Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Anyone know how the mulitplayer aspect will work? I know you can raid other players "mother base", but can you actually meet the other player there? Or is the player mother base all AI control? Not sure how this will work.

 

There is gameplay footage of base raiding where the defending Boss comes in via heli and fires a rocket at the attacking Boss. I assume the cigar stops working when the defending player comes in. Don't know if you can choose which player you want to raid or if it's matchmade...

 

You can invade people on your friends list, as well as people who have invaded you previously to steal back the stuff they stole.

 

I see. Have not seen that gameplay. Guess it could be a cool thing, but it would get a bit frustrated if you get raided all the time and loose all your resources. I wonder how they will balance it out with people that buys their bases for real money. They won't have to worry about resources.

 

I've played MGS 1-3 but never got to play the others with Big Boss. Is there any chance I'll be lost in Phantom Pain's story?

 

Not really, it looks like mostly a self-contained story if you include Ground Zeroes, the paid demo prologue. There will be a few characters from Peace Walker you won't recognize, but nothing major.

 

Still, it wouldn't be bad to catch up. It's not like MGS4 spoils MGS5 in any way since Kojima most likely wasn't thinking of Big Boss's history after MGS3 that much until after he wrapped up the fourth game.

Peace Walker might be skippable overall to be honest. I mean, I could summarize it as "Big Boss and his newly formed PMC 'MSF' are hired to check shit out in South America and eventually shit happens to lead into MGS5". I say this mainly cause I know that most people are pretty divided on the plot of Peace Walker. I liked it and thought it was okay story wise. I guess. It was okay.

But on the other hand it is kind of fun to play as a game in of itself. I don't know, take your gamble. It's eiither play the games or just read some summaries and shit.

 

So how would you catch up, go for the games before MGS1 ? PErsonally I decided to play (for the first time) MSG1, 2 and 3 and then go to MGS5 GZ.

 

Play MGS1-3 (4 if you can) and GZ, that should set you up nicely. Just remember that MGS2 is not the most coherent experience because it plays like an episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but I still think it's a great game.

As MGS V: TPP is supposed to be the end, my but will be hurt if there's not even a remix of the classical MGS theme:



Edit: fixed link

 

It won't happen. And even if it did, it would sound like the MGS2 theme.

 

Didn't they stop using the MGS theme because it ripped off some Russian composer?

 

Would love to hear this with better quality.

 

Punished Sviridov
A Composer Deprived of His Royalties

 

Guns of the Patriots had some very sweet tunes too:

 

Kojima's a pretty big fan of eighties music too (he cites Joy Division/New Order as his favorite band(s)), so here's hoping we get a nice licensed little collection of licensed songs, too.

 

Well, given the massive number of David Bowie stuff referenced in the game I have good hopes for a bunch of his music appearing in the game.

 

My custom helicopter music;


Just kidding, it will be this;

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If time isn't a factor you should probably play Peace Walker too. Actually, if you just want background story for MGS5, I'd play Peace Walker instead of 2. MGS2 is almost completely unrelated storywise from the Big Boss saga.

 

I read Peace Walker was too much of non-canon combined with repetitive gameplay, I'll probably skip it.

 

It's kind of repetitive, but it's as canon as any game afaik.

The only MGS game that has iffy canon is Portable Ops I thought.

 

Talby God.. is that the rising storm guy?

 

What, even MGS4 which Kojima himself said he wished he would have done differently ?

 

Still canon. "I wish I wrote better" doesn't mean what has been done has been done.

 

Hmm.. it's kind of retarded that when you reload from your latest checkpoint you have restored all of your previously used ammo. Is this fixed on harder difficulties? Talkin' bout GZ

 

Gonna confirm, Portable Ops is iffy as all fuck in the canon. To my knowledge, Big Boss never mentions it in Peace Walker.

This is a shitty video where Kojima gets asked the question though.



Also this is the best MGS3 theme. AND TRAILER! AND FORMERLY BEST TRAILER