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aw, C4 is some mega fun times. you can get pretty creative with it.

i gather not a lot of people have finished this? as cool as it is, there seems to be a burn-out point. i'm still finding myself returning every few weeks though, doing a grip of missions then dropping it for a while. i'll get there.

circa1916, Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link

no wait, i did use it once to ambush some tanks while i hid on a hilltop and picked off the stragglers with a sniper rifle. it was awesome, i dunno why i didn't do that more

a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link

It's never too late to rectify an oversight.

I Pith On Your Quip (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:04 (eight years ago) link

fun to sneak to an outlying area where they have their communications satellite, get just on the edge of the C4 detonator range, and then blow that sucker and have them all run over

μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link

I'll admit to using the hell out of Quiet once she got her silenced tranq rifle. DROWSINESS FROM ABOVE

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 April 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link

will my current tactic of C-4-ing or grenading the communication dishes continue to be a sound tactic as I progress through the game?

hell yes it will. one of my favorite side objectives was getting the blueprint from the airport mission: the blueprint is inside of the helicopter! so you have to sneak over to where it first lands to drop off target 1, let it go on patrol as target meets an arms dealer and they take a tour of the airport base, plant your C-4, go hide on the roof of a nearby building, wait for it to come back, and blow it up.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link

It probably would've been really cool if I had any idea it was coming, but I went on what I thought would be a quick side mission to abduct that scientist and wound up playing for unplanned several hours as the side mission transitioned into (at least) two actual missions across a huge portion of the map. I very intentionally picked a side mission, guys. Like for a quick fix, not to flush half of my Sunday down the drain. Sheesh. The walkers are pretty cool, though. And I got spotted while stuck in a small garage and had a huge base full of personnel gunning for me, and I sniped and grenaded every last one of them against all odds.

I do love the game but I just wish it was easier to peace out sometimes without feeling like I'm going to lose a whole lotta progress.

Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link

I got spotted while stuck in a small garage and had a huge base full of personnel gunning for me, and I sniped and grenaded every last one of them against all odds.

Yes!!!

What do you mean about losing progress?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link

sort of hate the autosave on Ground Zeroes. I get it, but on accidentally triggering an enemy attack and hightailing it out of there, I ran into the next checkpoint where I needed to extract someone, but my save is now stuck there with 100 enemies outside the door, and no way to get out :-(

jamiesummerz, Monday, 25 April 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link

You can restart the mission?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 April 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, it's the autosave I have an issue with. I've had to stop playing in the middle of missions a couple of times and, upon returning, was disappointed to see how far behind the last checkpoint was compared to where I stopped. So I'm disinclined to stop until I've actually finished something.

P.S. I've put in dozens of hours now and I'm at 10% completion.

P.P.S. I figured out both how to kill someone at Mother Base (punch or drop them off the edge of a platform) and that it's effectively a 'Game Over' to do so. Boooooo. You don't want me killing my own guys, don't make it a possibility! How am I supposed to control myself?

Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 April 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link

Goblin Donkey totally had it coming.

Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 April 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I just realized that I've played Phantom Pain and only Phantom Pain for the past month. I cannot remember a game that commanded the entirety of my gaming attention for that long. And I'm still mostly just doing side missions. It's that good!

Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Saturday, 14 May 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link

nice! FOB is like hyper Metal Gear Solid 2 level design and TPP is hyper Metal Gear Solid 3 & 4 level design. TPP is the best don't forget thing Kojima could have done with the Ground Zeroes situation. his game was being chopped up already so he decided to do an HD reboot of the entire series featuring remakes of level and mission design and callbacks for all the MGS games.

Ground Zeroes itself is pretty much a perfect MGSV part one. character wise it is a very important piece of the story puzzle.

i saw a new (to me) cutscene on my birthday last week. Venom, Ocelot, Kaz, and Diamond Dogs sang me a birthday song and gave me a cigar that Quiet lit by shooting it from across the base.

still play some FOB from time to time. the game is really incredible and still looks fantastic to me. it is a solid 60fps and looks very cinematic.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 May 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link

damn it, didn't play on my birthday

μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 14 May 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkAJa9w-bkM

am0n, Friday, 22 July 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link

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

am0n, Friday, 22 July 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link

these are so good!

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 23 July 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I finally am playing through MGS V after buying a PS4 this year, starting it, and detouring for a while. Is the online mode good? Any idea if it's... still good? I'm probably doing too many side missions to build things up since I'm only halfway through the main missions.

mh, Sunday, 7 August 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link

MGO? eh, it's fine for what it is. not entirely my cup of tea though.

