depression: the game

>I used to be somebody, I saved lives as a doctor, and then they turned me into Big Boss's butt clone.

OTB showing Kojima knows how to improve a game in its sequel just increases the phantom pain.

>>716246173 (OP)
it would be better if you could have sex with your male soldiers exclusively

>MGSV

>>716246358
>join a merc group to do some good in the world and save your comrades
>end up having to slaughter them and dying as a villain

>come back to your FOB after years
>all staff has been killed or captured

>>716246173 (OP)
>race
>revenge
>war is self-perpetuating through endless proxy wars
>identity
>Trauma
>Sacrifice
>The fabricated flow of information
But all you got out of it was depression? Are you sure you aren't suffering from depression

>>716246173 (OP)
spamming: the thread

>>716246173 (OP)
>it's only an hour long
>best game in the series
how did kojimbo do it?

>>716246173 (OP)
How is owning an oil rig and killing evil people "depressing" you faggot?

>>716246576
All he got for it was a piece of shrapnel in the skull and then set on fire by the real BB's clone.

>>716246173 (OP)
>I was diagnosed with le depression!
>My struggle is like a BATTLE
>I'm like a... SOLDIER fighting off my brain every day!
Kill yourself.

>>716246645
GZ was amazing. You could replay it over and over again and still find something fun and new to play with.
PP was just running around empty places over and over again.

>>716246715
>severely crippled (103 shrapnels, brain damage, missing arm, destroyed eye)
>suffering from PTSD, guilt and hallucinations
>identity taken away, forgotten by history and left to die
>lose everyone you care about
>just another cog in an endless war machine

>>716246173 (OP)
he is so cool

>>716247185
People really don't understand what PTSD even is

>>716247185
>Big Boss laughs at you behind your back when you're not on the com

>>716247259
>Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety and uncontrollable thoughts about the event.

>>716247185
>>716247259 This and none of what you listed has anything to do with depression and Venom shows 0 signs of depression. Quite the contrary in fact. He perseveres, despite all the shit thrown at him.

>>716247392
Men always hide depression, if you were not a may Allah forgive me a w*man you would've known

>>716247336
THAT scene with Paz really hit me in the kokoro

>>716247336
What makes you see butterflies that aren't there?

>>716247489
>Allah
goatfucker be gone
*sprays*

OH NO
NOT ME
I NEVER LOST CONTROL

>>716247185
And yet he decided to go balls deep with the charade, even after knowing the whole truth.
That's one loyal motherfucker.

I want a MG1 remake starring Demon Snake so bad

>>716248602
He doesn't wear a mask in MG1 and he's old as fuck then.

>>716248721
The mask makes a lot of sense, hiding the differences between him and real Big Boss. Dehumanizing him into his hound dog.

Name a better operator game than MGSV (protip: you can't)

>>716249089
I cannot

INVISIBLE

INVISIBLE

>>716249659
That song wasn't in the game you retard

>>716249089
Frankly the closest you get is Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint aping parts of the formula. And even then, MGSV is still a class of its own for refinement by comparison.
Still hate open world grindathons.

>>716248602
would have been cool if Venom were in a mask for the first few missions of the game and took it off after you rescue Kaz

>>716249746
Maybe you couldn't see it because the name is Invisible

>>716249763
Wildlands and especially Breakpoint really do feel like MGSV at times. Shame because despite it being “bad franchise games”, they’re both pretty decent games on their own. Especially Wildlands

>>716249659

>>716246987
>>716246645
You guys are really dishonest. PP has about 7 Ground Zeroes in it.

WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN

SAY


MY NAME

How do you 'beat' the game? The credits ran and everything but I still have some main ops left. And they're just harder versions of missions I already beat. Also I still havent seen that cutscene where Quiet gets caught

>>716250603
do some side ops and the rest will unlock
but the Phantom Pain never goes away
you will be stuck in endless proxy wars until Solid Snake kills you

>>716250603
Did you do the side op where you find an intel file about her whereabouts?

>>716250702
Am I the only one who thinks the new Higgs sucks?

>>716250702
>>716250738
She hasn't gotten captured yet so I'm confused as to what I may have missed

>>716250832
Did you max out your bond with her?

>>716250603
If I recall correctly
>max out affinity with Quiet. Yes, I know she sucks, just deal with it
>put her butterfly image on your Mother Base emblem
>play normally for an hour or two
>eventually you’ll get the call to do her mission

>>716246358
>>716246576
>>716247185
it would've been better if Venom was his own character, you could've have had the whole "he's basically you fanboying over someone who sees you as nothing but a tool" without the "he's literally you except you don't have real agency on the events of the game"
>>716246645
it had the usual linear vision of going from point A to B just in a sandbox rather than the usual hallway, TPP is too open, too empty and worst of all too unfocused

>>716248602
>MG1 remake
Gross. Keep your degenerate fantasies to yourself.

HAS THE MEMORY GONE

im big boss

>>716252048
He's the two of us

>>716252048
>>716252090
No, I'm Big Boss.

