Best Metal Gear poll

ah i might try that also.

downloading now.

there's apparently a $20 dongle made my madcatz or whoever that handily allows you to bolt your phone to the top of your ps4 controller, giving you a wiiu-style experience for the map, i heard it works pretty well. just be prepared to have yr device plugged in the whole time, that app makes shit run hot

this game is frustrating as hell. i feel like some of my more successful raids have been lucky, and other times a tiny slip of a button (the stand/crouch/crawl thing is completely fucked) and suddenly i'm seen. i'm now on the fourth or fifth mission where you have to blow up the comms devices. how the fuck was i supposed to know, minus google, that i needed to earn and equip c4 to do this? it is also really frustrating once you fail a mission and have to start miles out of town all over again, it encourages hurrying which leads to further failure. prob not a problem if you are less shit at this than me!

You can take out the antennas by just shooting them too. Also you can find the one building (near the back of the base) that houses the comm equipment and just shoot that.

yeah i figured that via my eventual googling, but by that point i'd got killed having got right beside the first antenna but gone wandering for explosives

Sorting 400 guys into quarantine is not scintillating gameplay.

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So I got to the Skulls battle at the airport and man - finally an awesome boss battle! Those fuckers are tough. I was slowly figuring it out and then I decided to see what would happen if I just hightailed it out of there. Got the the edge of the mission area, hid, and... where were they? I looked through my binoculars and saw them in the distance, shooting in another direction. What were they shooting at? And then I saw the green laser. Quiet! I'd forgotten completely that I'd brought her along! Luckily she had her actual rifle rather than the snoozer and she was just patiently whacking them with headshots, bing bing bing bing. I waited and watched. Eventually she dusted them all. Mission over. !!

i'm torn about this game, lot of aspects i rly hate. i wish i could turn ranking off. i beat the mission, fuck off with your d-minus grade

whats the point of reflex mode if youre some distance away? great im frozen in slo-mo and have to wait 30 secs for everyone to kill me

it's so you can really bask in your humiliation

agreed about the grade, and i hate how i can hear in his tone of voice what i've made just before it pops onto the screen

this is a much more single-minded game that previous entries. there is basically ONE mechanic and the missions are dedicated to exploiting every possible configuration of it. previous MGS games would almost be like a collection of mini-games, with drastically different mechanics, strung together by some basic sneaking.

I was trying to find out which MG game made me dismiss the whole series.

It was Solid Snake 2 on gamecube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hRVl6GK1VU

sooo it took me a while to realize this was the game because that f*cking intro doesn't let you see gameplay for half a hour.

I like to watch intros. So I do recall watching this. I'm not sure if I read everything because at some point I probably got hypnotized by the scanlines and started picturing imaginary whales floating through a tangerine dream.

Then when I did get to play I watched boring communications and died multiple times.

This game sucks. I returned it to the store.

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My other MG experience was on NES when I was a kid. Those alarms are frustrating! It's like getting high and hearing the po po coming for you. Not fun. I couldn't get into it back then.

wait that's not solid snake 2. it's twin snakes, a remake of metal gear sold.

i hate how i can hear in his tone of voice what i've made just before it pops onto the screen

this is a much more single-minded game that previous entries. there is basically ONE mechanic and the missions are dedicated to exploiting every possible configuration of it. previous MGS games would almost be like a collection of mini-games, with drastically different mechanics, strung together by some basic sneaking.

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, October 30, 2015 12:43 PM

agreed. also i just got to skulls and ran away. mission complete! felt pretty lame. took me like a half hour to get inside the base and suddenly "prisoner has died" dark souls is a cakewalk compared to this

yeah i find it highly frustrating.

Fuck a bunch of mission 45. Kind of don't feel like struggling through to finish the game - I really enjoyed the basic open worldness and sneakiness and the early missions where you're learning new skills and working up strategies but then you start getting all the good tech and buddies and it gets a lot easier to push through missions and they all get pretty samey until you hit the two roadblock missions where it's just BLAST SHIT HOMIE.

Afghanistan Central Base is my favorite location - tons of ways to screw up and get caught but a lot of room to be sneaky and eliminate people before anyone notices. All of Zaire/Angola is underdeveloped - you get dropped into the village and have to find out about child soldiers and maybe shit's getting notched up then 90% of the missions are at remote outposts that are just the Afghanistan outposts with greenery.

there's a big African base that's pretty sweet, full of little bridges and shanties and swamps. it's where one of your targets goes if you're not quick enough hunting him down. (I wasn't because I was intent on Fultoning every living and non-living thing in sight)

so there are a lot of missions in this game, is what i'm getting

possibly ... too many?

