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[Batzi]

Highlights from the article:

• According to the article, health regeneration is only for minor damage. When sustaining severe damage, the player will have to use a healing spray.
• The writer doesn’t feel Ground Zeroes is short, they think an average player can easily put 8-10 hours into the game. The best player at Kojima Productions spent more than 100 hours discovering all secrets.
• Among the features of the iDroid app is the ability to see where other players have been detected on the map.
• They point out the Fox Engine looks ‘simply spectacular’, with the best facial animation in the industry, and body animations reacting to where bullets hit.
• Snake leaves footprints in the mud, which can be spotted by guards. This is just one of the things that adds to the difficulty, other things include better fields of visions for guards, randomized patrol routes and search lights; there are many things that can give your position away.

Source: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=12947

 

[xkramz]

100 hours Exploring secrets etc? That's skyrim territory..highly doubtful

 

[mullet2000]

That's good to hear about the health regeneration. Glad it's not a simple "don't get hit for 10 seconds, ok you're good" thing.

 

[funkystudent]

So basically the game can be completed anywhere between 5 minutes and 100 hours.


RIGHT......

 

[Courage]

I'd be happy if the health system is kinda like the Riddick games.

 

[Altered Juice]

so still no life bar then?

 

[Batzi]

So basically the game can be completed anywhere between 5 minutes and 100 hours.


RIGHT......

The funny thing about you people is that you don't read..

 

[Jedi2016]

• According to the article, health regeneration is only for minor damage. When sustaining severe damage, the player will have to use a healing spray.

Sounds like one of those systems with sectioned healthbars, so it will only regenerate up to the current bar, but to heal more you need to use an item. I'm okay with that.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Sounding good. Might be worth the new price then?


Needs more Rations though.
jk

 

[Tookay]

While that 100% playtime seems a little exaggerated, I wouldn't be surprised if GZ is highly replayable, like Kojima's demos for MGS2 and MGS3. I put a lot of time into both of those, taking different approaches each time.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

That last bullet point reminds me of MGS1. Good times. This is going to be a blast to play. Good thing they reduced the price.

100 hours Exploring secrets etc? That's skyrim territory..highly doubtful

You clearly haven't tried to find all of MGS4's secrets.

 

[McDougles]

Hope there's still the same amount of "TECHNOLOGY!" finds in Ground Zeroes as there have been in past MGS games.

 

[TheSeks]

Only Snake leaves footprints? Not guards or dogs or other enemies/AI? That'd be a little disappointing if so.

 

[jacksepticeye]

Geez the exaggerated lengths of this game. High and low. People need to stop obsessing

Health regen stuff is good though

 

[Batzi]

so still no life bar then?

That's actually a very positive thing. The less we have stuff in the HUD the better. I am sure that boss fights will have the life/stamina/psych bars though.

 

[Metalingus5150]

SO GLAD about the health regen only being a little.

 

[dimb]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

 

[Coffee Dog]

I have a full time job with three kids. I think all of the length complainers don't realize that some people dont have as much free time as they do. I'll gladly spend $40 on this and hope they try to experiment with more movielike formats in the future.

Spoiler

this game looks so awful

 

[Fancy Clown]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

Actually from magical rations to regenerating health and picking out bullets to magical healing sprays

 

[Tookay]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

Almost like... the insta-healing rations that they've used in every other MGS game!

 

[Freaky Fred]

So are there no rations?

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

well Snake Eater had "Life Medicine" to heal you, so this isn't too crazy

 

[Squire]

100 hours Exploring secrets etc? That's skyrim territory..highly doubtful

Most likely a blatant lie. LOL.

 

[jsnepo]

I like the ramdomize patrol routes and search lights bit.

 

[Joeki11a]

That's good to hear about the health regeneration. Glad it's not a simple "don't get hit for 10 seconds, ok you're good" thing.

lol hate this became the standard lol

 

[Roto13]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

That's not how that ever went.

 

[Joeki11a]

100 hours Exploring secrets etc? That's skyrim territory..highly doubtful

Well guys time for a rise to 59.99

 

[RoboPlato]

Regen and footprints sounds good.

