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I know it's Nexon and all but I still puked a little bit. This is not how you treat an IP, even one without much video games, such as this. It's like turning The Song of Ice and Fire into Dynasty Warriors. Cyberpunk 2077 cannot come soon enough to wash this shit away (while past performance is no indication of future performance, I remain hopeful after CDPR's The Witcher 3).

Ah yes, the great Mother Base Layoffs. I need to do another round of that since I've been getting tons of chaff for recruits and Mother Base and my FOB can't hold much more people.

Shit blows up and tons of people get executed on my side op missions. Not to mention a lot of abductions of A+ and above volunteers. I think I come out in the red in my side op romps...

God damn was episode 29 a pain. Anyhow, first: anybody tried FOB missions yet? The ones I've been to has evolved into rockets battles. I don't think Kojima thought this through... Second: anybody tried to watergun the Man on Fire yet? I'm curious if you can actually disable him with it... Third: I'm really disliking the credits in the beginning. Keep such and such appearances a surprise. Lastly this game is sorely missing a Fulton Launcher. One for personnel and another for vehicles.

A nice watch. 3D drawing is interesting. Of course there won't be a rotational aspect to it but wow. Sure the same effect can be done with multiple layers but to see it in such an organic manner is quite neat. Sometimes I wonder what I would be if I stuck with animation. His words at around 1:50 is rings true with my first doodle in months just a few days ago. I was running on two hours of sleep, working on figures for a poster (I'm still am) when suddenly I just drew two circles. Those became the blank eyes of my tired self then followed by multiple rough lines to outline my face, ears and body. Add some clothes and finish off with two spontaneous dot pupils. Those five minutes just doing that rough doodle was quite the highlight of my week oddly. It wasn't refine at all but somehow I really like it so I have since saved it by cutting it out and taping it to my monitor. I think in the coming year, doodles will be a thing in my life again.

It's pretty sweet. I had a gander at it while I was slaving on some maps and figures. It's a great follow up on the FF VI one.

You might be making a joke but Watergate is the original "gate". So it is proper to call it the Watergate scandal. As for the other stuff, Ethan and GOH will be more proper people to answer it but for a short of what she does (other people can correct me)... she's the record keeper and as far as marriages are concerned, she is the government representative/official that signs off (aka approves and make official) on marriages in her county. Same deal with some other documents too. I recall birth certificates and even zoning documents.

I think red leafy (forgot this modifier) lettuce class as a totally different veggie than iceberg lettuce. It's like a leafier romaine. So less of the water soaked ribs.

Dean, you could try to make and prepare your own salad for the week to up your veggie intake. I'm unsure how it is in the UK but around me, I can places that sell red lettuce for $0.99 for 2-3 heads*. At the very least $0.69 a head. Each head I can either kill in one sitting for dinner or split into 3-4 lunch sized portions. From there I can customize it how I want. For storage purposes, it should be protein and liquid (dressing) free until the day of consumption. Of course, you have to spin the lettuce a few times and either let them air dry a bit or store them in containers with paper towel/napkins to capture excess moisture. This way they can last for 5-7 days. *Yes, I eat a ton of salad now.

So yeah... You guys ever walk in on a high level negotiation, knock out and extract one party, and then proceed to run in a hijacked Walker after and manage to shoot rockets to stop the other party from leaving the mission area just in time? Also did I mention that the other party bugged out so they were alive in the border region so I managed to fulton them out. God damn this game. So many "This happened" moments. Now I think I'm going to have Quiet send a grenade towards the next sniper who surprise me... I wonder if she does flash bangs. Can I flash bang a helicopter?

What FLD said and yeah, it might be my GOTY just because of the gameplay. It's just a bloody shame about how the game is structured and (for FLD) the story. Maybe in broad strokes the story is fine. I'll see. Reading about PW, it seemed fine.

I can see how you can play the story without grinding but if you want better weapons, you have to grind to expand Mother Base so you can unlock weapon purchases and upgrades. How m If it was plain GMP it wouldn't be that bad since it would've been like MGS4 with Drebin. However, no, we got to have all the various resources to expand Mother Base and then of course everything nickles and dimes you of GMP. Even changing gear at Mother Base cost GMP. I argue that even if the story was awesome as FLD would've liked, this sort of system would've killed whatever sort of narrative there was. It kills the flow and tone of the story. And thanks for the PSA. D-Dog, you'll be my dog now since I think I can FINALLY have you just stun people. Thank god for the solid gameplay. Edit: And I see PW came out after MGS4 (tell you how much I followed the handheld games...). Mechanics iteration wise, now it makes some sense.

I'm still chugging through the game. Episode 23. At 56 hours in and having been a MGS fan since around the time it came out (MGS, not MG) I think I have a foot to stand on when it comes to the MGS story. I'm just missing out on Peace Walker. How the story is presented does not feel like a MGS game at all. The tone is off. The character interactions are rare and when they do happen they seem off. The story itself should write itself due to its placement in the chronological order but it doesn't seem to be the case... But yeah, my biggest gripe of the game is not the story and its presentation (it sort of makes sense why it is the way it is, it is quite a convoluted reasoning that deserves a separate, well edited post) but Mother Base. asdf. I lack the words/mental power to convey my feels in depth but I think this is a bad game (there, I said it). Amazing fucking gameplay but bad game. If I have to compare this to anything, it would be Destiny.

I had one mission bug out on me. The guy that I was pose to follow started to go around in circles after I triggered caution with some missing prisoners and power outage. In a desperate attempt to get the mission going again, I interrogated and fulton him out. That didn't help that I found the key prisoner dead in the room the guy came from! Oh well since I nearly S ranked the mission in my retry. I just got caught coming out a building with the first guy I mentioned. As for what I think of the game as a whole (without finishing the game): Mother Base is the problem. It's the damn reason why I'm at 45 hours of gameplay. I'm babying it by gathering resources for it so I can get better gear and performance. If I don't baby it, I'll easily go into the red with GMP deficit that can lead to people jumping ship from Mother Base that in turn lead to poorer performance. This babying is seriously diluting whatever story the game has. For the game's sake, I should just focus on the story missions. If this was like the previously MGS games, I would have gotten hit by the Skulls, Quiet and episode 12 chase in like a 2-3 hour block or less. It totally would also make up for the (maybe? I need to play more story missions) lack of memorable antagonists. We really only got the mysterious XOF and Cipher. We basically got no members (besides Quiet) of the those groups to deal with us. Eh... I didn't expect this... Enough bitching though because the gameplay for sure deserve all the praise it gets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InM2TcLmzHs On a side note... Remember when the Snakes talked? The most he ever said is during my petting sessions with DD. I guess being jaded and having shrapnel in your brain will do that...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I'm enjoying my time. So far everything is running butter smooth. There's really only a few moments of texture pop-ins (at extreme distances), teleporting horse and the extraction balloon acting funny when it goes up (it goes up then hangs until it just blinks out of existence). I guess I can chalk it up for all of this being a whole VR thing thus glitches in the Matrix...

Today I learned of switching download servers. The Los Angeles' servers were being hammered but a quick switch to San Diego's servers has me going from 80-60 mins download time to about 20 mins.

Halo 5 opening cinematic. Well done but a majority of shit shown is not possible in game... I think? Maybe our Chief is outdated...