re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (A Hideo Kojima thread)

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I always heard about the HD collection but I was never too big on spending $40 on two games that I'd already played like 1000 times and a handheld to console conversion, kinda felt like it would've been shitty. Did peace walker turn out well enough to make it worth picking up at its current price?

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I'll be honest. I'm in the minority of the MGS fans in that I really liked Peace Walker. It's not at the quality of the console Solid series for obvious reasons, but I play it more than I do some of the others. I will say the Extra Ops missions are a grind and it's also a grind to search for and recruit all the best soldiers for mother base. You play the same missions over and over to do that. I love it, but I understand others who would not.

That said, you can breeze through the main story and give token effort to your mother base quite easily. The cutscenes are mainly comic-inspired illustrations instead of fully-rendered stuff you see in other games of the series.

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And I'm guessing based off of MGS4 when Ocelot refers to solid (or liquid, can't remember exactly) as brother that they have the same parents

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MGS4 is all kinds of jacked up. In that game, Ocelot is known as Liquid Ocelot. Long story short, he is Liquid Snake in Ocelot's body throughout the game hence why he refers to Solid Snake as "brother".

The reality is Ocelot used hypnotherapy and manipulated his internal nanomachines to fool himself into thinking Liquid Snake shared his mind.

God, that's sounds even worse typing it and reading it back out loud. I thought MGS4 was awful.