I'm just gonna leave it at "I don't get the artist's vision". The storytelling style in MGS is not really something I enjoy, to me the cutscenes and character behavior is just weird. As a first time MGS player, it obviously doesn't carry much weight for me, as it does for MGS fans. I'm not going to say anything about the story.
No flanking tactics, very predictable, very easy to clean out entire bases, it makes you feel like you're the Terminator, not some special ops guy who still needs to be a ghost to survive a base full of soldiers. Also it's very underwhelming, it's like the AI has no tactic, the enemies are just flocking to take cover where ever they can and that's it. Sometimes you are 20m away pointing the gun at them and they're just trying to figure out what's in front of them. Sometimes is spots you from miles away, during night time.Sometimes it can't see you a couple of meters away. At some point I just gave up and played it as a shooter, but then I realised the shooting mechanics are also unimpressive. There are gadgets you can use, but the open world and rigid nature of it prevent you from having any meaningful stealth takedowns & tactics. The gameplay is also not very deep, the whole game consists basically of crawling up to an enemy, interrogating him and extracting him with the Fulton device. There really aren't many things to do in this game world, other than the "kill this guy" / "save that guy" repetitive missions, set in the same bases, over and over again. They could've at least added some more animations to the close-quarters fighting & such. I was also surprised by how rigid the animations look, and what a lack of variety there is. The scenery looks really good, but I can't help think how lazy the devs were when 3/4 out of the surface of the Afghanistan map is made of corridors through rocks. The world feels empty and feels like it's created just to tie together a bunch of outposts. The graphics are good and the lighting is masterfully done, but there's not a lot of other positive things I can say about the game. The As a new player to the MGS series, I gave into the pre-launch hype and I was excited about it, but ultimately I feel the game was overall a disappointment.
… ExpandĪs a new player to the MGS series, I gave into the pre-launch hype and I was excited about it, but ultimately I feel the game was overall a disappointment.
In short, it makes too many concessions to the modern gaming world. I hate the episodic structure to the game, the mother base metagame belongs on an iPad and the story is so bare bones I sometimes had to remind myself I was playing a metal gear game (twists are predictable too).
But, for some reason, as a huge MGS fan who's played the series since the 80's, I'm disappointed too. Controls are intuitive, graphics are great, performs at a constant 60 FPS etc. Mechanically, the game is near perfect and is a joy to play for the most part. I hate the episodic structure to the game, the mother Really difficult for me to put a score on this. Really difficult for me to put a score on this.