I'm replaying mgs3 and I want to gush about how GOOD this game is.
This is a ps2 game but it's also the first game I've seen which actually has individual models for bullet casings. Most games use textures for bullet casings and the casings disappear to clean memory like with dead rising. This game on the other hand has actual models for bullet casings which can be seen on the ground and will never disappear. I actually mistook one for a frog which is the first time I noticed it. Same for darts, if you shoot someone with an mk22, you can actually see the dart on the person if you zoom in, it's a physical model. Mindblowing stuff. Also the ammo box pickups have the weapon name on them which is extremely cool.
In svyatagonj east (sorry for butchering the name) the shack has a broken floorboard in the room with the m63. Normally this would just be a invisible wall with missing texture in other games. But in this the floorboards are physical objects and the space is real, so you can shoot through it if you happen to be beneath it.
Lot of the finer details actually help gameplay like when you run out of ammo, guard holdups give you the ammo type you have least of, never any other type of ammo. The game actually checks your ammo types and replenishes them. It was really useful for the pacifist run when I had to abuse the hell out of the mk22.
Finally, the end fight is goated. If there is a game filled only with end type sense and track sniper battles, I would buy it 10 times over. Most other gimmick bosses in mgs suck, the fear sucks ass, psycho mantis is really shit to play, the pain never gives openings to hit him, the sorrow is just bad, volgins hand to hand combat is also terrible. But the end fight is just so good and satisfying to play through although I never seem to be able to find his parrot.
20/10 game of the decade. It doesn't seem like a 2004 game at all, it could've come out now and I still would've considered it a revolutionary 10/10 in the face of ubisoft garbage. Minor gripe, the original version is pretty bad and the subsistence camera upgrade is essential to play with.
It really is some collective insanity that people honestly are nostalgic for MGSV when imo it's the worst game of the series.
I really like mgsv, maybe because I'm more into gameplay so I like v and 3 a lot in contrast to 1 and 2 where story takes more precedence. It's definitely not the worst of the main entries, peace walker is definitely worse and if it were just me I would say it has better gameplay than 3 but is second best in the whole package. I know most hipsters like 2 cause of the memes but I really didn't like it when I first played it. 1 is just too ancient and linear and the msx games arent worth mentioning.
