Was MGSV disappointing for you or did you enjoy it?

[Gene]

Can’t help but feel a bit disappointed about this game. The free roam sections and the side ops I actually really enjoy, but the missions themselves I am finding myself putting them off as much as I can. The story doesn’t grip me in this instalment compared to other games in the series - which is unfortunate. 

I am enjoying it overall though, it’s nice to come back and revisit the game without the new game hype surrounding it.

I had stuck this up on my backloggd the other month, but wanted to add more to it here. 

To add some more context, I never actually did finish the game again, I think I had barely got to Africa before throwing in the towel. The game isn’t necessarily bad, but as Wayno mentioned the lack of tight spaces really made this game feel like a generic semi open world stealth shooter to me rather than a mgs game. which made it harder for me to go back to on the replay. The other 4 main installments one completed multiple times but I just find mgsv to be a big old slog. 

The maps themselves were fine in all honesty - despite my earlier comments - but I did find it easy to just sort of knock everyone out and Fulton them to get achieve my objective rather than actually use the stealth that we’ve all been used to. I felt that the missions and going back to mother base/ the helicopter broke up the game play too much and it didn’t feel quite as natural as the other games.

The constant evaluation of missions I found a bit limiting too because we have a whole plethora of weapons and equipment to use - but ultimately you end up going for the same 4 or so weapons if you want to get the higher scores. sure MGS has never really been about the killing, but I always enjoyed finishing a game seeing what codename you got to be more exciting than a ‘well done that’s another S’ or a ‘damn fella, you blew up everyone. That’s a B’. Because of that I never really felt the urge to go and mess around with different guns/tactics. Maybe that’s just a me issue though. 

I enjoyed the game first time around, but not so much on the revisit.