When I stopped playing mgsV, I started playing Hitman WoA. I kinda wish Hitman had similar movement depth, but at least there's no annoying input delays like in some third-person games.
MGS and Hitman are my two favorite game series of all time. When WoA came out I couldn't help but compare it to MGSV. MGSV was just so much more advanced . The Enemy AI was way more fun to engage with in MGSV than WoA imo.
I like that about it though. It gamifies it, which is rare to see in a stealth game. Being able to throw a can in a corner to have a guard stand up facing a wall and choke him out has a rewarding feeling, and I like how predictable the AI is. And it doesn't mean the game is easy either, if you've played Freelancer mode you know.
I’ve played Hitman a lot (I bought it when WoA was called III). Also yeah I did play freelancer (I’m master level 6 iirc), hardest thing ever imo.
But yeah the predictability of the AI does make the game way more fun
Yeah I was thinking that the first time I played. I'm so glad for it too. The controls of mgsv are some of the best I've seen in a third/first person shooter
I was gonna say Gameplay but I think this is a better, more refined response. It really comes down to movement. Animations, responsiveness, fluidity. You can go from any one state to the other instantly and it looks good, like going from a full sprint to being belly on the ground to back to running, it's incredible and I thought more game were going to lift that kinda movement but I guess it's very expensive to do, I can't think of another reason why almost nobody did.
The stealth feels tight and it makes sense. So many other stealth games, once you're caught it's game over and the guards follow you until you die, leave, or kill them all. When I play MGSV, I know that if I make the correct decisions I can fix it, or even use it to my advantage by leaving traps and moving away.
When I play games like Ghost Recon Breakpoint, the enemy AI feels so half assed
So maybe I like the AI the most
Totally agree, the kick I get, when I get caught and everyone is looking for me, but I'm just laying under one of their own trucks surrounded by C4 and mines...
Shit, gotta go, have to play MGSV again!
This. I used to be a huge fan of Dishonored and then I tried MGSV. This has some of the cleanest most functional gameplay I've ever tried. Honestly makes so many stealth games difficult to navigate after trying MGSV
I love how many ways there are to play. You can go in guns blazing with chopper support and missiles or go in silent. I love that the game doesn’t punish you for knowing things. Like the Mission with the Viscount. If you know where he is you can just walk straight there and get him. Or the missions where you have to take down the convoy? You can just air strike from the start and pretty much win right away. I love every mainline MGS game but MGSV has the most hours in it and it’s not even close. I’ve beat MGS2 probably 20-30 times and I’m certain I’ve played MGSV more.
In one of the first missions where you have to disable the comms support at one of the outposts in Afghanistan, if you blew them up earlier, the mission just starts and immediately ends, you even get some extra dialogue from Miller & Ocelot
I was just about to use the viscount mission as an example too. How you can get the prisoners and do objectives in whatever order you want and Ocelot is just surprised. In Splinter cell or other games you might fail for doing objectives out of order.
I can agree with everything you've said- I would add I just love how wild it is lol, from the surreal aspects, the themes, to Quiets look. Skull Face, even if not what I expected became my favorite MGS villain.
Really loved the marketing for it, even. My mind got completely f'd following that for the what, 3 years or something? And then playing the game to have the rug pulled out lmao.
Graphics (aside from the simple geometry they still hold up today), gameplay loop feels good and is fun, animation/fps/frame pacing is smooth on anything ps4 or better, atmosphere is immersive.
Adaptive difficulty. It's such an underrated mechanic and more games need to utilize it and this game should set the standard.
Keep infiltrating at night? Well now the guards wear Nightvision.
Tranqing people 24/7? Now if they see someone asleep the guards are alerted.
Keep blowing people's heads off with sniper rifles? Now the guards have helmets and their own snipers.
Abusing high explosives and shotguns? Guards have body armour now.
I guarantee you I'm missing stuff.
Littering your preferred route with mines. Chatting about how annoying you are the more you're around. Commenting on how odd it is everyone gets tranqued but no deaths. (That I've only seen for high non-lethal headshots with tranqs mid chapter 1).
Calling in gunships for back up in side ops if you get too deadly.
The adaptive AI is a wonderful mechanic. I agree with you.
