I'd agree with you if any of those previous games were open world, but this is Kojima and co's first attempt at it. I think it's unreasonable to expect the same amount of diversity as something as linear as the past MGS games. Creating open worlds is incredibly expensive, so I understand concessions have to be made... But yeah - as mentioned before, pretty bored of this area.
1. Mix playthrough: Silent entry, loud exit.
2. Assault playthrough: All out guns blazing.
3. Stealth playthrough: Sneaky, sneaky the whole way.
4. Silly Stealth playthrough: Sneaky but using the more wacky tools of the game and exploiting knowledge of the game system.
Yeah I get what you're saying but they are doing it that way to show off the game's diversity. You can see in each of their demos that they blatantly get caught just to trigger an alarm to make it more exciting.
I'm a little confused why the game throws all these gadgets and partners and you collect solders to put in your R&D to make more weapons to do sweet stuff...but the game punishes you for any alerts and kills or general fucking around with the whole S-rank thing.
I'm a little confused why the game throws all these gadgets and partners and you collect solders to put in your R&D to make more weapons to do sweet stuff...but the game punishes you for any alerts and kills or general fucking around with the whole S-rank thing.
I'm a little confused why the game throws all these gadgets and partners and you collect solders to put in your R&D to make more weapons to do sweet stuff...but the game punishes you for any alerts and kills or general fucking around with the whole S-rank thing.
Yeah, I totally see where you're coming from. This has been a problem since MGS3. The game still judges you based on Stealth and non-kills, which the increased arsenal actively motivates you to do otherwise. This was a big problem I had with PW (which I still loved). I hoped the game would be a lot more loose, which it still is compared to previous games, but unfortunately it's still stealth focused mission judging.
I'm a little confused why the game throws all these gadgets and partners and you collect solders to put in your R&D to make more weapons to do sweet stuff...but the game punishes you for any alerts and kills or general fucking around with the whole S-rank thing.
I think that's fair enough. S-ranks are awarded for playing well. Simply fucking around will not be considered "playing well". However, if the Ground Zeroes ranking system is anything to go by, you have more leeway than in any other game in the series to get good ranks. You can kill a few people or get a few alerts, granted you do something else a bit better (you could finish the mission very quickly or you could rescue prisoners to make up for the lost points) so you can still use all the funny lethal weapons when going for good ranks.
Furthermore, the missions are replayable and should be fairly short so nothing's preventing you from playing through them several times to test out different approaches. You can just fuck around during one playthrough and then play the mission seriously while avoiding killing anyone. I'm glad the game offers these different approaches.
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What's awesome it's that these are the options available with clearly advanced gear in an early mission. I wonder what other things they're not showing and what routes and strategies will there be in other, later missions.
Currently playing Arkham Knight and Witcher 3. Both phenomenal games, but this video highlights why I'm still so excited for MGS5: this is an open world "sandbox" full of toys. Sure, I have a massive map in Witcher 3, but NPC interaction is fairly minimal outside of quests and battles. AA is better in this regard: you have a lot more tools to use and can have a lot of fun clearing out non-quest, non-event enemies on the streets.
But the amount of stuff you can do in MGS5 is absurd. I'm going to have a lot of fun just goofing off. For instance,
Tacking some C4 to an enemy and blowing it up from a distance is hilarious.
I've done that in every MGS game where it was possible, and it never gets old.
