a year into the future and what Konami ever did was implement more “content” in the form of cancerous microtransactions

metal gear is no longer solid and has become soft.

“Talk about “unfinished” or “incomplete”. Baby, this game is as complete as it can get, that YOU in general, don’t understand the general gist of the entire story, just makes you a BAD reader.”

NO, an abrupt ending, an entire chapter of STORY cut and several missions beyond that missing is not the person being a bad reader, I’d say they are pretty Observant. Since I finished The man who sold the world I had a nagging feeling the game just abruptly ended when I got no other missions since forever afterward. THAT is not a freaking ending. the very TRAILER of chapter 2 that I saw in the game as I ended chapter 1 showed stuff I never encountered, I don’t even think I had the CHANCE of encountering, because it’s been cut.

you can justify cutting gameplay features out, you can justify dumbing down graphics or something else, but when you cut out an entire BRICK essential story points out of a game and essentially leave it without an actual ending, it does not matter how satisfied you are with a game, You got cheated.

Pliskin welcome to the discussion. How can I help you? If you’re asking me if I believe my statement that you quoted above then yes I do. I believe it is a stand alone title of the series as it is a completely different game regards of style, athestics, story, and design compared with the previous Metal Gear Solid titles. It is also a send off in the sense that he is done making the series. Do you disagree with my opinion?

“This game is a stand alone from the series and as a send off I suppose it should be.”

What? You can’t be serious.

Unfinished it may be but are you really saying that you didn’t get $60 worth of game in the first chapter to chapter and a half that they actually shipped? The game shipped unfinished because they simply couldn’t make the money back that they would have needed to invest into the scale of game Kojima wanted to make. I give publishers crap all the time for being greedy but stop and think about this for a minute: if Kojima had been allowed to make the game he wanted (probably at least double the length of the current game), it really would have been a financial disaster for Konami.

It should have been a 2-3 part horrendously massive game so trying to make it a single horrendously massive game wasn’t going to work out. Instead it needed something like what Blizzard did with Starcraft 2. I’d have bought a 3-chapter fully completed MGS5 for $100 once there were enough reviews telling me (like this unfinished game has) that the gameplay is excellent. But you can’t sell a $100 game in one piece to most people even if is $100 worth of content and that’s what it takes to even break even on the insane development costs to make it. If you’re a primarily campaign player like me, each of the SC2 “games/expansions” has about as much content as a full RTS game and I think each Chapter of MGS could have been a full game worth of content on its own.

I’m also pretty against shipping unfinished games and completing them via DLC but that’s because they’re usually unpolished and not very playable. The DLC is required to make the game fun. This game, on the other hand, was excellent and provided well over $60 worth of entertainment. I’m just horribly disappointed by the story’s conclusion because of the cut material. Chapter 1 was well worth what I paid for the game. I just wanted exactly more of that in, let’s say, 6 months.

And Portable Ops and Portable Ops+ and Metal Gear Acid and the Metal Gear Solid game for Gameboy Color.