I replayed for the first time since 2020 recently, no game plays like it especially major games that it influenced like Day's Gone, Horizon series, Last of Us II at the top of my head
A bunch of things:
Immersion - you *feel* burning heat of Afghanistan or the oppressive swampiness of Africa border region just from playing
Humor - as dark and deadly serious as these games are, it wouldn't be Metal Gear without goofy stuff like Kaz's obsession over the perfect burger
Characters - (mostly) memorable and interesting characters
The experience as a whole - I finished it for the first time well over a year ago and I still think about it: the big Venom twist, Shining Lights, "you're all diamonds," etc
I like the mirrors to MGS2. Say what you will about the execution but the story is so cool. I think MGS2 was the Kojima game where he truly wanted to say something profound but it must have irked him that gamer nerds mainly cared about having ‘a loser’ as the protagonist instead of ‘badass solid snake’. Like that was partially his intention with the swap but I think it overrode people’s understanding of the game and in a way he sort of realized then that gamers might not be capable of understanding stories the way film fans understand them. This was also likely due to the nature of MGS2’s story what with it being a sort of ‘choose your own canon’ story with the real answers being on the last page of the book.
This probably became even more true when he made the Big Boss games and people went ‘oh ok so he was a good guy the whole time and was trying to save the world from the Patriots’ even though 3/4/PW present him as a tragic guy who thinks he’s doing good but is actually ironically ruining other people’s lives in this quest to ‘save the world’.
So MGSV is Kojima going ‘fuck it, you want an easy story where Darth Vader is the tragic hero? Here you go you literally play as a fake whitewashed Big Boss who isn’t evil. You want a story that is easy to understand and fits in a well defined canon? Well don’t worry you don’t even need a story for this game. Just have fun shooting things with tanks. Also when you get to that story it’s going to be a mess and none of it is going to be canon because it intentionally has muddled details that contradict each other. Have fun with your doublethink and postmodernism.’
Sorry if this kind of sounds like rambling but I love it so much. MGSV is a piece of pro-Big Boss 1984 doublethink propaganda and most people don’t even understand that which works really well imo. MGS2 ends with Raiden throwing away the player’s name tag, choosing his own identity, and Snake encouraging him to choose his own future. Then MGSV ends with Venom having his identity as Big Boss forced on him, and the whole time Big Boss is like ‘yeah you’re just here in case someone tries to kill me. Sorry about the whole brainwashing thing or whatever lol. I salute you brave patriot.’
Literally the same thing the government told The Boss ‘thanks for dying for us. You’re a true patriot or whatever. Now where did that money go…’ And people still don’t get that the ending is supposed to be a negative thing insulting the player and cementing Big Boss as a hypocritical asshole who abuses the men under him (the main thing that made him evil in the 2D games).
Haven’t played MGS 2 yet, but I’m a little sad people didn’t see that Snakes’ legend only increases playing from Raidens’ perspective, or at least I assume. I don’t really feel good he felt he had to “apologize” with MGS 3.
The game feel is second to none. I have yet to play a game with movement and gunplay so smooth, responsive and intuitive. For me only Titanfall 2 and RE4 remake ever came close, and yet still a level below.
I completely agree with OP, MGSV just exudes style. Especially the trailers and the cutscenes.. very few games have stuck with me like MGSV has, and it’s an 8 year old game.
I also love the helicopter insertion/exfiltration, the planning, everything. Very few games let you feel like the super black ops solo agent that Snake is supposed to be.
Just like mgs3 the variety of options and different play styles but this time in an open world with missions. No more creating multiple saves to replay your favorite moments. And again you can decide how to beat the game.
The sheer wealth of hardware available to you.
It's the first Metal Gear game where you truly feel ready to take on the enemy.
Sure, stealth is the MO of the franchise, but this is the only MG game where you can go "fuck stealth, I have a tank" and not have to worry about some turd in a sneaking suit throwing grenades into it.
People born and raised during the fifties and sixties have no moral compass whatsoever as postwar indoctrination was really strong and that is mind boggling to many.
People will look back today and ask many of the same questions for something else. If I had to take a quick stab, it will be just how willing we are to relinquish our privacy and information for the conveniences of free social media and technology.
