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Ah, Metal Gear Solid V… it’s a good Metal Gear! It’s also… a bad Metal Gear. But that takes a while before it becomes apparent! We’ve been doing let’s plays of the Metal Gear series for a long time now, and this is the last we need to cover. This is the Metal Gear game that caused Hideo Kojima and Konami to part ways due to, well, a lot of reasons. The game took a lot of time and money to create, and Konami themselves were in the middle of just giving up on the video game industry. Kojima was fed up with working on Metal Gear, and Konami wanted to move to Pachinko machines and mobile games, things that would return on their investment faster. What you will see in this let’s play is probably the last of Metal Gear, not counting any awful attempts Konami makes at trying to get a quick buck out of the IP.
It’s been a long time coming… let’s play Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes.
VIDEOS (Uncut commentary has us talking over cutscenes, while we stay quiet during story moments in the cut commentary videos.)
I’ve literally been waiting for this since the game came out.
The lack of an IV bag or anything in the nurse boob shot in the beginning seems like a real uncharacteristic lack of detail for a Kojima game, but I guess boobies.
I think Ironicus knows about some of the broad strokes of the game, but that’s about it.
Also, for the person wondering about how many hours of footage I’ve recorded for the LP, I’m currently up to episode 28 of the LP, and I’m at… 31 hours and 27 minutes. At that point of the LP it’s about 40% of the way through the game, I’d say. I’m actually shocked that I only have 31 hours of footage so far, feels like I’ve recorded a lot more than that.
well, this is finally happening!
…and I think I need to rewatch earlier LP’s or a lore vid or something because I have totally forgotten the actual plot of previous games.
Hoo boy I’ve been excited about this one for a while now. Chip’s LPs are what got me into the Metal Gear series, and MGSV is the first one I actually got to play myself. Despite its shortcomings, I enjoyed the hell out of this game, and I ended up playing it to 100%. It’s one of my favorites. So now I’m hyped to see all the things I STILL SOMEHOW MANAGED TO MISS after playing so obsessively.
The intro sequence still gives me chills though. Cinematically it’s not even anything that special, but I guess I was so excited the first day I played that it stuck with me anyway.
I’ve had a key for MGS5 sitting around for awhile and never got around to activating it on my Steam account ever since finishing it on PS4. Might have to fish for it now and do a little play-along while this is going on.