Don't kill me, but I have to plug Metal Gear Survive! I've grown to love it!!

[the_tadosaur]

This is honestly not a jester farming post. I got Metal Gear Survive on launch and - like most people - was pissed for some of the scummy choices Konami made like having to pay for extra avatars and for it being always online and I gave it a negative review. For some reason though I got drawn back to it recently and I have to say that I've been loving it!! It's different from MGS5 in that you don't need to sneak quite so much but other than that it really does feel like an entry in the franchise to me. I've probably played about 100hrs in the past few weeks and not have any disconnections now from it being always online (unless I minimse the app for some reason - that's still annoying). They also have added a feature to replay completed missions to which means you don't really need the extra save anymore either.

I've especially enjoyed building out the base, which was a grind a lot like building mother base and which really only gets started once the story is over for some odd reason. I know they got shot down for re-using assets from MGS5 but in all honesty it works and I like revisiting places that feel familiar to MGS5, but with the twist that they're now post-apocalyptic and have different enemies and goodies in them.

I've also really got into the multiplayer as some of the more advanced weapons and gear you only get as drops from co-op missions. I've never been a multiplayer fan but this really has me hooked now and the player base has been really good with taking me under their wing as a noob.

Putting this here as if you loved MGS5 I'd honestly recommend giving Metal Gear Survive a shot. If you played it on launch and didn't like it as I did then I'd recommend giving it another try and trying the multiplayer (note the matchmaking is terrible though so add people from the Steam discussions, or the MGSurvive discord, as friends to find people to play with). It's better than most people say and has improved a lot since launch too (they've added a ton in the post-game as well as improving server stability and other things). IMHO the story, gameplay and setting feels like something that belongs to the MGS world and I've really grown to love the game!

...feel free to eviscerate me now (I know it's coming. )

[Defective Soul]

Go play state of decay (i personaly played only first one)
Also maybe try CDDA, project zomboid or even DayZ after all...

[the_tadosaur]

Originally posted by Defective Soul:

Go play state of decay (i personaly played only first one)
Also maybe try CDDA, project zomboid or even DayZ after all...

I love project zomboid and also liked State of Decay 1 (wasn't so keen on 2). I hadn't heard of CDDA so I'll look that one up! Thanks.

[Boboscus]

The "avatars" in Survive are just like FOBs in TPP, yet no one cared about these having an option to be purchased with real money, but also available if you simply play the game and earn the currency, same way it is in Survive. Having multiple avatars allows you to farm base defenses easier as you can have 4 bases in SP portion of the game. Survive honestly has much better control scheme as it's just TPP controls but QoL included.

[the_tadosaur]

Originally posted by Boboscus:

The "avatars" in Survive are just like FOBs in TPP, yet no one cared about these having an option to be purchased with real money, but also available if you simply play the game and earn the currency, same way it is in Survive. Having multiple avatars allows you to farm base defenses easier as you can have 4 bases in SP portion of the game. Survive honestly has much better control scheme as it's just TPP controls but QoL included.

Yeah, this is actually a great comparison. Hadn't thought of it that way myself either though but I 100% agree with this on the Avatar vs FOB. I think it just wasn't obvious when people first played it and it looked more like paying for a second player (I used to think the same), and then that (along with it not being done by Kojima) just started a snowball of hate on the game.