Best Metal Gear poll

started ground zeroes last night, looks amazing and the stealth is great. the a.i. is very good but only up to a point. i got spotted and it became an all-out firefight until some guy at the base suddenly calls it off, like "yeah that guy who killed a bunch of us? i think he's gone! return to your posts."

Heh well yeah it's a videogame :/

I mean, logically, the second you've been spotted by anyone, the guards should be searching for you indefinitely, until they've either killed you or you've managed to finish the mission

i just figured they'd keep rushing until i was dead, like stealth was required for the mission. there was one great moment of a guy searching for me and i hid inside a little guard building. the guard poked his head in and shined the flashlight but missed the corner i was in. very tense

Love those moments!!

They usually do keep on unless you manage to run some distance away.

i think i had just killed the last guy in the vicinity so the threat level immediately changed, just seemed funny. the heal animation made me lol. also "iDroid"

ok i think i wanna play Ground Zeroes now

think it was $7 in that holiday sale when i grabbed it, well worth it

I played MGS4 for the first time about a year ago and was pretty disappointed. The cutscenes were longer than they've ever been and the actual gameplay portions felt relatively meager. The control scheme and basic mechanics were really starting to show their age too.

On the other hand, I played and beat Ground Zeroes for the first time last night (thx to this thread) and had a pretty good time with it! They've done a great job of streamlining just about everything. Made the experience much more immersive and less gamey. Kojima's saying the cutscenes are getting pared down too which I'm grateful for. Definitely looking forward to The Phantom Pain now.

Anyone ever mess with Metal Gear Online? It's no longer playable, but we're getting a fresh iteration with MGSV.

Yeah the incredible irony that this Metal Gear game has an insane amount of play value vs. cutscenes is wonderful.

I got to the point where I can finally play through the main mission without being spotted for at least 10-15 minutes if I'm working my way across the map sneakily taking out guards and stuff. I've been trying to S rank these but they are tough and all the side ops take different strategies to beat. For instance you can S rank Classified Intel easily on normal by just staying in the truck, jumping out once you get inside the gate, climbing up the ladder to the tower, shooting out the camera, snatching the tape, then rushing back to the truck and letting it take you outside the mission. I tried doing this in hard and found out I didn't have any guns, and thus wasn't able to down the camera, and thus got spotted once I snatched the tape. Cue a couple frantic minutes racing to ground level and CQC'ing a few guards while trying to hide in back of the truck. Eventually things calmed down and a soldier came over and started to drive away. However, rather than driving right out of the mission, he stopped the truck right near the exit, with a guard tower and a few guards standing around. I had to throw some magazines to distract them and then jumped out and ran for the exit. A rank! It looks like you have to avoid being spotted altogether...

One thing I tried for taking out that camera was throwing magazines, and I wasn't able to do it. This guy seems to have no trouble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0OIpdcQB2w

Note the hilarious "ping" sound.

That video is incredible.

holy shit. i didn't even know you could throw those

dying @ 00:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMsQbk5tXhM

amazing

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9m473uWalA

okay sure

AMAZING that they got the arms flapping animation it's like watching a dream.

I love all the self-referencing they do in Ground Zeroes to Kojima and his other stuff. The snatcher mission has some amazing remixed chiptune music cues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t60WHzQGm7w

That song "Creeping Silence", wow that is cool. Nice vibraphone samples in there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNonpKKoh0A

I love how they mixed this, the kick drum is way up in front.

So yeah I've started to figure out this whole modding thing. Here I've swapped out birds for prisoners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX6ScUwoExY&list=UUQ0yN_aOFfVZgHUeaUb2o_Q

I misread that description and thought it would be Hatoful Snakefriend

i jsut played thru mgs1 (up to disc 2 bc my friends got tired) with three people who had never played it, bc a friend insisted we play thme all together before he moves away. one HOLDS UP. i truly feel like i am one SPINAL FUNCTION away from going over the top about this game right now, so i'll reel it back, but goddamn i played it for WELL OVER AN HOUR and it was excellent.

bring it Will!!!

