Ocelot somehow had a 180 personality flip between the events of MGS3 and MGS5. Quiet is, likewise, an awful character and pales in comparison to the female leads from earlier games (Eva, Meryl, The Boss). Kiefer was an interesting choice for Snake, but his performance is overall very boring because he barely even says anything for the duration of the game (you can argue this was an intentional decision because of the plot, but still doesn't change the fact that he is boring). Much of the open-world areas are straight-up empty, as is Mother Base. The second half of the game was cut due to Kojima being ousted from Konami. The story in particular was nowhere near as fleshed out as other MGS games. If you can squeeze 5 hours of entertainment out of it, it's worth the purchase in my opinion. That being said, Kojima was not the only competent game developer at Konami and the few that remained most definately worked on this game as well. Is it messed up that they took a beloved franchise and sorta pivoted it to the current hot thing? Yup.
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Were Konami huge assholes in how they treated Kojima? Absolutely. It's not creative in the slightest, but for a couple hours of entertainment, especially around Halloween it's probably worth $5. It steals a bunch of ideas from comparable survival crafter of the time and sorta makes this wierd Frankenstein tower defense and first personal survival game. There's some base building elements, and a few other dabbles into other aspects like research with a somewhat bland story.Īt the time of its release survival games were the most popular genre.
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You move across a wasteland, scavenging resources and improvising barricades and defenses when you come under attack. It uses MSG5's engine which is very well put together, and it's a survival crafter - a very large departure from the games before it. It's a weird game, but its closer to a 5/10 experience rather than a 1/10 experience.
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It's honestly kinda a mixed bag - but would say all the people hopping on the bandwagon and saying it's not worth $5 are sorta being disingenuous. Submit a new deal Submit a question/PSA Reddit New Deals Popular Deals Deals and Discussion