Metal Gear Solid V 'Definitive Ex' listed by Amazon

A listing for 'Metal Gear Solid: V Definitive Ex' has appeared on Amazon UK.

[Batzi]

I knew it.

[CrimsonWing69]

Man wtf...

[JaXion5]

Not surprised, I've learned that if a game is approaching it's one year anniversary and it suddenly it goes on sale, chances are they're trying get rid of the regular versions because a 'Game of The Year Edition' is coming out soon.

[Double_O_Revan]

'Definitive' huh, does this mean it comes with Chapter 3?

[Jon_Targaryen]

Wishful thinking... Would probably be full of fetch quests, kill general x, or extract prisoner missions again. With 5 to 20 seconds of cut scenes thrown in here and there for fans as if to say "want more? Go F yourself!".

[Name Last Name]

Its probably just Ground Zeroes added to it.

[Mr Marvel]

MGSV: TPP is still my favourite game this generation... and I hadn't been a fan of the series since MGS2 on PS2.

I love this game!

[Jon_Targaryen]

Your joking right??? This is the most watered down MGS game in the entire series! MGS 4... Scratch that, MGS 3 runs circles around this game and its more than a decade old!!!

MGS 5 ruined MGS for me. I cant believe they went the casual route and catered to non fans. I WAITED 5 YEARS FOR THIS GAME, AND IT WASNT EVEN MADE FOR MY DEMOGRAPHIC!!!

[Kaneki-Ken]

They Played Us Like A Damn Fiddle!

[KyRo]

Totally agree with you Jon. Ive played every major mgs game apart from acid and mgs5 isn't mgs at all. It was easily my least favorite mgs ever and the only one I've never finished. Open world games are ruining to many good games lately

[Omar91]

Im right there wth you man 😔

[TheTony316]

TPP didn't even feel like an MGS game. Everything that made this series great was missing. The story was lackluster, no memorable bosses, no cutscenes and even the soundtrack was a disappointment.

[xtheblackparade]

Most true mate, the same is happening with FFXV. Waited for years and then it turns out to be an action "rpg"....sux...

[Good-Smurf]

They even fucked up the weapon's selection,it's seriously lacking compared to Peace Walker,a tiny PSP game FFS!
I just can't seemed to finished that game it's so repetitive and open world proved to be really barren and takes forever to get to the mission area and after I done that 150th time I just quit playing it.
I played almost every game in the series and this game is easily the weakest game in the series,I never get tired of playing through the MGS2,MGS3 but can't even finish MGSV once,what does that tell you?

[UltraNova]

Wow hold your dragons Jon! Maybe a trip down to the Wall will help chill your nerves?

Remember winter is coming so take it easy...

OT

Havent played MGS5 yet because I held off in hope they release the missing part so after this theres no hope really so... and you guys arent helping me buy it either...

That said, I will get the 'definitive' edition cause I'm an avid MGS fan and its the last Kojima MGS so I need to play it and get it over with no matter how bad it is.

Ps: jon i was messing with you..

[_-EDMIX-_]

Subjective.

I'm not sure why many take offense to people saying Metal Gear Solid 5 is one of their favorite titles in this series as a person that has played the series since the beginning in my personal opinion it is the best metal gear solid they've ever created.

I personally loved the story in Metal Gear Solid 3 more than any of the other Metal Gear solid's but the actual gameplay of Metal Gear Solid 5 trumps every Metal Gear Solid if they've ever made.

Metal Gear Solid 4 doesn't come near Metal Gear Solid 5 in my opinion.

I believe for is the worst of the series based on you've barely play against human NPC most of the game is fighting robots and other weird creatures lol I love the first two acts of the game because it allows me to play Solid Snake as I know him being able to utilize all the techniques whereas in the later acts you're basically fighting robots and which you cannot use those techniques at some point the game literally stops being a stealth game and you're just fighting a bunch of robots head on.