I bet you feel like some kind of legendary mercenary. MGS1 is still SOLID.

it's still my favorite, really wish they would do a port to a newer system.

Unreal. I expected it to feel dated and difficult to control, but goddamn if it didn't feel awesome. The onyl thing that is lacking, I guess, is that they didn't implement the somersault/roll until MGS2, I guess, so I had to stop myself from trying to press X just before getting to cover (and lying on the ground like a fuckin' lump every time). But once I got used to that, excellent.

The first SWolf fight is the only one I felt wasn't as good as I remembered. Felt kind of unfair at times. Virtually everything else is just as shiny and awesome as before. I really wish I'd had some other Konami game saves on the PS3 just to see that part of the game again too.

I always hated that Nikita missile part.

I am making a Ziggy Stardust texture mod for Big Boss stay tuned...

for some reason the one i remember the most is Vulcan Raven (had to look it up), sending remote-controlled missiles around through the boxes.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_GP2h-U8AEbD38.jpg

Time to get hyped

remember when we just announced things instead of announcing we were going to announce then

Well hopefully this isn't an announcement of another chicken hat or something.

September 1?

http://jogos.uol.com.br/videos/assistir.htm?video=metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-04024E1B3168E4995326

Update: I started playing MGS2 (the hd re-texture from a couple years ago) last weekend with the same crew, two newbies and one who'd played it before.

It is insane. It still feels like a game that came out this year. And all of the themes are like ripped from the fucking headlines of now. WHY IS THIS GAME SO GREAT.

I might skip MGS3 during this series of marathons because we don't have a lot of weekends left before my buddy moves and I really want one of the guys to see MGS4. I know 3 is most people's fav but it's also SOOOO long iirc.

Also I don't think I realized in 1998 or whatever HOW MANY REFERENCES there are to MG1/MG2 in MGS!

there was some fan disappointment at the time due to the Raiden/Snake switcheroo, but i loved the hell out of MGS2 and its craziness. i'm thinking/hoping history has vindicated the game

and yeah, MG1/2/Solid/Sons are all reiterations of the same story, aren't they? m/l

I do definitely remember some blowback due to that, but honestly, the game wouldn't have worked if it were Snake. Like, the game ONLY works because it ISN'T snake. I remember by the time I finished it the first time, way back, I thought, "yeah... I'm okay with this being a new dude." Really excited to complete it again.

xp MGS1 and 2 are more or less, can't remember for MG1/MG2...

what about the alternative tradition where history has noticed these aren't really videogames /:

???

A fallout between Kojima Productions and its owning publisher, Konami, has led to senior staff at the studio being restricted access to corporate internet, emails, and phone, GameSpot understands.

Along with the restricted communications, key developers at the studio, such as Hideo Kojima, will now have limited opportunities to lend their appearance to promotions of the studio’s upcoming game, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

Power struggles between Kojima Productions and Konami have convinced the publisher to make drastic changes, including amending the employee status of its Metal Gear team. Some senior staff at the studio, including Kojima, now essentially work as contractors, not permanent employees.

The extraordinary measures were revealed by a source within Konami, speaking to GameSpot on the condition of anonymity. The person explained that, once the Phantom Pain project is finished, in all likelihood the management at the studio will disband.

"After we finish MGSV, Mr. Kojima and upper management will leave Konami. They said their contract ends in December," the source claimed.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/kojima-expected-to-leave-konami-after-mgs5-inside-/1100-6426024/

RIP Konami?

Silver Gear Solid coming to an indie publisher near you in 2017

https://www.musterbrand.com/collections/metal-gear-solid/snake-leather-506

Pretty damn cool.

http://i.imgur.com/duxu7Uu.png

just needs a "!" above snake's head

not often am i pre-convinced that a game is gonna be my #1 for the year... but it's going to take some serious stumbles in this game's execution for me not to stick it at the top of my c+p ballot.

7. Buddy System (Crap on Command)

As you complete more missions with a Buddy, your relationship grows. For example, the Diamond Horse (called D-Horse) can defecate on command. It sounds silly (heck, it is silly) but you can use that manure to spin out enemies vehicles on the road.

call of duty did it first