>>716251068
Guess i'll never 100% this game then

>>716252126
You're big boss, and you are I am too

>>716250603
You have to complete a few of the repeat missions. They're there as stand-ins for the Kingdom of the Fly missions that were cut earlier on.

>>716251068
That's not quite it, you just have to get her above a certain level.
The butterfly thing was that originally, you could put the emblem on to prevent her from leaving, but then you could never finish the game because she's supposed to leave.

Originally on release, the intent was that she leaves and then she's gone forever, and people bitched so hard about it that much later on when Konami took control they patched it so that you can use it to get her back after she leaves in the story, because people were just hacking her back in anyways.
An upgraded D-Walker is supposed to overlap with her somewhat but people thought it was lame.

The current version of TPP is somewhat different from how it was on release.

>>716252324
This story, this legend... it's ours

Even earlier on in GZ days, they experimented with having buddies die permanently but I guess D-Walker could always be rebuilt.

HE'S BIG BOSS, YOU'RE BIG BOSS...I'M BIG BOSS! ARE THERE ANY OTHER BIG BOSSES I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?!

when you snuck out in the first level, I was all amazed thinking, the whole game was gonna be sick
>sneaking with big boss
>on the floor
>outgunned
>weaponless
>ends up dogshit

Huey did nothing wrong

>>716252665
THAT RIGHT THERE IS WHY YOU'RE THE BEST BOSS

>>716246173 (OP)
This game was my personality in 2014-2015. I remember smoking a lot and listening to Sins of the Father and Quiet's theme on repeat. I didn't even play any of the Metal Gear games, except MGR and Ground Zeroes. Venom Snake's autism just spoke to me. It was Drive of vidya.

>>716250907
Yeah I love how in the heli she puts her tits in the camera and does a bunch of suggestive posing
>>716251068
I'll give it a shot. I just feel like the game is missing something

>>716250259
7 Empty Ground Zeroes with lots of hidden paths and things to do. PP was the definition of an empty open world.

>>716253383
*with no

>>716252665
I'm the real deal.

>>716253383
The maps have the same dynamism as GZ. You can go to the same map multiple times and do totally different missions and see new paths

>>716252048
>>716252090
>>716252126
>>716252324
>>716252526
Just you, yourself, and me

>>716246173 (OP)
>literal garbage: the game

>>716253994

>>716254107
but enough about MGS4

>>716253250
To be fair, Venom’s depiction in this game was fucking great. He’s the man we all aspire to be

>>716251082
>it would've been better if Venom was his own character
Kojima claimed he purposefully avoided this because he's already done this with Raiden in 2

>>716246173 (OP)
It's the Great Man of History simulator. You are gay or a woman.

>>716246358
You know, perhaps there could've been an interesting story narrative on how a doctor, while important, is essentially a bobody who helps others. A visible phantom who eases pain, trying to heal others from their own phantom pain, to alleviate his own pains and fears that haunt him. To being someone who then ends up forcibly becoming an icon for a war mongering monster, a demon who projected his own sorrows and frustrations onto a new vessel, as if to escape it, to use him as a basis for a haven he can escape to. A man made Valhalla. Hands of kindness that turn into gauntlets of death, all just to try to forget the suffering in their lives, the ones they couldn't escape, and the ones they create, either through maliciousness or ignorance.
There could've been something genuinely beautiful. Kojima could've made the first video game that would undoubtedly, unabashedly be "truly artistic".
Instead we got "2deep4u" surface level narratives and an unfinished piece of shit. All because he wanted to blow most of the budget on B-list euro actors and some random american actor.

>>716254207
lol

>>716246173 (OP)
WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN SAY MY NAME
HAS THE MEMORY GONE? ARE YOU FEELING NUMB?
GO AND CALL MY NAME
I CAN'T PLAY THIS GAME, SO I ASK AGAIN
WILL YOU SAY MY NAME?
HAS THE MEMORY GONE? ARE YOU FEELING NUMB?
OR HAVE I BECOME INVISIBLE?

>>716246645
open world is pure bloat

>>716248602
repurposed as Die-Hardman

>>716246173 (OP)
>2015
>still top-shelf
I KNEEL KOJIMBO

gaming will never be this cool again

>>716246173 (OP)
>me, morbidly depressed, playing this game in 2015

>>716257293
No hope for Physint?

>>716257491
maybe

>>716258219
I like rob pattinson but please stop using real actors.

>>716259214
Kojima will never stop so he might as well use actors that people like. I mean imagine how cool MGS3 would be with Kurt Russel.

>>716254612
Really is crazy how much retards still put Kojima on a pedastal.
>>716257293
I guess it was pretty lame to begin with then.

>>716259661
Damn you're a salty cunt, when's the last time you've enjoyed anything? Must have been a while considering you're wasting time here bitching about the thread's subject matter.
>inb4 hurr r u new
Guaranteed I've been here longer than you have