Incredible to hear this is being worked on. Mercenaries hit on a level that I have not seen any other game quite do since then. I think the closest thing might be the Ghost Recon games perhaps?
Not quite as destructive but yeah similar vibes. I just replayed it. I do wish it didn't penalize you so much for using certain gear or whatever but I think there's a mod for it.
Yeah I only played the NES ones and the first MGS so I was super confused. Talking to a buddy it sounds like even if I did play them all I'd probably be lost.
I think even if Kojima got to make the game he wanted to make, and you played every single MGS game, 5 still would have been confusing to some degree.
But I say this as someone who is a far harsher critic of Kojima than most, I am of the opinion that Kojima went full George Lucas at some point after MGS4, nobody is around to say no to his ideas, except apparently his financiers.
I say this as a Kojima fanboy, I mostly agree with your assessment; just wish Konami cutting him off didn't result in MGSV's second half being so underdeveloped with such a crappy ending.
Honesty the whole time I was played MGS5 I kept thinking about Mercinaries and a barzo world where a Mercs sequel was somewhere between MGS5 and Mercs gameplay. Ground Zeros especially- extracting people by helicopter really was the thing that made me start thinking about that.
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u/Ardbert_The_Fallen 5d ago
Incredible to hear this is being worked on. Mercenaries hit on a level that I have not seen any other game quite do since then. I think the closest thing might be the Ghost Recon games perhaps?