Question: Where does Ground Zeroes rank in the MGS series?

[Jassassino]

Voted 'The Best' and although that sounds stupid for such a significantly smaller and shorter experience, I kind of stand by how good this game is for what it is. I think it's a brilliant realisation of MGSV's gameplay style, mechanics and approach to how it wants you to sneak around and complete objectives - so much so that I think it achieves it better than MGSV itself in what it does. You have tight corners, crowded and cluttered zones paired with open roads, and areas just short and small enough between them for it to be a real danger if you're caught (I never really thought it was much of a problem if I forgot to snipe one of the 20 random soldiers in MGSV's world-space wherever I was doing a mission, because there's so much space and open, empty zones with random cover, that I could just retreat and hide if I did get spotted).

I also think GZ knows when and how to give you kind of 'overpowered' elements for you to use - the Raiden special mission for example, with the fast-sprinting, felt fair and good to use there, thanks to it not being a normal ability you could use in every mission as Snake. I feel like MGSV, I have so many ridiculously fast traversal tools (and I get that it's open world etc but I'm unsure that argument justifies just how fast Venom Snake runs in MGSV) and tracking tools like the sonar.

The only time MGSV felt like it kind of lived up to the atmosphere of GZ was in the Oil Field when I went there once at night during the rain for a mission, or maybe OKB Zero (but that was still just kind of a hill with a couple of huts).