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The game is really schizophrenic when it comes to humor. There's typically a really serious story, but absolutely ludicrous side material and bonus stuff you can find that is bizarre.

Metal Gear Solid 5 looks like it's going to be the darkest, most serious entry in the entire series...


...but it's still a game where you can capture goats and send them back to your base. It's still a game where you can spin your character around in a circle so much they get dizzy and vomit all over the floor.

Between GZ and gameplay previews I'm totally sold on Phantom Pain, looks like it'll be a blast.

An0n3 wrote:Metal Gear is cheaper in Eastern Europe because it's hard to get folks to shell out big bucks to play a videogame in a bombed out hellish warzone when they live in one.

Russia and Brazil are generally the cheapest Steam stores for whatever reason.

IIRC it has to do with the individual purchasing power in those countries. If they priced the games closer to what they cost in other countries they wouldn't sell very many copies.

Amnestik wrote:

An0n3 wrote:Metal Gear is cheaper in Eastern Europe because it's hard to get folks to shell out big bucks to play a videogame in a bombed out hellish warzone when they live in one.

Russia and Brazil are generally the cheapest Steam stores for whatever reason.

See

An0n3 wrote:because it's hard to get folks to shell out big bucks to play a videogame in a bombed out hellish warzone when they live in one.

People in Russia play STALKER like we play the SIMS. It's a fun simulation of everyday life where silly unforunate things happen.

Anus pls stop making me laugh, you're not supposed to be funny or even there.

An0n3 wrote:People in Russia play STALKER like we play the SIMS. It's a fun simulation of everyday life where silly unforunate things happen.

My sides

careful fellas, it's leak city out there. a french game magazine gave the game an strategy guide is out too, so ya'll should be careful around the internets. don't want those spoilers

People are way overreacting to that review. It wasn't even that harsh on the game, though it did come off like the guy rushed it out and didn't play the game very well (not developing Mother Base)

To be fair, reviewers only have a few days to pump out a review.

So, they just take the path of least resistance.

8.5 isn't a bad review though.

If you're actually using the entire scale like you're supposed to, an 8.5 means it's a very good game.

There's no reason to be upset here.

It's just shitposters on /v/ brewing up ruckus for the sake of brewing a ruckus.

goty guys
http://webmup.com/e0e27/vid.webm

TheWiznard wrote:goty guys
http://webmup.com/e0e27/vid.webm

that webm was fantastic. also you spelled your name wrong

LA MAYONESA wrote:

TheWiznard wrote:goty guys
http://webmup.com/e0e27/vid.webm

that webm was fantastic. also you spelled your name wrong

oh fuck I just noticed, thanks for the heads up javaloose

preordered this boys


cant wait for the 1st where i will be awake for twenty four straight hours eating, drinking, shitting and sleeping phantom pain.

ColonicAcid wrote:preordered this boys


cant wait for the 1st where i will be awake for twenty four straight hours eating, drinking, shitting and sleeping phantom pain.

High five. That's exactly what I'll be doing for the first 48 hours after release.

I have my 3 days off both on the launch of LISA and MGS5.

What a great time to be alive.

I keep wanting to get into the metal gear solid series but I feel like the fact that I've never played an mgs game besides revengeance would make getting up to date on story and shit a lot of work.

you can play every game minus 4 via emulation

TechnoAlchemist wrote:I keep wanting to get into the metal gear solid series but I feel like the fact that I've never played an mgs game besides revengeance would make getting up to date on story and shit a lot of work.

If you absolutely must play this at launch your bare minimum primer is thus:

Beat Metal Gear Solid 3
Beat Peacewalker
Beat Ground Zeroes

You have nine days to do this, as of this morning. You better get to work now.

I don't think there's ever been a precedent set like this before in the history of gaming. You really will not have any idea what the fuck any of this is or what is going on if you don't do at least that much before jumping into this game. For a game about sneaking around and choking/shooting people Metal Gear is ridiculously heavy on plot. Jumping into this game without having experienced the plot of those games will ruin this game for you, but also retroactively ruin those games for you as well.

