>>718780507
>Lmao what the fuck am I reading, you described every single MGS except for MGSV.
>All MGS games up until V are movies with barely any gameplay, and what little gameplay there is sucks dick.

Skip every cutscene and MGS is still very gameplay focused with an "arcade" like approach. Each room is a little puzzle you need to figure out how to navigate with a series of tools. There's a scoring system, ranking system, so it incentivizes you to play a certain way.

New weapons, enemies, set pieces, bosses, etc keep things fresh. On top of that kojimbo weaves a hollywood movie and radio drama that you can ignore if you want to.

Death Stranding removes all the interesting gameplay elements, reduces combat to almost nothing, and doubles down on "open world" shit. It's an anti-fun game. No wonder it doesn't draw people in. Sony were fools for not reeling Kojima in.

These games would NOT have sold entirely on their stories. As I said, you can skip all the cutscenes on subsequent playthroughs and the game still "works".