Zero Punctuation: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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Yeah, definately play this game offline for a smooth menu transition. The online seems to add nothing but load times so far. Very fun game and the stealth feels brilliantly detailed (aside a humourous AI path-finding glitch or two) with sporadic bouts of insanity in some encounters. The script for some of the charaters though, especially Ocelot and his over-acted voice, is often cringeworthy when it isn't directly teaching me something new. He reminds me of that Boss from the IT crowd with the style of pronunciation. It seems to not synch with Sutherland's serious grimble grumbles (good grimble grumbles, of course). Then there is the glaring masculinity of the entire game where it is all big, strong, gruff men doing all the important shit that needs to be done while the only female that appears, has a rather affectionate and somewhat intrusive camera attatched to her. Everyone either loves or fears her, while she wears pretty much nothing and sporting titties each the size of her head. All i can do is quickly explain to whoever walks in that it isn't what it looks like and the actual game part of this game is light years better than this god-awful first impression... then proceed to hang my head in shame. It would appear Hideo finds female characters intimidating to explore. Like he has never spoken to one without bolting towards the nearest bush (unintenional lol) like a startled deer.
In the un-ironic words of people more annoying than most; it is a bit of a sausage-fest in there, it does nothing to hide this. But it is still the best stealth triple A experience for current gen.
In the un-ironic words of people more annoying than most; it is a bit of a sausage-fest in there, it does nothing to hide this. But it is still the best stealth triple A experience for current gen.
I also didn't find a use for the cardboard box, at first. I racked up a ridiculous amount of GMP because I stripped down every weapon to its bones (save for silencers), never researched any new weapons, and reduced the amount of stuff to take with me, because for some odd reason it costs money to deploy with certain weapons already in your hands despite it being absolutely free to fly to the base with that very same stuff. So when I discovered the box actually costs money to use, I told it to fuck off.
It was when I finally broke down and purchased a strategy guide, mostly because half the Africa missions are "find a person in the wilderness" or "tail someone in the most convoluted Hitman-esque path for 1000 meters", I discovered that the game actually has a fast-travel mechanic involving the box.
Unfortunately, they took a cue from Ubisoft and you have to visit the fast travel spots and gather the invoices, because you can just *tell* your men "Hey, I found a thing here" but instead have to gather each receipt individually for them to realize that's how it works, despite the fact that they can call in perfectly-patterned airstrikes and can send you care packages with such pinpoint accuracy you can actually nail a guard in the head with one.
It was when I finally broke down and purchased a strategy guide, mostly because half the Africa missions are "find a person in the wilderness" or "tail someone in the most convoluted Hitman-esque path for 1000 meters", I discovered that the game actually has a fast-travel mechanic involving the box.
Unfortunately, they took a cue from Ubisoft and you have to visit the fast travel spots and gather the invoices, because you can just *tell* your men "Hey, I found a thing here" but instead have to gather each receipt individually for them to realize that's how it works, despite the fact that they can call in perfectly-patterned airstrikes and can send you care packages with such pinpoint accuracy you can actually nail a guard in the head with one.
I actually really, really love this game, so most of my criticisms are nitpicks.
