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codo27
Apr 21, 2008

You know when you have diarrhea but it doesn't hurt when it comes out, its so satisfyin', man

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codo27
Apr 21, 2008


Next up after that "143 greatest Ocelot quotes" only 143?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Ramadu posted:

Metal Gear Solid V

why do I find this so funny

Suddenly I'm reminded of MGS4. I lived at home then in the middle of nowhere, went to tramlaw on launch day and they didn't have it. Myself and two friends then got in my car and drove an hour and a half to the next one and they had it, we dined on delicious KFC and drove back.

I tried to get the Big Boss rank but I always killed something during that loving truck turret sequence with the big ATST things coming after you, because you could only kill them and not the soldiers. After I got my hands on Uncharted (the only shooter ever to control good with gamepad) I couldn't go back to those awful, awful controls again.

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I know I'm 10 years behind on this and whatever but I just finished GZ. Holy jesus the credits took longer. I hope the actual game isn't like an hour long unless you turn over every possible stone and shoot every ketchup bottle possible.

I still have no loving idea whats going on story wise, I should probably go back and play them all again.

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I cant wait, especially for the ~tactical espionage~ aspects

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Metal Five Solid Gear: Pain Phantom

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Where is the cheapest place to snag a copy of the game for PC, where the profits aren't going to fund terrorists?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Illegitimate code from jihadi john bought from ebay!

In MGS4 I pretty much rambo'd the whole game. Is that still possible?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

So I got a few hours in last night. First thoughts:

My god are there really credits after everything

Graphics sure ain't nothin amazing

So I'm some kinda godly super soldier but the aiming recticle is a square mile? I like getting headshots, one shot one kill, to do that well pretty much always had to use the iron sights.

The aiming is my main hindrance, I'm not totally turned off but not super excited about the game either. It almost felt a little overwhelming though what with the action itself then all the base and staff management, feel like I need to take a course in all that stuff before I go any further.

Of course I shot Ocelot with a tranq dart wen I first got to the base, anyone else try that? He gets a little woozy then goes "la li lu le lo" before coming to, little easter egg for vets of the series. Also Ocelot's voice seems all wrong

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

CharlieWhiskey posted:

Graphics: are you on PC? Fiddled with the settings? Looks great on PS4.

Aiming: Non-iron sights is shooting from the hip. Unlock a scope if you want a pixel to put on heads. (Although beware of bullet drop)

PC. Everything on max @ 2560x1440. It looks pretty bad some of the time, particularly the opening sequence.

Although I seemed to amass quite a lot of funds in my limited playing I'm weary of spending it all in one place when looking at all the weapons available. A scope just went to the top of my list

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

a cop posted:

Logged into single player for the first time in forever and received 61 S rank soldiers, god drat!

I'm so confused about this. After a mission it shows all the new soldiers I assume I'm getting, but its a lot more than the ones I fulton. Is it a bad idea to auto assign staff? Cause that's all I do.

This probably shouldn't be too hard to pull off with analog sticks, but with the camera facing forward on keyboard tap w,s,w,s repeatedly for some comical movement animation, or with the camera facing your side, d,a,d,a,d,a

Also why is the R&D target practice so much more difficult than the other two?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Shockeh posted:

I own this game, I'm about 5% in, and you all might as well be speaking another language. This entire system is incomprehensible to me.

I think I reached 6% last night and I feel the same way. Some minecraft poo poo going on when it comes to the game explaining anything to you

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

This is the proper way to sneak

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Is there any god drat way to replenish tranq darts in the field, aside from supply drops? Always finding lost of AR ammo but never any tranqs. And jesus is there a way to strengthen your suppressor?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I've just been auto assigning staff the whole time and I just started actually looking at the menu and noticed I had about a couple dozen troublemakers in various departments. Removed them all and autoassigned again and gained a level in a couple areas. There cant really be any reason to keep those guys around that are violent or making GBS threads themselves or whatever right?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Whats with the horn sticking out of my head? Thought it was a graphics glitch first. Something to do with killing people? Also how come now I'm covered in blood completely and showering wont wash it off?

Any reason to hold on to any weapons/vehicles resources, aside from the trucks so far I've noticed I need to have for dispatch missions? Also I haven't sold any of the main resources at all, just stockpiling.

Should I develop weapons I don't plan on using? Seems like things aren't unlocking very fast though my r&d keeps leveling up

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Red Metal posted:

You can deploy vehicles when you start a mission, so you can go on a rampage across Afghanistan in a tank if you like

That seems like a great idea I think. Deploy with tank for some side ops. Extract the highly skilled soldier. Proceed to explode the highly skilled soldier on said rampage


edit: then about 5 minutes later

codo27 fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Nov 6, 2015

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Someone wanna tell me about boasters? Once I'm looking at them in staff management is that their real rating then?

Just found out you cant have a LMG as your main weapon, so I have to replace my sniper if I want to take it. Pretty cool, I mean they have the same purpose basically right? loving garbage

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I fuckin hate this game so much. Doing the mission where you have to rescue the children from the cave in Africa I waltz right loving through, get to the chopper, and suddenly the enemy chopper that hadn't been doing anything suddenly starts attacking. Of course I'm not carrying a rocket launcher at the time, so I think, I know! I'll just jump in our chopper and use the minigun to take down the enemy so this perfect run doesn't go to poo poo! Fuckin thing takes off without waiting for the targets to get in which are sitting right loving there. I still got a S but gently caress. The cutscene when I got back just showed the one kid that was injured that I had to carry on my back so I dunno if I missed out on anything cause of this.

