Do you have a link that expands on this? Based on what you said exclusive/more content could mean the weird per-order missions for either console.
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Game Informer played through MGS Ground Zeroes' main mission in [1.5hrs, not rushing]
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Do you have a link that expands on this? Based on what you said exclusive/more content could mean the weird per-order missions for either console.
dukeoflegs
Member
If the game is 4 hours but has a good amount of Outer and Extra Op missions like Peace Walker I would be happy to pay $40/$30. I have almost 200 hours in Peace Walker if I got a quarter of that much time in GZ, I wouldn't complain.
akidnamededdy
Banned
Guys I just got back from 1990, I can't believe I spent $40 on Mega Man 3 when I can beat it in just over an hour.
Barring the whole "charging money for a demo" thing, which is admittedly shady, when the hell did # of hours to completion become the metric by which we judge a game's value?
I just hope Phantom Pain comes out later this year instead of getting pushed into 2015.
Barring the whole "charging money for a demo" thing, which is admittedly shady, when the hell did # of hours to completion become the metric by which we judge a game's value?
I just hope Phantom Pain comes out later this year instead of getting pushed into 2015.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Oh. Welp. Time to see the differences!~
VibratingDonkey
Member
Why Ground Zeroes hasn't been a sure thing, I don't know what exactly it is I'm paying for.
there is a 20$ edition if money is your problem. 30$ on PS4 if you don't care about the retail version.
Exactly. It's okay for people to want to wait for a price they feel justifies the amount of content but to call it a demo is just plain wrong.
Vyse The Legend
Member
Nope. There are platform-exclusive preorder missions AND format-based exclusives (physical will have them, nothing extra for the digital.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732382
Zomba13
Member
I still want clarification on this.
If it is included then yeah, this release of GZ is a demo and it's stupid to have to buy it. If it isn't included and Phantom Pain starts where GZ ends then GZ is just a short game set in the same world with the same engine, an Episode 1, a Case 0 or something.
Glorified G
Member
I'll pick it up $10 used at most
little clips? It had all the cutscenes in the game (no sound but fully movable camera), character models (used and unused), environment models, the soundtrack, the script for the game, all the trailers made, a few VR missions and other tidbits.
It was basically a behind the scenes type thing. Very awesome item for a fan to have.
Zombie James
Banned
they said they played 4 hours through the main mission. They DID NOT say they completed it and that it was 4 hours long. If they did indeed finish the game then you should be expecting a review very soon which is highly unlikely.
AHA-Lambda
Member
It's a prologue to a bigger game how is it not? Is GT5 Prologue not a demo now?
Played "through" implies completion and even if they did embargoes restrict review until release so that point is moot.
Altered Juice
Member
TITLE "Game Informer played through MGS Ground Zeroes' main mission within 4 hours"
We had four hours of exclusive hands-on time with Ground Zeroes, which we used to play through the main mission and experiment with extra modes.
We had four hours of exclusive hands-on time with Ground Zeroes, which we used to play through the main mission and experiment with extra modes.
I don't get this mentality either. There are bad games that last 10+ hours, the amount of time it takes to beat something isn't the ultimate gauge of value. It can be part of the value process, sure.
If this sells well, I expect "prologue" releases like this to be come increasingly common over the next few years. We've already got Squenix talking openly about trying to monetize games before they finish development.
Nope. There are platform-exclusive preorder missions AND format-based exclusives (physical will have them, nothing extra for the digital.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732382
My guess? Camp Omega map. "Open world". ~ Wooo.
The 'Premium Package' comes with all of the special goodies you'd expect, other than that.
EnVy_CaLiBeR
Member
A huge MGS fan but if it's only four hours long, I'll wait for a price drop.
Deified Data
Banned
That's the question, isn't it.
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
Guess I'll get this when V really comes out.
KojiKnight
Member
Extra content in the form of Raiden and Old Snake costumes.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Nope. There are platform-exclusive preorder missions AND format-based exclusives (physical will have them, nothing extra for the digital.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732382
Given the platform exclusive content it's probably something stupid and meaningless anyway.
Their use of the word "through" is a pretty dead give away that implies they played start to finish. This game has probably been done for a while, at least the main mission.
Crimsonsky
Member
Rising was 6 hours max, and was sixty bucks(more for me since I had to have that lamp). None of these games are really long, curb your expectations.
Razgriz-Specter
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PrimaNocta
Member
I love the MGS series so I'll buy this day 1. 4 hrs for a regular user probably means 6-7 hrs for me since I always try to play stealth and take my time looking around and checking out the area in any MGS.
Insane Metal
Member
So this was the surprise. Meh :/
Probably in some altered/improved state, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet.
Of course there will be no confirmation of that anytime soon.
It's hard to imagine reviewers/journalists playing through a MGS game and skipping cutscenes.
Also, average time to beat MGS4 is 18 hrs. Minus approximately 10 hrs of cutscenes (best figure I can find online, feel free to correct me), that's about an average of 8 hrs of gameplay for a regular run.
Their statement doesn't confirm anything either way, but it's still going to be too short for the price point for most people. Konami made a mistake, nothing new.
We can add cutscenes into that four hour figure too.
I would like to know this too, but they probably won't tell us just yet.
Mass Effect
Member
This is getting a retail release right?
I'll just Gamefly it then.
I'll just Gamefly it then.
Graphics Horse
Member
The rainy nighttime one. With other bonus missions set in the same location at different times of day.
Nope. There are platform-exclusive preorder missions AND format-based exclusives (physical will have them, nothing extra for the digital.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732382
I still don't know what's being excluded or included or what constitutes "bonus content". Are extra ops missions ie side missions introduced in Peace Walker considered bonus content in Ground Zeroes?
Whatever the case is I'm still going digital unless the bonus content actually adds $10 worth of content.
uncleniccius
Member
If it's Super short it should be a budget title, or cheaper, in the UK it's retailing at full price for the next gen retail versions... Regardless of quality that's expensive, and I don't take issue with shorter games usually (journey etc are not overpriced to me) .
The one at night in the camp.
The one with the desert is Phantom Pain, which is, according to Kojima, 300 times larger than Ground Zeroes.