I don't even know where to begin. Never in a million years did I expect a franchise that gave us the amazing Guns of the Patriots and epic Revengence could take SUCH a turn for the worse.
My brain... my eyes...my very soul is being torn apart by just thinking about playing 1 more second after the 17 hours I put into this. Something I deeply regret.
I just don't get it. Friends tell me its AMAZING.Even Angry Joe rated it a 9 out of 10.
People keep saying the story isn't too good but the game play is amazing. Totally a Game of the year contender.
Like... am I missing something? Does everybody know something I don't ?
This is my experience with this game and why I can already say, if you're a fan boy you may wanna stop reading because I really don't like this game and Im about to say a lot of bad things about it. So just down vote this review and move on like most of you guys do because you're just wasting your time reading.
The opening had me getting quite hyped but after that and I saw the actual game play... thats where everything just went downhill for another 17 hours. The Shooting is good. But everything else is just meh. The world is empty and shallow. Nothing is ever happening. The open world is full of restrictions and not very big at all. After Afghanistan you move to Africa and that zone is EVEN smaller .
Now that is something I can overlook. But what I cannot forgive and never will on top of a boring lifeless world, cut content and annoying ly many loading screens and credits rolling after each missions (Which is cool the first time but then it becomes a drag) is something that can break any game for a gamer who expects more from their game.
Repetitive, boring, linear and RECYCLED game play and mission design.
There are some 5000 missions in this or whatever. and 90% of those are about finding some dude...and extracting him/killing him. Over...and over.
And its NOT just side missions. Its the main missions too. And on top of that such a thing could be forgiven if there was more story and impact to it... but that is not the case when you visit the SAME areas over...and over...and over...and over. On the same missions with the same objective with just a minor change to it.
I repeat: You will visit the same areas on in this tiny, pathetic and lackluster sandbox of a world FREQUENTLY. You will complete the same missions several times. Its an utter game breaker for me.
Never have I seen such lazy game design from an alleged Tripple A developer/publisher. Not even Battlefront is this lazy in its development. You got 9 modes and several maps there. But in This game... you will complete 1 out of 3 missions for pretty much 99 % of the time. Extract a guy...kill a guy (who you an extract too actually for a bonus which figures) or steal some info...WHICH typically leads to finding bonus stuff which...YUP you guessed it... is about extracting 2-3 guys.
Thats your game. 60 bucks please. Boss fights are insanely lackluster. Don't play Guns of the patriots or games like that and expect anything of that caliber here.
And then there are the Motherbase. Jesus Christ. The most pointless feature in the entire game. Its as if they planned a LOT for it but ran out of budget. Much alike Ride to Hell retribution (Yes, fan boys. I just compared your game to Ride to Hell. You heard me right)
Everything is closed shut. The distance from the center to the various sections is INSANELY long as if Kojima wanted to mess with us. Guess what, Kojima. NOT funny. Not even remotely.
And you keep being sent back to this god forsaken pointless mother base over and over. For some 2-3 minute dialog sections only to be sent straight back to this empty desert sandbox to slam your head against the wall some more.
Recycled, repetitive, cheap and lazy game design with good shooter elements and lacking story. The game is boring and only a minority of elements save it from a worse score.
I'll never understand what Kojima or Konami were thinking. And if Kojima ever were to read this I'd like to ask you a question. Did you make this game so bad on purpose as a final way to stand up to Konami ? Or did you lose your mind during this development cycle?
This game is NOT a GOTY contender. just because its metal gear does not mean it deserves a free pass.
This is about as generic and lazy as game designs go. Just like Battlefront. Just because Kojima had issues with Konami does not mean we are to forgive this kind of lackluster game design.
This is one of the worst games I have ever played.
I strongly recommend if you want a MGS experience of epic caliber. Buy Guns of the patriots. It's the better game by a LONG shot.
Phantom pain is as its title implies. Its a pain in the ... well... I'll let you figure that one out yourself.
Stay away from this. I don't even recommend you pick it up on discount. Unless you like running around in an empty and boring desert killing generic Russians all day long who say the EXACT same things over... and over...and over... THE WHOLE GAME... I truly do not recommend you ever play this.
