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Riku Rose wrote: Well I've been playing Peace Walker HD the last few days to try and catch up with the series in time for MGSV. The credits rolled and everything seemed fine until afterwards it told me I had to keep playing for the 'real' ending. There wasn't anything to say what I had too do so like a bitch I looked at an online guide. Well fuck doing all that! I did 2 of these side missions you have to do and have no motivation to go any further. They want me too do about 30 side missions and then meet a bunch of random requirements that aren't really that fun to reach.
I'm thinking of doing what I did with Arkham Knight and just looking at the true ending on Youtube. Sure there are certain side missions I enjoy but all this stuff just feels all so pointless and time wasting. I wouldn't mind if they made some new missions for the end, instead you have to beat a few side missions and then randomly get a mission where you're dropped in a map and have to find a guy hiding. It just feels like filler and nothing more.
As much as I love playing video games and find no fun in stuff like Let's Plays I'm going to just watch the secret ending on Youtube when you expect me to do crap like that. I'm not going to spend hours finding every Riddler trophy in Batman or find every Dalmatian in Kingdom Hearts, I just don't enjoy those parts.
Riku Rose wrote: Well I've been playing Peace Walker HD the last few days to try and catch up with the series in time for MGSV. The credits rolled and everything seemed fine until afterwards it told me I had to keep playing for the 'real' ending. There wasn't anything to say what I had too do so like a bitch I looked at an online guide. Well fuck doing all that! I did 2 of these side missions you have to do and have no motivation to go any further. They want me too do about 30 side missions and then meet a bunch of random requirements that aren't really that fun to reach.
I'm thinking of doing what I did with Arkham Knight and just looking at the true ending on Youtube. Sure there are certain side missions I enjoy but all this stuff just feels all so pointless and time wasting. I wouldn't mind if they made some new missions for the end, instead you have to beat a few side missions and then randomly get a mission where you're dropped in a map and have to find a guy hiding. It just feels like filler and nothing more.
As much as I love playing video games and find no fun in stuff like Let's Plays I'm going to just watch the secret ending on Youtube when you expect me to do crap like that. I'm not going to spend hours finding every Riddler trophy in Batman or find every Dalmatian in Kingdom Hearts, I just don't enjoy those parts.
Tomato Convenience Store wrote: I'm also playing Peace Walker now - just started "Chapter 5", so we'll see how it goes. I agree that it's not at the same level as the other games in the series, but concessions had to be made to design it as a PSP game, so I'm ok with it. Though I guess you can argue against this coming out on PSP if it's supposed to be a significant part of the series.
It is a little grindy, but I love the army building aspect.
Respected Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei has published an article that paints a bleak picture of embattled game company Konami.
The Nikkei article is in Japanese, and requires a subscription to access, but translators this morning have revealed the information it includes.
Freelance game localiser Thomas James says Nikkei reveals $80m had been spent on the development of Metal Gear Solid 5 as of April 2015. No doubt more has been spent since. Kojima's exit from the company is already confirmed, and his developer, Kojima Productions, disbanded.
Apparently the culture at Konami's game division started to deteriorate in 2010, when mobile game Dragon Collection became a smash hit. As a low-cost development, margin and profit were high - in stark contrast to costly console game creation.
Nikkei notes the creator of Love Plus has already left the company, but it adds development on the Suikoden series has been halted as well.
The article claims email with outsiders is done with a randomised email address that is changed regularly. Lunch breaks are said to be regulated with time cards, and those who take too much time are "outed".
Employees who are "deemed useless" have been known to be given assembly line work at Konami's pachi-slot machine factory, been ordered to work as security guards, and even made to clean up at fitness clubs.
Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of a Tokyo-based game industry consultancy, reports Nikkei claims Kojima "fell from grace" because Metal Gear Solid 5 had been delayed.
If true, this ties into the rumour that Kojima's exit has to do with Konami's upper brass refusing to continue to bankroll Kojima's ballooning development demands.
We've asked Konami for comment on the Nikkei article.
Kojima Productions now appears to be closed. Its website and Twitter accounts have been removed, while the Kojima Productions LA subsidiary studio has been renamed Konami Los Angeles Studio.
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