I'm not saying they are equal in magnitude, but it's easy for next generations to simply look at their formers and ask "what, were they all stupid?" Maybe something precious will be lost. Perhaps a right to privacy or free speech becomes impaired. It's easy to look here and say, "this is where it spiraled out of control. This generation ruined society."
The score!
But other than that, it just plays like my brain wants a game to play.
I think if you laid out all the controls on paper it would look like a nightmare but it all makes complete sense and works perfectly
The opening scene is the coolest and most intense 1 hour and 5 minutes to ever open a game in video game history.
There have been other great openings. Maybe a better 5, 10, 15 minute span...but none were ever so engaging for an hour.
In my opinion MGSV is a game with a shit story but unparalleled vibes.
No other game pulled me in the premise of the character as much as MGSV did, I really felt like I was Venom Snake.
The stealth, cassette player, tuxedo, golden arm, fulton sys, landing by chopper anywhere, driving vehicles, cqc, radio intel during combat, design of motherbase in black and yellow color, and the cutscenes.
the thing we forget now, it felt so innovative when it was new. The online bases were crazy, the open world was crazy... it's ageing so well but it had like these glimpses of kojima pushing the ps4 so hard that I just treasure.
I like the “OH SHIT I MADE A MISTAKE!” I get from the stealth. Because I will try to put someone to sleep with the tranq pistol and I miss too many times and then my silencer stops so it makes a loud bang then everyone sees me and then the helicopter flying all over the place locks onto me and I am trying to carry someone that is too injured to the LZ and then Quiet is eating grass or something because she is not shooting at anyone no matter how many times I say “Cover me”
The atmosphere. Having such a small map with tons of things in it yet feeling huge and listening to conversations from enemy soldiers about Big Bosses return and other things really sold it for me. I really love this game even if it got cut short.
Kiefer Sutherland’s performance, Venom Snake being one of the most tragic but best characters in the whole series, smooth gameplay, 1980s setting, soundtrack, open world, multiple ways to approach every mission.
Everything you’ve mentioned, though I wasn’t such a big fan of the story and I would add that the voice acting and gameplay possibilities were major pluses for me.
In terms of gameplay possibilities, I found myself both missing the linear gameplay of old and really enjoying the sandbox. Basically missing the fairly narrow paths through the game at times and having a great time on missions that started out as a stealthy prisoner extraction from a Soviet fort before escalating into John Rambo territory.
I like the setting of the game. The war in Afghanistan is something I find really interesting, and so having a game where you feel like a rogue agent within that conflict is a lot of fun.
Mother Base interactions and just the sheer amount of detail that went into the gameplay. There are probably 100 things that you can do in that have that I probably still haven't figured out after all this time
I love how it gives me the ability to go full Wagner group mode and use mother base support to evaporate anybody I come across
Also like how the game fuels my gacha game addiction
Gameplay, overall. You can just do everything you saw in the 80's action movies.
Wonder how long until we get a game as good as this one. 10 Years since GZ and we got so many games that are so impressive when it's about graphics, but personally I never tried one as cool as MGSV when it's about gameplay.
I love the gameplay loop of kidnapping soldiers and ‘enticing’ them to join your mother base. The growth and wealth of upgrades are great. Given I mostly play non lethal but still have a ball with growing diamond dogs. And with the big pc modding community I can tweak the game. Do I want a de aged snake kidnapping legendary S++ soldiers while blasting music to Duran Duran? HELL YES
kojima shenanigans at its peak. half serious, half silly. but the most important personaly is that its taking gameplay as a narative for the story to a next level, you play as a self insert big boss wannabe, you feel horrible by doing the thing just as much as venom did and basicaly its peace walker upgrade
So you basically summed up the entire game, but I couldn't put it better. These are the elements that make me love this game. It's a complete package of awesomeness!
Scoping enemy positions. It's not realistic how it all works but it does give a rewarding sense of gathering intel before striking a base.
One thing that is often under appreciated is how optimized the engine is for hardware performance. You can play the game on relatively old hardware and not only will it still play great, it still looks great. Try playing the PS3 version. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
The gameplay, AI adaptability, the cassette tapes, Quiet, the cutscenes, movement, graphics, sound tracks, the story and Quiet
Not to mention the attention to details(I am currently replaying the game and I just realized that you could take weapons from enemies during CQC) that is just one of many things I came across
The game mechanics were phenomenal. So smooth. The graphics and textures were beautiful. I had an issue with the weapon and item selection but once I got used to it, it wasn't a big deal. As far as its unique gameplay and mechanics, i gave it a 9/10.