I am beyond disappointed and furious due to wasting money on this.
GG Kojima. "sigh"
My brain... my eyes...my very soul is being torn apart by just thinking about playing 1 more second after the 17 hours I put into this. Something I deeply regret.
I just don't get it. Friends tell me its AMAZING.Even Angry Joe rated it a 9 out of 10.
People keep saying the story isn't too good but the game play is amazing. Totally a Game of the year contender.
Like... am I missing something? Does everybody know something I don't ?
This is my experience with this game and why I can already say, if you're a fan boy you may wanna stop reading because I really don't like this game and Im about to say a lot of bad things about it. So just down vote this review and move on like most of you guys do because you're just wasting your time reading.
The opening had me getting quite hyped but after that and I saw the actual game play... thats where everything just went downhill for another 17 hours. The Shooting is good. But everything else is just meh. The world is empty and shallow. Nothing is ever happening. The open world is full of restrictions and not very big at all. After Afghanistan you move to Africa and that zone is EVEN smaller .
Now that is something I can overlook. But what I cannot forgive and never will on top of a boring lifeless world, cut content and annoying ly many loading screens and credits rolling after each missions (Which is cool the first time but then it becomes a drag) is something that can break any game for a gamer who expects more from their game.
Repetitive, boring, linear and RECYCLED game play and mission design.
There are some 5000 missions in this or whatever. and 90% of those are about finding some dude...and extracting him/killing him. Over...and over.
And its NOT just side missions. Its the main missions too. And on top of that such a thing could be forgiven if there was more story and impact to it... but that is not the case when you visit the SAME areas over...and over...and over...and over. On the same missions with the same objective with just a minor change to it.
I repeat: You will visit the same areas on in this tiny, pathetic and lackluster sandbox of a world FREQUENTLY. You will complete the same missions several times. Its an utter game breaker for me.
Never have I seen such lazy game design from an alleged Tripple A developer/publisher. Not even Battlefront is this lazy in its development. You got 9 modes and several maps there. But in This game... you will complete 1 out of 3 missions for pretty much 99 % of the time. Extract a guy...kill a guy (who you an extract too actually for a bonus which figures) or steal some info...WHICH typically leads to finding bonus stuff which...YUP you guessed it... is about extracting 2-3 guys.
Thats your game. 60 bucks please. Boss fights are insanely lackluster. Don't play Guns of the patriots or games like that and expect anything of that caliber here.
And then there are the Motherbase. Jesus Christ. The most pointless feature in the entire game. Its as if they planned a LOT for it but ran out of budget. Much alike Ride to Hell retribution (Yes, fan boys. I just compared your game to Ride to Hell. You heard me right)
Everything is closed shut. The distance from the center to the various sections is INSANELY long as if Kojima wanted to mess with us. Guess what, Kojima. NOT funny. Not even remotely.
And you keep being sent back to this god forsaken pointless mother base over and over. For some 2-3 minute dialog sections only to be sent straight back to this empty desert sandbox to slam your head against the wall some more.
Recycled, repetitive, cheap and lazy game design with good shooter elements and lacking story. The game is boring and only a minority of elements save it from a worse score.
I'll never understand what Kojima or Konami were thinking. And if Kojima ever were to read this I'd like to ask you a question. Did you make this game so bad on purpose as a final way to stand up to Konami ? Or did you lose your mind during this development cycle?
This game is NOT a GOTY contender. just because its metal gear does not mean it deserves a free pass.
This is about as generic and lazy as game designs go. Just like Battlefront. Just because Kojima had issues with Konami does not mean we are to forgive this kind of lackluster game design.
This is one of the worst games I have ever played.
I strongly recommend if you want a MGS experience of epic caliber. Buy Guns of the patriots. It's the better game by a LONG shot.
Phantom pain is as its title implies. Its a pain in the ... well... I'll let you figure that one out yourself.
Stay away from this. I don't even recommend you pick it up on discount. Unless you like running around in an empty and boring desert killing generic Russians all day long who say the EXACT same things over... and over...and over... THE WHOLE GAME... I truly do not recommend you ever play this.
I am beyond disappointed and furious due to wasting money on this.
GG Kojima. "sigh"