FOB on the other hand is just great. MGSV has a lot of overpowered tools that make the game a little too easy at times (mainly D-Dog) and FOB is a good way to get the challenge back. i've probably played hundreds of FOB missions and i still regularly get caught almost immediately at 40+ FOBs -- it's tough!

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 7 August 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link

I'm on mission 19 so FOB is coming soon!

mh, Sunday, 7 August 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link

this looks real shitty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hjRKGrC40

slam dunk, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link

It's like going to see some band from the seventies and realizing that the drummer is the only original member still in the band and they only play new stuff that sounds nothing like the original band but, hey, they still have the same name!

Justin Truedat (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link

2017? does that mean the two games were concurrently in development? or are they seriously trying to churn out a modern triple-a in two years?

a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link

you kinda have to respect konami's dedication to not giving a fuck

The Chinese is NOW doing a munchy box! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link

MGS1 because there are just a lot of factors (the novelty of it + those wobbly underwater PS1 graphics + memories of being an upright hominid on earth in the 1990s) that make me forgive how misguided and embarrassing it all is when you think about it.

I like 2 and 3 well enough. But right after 1 it gets a little cringeworthy with the professional wrestling bad guys and hour long cutscenes and Kojima's Jaden Smith level profundity.

punksishippies, Friday, 19 August 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link

going to take on the big daddy sahelanthropus this week when I get time. any tips? expecting this sucker to bomb my ass into oblivion a few times before I beat it

mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link

aim for the big pods on it

find the tank and the rocket launcher vehicle, tho you may still get jacked up

develop the most advanced RPG there is, the one that has multiple homing warheads

run around like an idiot

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link

yessir

think I need to rerun a mission to get a materials engineer because I want to upgrade my armored suit

mh, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link

oh yeah you do probably want that

call in more ammo whenever you get a chance

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link

bring that rocket launcher that shoots 6 at once.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link

yea that's the one i meant

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link

look at this toy of snake wearing his crocodile cap from snake eater:
http://i.yai.bz/assets/GalleryImage/r_g0000000250_0_01.jpg
http://www.medicomtoystore.com/Resources/snake04.jpeg

slam dunk, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link

this thing just keeps on going

just rescued hideo kojima yesterday, loving the advertisement for his signature glasses

mh 😏, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 23:08 (seven years ago) link

there's no way in the game to find out where you get tech specialists other than looking at mission descriptions and interrogating randos, right? the only straightforward way is to look on the web. kind of ridiculous.

it'd be cool if you could tell Ocelot to scout for a sleeping gas specialist or w/e and after a couple outings he'd contact you with a lead

dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link

I'm guessing some of these dudes were ones I did extract in particular missions but didn't understand the direct contract system yet.

dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link

five months pass...

https://i.gyazo.com/decf1a1b58303ee3f795cbed8bc22455.gif

dollar general (am0n), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

RIP Solidus :(

Duane Barry, Monday, 15 May 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

playing MGS3. i think it is my pick for the best one overall. there really is a mythical nature to all of the characters in this game. if they were to make a movie based on any of the games this one would be my pick.

just defeated The Fury. he is the Cobra member i think of the least, but the fight is pretty good and his intro/outro cinematics are so cool. i guess his backstory is that he was an early test astronaut? they start playing audio from a test flight right before he kills himself, engulfing himself in a ball of flame, thinking he is coming home to Earth. then he turns into a giant face made of fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhbjTvok1Fk

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 July 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link

my fave's still 2 but yeah i love fury's patter. I CAME BACK FROM SPACE.

difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 July 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link

yeah no game has made me think im tripping like MGS2 has, but MGS3 is just the most solid all-around, and the level design has it beat.

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 July 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

Oscar Isaac To Star As Solid Snake In Sony’s ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie https://t.co/LEt48ZPl5C pic.twitter.com/2LmeO7KFjb

— Wario64 (@Wario64) December 4, 2020

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link

this is either the best or worst news ever

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link

i watched playthroughs of 1 and 2 bc i just straight up suck at these games, and i gotta say at this point i would vote for 2 which blew apart my tiny little mind

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link

I was obsessed with MGS and played it many times, but never even tried the sequels. I'm worried they'd be a letdown.

I'm guessing the movie is going to be completely stripped of everything that makes the game so weird and magical.

jmm, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link

oscar isaac spends the entire running time beneath a cardboard box

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link

Play Phantom Pain. It came out too late to be polled here but it's just the best. And very nicely balanced, difficulty-wise (as I am also kind of shit wrt the old MGS games). See discussion upthread and, I'm sure, elsewhere on the board.

You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link

in a way i prefer ground zeroes. it’s almost like an arcade game. same layout +
tweaked objectives = totally different levels. you can do speed runs even.

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link


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