We're talking about something akin to jumping into A Song of Ice and Fire at like...book five, having never read any of the books before and just having a vague idea of who and what all this shit is.
Don't do this to yourself. Don't do this to the games.

But seriously, like...

...no really fucking seriously...

This is the endcap game to a series that spans NINE OTHER GAMES

If you decide to jump in NOW and make this your FIRST game you're a fucking idiot. This is not the place to start. Do not pass go do not collect $200. Go play the other ones first and get to this one when you get to it.
You wouldn't decide to start reading a series of books at the last book just because it was the newest one, would you?

If you do that, here, just because it's the newest one, you're an idiot.
You're a legitimate, objective, total fucking moron. It's going to spoil the entire series for you.

EDIT: I'm trying to think of how you might just skip over the games even and just read spoilers and it still doesn't work. A huge part of the games is self-referential gameplay. Spoiler alert but
...and you wont understand or "get" fuckery like that, that is likely to take place again when (SPECULATION ABOUNDS)

Fuck it I don't even really know

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If you've waited this long to actually play one of these games it's already too late.
If you're only just getting into this now, when this has been a pretty popular franchise at the forefront of Konami's stable of titles for the LAST SEVENTEEN YEARS...?

Like how do you completely ignore this entire thing that has been happening for almost twenty years and only perk up your ears and decide for yourself "Now is the time for me to jump in on this franchise" when it's been made widely known this is probably the last game in the series.

I've only played MGS 2, 3 (best game), a tiny bit of 4, and Ground Zero. Do I like, reeeeally have to play Peacewalker.

A lot of characters critical to the plot of Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain are introduced or featured heavily in in Peacewalker.

Paz, Chico, Huey, and Kaz are central to Peacewalker, and don't appear in MGS3 at all.

Kaz is introduced in Portable Ops.

Peacewalker is honestly really fucking important, despite being a handheld game. Ground Zeroes is a direct sequel.

SPOOOOOOILERS
So yeah you if you just skip from MGS3 to Phantom Pain you are kind-of missing everything between Big Boss being the hero of the United States Special Forces and being someone there was a huge conspiracy to murder.
Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiind of important.

Non-spoilerific but Jesus fucking Christ I don't know why people argue about how canon Portable Ops is/isn't when it's vital to the storyline. A lot of shit does not make sense at all if you skip from MGS3 to Peacewalker.

Nah you don't NEED to play Portbello Ops, that was the only MGS I didn't finish, on account of it giving me bad hand cramps trying to play it and I didn't get lost in Peas Wagger by skipping it. Pretty sure there was in tape in PW that explains how Snake meets Kaz and other stuff like that if you're all 'bloo bloo but how!?'.

Wait... Why do we need to nab a Russian interpreter? Shouldn't Ocelot speak Russian too?

I haven't been paying as close attention as I should have to videos I guess.

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Review embargo drops in like a minute or two boys.

9/10 it's shit - IGN

it's happening

Engaging HYPE ENGINE, ludicrous speed!

really funny + epic people posting spoilers everywhere. i want to fucking die. i want to die and suffer and burn because it would still be better than living in a world with people like WeeYakk

[youtube]A9JV0EvCkMI[/youtube]
New trailer boys.
I got the same chills as that one time that metal gear tho

BIG BOSS = SKULLFACE???

big boss x sunny

i mean they're both autistc

I want this so bad please give it to me.

METAL GEAR GOT A BIG DICK

I want Metal Gear's big dick so bad please give it to me.

An0n3 wrote:

TechnoAlchemist wrote:I keep wanting to get into the metal gear solid series but I feel like the fact that I've never played an mgs game besides revengeance would make getting up to date on story and shit a lot of work.

If you absolutely must play this at launch your bare minimum primer is thus:

Beat Metal Gear Solid 3
Beat Peacewalker
Beat Ground Zeroes

You have nine days to do this, as of this morning. You better get to work now.

