Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

[bonescraper]

Ok, i caved in and got it off eBay for 24 quid. That's cheaper than the suggested retail price in Poland, so i guess it was a good deal. Now i need to get a cryo chamber...

 

[Trodat]

I bought one for 34€ is it expensive? Well fuck it, game is good so can pay little extra.

 

[Azalin]

No. If you remembered, you would know that I always said that I like open world games which are limited in scope (Sleeping Dogs, Gothic, Fallout NV, Witcher 2), and not overblown shit with lots of trash (TES games, Witcher 3). MGS V thankfully falls into the former category.

When did Witcher 2 become an open world game?

 

[J_C]

When did Witcher 2 become an open world game?

Well it's kinda a stretch, I know, but the maps openned up a little, giving some space to exploring, so it was not totally linear. That's why I liked it.

 

[Trodat]

Got the key and worked like a charm. I want to play!

There's no chance that Valve will be angry about people buying codes right? My first Steam account got banned and that feeling was devastating.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Got the key and worked like a charm. I want to play!

There's no chance that Valve will be angry about people buying codes right? My first Steam account got banned and that feeling was devastating.

Doubtful. Steam can't prove where the game codes came from. Neither can they prove that you didn't get it with an Nvidia 900 series card. Nvidia themselves rubber stamped my code without any sort of proof of purchase.

Valve mostly goes after people that buy there codes from non white listed sources. Or people that buy cheaper games outside of the buyers region. But I can see Valve taking some sort of action against these codes in the future. Perhaps adding a security measure since they must be losing out quite a bit what with all the cheap Nvidia codes being sold on the grey market.

 

[Jasede]

The day Steam cracks down on my Brazilian-bought Steam keys is the day I go back to retail.

 

[Morgoth]

The day Steam cracks down on my Brazilian-bought Steam keys is the day I go back to retail.

Those Brazilian-bought Steam keys are retail keys.

 

[J_C]

The day Steam cracks down on my Brazilian-bought Steam keys is the day I go back to retail.

Retail is dead, there is nowhere to go back to.

 

[J_C]

I bought one for 34€ is it expensive? Well fuck it, game is good so can pay little extra.

No, that's a good price. After release, the game is 60 EUR.

 

[Makabb]

I hope you can chage Quiets clothes to some normal ones.

Retail is dead, there is nowhere to go back to.

Lol retail is not dead, you can get any PC game on dvd also (but the steam drm). And ALL console games are retail without drm.

Console market is less DRM infested than PC, sometimes it's even better to buy a console game so you don't have to install the shit PC drm.

 

[The Vanished One]

Console market is less DRM infested than PC

Isn't e.g. the PS3 encrypted as a DRM measure, so you can't even recover your saved games if it dies, and are prevented from backing them up on a pen drive unless you are permitted to by the publisher's grace?

 

[Jick Magger]

Isn't e.g. the PS3 encrypted as a DRM measure, so you can't even recover your saved games if it dies, and are prevented from backing them up on a pen drive unless you are permitted to by the publisher's grace?

Yeah you can do that, but you can't copy it to a PS3 that's been registered to another person.

 

[Talby]

Could be BS, but apparently the street date has been broken in some countries and spoilers are starting to surface. Time to go dark if you care about the story.

 

[Menckenstein]

Could be BS, but apparently the street date has been broken in some countries and spoilers are starting to surface. Time to go dark if you care about the story.

Avoiding this thread until it's on sale for -$20 on steam

See you guys in 2020.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Could be BS, but apparently the street date has been broken in some countries and spoilers are starting to surface. Time to go dark if you care about the story.

I've been hearing about leaks for almost a week now. Not seen one alleged spoiler posted anywhere yet. But I imagine that will change either at the end of the week or early next week.

But I can deal with most spoilers. I'm only interested in the ones that put final nails in the coffins of the Quiet - Chico and Grey Fox theories.

 

[Puukko]

I've been visiting /v/ less and less anyway, I definitely won't go there for the time being.

 

[J_C]

I hope you can chage Quiets clothes to some normal ones.






Lol retail is not dead, you can get any PC game on dvd also (but the steam drm). And ALL console games are retail without drm.

Console market is less DRM infested than PC, sometimes it's even better to buy a console game so you don't have to install the shit PC drm.

MGSV won't have a retail version on PC, so retail is dead, ok?

 

[Phage]

Review embargo is lifted on the 23rd of August. That means they're supremely confident in the game. It's over, plebs are going to be literally vaporized off the face of the earth due to how incredible TPP is.

 

[J_C]

 

[Jasede]

Okay, I didn't follow this thread, but why are you all so hyped? Some people derided MGS 4 as some cutscene snoozefest. When I watched my ex play it, though, it looked like a super creative, fun game. And while it definitely had hours of cutscenes they were filled with fun, creative camp, so they really weren't all that bad.

 

[Phage]

Okay, I didn't follow this thread, but why are you all so hyped? Some people derided MGS 4 as some cutscene snoozefest. When I watched my ex play it, though, it looked like a super creative, fun game. And while it definitely had hours of cutscenes they were filled with fun, creative camp, so they really weren't all that bad.

Because:

MGS 1 was god-tier for its time.
MGS 2 and 3 are still god-tier to this day
MGS 4 while one of the weaker entries, still has mostly very fun level design and gameplay, along with some great moments.

MGSV has already confirmed by a quadrillion people to have the least amount of cutscenes/gameplay to date (MGS3 levels or less), with top-tier gameplay (sprawling open areas with dozens if not hundreds of ways to accomplish objectives)


Go watch some videos of the game and it'll quickly be apparent this will possibly be the last big-budget game with genuine passion behind it to ever come out.

 

[bonescraper]

MGS 2 and 3 are still god-tier to this day

No, sorry. With Gorund Zeroes MGS finally caught up with Splinter Cell (well, surpassed it imo). But MGS2 and MGS3 were still stuck in the SNES era gameplay-wise, while spliter cell took modern stealth games to another level. In 2004, when the laughably linear and arcadey MGS3 was released, Splinter Cell got its sequel, and only year after Chaos Theory came out.

TPP shapes up to be a-fucking-mazing though.

 

[Phage]

No, sorry. With Gorund Zeroes MGS finally caught up with Splinter Cell (well, surpassed it imo). But MGS2 and MGS3 were still stuck in the SNES era gameplay-wise, while spliter cell took modern stealth games to another level. In 2004, when the laughably linear and arcadey MGS3 was released, Splinter Cell got its sequel, and only year after Chaos Theory came out.

TPP shapes up to be a-fucking-mazing though.

I guess you can't appreciate MGS2's perfection of arcade stealth and MGS3's arcade stealth mixed with a huge variety of ways to accomplish things. Not everything needs to be EDGESOREAL immersion. "SNES era" gameplay can be completely fine. I'll take the perfection of linear arcade stealth over Splinter Pleb any day (btw they aren't actually comparable since they're going for two entirely different things). That's akin to saying you think timeless games like Donkey Kong Country or Banjo Kazooie are dated.

 

[Trodat]

Is it bad that you enjoy the cutscenes in MGS? My friend wants to know.