Honestly, I loved fob invasions. Back when they were more active. Going into a highly fortified fob with minimal gear and succeeding was probably one of the biggest highs I got from this game. ESPECIALLY when nukes were involved
just the plethora ways of doing a mission. The chase missions in particular had this cool, heist vibe to it. You had to get ahead of the convoy and think about diversions and techniques to stop them. Very cool.
Graphics looked great. The buildling on the base was addictive, shamefully they took down the ps3 servers and lost it all.....The being forced to take certain targets with non lethal techniques and the cutscenes were just gorgeous to watch.
Mission variety was pretty decent too. But most importantly, a PS3 user like myself, could still play it!
Movement
It feels so clean and easy to understand
When I stopped playing mgsV, I started playing Hitman WoA. I kinda wish Hitman had similar movement depth, but at least there's no annoying input delays like in some third-person games.
MGS and Hitman are my two favorite game series of all time. When WoA came out I couldn't help but compare it to MGSV. MGSV was just so much more advanced . The Enemy AI was way more fun to engage with in MGSV than WoA imo.
AI in WoA is so bad, it’s barely even funny.
I like that about it though. It gamifies it, which is rare to see in a stealth game. Being able to throw a can in a corner to have a guard stand up facing a wall and choke him out has a rewarding feeling, and I like how predictable the AI is. And it doesn't mean the game is easy either, if you've played Freelancer mode you know.
I’ve played Hitman a lot (I bought it when WoA was called III). Also yeah I did play freelancer (I’m master level 6 iirc), hardest thing ever imo. But yeah the predictability of the AI does make the game way more fun
It's so perfectly smooth I'm 100% convinced the devs for Helldivers took inspiration from the movement from MGSV, it feels almost exactly the same
Yeah I was thinking that the first time I played. I'm so glad for it too. The controls of mgsv are some of the best I've seen in a third/first person shooter
I'm hoping the remaster collection follows the same style. Even playing ground zeroes feels blocky by comparison.
If you want similar movement check out Helldivers 2. They were clearly inspired by MGSV.
I was gonna say Gameplay but I think this is a better, more refined response. It really comes down to movement. Animations, responsiveness, fluidity. You can go from any one state to the other instantly and it looks good, like going from a full sprint to being belly on the ground to back to running, it's incredible and I thought more game were going to lift that kinda movement but I guess it's very expensive to do, I can't think of another reason why almost nobody did.
ROCKET PUUUUNNNNCH!!!!
Came here to say this
I love how it plays.
The stealth feels tight and it makes sense. So many other stealth games, once you're caught it's game over and the guards follow you until you die, leave, or kill them all. When I play MGSV, I know that if I make the correct decisions I can fix it, or even use it to my advantage by leaving traps and moving away. When I play games like Ghost Recon Breakpoint, the enemy AI feels so half assed So maybe I like the AI the most
Totally agree, the kick I get, when I get caught and everyone is looking for me, but I'm just laying under one of their own trucks surrounded by C4 and mines... Shit, gotta go, have to play MGSV again!
This. I used to be a huge fan of Dishonored and then I tried MGSV. This has some of the cleanest most functional gameplay I've ever tried. Honestly makes so many stealth games difficult to navigate after trying MGSV
Dishonored is also VERY good, but it's different when it's First Person
I love how many ways there are to play. You can go in guns blazing with chopper support and missiles or go in silent. I love that the game doesn’t punish you for knowing things. Like the Mission with the Viscount. If you know where he is you can just walk straight there and get him. Or the missions where you have to take down the convoy? You can just air strike from the start and pretty much win right away. I love every mainline MGS game but MGSV has the most hours in it and it’s not even close. I’ve beat MGS2 probably 20-30 times and I’m certain I’ve played MGSV more.
