I might be a bit late on the reply…but no one was forcing him to do it…he was the vice president of Konami.

I might be late on a reply here…but I agree with everything you said…the fanbase merly just reacted to the ending…but alot of people simply did not bother doing any analysis and too the story at face value.

The blew mission 51 out of proportion and blew Chapter 3 out of proportion. Mission 51 was meant to be a post story DLC that didn’t come true…but it doesn’t provide ANY closure to MGSV’s story…Chapter 3’s title card is in the game and it’s called “Peace”…and it was confirmed to be a meta-chapter that you get after achieving Nuclear Disarmament.

People just wanted a traditional MGS story and just couldn’t handle a change of having an interpretation based story similar to 2001: A Space Odyssey (Which Kojima admitted to have been an inspiration going to MGSV)…Heck the whole “Lack of cutscenes complain” was an over exaggeration…the game has 6 hours of cutscenes…if you compare that to most open world games you’d see that TTP isn’t anything unusual…GTAV had 6 hours of cutscenes…Fallout 3 had like 45 minutes of them….Skyrim had like 50 minutes of them…Fallout 4 has like 5 hours of them, Horizon: Zero Dawn has 6 hours of them….yet you don’t hear people complaining about it…Which really confirms for me that most of the fanbase have heavy nostalgia goggles over their eyes.

I really wish people would stop whining about cutscene ratio, Mission 51 and MGSV not being like MGS1/MGS3 and start to do some actual analysis of the story.

“The “twist” comes out of nowhere. There was no “trigger” to his realization, it just happens randomly after doing some side ops.”

I don’t see that as a problem, a plot twist is supposed to come out of nowhere and to be shocking…if it was “properly foreshadowed” it wouldn’t have been a plot twist and people would complain it was “predictable”.

“We’re not, so it’s going to be judged as a series finale and I don’t believe it can hold up to scrutiny.”

-Umm…the story’s finale is in MGS4…just because MGSV is the last game doesn’t make it “The series finale” since we all know it’s a prequel.

mmmm nope all of that did actually happened in the game….did you even play it?

i highly agree. only want to say that the part where they show how he became a huge villain is in the game too. if you remember the quarantine situations and the fact that you can become demon snake if you kill enough. but then again just goes to show you how much kojima covered (which was pretty much 95 percent of everything. lol)

even then however, most of the phantom pain was voiced by the original cast of people anyway. that and people we’d consider nobodies. sooo argument kinda invalid

Did you actually manage to take that metaphorical scene and think it was actually going to happen?

Horn length is a dynamic gameplay feature, not a cutscene
The hallway walk teaser/trailer was an altered ingame cutscene to allude to plot elements