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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

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I dunno if you guys know what Phantom Limb is, but it's basically when someone loses a limb and becomes neurologically predisposed to feel pain in the limb that is no longer existent (V. S. Rachamndran does a great TED talk on it). Not sure if there's any significance there. Might be that this isn't even a real IP.

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NecroMorrius

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It's not a real IP, it's MGSV.

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The question is how does it tie into Ground Zeroes (or vice versa). TPP looks about ten times more interesting than Ground Zeroes, so I hope it's an actual game. I think they're probably two sequences from the same game, despite everything Kojima has said about them being separate.

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MGSV will probably go a lot like Ground Zeroes, all big-environment sneaking missions a la MGS3 but without the loading or the place being sliced up into sections. So, MGSV will basically be MGS3+2, the continuing adventures of how everyone's favourite 1990s spy legend went batshit fucking insane and decided to build a giant robot in a fortress in Africa.

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It would be awesome if TPP was a standalone game with almost no connection to the MG universe, bar the distant fact that you're Snake/big boss/whoever in a coma/mental hospital and you're being tormented by psycho mantis via hallucinations I'd love to see Kojima do something standalone and off-the-wall like that, without feeling the need to cram in loads of back story from the incomprehensible wider fiction. I'd rather it wasn't Snake/Psycho Mantis at all, but you can't have everything. I suspect everything we've seen thus far from "both" games are different sequences from MGSV. We'll find out at GDC on the 25th.

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I think it's interesting that they've wound up with two distinct eras in which they're setting MGS games, as the Big Boss Saga is a lot less self-indulgently mental than the Solid Snake Saga was for plot. The whole Patriots thing is alluded to now and again but rarely forms the backbone of the story (all the Philosopher's Legacy stuff in MGS3 just made Volgin sound even more mental), and there aren't any nanomachines.

I'm quite looking forward to a game about Big Boss fighting his demons, mostly I presume things that happened in MGS3.

Aww hell, I'm just excited about an MGS3 sequel on a home console again.

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I suspect everything we've seen thus far from "both" games are different sequences from MGSV.

It's funny you say that, as they've openly said that Ground Zeroes is a prologue to a new game in the series. I always took that to mean "this is a separate game", but it would be interesting if Ground Zeroes actually was the first part of MGSV, a sort of "pilot" for the full title.

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Oh God, imagine an episodic MGSV.

I could live with that.

Previously on The Phantom Pain...

"NANOMACHINES OF THE PATRIOTS!"

"I CAN SHOOT CENTIPEDES OUT OF MY LADY PARTS!"

"CHICO IS METAL GEAR?!"

Next week on The Phantom Pain:

"PATRIOTS OF THE NANOMACHINES!"

"MY HORSE IS MADE OF BEES!"

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So the argument is that Kojima and his team have managed to create realistic animated humans, that are better than anything Hollywood has been able to achieve with banks of supercomputers, and that this wondrous technology will be available on consumer level hardware by the end of the year? Oh and they decided to reveal this incredible breakthrough in a bizarre gag interview that only a minute amount of people would probably watch?

Ooooookay.

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I'm sure they could create that guy's face in FOX — demos like

have been around for ages, and Konami could be using the PC/PS4 version of the engine — but I don't see any reason why they would. Isn't having a video Q&A with a guy dressed in bandages weird enough on its own?
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Oh god yeah I remember that.

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People were thinking it meant MGS4 was coming to the 360 because of the power symbol and colour, and then people pointed out that it was a universal power symbol and so therefore was coming to every platform or something?

In retrospect that image is genuinely odd for MGS4 and seems designed to make people think of the 360, and was probably an amazing troll by Kojima that GAF fell for hook, line and sinker.

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