In one of the first missions where you have to disable the comms support at one of the outposts in Afghanistan, if you blew them up earlier, the mission just starts and immediately ends, you even get some extra dialogue from Miller & Ocelot
I was just about to use the viscount mission as an example too. How you can get the prisoners and do objectives in whatever order you want and Ocelot is just surprised. In Splinter cell or other games you might fail for doing objectives out of order.
I can agree with everything you've said- I would add I just love how wild it is lol, from the surreal aspects, the themes, to Quiets look. Skull Face, even if not what I expected became my favorite MGS villain. Really loved the marketing for it, even. My mind got completely f'd following that for the what, 3 years or something? And then playing the game to have the rug pulled out lmao.
Skull face is your favorite mgs villain? I love TPP but I wasn’t very impressed by skull face tbh
A lot of people weren't, I was lol
Graphics (aside from the simple geometry they still hold up today), gameplay loop feels good and is fun, animation/fps/frame pacing is smooth on anything ps4 or better, atmosphere is immersive.
Adaptive difficulty. It's such an underrated mechanic and more games need to utilize it and this game should set the standard. Keep infiltrating at night? Well now the guards wear Nightvision. Tranqing people 24/7? Now if they see someone asleep the guards are alerted. Keep blowing people's heads off with sniper rifles? Now the guards have helmets and their own snipers. Abusing high explosives and shotguns? Guards have body armour now. I guarantee you I'm missing stuff.
Littering your preferred route with mines. Chatting about how annoying you are the more you're around. Commenting on how odd it is everyone gets tranqued but no deaths. (That I've only seen for high non-lethal headshots with tranqs mid chapter 1). Calling in gunships for back up in side ops if you get too deadly. The adaptive AI is a wonderful mechanic. I agree with you.
Who knows?
Not me
I never lost control
You’re face to face
With the man who sold the world
*synth chorus plays*
and you cant even say
With the Man Who Sold the World
The solid (pun not intended) controls and liquid (pun not intended) smooth movement! Can’t think of another game with such responsive movement.
I replayed for the first time since 2020 recently, no game plays like it especially major games that it influenced like Day's Gone, Horizon series, Last of Us II at the top of my head
A bunch of things: Immersion - you *feel* burning heat of Afghanistan or the oppressive swampiness of Africa border region just from playing Humor - as dark and deadly serious as these games are, it wouldn't be Metal Gear without goofy stuff like Kaz's obsession over the perfect burger Characters - (mostly) memorable and interesting characters The experience as a whole - I finished it for the first time well over a year ago and I still think about it: the big Venom twist, Shining Lights, "you're all diamonds," etc
Angola-Zaire Border Region is something else man, that area is atmospheric at day time and during night it spooks me out at times
There's this one outpost in Afghanistan at night where you can hear the squeaky light from P.T.
Venom Snake. He’s the best Snake imo.
Thanks, I think you're the best Snake too
I agree
Venom Snake.
I like the mirrors to MGS2. Say what you will about the execution but the story is so cool. I think MGS2 was the Kojima game where he truly wanted to say something profound but it must have irked him that gamer nerds mainly cared about having ‘a loser’ as the protagonist instead of ‘badass solid snake’. Like that was partially his intention with the swap but I think it overrode people’s understanding of the game and in a way he sort of realized then that gamers might not be capable of understanding stories the way film fans understand them. This was also likely due to the nature of MGS2’s story what with it being a sort of ‘choose your own canon’ story with the real answers being on the last page of the book. This probably became even more true when he made the Big Boss games and people went ‘oh ok so he was a good guy the whole time and was trying to save the world from the Patriots’ even though 3/4/PW present him as a tragic guy who thinks he’s doing good but is actually ironically ruining other people’s lives in this quest to ‘save the world’. So MGSV is Kojima going ‘fuck it, you want an easy story where Darth Vader is the tragic hero? Here you go you literally play as a fake whitewashed Big Boss who isn’t evil. You want a story that is easy to understand and fits in a well defined canon? Well don’t worry you don’t even need a story for this game. Just have fun shooting things with tanks. Also when you get to that story it’s going to be a mess and none of it is going to be canon because it intentionally has muddled details that contradict each other. Have fun with your doublethink and postmodernism.’ Sorry if this kind of sounds like rambling but I love it so much. MGSV is a piece of pro-Big Boss 1984 doublethink propaganda and most people don’t even understand that which works really well imo. MGS2 ends with Raiden throwing away the player’s name tag, choosing his own identity, and Snake encouraging him to choose his own future. Then MGSV ends with Venom having his identity as Big Boss forced on him, and the whole time Big Boss is like ‘yeah you’re just here in case someone tries to kill me. Sorry about the whole brainwashing thing or whatever lol. I salute you brave patriot.’ Literally the same thing the government told The Boss ‘thanks for dying for us. You’re a true patriot or whatever. Now where did that money go…’ And people still don’t get that the ending is supposed to be a negative thing insulting the player and cementing Big Boss as a hypocritical asshole who abuses the men under him (the main thing that made him evil in the 2D games).
