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Yeah it is a bit samey. When I got to the mission where I had to destroy the tanks I couldn't wait to see what else the game was going to throw at me. Cos in Peace Walker there are lots of side missions where you are, say, charged with destroying 20 tanks in a convoy, and it was a huge and welcome break from routine. Sadly there don't seem to be any more missions like that in TPP.

I did just get to the part where you have to replay missions "Subsistence" style, which means no reflex mode, no buddies, and no weapons/equipment. Not even magazines. You have to find it all on-site, OSP, just like the first MGS. It's like playing an entirely new game. Spent an hour or two trying to complete the first such mission yesterday and it was insanely intense.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link

i "beat" the demo and once i got past the first difficulty curve of the controls, it became an endless loop of fun.
the story is unwatchable and not justifiable in any way
buying this today i think

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 September 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-16-the-koj-delusion
should be arriving today

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 September 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link

Just found Kaz's hamburger tapes. Ah, this is what the game has been missing. Pax Hamburgana

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 21 September 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link

It was further suggested that a game featuring an antagonist called 'Skullface' shouldn't deal with such taboos (which, as an argument, is a non-starter).

is it though

♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 21 September 2015 01:51 (eight years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/Q03J5Z0.png

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link

Finally beat this last night (at least the 2nd "Truth" ending), any interest in a spoiler thread to discuss?

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link

Not yet i'm only on like 11%

I found Quiet (at least I think it was she) in some old ruins, and I'm pretty sure I got off a couple of bullseyes on her but then she just vanished and now I'm all alone. Have I blown this??

However in other news I never thought I'd be so happy to find a factory in a video game. At last, a setting that's not random little parched outbuildings on the side of a hill!! Going over those roofs and ducking around corners and crawling under pipes was super fun :)

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link

2%
i think i'm gonna have more fun with this if i relax with the completionist approach. i've redone the first mission five times now trying to do it perfect.

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link

I'm around 45%, finished "chapter 1", hit a bit of a wall when it started requiring me to do Subsistence/Extreme missions to continue. Down for a spoilers thread but I might wanna get further than this before I dip my toe in those waters!

xpost forks yeah just roll through. you can go back and S-rank them later.

nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link

You know, ILG Players Club would be a good place for those spoilery convos

nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link

You should be fine w Quiet, you can always go back and replay the mission and recruit her.

I only beat the game cos I wanted to read some reviews and felt like I was dodging spoilers left and right. Now I can relax and take my time w these dozens of side ops and main missions I still have left to do. Plus I think there is at least one side storyline ending I have left. For an 'unfinished' game there sure is a lot of stuff to do and see. Probably be playing this well into next year.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link

Btw you can skip the subsistence/extreme missions entirely if you want to do side ops instead, every 3 it will automatically trigger cutscenes or add new missions to the list. I've saved them all for post-game.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link

Just got the Quiet ending. Wow. Mission 45 is incredible.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link

This is like a classic western movie or something. It does things you can only do in video games. I like the symbolic commentary on the ending of Kojima's Metal Gear. Quiet's arc is the best of any character.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q401R0JtuFw

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link

hey Adam when I met with the sniper who I thought was quiet and failed to get/extract her, it wasn't during a mission it was on the way to the factory side-op. so I can't redo the mission. I mean I'm not stressing too bad, I assume the game will hook me up again somehow. Right?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:06 (eight years ago) link

Not sure, I met her in Mission 11 but I think as long as you go to the Aabe Shifap Ruins you will run into her.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link

i'm sure that there's no way to miss her? one or two of the huge plot points depend on her existing

nerd shit (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link

So uh I finally bought Revengeance, which really isn't a Metal Gear game, but I haven't played much yet. From what I can tell, it's one of those games that lets you get away with knowing nothing at the beginning since I've passed a couple areas and my combo percentage is a solid zero. Kind of fun, though. I miss Bushido Blade so maybe this will help me get my fix.