 

[Joeki11a]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

I prefer when they stab themselves like in Binary Domain

 

[_hekk05]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

Those healing sprays contain ... nanomachines son. It all makes sense now.

 

[Coffee Dog]

So how does it represent that you are seriously damaged without a HUD?

Permanent jam screen?

 

[op_ivy]

GZ is literally just this one base and a tiny surrounding area, right?

 

[KlytusImBored]

British accent - "my limb's off!"

"Tis a flesh wound! Spray it!"

 

[Skilletor]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

The stuff people complain about in a game about a super soldier who has three clone super soldiers who go on to fight alongside and create ninjas cyborgs and mechs that moo like cows always makes me laugh.

 

[Jarmel]

Most likely a blatant lie. LOL.

By best player, they mean the janitor who comes on the weekend.

 

[-Deimos]

I'm really hoping they bring back the healing system from MGS3. For PP, that is.

 

[dimb]

The stuff people complain about in a game about a super soldier who has three clone super soldiers who go on to fight alongside and create ninjas cyborgs and mechs that moo like cows always makes me laugh.

It's a complaint about mechanical consequences in the game, not one related to the narrative presentation.

 

[Somnid]

100 hours is how long it'll take a Twitch chat room.

 

[UrbanRats]

If you leave the console on, you can clock 100s of hours!

 

[Skilletor]

It's a complaint about mechanical consequences in the game, not one related to the narrative presentation.

It's exactly the same way it's been in every Metal Gear Solid game. Hell, you could heal yourself to a certain amount of health while kneeling and staying still in MGS2, so even the "regenerating life" thing isn't new.

 

[pixlexic]

why is footprints a talking point? they have had that in MGS forever.

 

[SJRB]

I can see the 8 - 10 hour thing happening, considering the side ops. But the absurd 100-hour claim devaluates this entire thing. Why would you even say that, I wonder.


Also, OMG footprints. Like in, eh.. MGS?

 

[Batzi]

I have a full time job with three kids. I think all of the length complainers don't realize that some people dont have as much free time as they do. I'll gladly spend $40 on this and hope they try to experiment with more movielike formats in the future.

Spoiler

this game looks so awful

It's 30$ and I hope you were joking with the thing you said about the game looking awful.

 

[nded]

So we've gone from picking out bullets to magical healing sprays.

More like stopping time itself to pick out bullets, put on some lotion and maybe chat with Paramedic about movies during a boss fight. Metal Gear Games are videogamey as fuck and they've never made no bones about it.

 

[Raonak]

Not sure why snake leaving footprints is a bulletpoint considering you could do that MGS1...

 

[Surface of Me]

Sounds like Konami wants GI to do damage control on the length.

 

[Mr. RHC]

One HUNDRED hours.. one the relative small GZ map...

 

[matrix-cat]

• According to the article, health regeneration is only for minor damage. When sustaining severe damage, the player will have to use a healing spray.

Oh, that's awesome. Thank goodness. A stealth game where you have infinite capacity to recover from any wounds just can't work, and it's one of the big things I was worried about for GZ. I guess it's something more like the MGS3 system now, where you can regenerate regular damage but wounds have to be dealt with using items. Maybe Big Boss will limp or something to show serious damage without a HUD. I still worry that the health regeneration looks too fast (by comparison, in MGS3 you could never recover a full health bar during a hectic boss fight, for example), but all we've seen are demos played on God mode, so it's impossible to tell.

• Snake leaves footprints in the mud, which can be spotted by guards. This is just one of the things that adds to the difficulty, other things include better fields of visions for guards, randomized patrol routes and search lights; there are many things that can give your position away.

WHOSE FOOTPRINTS ARE THESE?

 

[jacksepticeye]

Not sure why snake leaving footprints is a bulletpoint considering you could do that MGS1...

Because it's mud now, not snow. Like totally different

 

[Nemesis_]

It annoys me that the whole footprints thing was meant to be all like WOW HOW NEXT GEN when the original MGS did that too ._.

 

[Shogun1337]

BUT LE 90 MINUTES? DAE KOJIMA NOT COOL?