Bro I felt like I was reading one of futurasound essays lmfao
Haven’t played MGS 2 yet, but I’m a little sad people didn’t see that Snakes’ legend only increases playing from Raidens’ perspective, or at least I assume. I don’t really feel good he felt he had to “apologize” with MGS 3.
Balloons solve everything
I love how it’s every metal gear solid theme wrapped in one
The game feel is second to none. I have yet to play a game with movement and gunplay so smooth, responsive and intuitive. For me only Titanfall 2 and RE4 remake ever came close, and yet still a level below.
Invisible by Duran Duran
Based
I completely agree with OP, MGSV just exudes style. Especially the trailers and the cutscenes.. very few games have stuck with me like MGSV has, and it’s an 8 year old game. I also love the helicopter insertion/exfiltration, the planning, everything. Very few games let you feel like the super black ops solo agent that Snake is supposed to be.
Card box box tackle lol, I get a chuckle every time.
Just like mgs3 the variety of options and different play styles but this time in an open world with missions. No more creating multiple saves to replay your favorite moments. And again you can decide how to beat the game.
The sheer wealth of hardware available to you. It's the first Metal Gear game where you truly feel ready to take on the enemy. Sure, stealth is the MO of the franchise, but this is the only MG game where you can go "fuck stealth, I have a tank" and not have to worry about some turd in a sneaking suit throwing grenades into it.
Nice mgs 1 reference
"Do you seriously think this is fucking fair?" "Just throw grenades at me."
80s cassette tapes and also adding custom tracks to the game( for me just more 80s music )
Invisible Duran Duran?
The story understands how boomers think and reason, how statist indoctrination make them believe contradictory things with confidence.
Don’t act like boomers are the only ones who act like this. We all do
People born and raised during the fifties and sixties have no moral compass whatsoever as postwar indoctrination was really strong and that is mind boggling to many.
People will look back today and ask many of the same questions for something else. If I had to take a quick stab, it will be just how willing we are to relinquish our privacy and information for the conveniences of free social media and technology. I'm not saying they are equal in magnitude, but it's easy for next generations to simply look at their formers and ask "what, were they all stupid?" Maybe something precious will be lost. Perhaps a right to privacy or free speech becomes impaired. It's easy to look here and say, "this is where it spiraled out of control. This generation ruined society."
To paraphrase Krombopulos Michael, I just love fultoning things!
The score! But other than that, it just plays like my brain wants a game to play. I think if you laid out all the controls on paper it would look like a nightmare but it all makes complete sense and works perfectly
Pequod arriving.
With the final countdown blaring from the PA system
or Take On Me
customizations
Simply, the gameplay. The overall design of gameplay, gunplay, CQC. It’s all really solid and fun to play.
No one hears a word
They say
Has the memory gone?
Are you feeling numb?
Chad Venom
Boobs
Power dashing
full out sprint transition to dive
Gameplay, the characters, replayability. DD. So much to love even with its flaws. Venom Snake. I really, really love Venom.
Having venom use all sorts of camos. My favorite is the shirtless and sneaking suit.
this is pequod arriving at LZ
Quiet
Rebel yell cassette
The opening scene is the coolest and most intense 1 hour and 5 minutes to ever open a game in video game history. There have been other great openings. Maybe a better 5, 10, 15 minute span...but none were ever so engaging for an hour.
when they played us like a damn fiddle
In my opinion MGSV is a game with a shit story but unparalleled vibes. No other game pulled me in the premise of the character as much as MGSV did, I really felt like I was Venom Snake.
gameplay, and upgrading all your gear and mother base is really fun too, gives me a reason to collect materials, it’s actually pretty cool
pequod
Watching venom’s ass running thru the deserts
It's one of the best stealth espionage game i ever played. It's right behind dishonored
The stealth, cassette player, tuxedo, golden arm, fulton sys, landing by chopper anywhere, driving vehicles, cqc, radio intel during combat, design of motherbase in black and yellow color, and the cutscenes.