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link

i just couldn't get to grips with the parry system in revengeance for some reason - i really wanted to like it but i got stuck on a boss battle which required me to parry :(

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link

Yeah id didn't learn parry until 3/4 into the game.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link

I have most definitely not mastered parrying yet

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link

on one hand, it's cool to be able to slowly master things

on the other hand, nothing will ever recreate the moment I played Bushido Blade for the first time and an enemy killed me two seconds in with one hit and I thought I had purchased an elaborate prank

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link

BUSHIDO BLADE!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link

in my top 5 all time

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link

so good, seems to have the least frills and minimal everything but then you realize the combat is completely ridiculous

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link

the three stances!!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link

just run forward and spam X

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link

http://gfycat.com/DimpledDeadlyAmericanbulldog

am0n, Friday, 25 September 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link

This is great fun but i am TERRIBLE at it. basically i play each episode for two hours just figuring out what the hell is going on, quit mission and then restart with a gameplan

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link

don't be skurrt

on the other hand, sometimes be really skurrt

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 September 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link

reflex mode is your friend

same for attracting attention

you need to draw these guys away from their buddies

every time one of them is like "i'm going to investigate" i'm like hey guy, haven't you ever seen a horror movie?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 September 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link

I'm on my 2nd playthrough of MGSV and it just keeps getting better. Knowing how the story finishes, it's almost a new game. This is Kojima's auteur masterwork imo. There is a lot of symbolism and art film style stuff throughout. It's brilliant. It talks about the player's role in the game. It talks about Kojima's debt to Metal Gear and the players. His last game he was forced to make due to death threats. The Quiet story is the best in Metal Gear history. Felt like a samurai movie crossed w a classic western or something, very sad, very optimistic, very symbolic. Game is a love-hate anime art film tribute to the violence of western culture.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 September 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link

I finally played the factory mission where you try to get, what's his name? The scientist? Emmerich? And OK that was awesome. Proper scripting and tough as shit. C4 is so funnnnnn

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link

i started reading that faq and i think it's spoilery? i'm gonna avoid reading about this game until i finish it, so likely 2017.

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link

Starts slow (so many cutscenes) but as I get better at the game and move away from the default FPS run and gun mindset it's becoming super addictive. Now if only the suppressors didn't blow out after 10 shots.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 12 October 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link

i recommend developing the better suppressor ASAP. you can redeploy dudes to the R&D team temporarily for exactly that purpose, then deploy them back to where they belong.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link

i never even got it. i just called in a new ammo drop every time i ran out on my suppressors.

also to anyone who beat the game, ILG players club has the spoiler thread and i just posted like 4 paragraphs up in that piece

nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link

well when i say better suppressor i mean better wu stun pistol. which comes with better suppressor. and allows you to get off 3 shots during reflex mode, which is croosh obv

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link

speaking of weapons never used, i have not ONCE used the prosthetic arm for anything :(

oh by the way, you know one of the early missions, where it says "recommended weapon: missile"? like..... really? do i have to develop the killer bee in order to complete it?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link

i didn't even get that far on the wu stun pistol! i think it's because i started using it a lot less once i got the custom guns (so i had a 3-step suppressed zzz sniper rifle) and the sleep grenades. i will almost definitely go back to get as many side missions as possible and probably soup up the wu for fun.

oh man, some of the prosthetic arms are fun as HELLLLLLLLL. hand of jehuty and rocket arm are SO GREBT once you unlock them!

you can do those "recommended missile" missions with any of the following (with a few exceptions):
- any RPG
- C4
- land mines
- fultons with cargo mode upgrade
- some other stuff i might be forgetting. doesn't need to be the killer bee though.

nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 12 October 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link

in fact i have pretty much started using D-Dog w/ stun attachment + hand of jehuty for all of the "heavy infantry" side ops. it's a killer combo (and by killer i mean non-lethal but awesome).

nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 12 October 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link

3-step suppressed zzz sniper rifle

see that's what i need, i'm just not levelled up enough yet

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link

i'm finding quiet a real drag (just got her), she keeps shooting guys and waking up the whole camp! guess i need to outfit HER with a zzz sniper rifle too?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link

as soon as side op 107 shows up, complete it and the ones that follow it. it pops up after mission 13. it will make your life easier AND more fun.

xp and for quiet, eventually you can unlock her suppressed rifles (zzz and kill kill kill), and also another one which is apparently like a crazy anti-materiel rifle (since i don't really use her i never unlocked it! d-dog is my homeboy)

nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link

it takes a handful of missions just bringing Quiet along before she learns the "cover me" command and cracks the game open. still prefer D-Dog for scouting reasons but Quiet can tranq an entire outpost for you if you develop her the right gear

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link


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