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Incorrect I just noticed it in my list to develop. So whats the loving good of that now? Let me guess you need it to beat the last boss or else you go into another coma and wake up as a genome soldier in MGS1

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Having not played PW is probably why I have no idea whats going on really and feel totally separated from the whole storyline and basically treat the game as another Soldier of Fortune

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

At what point do I get to start doing this FOB stuff and get to hate my whole existence cause you all keep destroying all my progress?

I have combat, development, intel and medical left to build final platforms for. Would it be wise to do development first so I can get the other 3 done faster?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I'm trying my best to complete the game but I have to say its really not that great.

There's no need for side ops to be an endless repetitive grind.

Why the gently caress do I have to pick flowers? What is this Metal Garden Solid?

The menus are just absolute loving garbage. Not even given a loving legend most of the time

Miller doesn't mind chiming in every 2 seconds with the exact same jargon, why cant he give me a reminder now and then that I have available combat deployments?

Why the gently caress does my bond with the loving dog decrease if he happens to get in the way in battle? What does the bond even do?

A guy comes at me with a shield, not the ones with the little slit you can shoot through, just a guy with a shield. I let him try and push forward at me with it, go to his side and start shooting, the shield magically absorbs all the bullets that aren't hitting it at all and are clearly going right into his body and head!

Would it have loving killed them to add in a feature where you can roll the jeep if it gets stuck? Its not like anything else is halfway realistic.

Whyyyy does travel have to be such a loving chore, of course everything costs money so you don't want to call the chopper every time, but going long distances when trying to clear up side ops or track down materials takes forever even by vehicle. Oh this is only 300 metres away but I really I have to go 4km to get around this impassible cliff! Not to mention the 400 mile long branches between platforms at mother base. Also pretty cool how there are 0 customization options, just big terribly laid out platforms, done so to make the target practice missions impossible

Basically I think they should have just made another MGS game instead of making it open world and a big loving tedious grind fest. Quality over quantity

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Okay development and subsequently weapons/items are appearing orange in my menu. Google isn't helping me with this. Why is it orange? I don't see anything special

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Oh I didn't know they brought in whatever the gently caress his name is Mr. Minecraft to work on this patch

Okay now that I'm in the ACC when I open it I do get the popup about online junk.

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Is there a reason why sometimes when you set as bunch of markers they all disappear before you even get out of the map other than Hideo Kojima is a piece of garbage as a person and a game developer?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Watch me drunkenly Rambo my way through missions!

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Holy loving jesus this subsistence garbage is gonna make me eat my computer

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Raxivace posted:

What are you having trouble with?

I've pretty much rambo'd the whole way through the game so far, heavily relying on reflex.

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I'm not one of those people who has to 100% a game, but I at least have to do the main missions.

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

This is the first one, where you have to destroy the comms equipment. Sure, getting the two guys at the first outpost was easy, their peashooters are useless against the loving gently caress faces with the helmets and poo poo at the camp though. I managed to get through it anyway thanks largely to a sandstorm, got a S too somehow

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

When do I get the noise suppression specialist? Probably the last mission or something is it

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I was lamenting what a disappointment the game was then it came up "coming in chapter 2..." I totally forgot the game being introduced as chapter 1. I looked into it then and apparently it was discovered that there was sposed to be a chapter 3 but the game was rushed or whatever the gently caress went on with Kojima and poo poo? Explains a lot

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I'm sorry but this is not a great game that I have already wasted 77 hours on.

Maybe if for once they tried to have decent controls, but then who wouldn't love a mechanic like what you're able to hit changing when going from third person to first? Fultoning containers and entering vehicles is also a hoot.

They made less attempt at a story in this game than in VR Missions.

Constant repetitive nagging from your ol pal back at base, I'm a fan.

Taking the Minecraft approach at explaining pretty much any of the many confusing systems, that's pretty cool too.

Menus are worse than Skyrim at launch

Snake should never have to pick flowers. And doing so, like picking up the many resources required should at least be instant instead of having to hold the button every time. If its gonna take 5 minutes to get in and out of the loving jeep at least make magic healing flower pickup happen by driving over it, not like anything else is realistic.

Weapon and item development and upgrade is a disaster, mostly thanks to the menus.

Why even include loving garbage like boasters and troublemakers? This doesn't make recruiting more interesting or fun, just pointless tedium.

Side ops: same 4 missions over and over again. Oh, and once you're done one, the next is only 500m away but really will take you about 4km as there's no clear path and you have to drive around the edge of a cliff

Some kinds of realism you don't need. If I drive off a cliff I should be able to go on my merry way, not somehow die when landing flat due to magical reasons

Snake should probably be able to walk over slight inclines instead of slipping backwards repeatedly

You have a loving holographic Samsung Galaxy S10 would it have killed them to add a minimap? Even a jesus compass which I'm sure Snake has implanted into his brain anyway?

Basically I think the game is like a cheap Chinese buffet. You get your fill but nothing is great about it

codo27 fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Nov 19, 2015

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I want to try deploying as a staff member, what difference will there be aside from the modifier effect (thinking gunman), where some of the stats are lower than Snakes?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Just did one of those extract the wandering soldier side ops, get the standard "I remember him, he was off base...bring him home boss" message. Fulton him, "you're gonna extract him?" If only they put the time into the radio jargon they did in adding nonsensical breast movements.

Oh, and the trajectory arc of grenades changing when you actually throw it has to be the best feature ever in a video game, thanks konami.

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codo27
Apr 21, 2008

If I aim, and then tap the fire button, it should go where the arc was, not just change in that instant which totally fucks you up a lot of the time.

I know I'm a bit of a grandpa Simpson when it comes to games, but gently caress a AAA title that doesn't hesitate to throw credits in after every 5 minutes shouldn't be full of stupid poo poo like this.

codo27 fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 20, 2015

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