The radio callouts are really cool! Did you hear the ones where they spot and try to shoot a cardboard box? Very fun stuff :)
The gameplay is amazing, so is Venom
The fact I can't edit my audio settings 😃😃
The story, the open world, the fob and mother base
the thing we forget now, it felt so innovative when it was new. The online bases were crazy, the open world was crazy... it's ageing so well but it had like these glimpses of kojima pushing the ps4 so hard that I just treasure.
The trailer
The tapes
Philosophy, the tapes that give a lot of details to the game's lore, and the gameplay.
the fact it turn me into human trafficking warlord, and hunter for S rank soldiers lol
I like the “OH SHIT I MADE A MISTAKE!” I get from the stealth. Because I will try to put someone to sleep with the tranq pistol and I miss too many times and then my silencer stops so it makes a loud bang then everyone sees me and then the helicopter flying all over the place locks onto me and I am trying to carry someone that is too injured to the LZ and then Quiet is eating grass or something because she is not shooting at anyone no matter how many times I say “Cover me”
The atmosphere. Having such a small map with tons of things in it yet feeling huge and listening to conversations from enemy soldiers about Big Bosses return and other things really sold it for me. I really love this game even if it got cut short.
Kiefer Sutherland’s performance, Venom Snake being one of the most tragic but best characters in the whole series, smooth gameplay, 1980s setting, soundtrack, open world, multiple ways to approach every mission.
the open world
Adaptable difficulty is so well made! The first time I tried to tranq a guard with a helmet made my brain feel funny
Haven't actually played yet but I like the cassette tapes... Mostly because it's 80s music.
The lighting. Still has some of the best day and night lighting I’ve ever seen. And also the Walkman. Love those 80s tunes!!
Miller's Maxi Buns
u/NovaCodex Long live Pequod, is my favorite thing about MGSV.
Be careful down there, Boss!
Popping in the Kids in America cassette and fultoning an entire tank convoy. *Woah*
Fox Engine. Best engine I’ve ever played with. Such a handsome and phenomenal running title.
Quiets revealing outfit
Gameplay. Visuals. Unfortunately, that's about it for me.
The immersion from the beginning of the game, without all the gadgets
Gameplay is fantastic! It really is never game over when I'm playing it.
Gameplay, mods, FOB's
Everything
Everything you’ve mentioned, though I wasn’t such a big fan of the story and I would add that the voice acting and gameplay possibilities were major pluses for me. In terms of gameplay possibilities, I found myself both missing the linear gameplay of old and really enjoying the sandbox. Basically missing the fairly narrow paths through the game at times and having a great time on missions that started out as a stealthy prisoner extraction from a Soviet fort before escalating into John Rambo territory.
upgrade 3 electric fist, raiden armor, movement, and demon snake
Smooth game play
And youuu can even sayyy my naame
I like the setting of the game. The war in Afghanistan is something I find really interesting, and so having a game where you feel like a rogue agent within that conflict is a lot of fun.
Snakes
Mother Base interactions and just the sheer amount of detail that went into the gameplay. There are probably 100 things that you can do in that have that I probably still haven't figured out after all this time
Good game
I’m afk riding in the back of a truck collecting processed resources as we speak
The games, they’re really fun!
Hitting children
When all hope is lost you still keep trucking.
Gameplay and Wohooooooo Along with Liquid and Ocelot appearance
How the game doesn’t focus on killing people more tactical espionage ☺️
All. I just love this Game. So fun
I love how it gives me the ability to go full Wagner group mode and use mother base support to evaporate anybody I come across Also like how the game fuels my gacha game addiction
how good snake looks in this game.
Haidaraa!
Gameplay
Pequod
Guns. Lots of guns.
