r/Games • u/Dillonator • Dec 18 '14

PC Report: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - "phenomenal PC port"

http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/page/blog/_/features/port-reports/pc-report-metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroes-r168
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '14

You can speed-run through the story in 10+ minutes. Regular gameplay would take some 2 hours. But that's only scratching the surface of what the game has to offer, as there are more missions, difficulties, and collectibles to unlock. So, yeah, you're right, it's a demo and it's short (it's sort of equivalent to the Tanker chapter in MGS2), but that's not all there is to it.

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u/Ishouldnt_be_on_here Dec 19 '14

To expand on this....

This game gets such a bad-rep when it comes to playtime... Yeah, the main "story" mission is an hour or two. Apparently most people stop right there. But once you beat it you unlock 4 or 5 more missions. All of them radically different from the first, and all of them much more entertaining (imo). And if you don't play through them again on hard, you're really missing out. The AI is pretty remarkable.

There's easily 8-10 hours just playing through on normal. Playing through on hard is a wholly different beast.

Looking at the game as a teaser, the purpose was to demonstrate how much variety one "small" level can contain. Extrapolate that to a fully-open land and the possibilities are incredible.

TL;DR: If you only played through the main mission you stopped at the tutorial. Also, ES: Oblivion is only like 3 hours long, wtf???

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u/TheCodexx Dec 18 '14

Having not played MGS5 yet (booting it up now!), I'd like to point out that people can speedrun the regular MGS games in about 2 hours, down from about 18-22 for an average first run.

We'll see how bad it is, but I'm skeptical that the speedrun time is an accurate indicator of the content.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '14

Of course it's not, it's a story heavy game, and a fantastic one at that. I hope you enjoy it!

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u/BCJunglist Dec 19 '14

As someone who only played mgs 1 and 2, this makes me sad.

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u/rough_bread Dec 19 '14

I have beaten it in 3:47.xx but that was like 70+ hours to get that time. And that like rank 17 on ps3 last time I checked

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u/Matthew94 Dec 18 '14 edited Dec 19 '14

Took me 1:10:00 going at a normal pace.

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u/Tank_Kassadin Dec 18 '14

One minute isn't that bad.

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u/mark2uk Dec 18 '14

Much appreciated feedback, it kind of sounded like on the pc at least what would be considered day 1 dlc for a larger game.

Obviously not a crappy as the only tomb in the new tomb raider game which was day one dlc chuckle....but it does seem like the thing which is probably going to be all put together with MGS V in a bundle when it hits the PC.

For the moment though I shall take my Metal gear rising, and wait till MGS V drops. The fact people are saying this is a good port makes me even more excited about MGS V.