s.
How many hours we talking TBM? I can't help but feel I'll be on this til 2017.
184 over 3 months. A fair bit of that is snake just chilling out in the back of trucks just going through check points while I do other stuff. But still damn, that's a bit longer than I thought.
And I just realised I actually haven't done all the side ops.
184 over 3 months. A fair bit of that is snake just chilling out in the back of trucks just going through check points while I do other stuff. But still damn, that's a bit longer than I thought.
And I just realised I actually haven't done all the side ops.
replay mission 11 seven times. You'll know when it happens because in the mission title, REPLAY changes to REUNITED. Complete it that last time and she's back with you
In other news, the current FOB mission is doing my nut in.
It doesn't have to be in a row. I played the mission 4-5 times today and the name changed. Will either do the final one tomorrow or whenever I replay the game from the first mission on out as I've been meaning to do "another run" with all the missions in order.
Me too. I got very bored with this, so much so it wasn't any fun for me anymore. The story made little sense, and the missions seemed endless. I had much more fun playing AC: Syndicate.
It doesn't have to be in a row. I played the mission 4-5 times today and the name changed. Will either do the final one tomorrow or whenever I replay the game from the first mission on out as I've been meaning to do "another run" with all the missions in order.
So, yeah, if you get "reunion" to pop, just do it. I came back today, played the prologue again and saw it was back to "replay"
Had a weird cutscene/glitch happen to me a couple of days ago:
Returning to Mother Base all stinky, I got the beginning of the Ocelot/bucket scene but Quiet got in the middle...
CUT TO:
Snake inside Quiet's cell, she's showering and a couple of the DD's are watching and making lewd comments...
cut scene ends and Snake is locked inside Quiet's cell, unable to interact with anything and Quiet just going about her usual routine.
Had to 'Restart current mission' to continue.
So, I finally beat this(at least, did all story missions and got all the endings except that insane nuclear disarmament ending). Wow, Kojima. Just wow.
As far as the story goes...
...it was pretty great. I agree wholeheartedly about the second chapter having a bad narrative flow, and the Eli stuff really should have been cut or saved as a post-credits scene, because it made you feel like there was going to be another Sahelanthropus showdown. But man...I really loved what he did here. Venom Snake being a body double is brilliant and ties perfectly into the original Metal Gear(confirmed by the Operation Intrude N313 Tape). I'm honestly surprised I didn't see it coming. They give you the hint right at the beginning with Ishmael being voiced by Kiefer Sutherland. That moment, when they're being operated on right after the Ground Zeroes incident, and Miller says, "What about him?", my jaw must have dropped to the floor. The intro makes more sense that way, too. I feel like Big Boss has been established as such a natural badass that even after a 9 year coma, he'd know how to be a soldier. He'd just have to get his muscle strength back. Whereas Ahab looks like a complete fish out of water during the prologue. That on top of the Liquid hint(with their genes not matching), it just wraps this up pretty neatly. And how awesome of a story is that? This dude who was just one of Boss's top soldiers ends up becoming just as badass as THE Big Boss. Some people might say it was just a twist for the sake of a twist, but even if so, it was handled perfectly and really does officially bridge the gap between pre-Metal Gear Solid and post-Big Boss. Speaking of which, I loved finding out that the parasites Code Talker was researching was actually The End's body.
That said, the Quiet ending really is appropriate as the ending, and I think it's most fitting. That tank battle was intense, and felt like the perfect climax to the relationship between Venom and Quiet. And for her to start the copulation of the vocal cord parasites just to save Snake...fuck, man, that was heart-breaking. Especially if Quiet was your main buddy like she was for me. I love D-Dog, but once Quiet became available, I had to force myself to change just so I wasn't limiting my gameplay experience too much.
Also, the mission where you have to kill your own soldiers and Huey is yelling at you, calling you a murderer...what an evil piece of shit. The whole Huey arc was compelling just to see how much more driven by his obsessions he was than Hal. Hal had his share of mental issues(which...fuck, I can see why), but he was ultimately always doing the right thing, and cared more about that than any personal gain of knowledge. Huey cared only for the knowledge, the discovery, and the accomplishments, no matter what the cost.
The gameplay goes without saying. It's fucking incredible. I never thought I would enjoy the open-world mission structure that much, but I was completely sucked in. There is just some subtle but consistent joy in riding around capturing outpost after outpost, trying to interrogate and fulton every soldier without getting caught. I wish there was a way to switch outfits on the fly considering the many different environments you can walk across over the course of one episode, but otherwise this is espionage at its best. And I love that you can go guns blazing if you so choose, but you have to be smart about it. You can't just stand out in the open and shoot at everyone, you have to prepare for your shot and not miss. And all the little easter egg tactics are fun to employ.
Is it my favorite? I dunno, I did kind of wish I wasn't always driving past a lot of the same places and had a few unique environments to traverse through. And the linear journey of the MGS1-3 has a certain vibe to it that I always love. And much like MGS4 had not enough gameplay, I kind of feel like this didn't have enough cutscenes until you get bombarded with them by the end. But it's hard to argue against this being the best game from a gameplay perspective, if only just for the sheer amount of content you can do. I do think the boss fights don't compare to anything from MGS3, though. Probably could have used a couple more of those.
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im not enjoying this as much as i hoped...
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