I don't think there's ever been a precedent set like this before in the history of gaming. You really will not have any idea what the fuck any of this is or what is going on if you don't do at least that much before jumping into this game. For a game about sneaking around and choking/shooting people Metal Gear is ridiculously heavy on plot. Jumping into this game without having experienced the plot of those games will ruin this game for you, but also retroactively ruin those games for you as well.

We're talking about something akin to jumping into A Song of Ice and Fire at like...book five, having never read any of the books before and just having a vague idea of who and what all this shit is.
Don't do this to yourself. Don't do this to the games.

But seriously, like...

...no really fucking seriously...

This is the endcap game to a series that spans NINE OTHER GAMES

If you decide to jump in NOW and make this your FIRST game you're a fucking idiot. This is not the place to start. Do not pass go do not collect $200. Go play the other ones first and get to this one when you get to it.
You wouldn't decide to start reading a series of books at the last book just because it was the newest one, would you?

If you do that, here, just because it's the newest one, you're an idiot.
You're a legitimate, objective, total fucking moron. It's going to spoil the entire series for you.

EDIT: I'm trying to think of how you might just skip over the games even and just read spoilers and it still doesn't work. A huge part of the games is self-referential gameplay. Spoiler alert but

Spoiler:

There's even a segment in Metal Gear Solid 4 where you replay a portion of Metal Gear Solid using the PS3's built-in PSX emulation that's revealed to be Solid Snake having a nightmare about his past experience at Shadow Moses before you replay that same segment of gameplay in the updated Metal Gear Solid 4 engine

...and you wont understand or "get" fuckery like that, that is likely to take place again when (SPECULATION ABOUNDS)

Spoiler:

I wouldn't be surprised if the final portion of Phantom Pain is some kind of flash-forward to the original Metal Gear game, where you are playing as Solid Snake again.

WELL....I was thinking of picking this up, but I've never really played a MGS game before, and I dont really have time right now to go through all those games....SOOOO I'm just going to write this off as "yeah that ship has sailed for me already" and forget about it.

Oh well.

[youtube]A_EeFZUBbog[/youtube]

Time to close my eyes and plug my ears to the whole internet for the next few days.

Major elements of MGS4 were spoiled for me and I don't want that to happen again.

See you on the other side.

i've already read a semi big spoiler.
like it wasn't a story spoiler thankfully just a gameplay one

mrpain wrote:
WELL....I was thinking of picking this up, but I've never really played a MGS game before, and I dont really have time right now to go through all those games....SOOOO I'm just going to write this off as "yeah that ship has sailed for me already" and forget about it.

Oh well.

Fuck the haters, the gameplay for Phantom Pain looks amazing. If the story matters to you watch the Kefka Production videos or some lets plays.

I agree. Phantom Pain looks wwwwwway too sexy to miss out on, LP that shit.

I would disagree entirely.

Play the games, Do not watch some LPer do it.

PLAY THEM. The experience you get going from 1-4 is central to being invested to ANYTHING that might happen in the plot.

Yeah I guess Peace Walker and Portable Ops are semi important too, they're shit though so just watch the story for that I guess.

Just play in this order.

3, portable ops, peace walker, ground zeroes, phantom pain, mgs1, 2, 4.

That's the timeliness order.

3 is incredibly important to understanding everything about V

Skorvold wrote:3 is incredibly important to understanding everything about V

you're incredibly important ♥

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Game releases 5 am BST 1/9, which is GMT + 1 for all us Europoors. Afaik it was supposed to release in new zealand 5 hours ago and it still hasn't on steam.
The release is a mess.

Also PSA: If you have Nvidia you can now download and install the pre-game driver update for TPP from GeForce Experience. You should probably do that tbh.

Wait why does Big Boss need a Russian Interpreter if his Russian is superb (as said by Sokolov)?

Also game might be ready to download on Steam at 12am EST, or 9pm PST if you live in best coast.

http://www.gamepur.com/news/20159-mgs-v ... egion.html

It was argued that he had forgotten to speak most foreign languages due to the coma.