It is the sequel to Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes released the year before and a prequel to the. Canonically it is the fifth game in the series, but it is the eleventh main installment overall. Originality, gender equality, and suspension of disbelief are far from MGS5’s strengths, then, but it remains a fun, silly and entertaining romp. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a third-person action game with a focus on stealth and the final game in the Metal Gear series. It caters to users specifically on the PC, but anyone is welcome to post here regarding MGS5. It’s undeniably silly, its cocktail of Black Hawk Down and Transformers definitely isn’t for everyone, and its principal female character is a bikini-babe mute, which is problematic to say the least. This subreddit is dedicated to Metal Gear Solid V. Ushering in a new era for the franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, MGSV: The Phantom Pain will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered. It’s akin to someone handing you an apple and saying ‘eat it any way you like’ only for you to discover that it’s already been chopped into slices that you might as well eat one by one.Īnd there’s loads of padding: an HQ to be managed, teams of soldiers to be sent on mini missions, and more upgrades to be unlocked than there are fish in the sea.Īnd yet somehow it still works. You leave the bike behind the trash cans at the side of the house and hop the wooden fence into the back yard and, if the door to the garage is open, you slip in, and if it’s not, which it isn. Konami Digital Entertainment continues forth the ‘METAL GEAR SOLID V Experience’ with the latest chapter, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain. There were questionable decisions made with the story and. While the games play mechanics are meatier than the actual storyline, its a fault worth forgiving in exchange for one of the best tactical experiences around, from campaign missions to side quests. To say that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is the pinnacle of gaming is by no means accurate. Its open world, for instance, just isn’t ‘alive’ as The Witcher 3’s is, and as each mission encourages you to drop down in a chopper and then lift off in a chopper at the end essentially breaks the world into mission segments. Metal Gear Solid V is a few years old at this point, but it still remains one of the greatest stealth-based action games ever released. It’s around the edges where The Phantom Pain sometimes misses the mark.