Yeah it can feel kind of bitty. It might have been better to have like 10 missions on the scale of the GZ one with a few smaller ones sprinkled in. Still an awesome game though. And the smaller missions allow you more time to fuX0r with your base and your sideops and your combat deployments (if that's your bag)

the two tanks mission is fuckin hard.

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:33

jsdafklds fucking took out the commander stealthy, attached c4 to both tanks stealthy... apparently that doesnt work? fuck this game

you might need two c4s each... iirc they are on the move, right? i think i put the c4 where they were going to roll and popped it off when they rolled over

is this Backup Backdown? i think it takes 3 to blow up a tank. do that and use a rocket launcher or grenade launcher. if u run out, call in an ammo resupply.

also you only need to destroy one tank to complete the mission. it has a very unforgiving checkpoint system though and you can make it through the entire thing and then fall and die and have to redo the whole thing again.

once you get the vehicle fulton and ant-vehicle mines it becomes a completely different mission.

Just started doing FOBs in earnest and they are a BLAST. Anyone wondering where the big bases are in this game that hasn't checked out FOB needs to. It's like MGS2 on steroids.

Tanks missions, I'd bring Quiet and have her tranq or kill the support and then sneak up and Fulton the tanks. Got way too easy once I unlocked the wormhole Fulton.

i don't have quiet or d-dog or tank fulton unlocked. should i not be doing the main missions in order? also the tanks end up parking at a base so im just crawling up to them

every time i go back to base d-dog is still a useless tiny shit

apparently its 4 c4s on the rear and treads. then you have to supply drop more c4 for tank 2

my first E... yayyyyyyyyyy

tanks mission is way before quiet or cargo fulton. can you redo missions?? i didn't realize..

yes =)

it will be a totally different mission when you get fulton, mines, vehicles, etc.

i'm stuck in a weird (but enjoyable) loop of rinse repeat missions trying to do all the side ops and redoing missions to get all the optional goals and to fulton out every goddamn thing. Playing with rockets for tanks/communication and nonlethal ammo certainly makes the game a specific style of hard. Still on mission 12 after a month of play. I think i'm going to turn off reflex mode and see how that goes.

i wish i could use the watergun and the wu zzz pistol in the same loadout. or maybe i can and just being incredibly thick?

I don't think you can.

piss sticks

i could rule the game with just those two weapons

get the stun assault rifle, set it to single-shot mode (i think you can do this?) and tada! a bigger tranq gun (which admittedly only stuns so it's less good, but still)

started playing again after beating the game, to go back and enjoy some side ops because they're just fun (some of them anyway, fuck a heavy infantry and fuck a million gunship missions) and i have finally started discovering the joy of the decoy

decoy is your best friend once you start FOB

still have yet to mess w/ that much. most times i tried, it'd givfe me a list, i would pick one, and it would say it was already under attack.

i never use decoys because they raise the alert level almost immediately. right?

i've only used them twice but i don't think so! individual dudes will yell "FREEZE" and walk up on them and stab them so they deflate, but it doesn't raise an entire base to search for you iirc

i unlocked decoys, rocket launcher and d-dizzle. the one after the tanks was a nice breather, just run around and blow stuff up. i surrounded a guy at mother base with decoys and found they will knock guys out if you inflate it when theyre on top of it

https://vine.co/v/e3DBOJaIXI0

ha, i have that feeling all the damn time
finally on mission 17 i think? still dicking around and freeroam ganking whole outclassed battalions
i REALLY should turn off the slowmo thing

there are plenty of missions coming up where it's turned off for you, savor reflex mode now while you've still got it imo

i now have quiet with the silenced tranq rifle and dawwwwwg....... as long as i keep the helmet supply in check only the biggest installations stand a chance

oh reeeeeeeeeeally okay

i love d-dog spotter extraordinaire but he doesn't stay put after commanding him to "stay"? stop blowing my cover or ill fulton your ass out. i never use the horse either, just sprint everywhere

It kind of seems like sprinting/horse/enemy trucks are all about the same speed

Yeah Quiet's drawback is that she doesn't actually spot everybody and she doesn't spot mines. D-Dog's so good that when not using him I find myself getting all huffy about being surprised by a non-spotted enemy - "someone should have told me about this!!"