Metal Gear Survive $3.08 USD [Indiegala store]

To be fair, MGSV : Phantom Pain had a mandatory online connection too (at least for challenges and the like, which for some reason it classed as online?). It was frustrating to get so close to finishing a mission only to be kicked out because my connection was interrupted (see also, a momentary hiccup in the steam friends logon, etc). I remember one specific one kept hitting me and I got booted out about 7 times when right at the very end, crawling through a hydroponics area. I did have a similar hiccup happen once or twice in MG:Survive too, though.

The only time-gated activities that come to mind is when you can send base staff on scavenging missions, who will then return after a certain time with the results, and using real money lets you add extra teams. I think the only multiplayer in the game was coop though, so I dunno.

The game wasn't terrible IMO, it just wasn't up to the rest of the series. I went into it treating it as unrelated to MGS and expecting nothing, and it wasn't so bad.

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szabe

Honestly I think MGSV is one of the best stealth games out there. The guard reactions, your infiltration options, the stealth mechanics they are more advanced than anything I have seen before anywhere else. Parts of Deus Ex HR come close.
The story of MGSV on the other hand is completely bollocks.

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JFMugen

If you can rate the story without thinking about older games, it is still good. (It is the first MGS game I played and I simply love it) But I can understand that people who played older games feel that way.

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szabe

Never played the older games. MGSV story was just so over the top nonsensical, I can't imagine what earlier installments are like.

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JFMugen

Other than "Metal Gear" I loved nonsensical things tbh. The reason why I don't like Metal Gear is, all that "hiper, super" weapon talk and in the end you beat him with rocket launchers.

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szabe

The bigger issue was the language parasite thing, which makes so little sense, I just couldn't take anything seriously after that reveal. Then there are a few taste things, basically everything conserning Quiet and that blond kid as well as the random reintroduction of characters from earlier games, the game treats these as big events, but I have no idea how to feel because I don't know them.

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JFMugen

As far as I know Quiet wasn't in the earlier games. And while the blond kid is a big figure of the other games, it was his first reveal so I didn't feel like I was missing a ton (tho I felt it a bit)

Overall, I think they managed to make it enjoyable without playing older games (inc. story), and especially I don't think I will forget the first mission ever.

And I forgot, I loved the language parasite thing tbh.

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szabe

I meant that the whole Quiet thing was kinda distasteful. Like I get the sexappeal thing but saying that she needs to be in a bikini because she breathes through her skin is just so weird and ridiculous. Makes the writer and everyone involved seem like a 15 year old horny kid. It's this weird dichotomy like watching a realistic poltical-military film and switching channels to a Spy Kids movie every ten minutes.

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JFMugen

Haha yeah, "she wear bikini because she needs to breathe" was clearly bs. But from what I can see, it is part of the Kojima's signature. For example even in the very old games, you can find bikini model pictures on lockers and Snake comments on them, or Paz on beach mission etc.

If you don't like those aspects, I think you won't like other Kojima games as well. Just a taste thing. I personally loved most of it tho, with all weirdness and shit.

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szabe

Yeah, Kojima can't write female characters, Death Stranding proved that. I wonder how much he is involved in the game's design or is he just doing the story...

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JFMugen

Opposite actually, he is more involved in design. He is mainly the director after all.

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