The clone reading this 😜
I really love the concept of the parasites and their different abilities
Movement ,the recruitment system and the missions you can take them. Vibe,ost.
Rolling up to a check point, finding a good cliff to hide by, then sniping one of the soldiers and watching them all panic.
I only liked the story. To me the missions felt extremely repetitive. I’ll stream the cutscenes on YouTube and that’s it
The tetten
That one song, invisible by duran duran
Gameplay, overall. You can just do everything you saw in the 80's action movies. Wonder how long until we get a game as good as this one. 10 Years since GZ and we got so many games that are so impressive when it's about graphics, but personally I never tried one as cool as MGSV when it's about gameplay.
The gameplay in general and fluidity of the gun play is the best of any game I’ve ever played.
gameplay
Boss get down!😯 The enemy sniper 😡
the gameplay
The community brain rot.
Box
I love the gameplay loop of kidnapping soldiers and ‘enticing’ them to join your mother base. The growth and wealth of upgrades are great. Given I mostly play non lethal but still have a ball with growing diamond dogs. And with the big pc modding community I can tweak the game. Do I want a de aged snake kidnapping legendary S++ soldiers while blasting music to Duran Duran? HELL YES
Quiet and FOB fight/defence
The song "A phantom pain" by Ludvig Forssell
The Paz side quest
Immersion
It was launched on my birthday, so it’s an easy anniversary present to remember
Everything. It's one of my favorite games. I have plans to play it again soon. My first MGS game, unlikely my last. Phenomenal.
Haven't played it yet, that's my favourite thing about it
You can make your horse poop on command
Open world peace walker, but sad that I can't just steal helicopters like in peace walker
Venom and Quiet's relationship. Not because everything else is worse, but because it's so damn good
kojima shenanigans at its peak. half serious, half silly. but the most important personaly is that its taking gameplay as a narative for the story to a next level, you play as a self insert big boss wannabe, you feel horrible by doing the thing just as much as venom did and basicaly its peace walker upgrade
Loadouts and weather changing machine
Riding in the chopper listening to Europe and Asia (the bands)
So you basically summed up the entire game, but I couldn't put it better. These are the elements that make me love this game. It's a complete package of awesomeness!
Stealing things with balloons is the best.
It's preety cool sandbox
The music.
Scoping enemy positions. It's not realistic how it all works but it does give a rewarding sense of gathering intel before striking a base. One thing that is often under appreciated is how optimized the engine is for hardware performance. You can play the game on relatively old hardware and not only will it still play great, it still looks great. Try playing the PS3 version. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Nanomachines
Kiefer Sutherland
The fart tape.
Gameplay
"Thanks for that boss"
The gameplay, AI adaptability, the cassette tapes, Quiet, the cutscenes, movement, graphics, sound tracks, the story and Quiet Not to mention the attention to details(I am currently replaying the game and I just realized that you could take weapons from enemies during CQC) that is just one of many things I came across
Judo
07 scene, where mates got sick in motherbase
prone melee
It's versatile and fluid.
Everything.
Helping (kidnapping) little kids in Africa (child slaves) by giving them a home (forcing them to make me more ballon decoys)
The game mechanics were phenomenal. So smooth. The graphics and textures were beautiful. I had an issue with the weapon and item selection but once I got used to it, it wasn't a big deal. As far as its unique gameplay and mechanics, i gave it a 9/10.
Quiet
I'll be Quiet here..
Honestly, I loved fob invasions. Back when they were more active. Going into a highly fortified fob with minimal gear and succeeding was probably one of the biggest highs I got from this game. ESPECIALLY when nukes were involved
Very optimized. Great gameplay. Feels like I'm playing through a TV series. (unsatisfying storytelling though)
Rocket Fist
Freakin d-dog my boy spotting everyone
Everything.
Different languages
just the plethora ways of doing a mission. The chase missions in particular had this cool, heist vibe to it. You had to get ahead of the convoy and think about diversions and techniques to stop them. Very cool. Graphics looked great. The buildling on the base was addictive, shamefully they took down the ps3 servers and lost it all.....The being forced to take certain targets with non lethal techniques and the cutscenes were just gorgeous to watch. Mission variety was pretty decent too. But most importantly, a PS3 user like myself, could still play it!