Metal Gear Solid 5 in the purest absolute form to exploit every possible thing you can do with big boss for the duration of the entire game.

From the day and night cycle to allowing you to kidnap guards to collect information, to the randomized weather system to being able to call in a helicopter to evacuate etc

[_-EDMIX-_]

This is not in all the metal gear solid titles in fact only some of those features are in some of the Metal Gear Solid titles at one point in time were Metal Gear Solid 5 is essentially letting you play the character to its fullest potential for the longest duration out of any Metal Gear Solid that has ever been produced period!

You had segments and Metal Gear Solid series that were stealth and then you have Metal Gear Solid 5 that is completely Stealth at its finest and actually focusing on the core thing that is the series in regards to Stealth gameplay.

Yes Metal Gear Solid 5 story is not all that good but I believe Kojima was correct to focus more so on the game play since the actual story of Metal Gear Solid 5 is sort of a given you already know what happens to who because it is the actual origin story of the series you clearly know the inevitable outcome of the characters.

That for the most part was irrelevant to me. Even then I still liked the story and absolutely loved the game play by default for me Metal Gear Solid 5 is the greatest Metal Gear Solid in regards to gameplay.

By no means is Metal Gear Solid 5 "casual", it's easily one of the most difficult Metal Gear Solids they've ever made. If anything the previous Metal Gear Solid what the linear structure in only segments of small portions of stealth would be considered casual.

Do you not remember the sneaking mission in Metal Gear Solid 4 in France? Do you honestly believe that that's more difficult compared to any of the missions in Metal Gear Solid 5 when you essentially have one chance to rescue someone?

Metal Gear Solid 5 basically focused on the main aspects of the series that is stealth and observing the NPC to find ways around or to the objective.

I don't care that much for Metal Gear Solid 4, But I'm not gonna go around calling it casual or absolutely extremely exaggerating the game as it's seriously just sounds like Fanboy rage exaggeration syndrome.

Metal Gear Solid 5 catered to the fans of the series that loved the difficulty of the stealth from point A to point B. I've played every single Metal Gear Solid game please stop trying to make it sound as if there is a true fan or a fake fan because I absolutely love Metal Gear Solid 5 and it's my personal Game of the Year from last year.

You do not speak for All Metal Gear Solid fans as neither do I....

Dear God stop trying to define a metal gear solid fan based on your own personal feelings about the game...

[_-EDMIX-_]

@tony-"Everything that made this series great was missing"

The Stealth gameplay was gone? Metal Gear at its absolute core is a stealth game and I'm sorry but unless you're going to define the series based on cutscenes , I don't think you know what you're talking about.

"no cutscenes"

I'm seriously not sure what you're talking about Metal Gear Solid 5 actually has lots of cutscenes.....

All you have to do is go online and watch the recorded cut scenes of the actual game and you'll see they actually measure up the same amount of time as the previous Metal Gear Solid games .

you guys seriously exaggerate to a ridiculously high degree....

edit- just to show on an objective level that many, many are exaggerating this game's cut scenes, lets take a look at the length of the complete cutscenes of all the MGS series. I tried to find many with all cutscene and codec info as that is largely part of the MGS mythos.

All MGS games clock in at around 5 or more hours of cutscenes, only MGS4 goes a bit overboard with around 8 hours of cutscenes (based on what I've been able to find from users who have uploaded it) by no means is MGS4 THE NORM of the amount of cutscenes that should be in a MGS or really any game. I like MGS4, but didn't realize how much of my 25 hour playthrough the first time was just watching the game. I'm fine with the MGSV ratio, as MGS3 is my favorite and it has around the same number of hours of cutscenes....

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I'd rather have MG1 remake or MGSVI if done by Kojima in some parallel universe, have a 5 to 6 hour cutscene and 60 hours gameplay, then 8 hours cutscene, 17 hours gameplay ( and I feel I took my time with MGS4, my friends beat that game faster then I did the first time around)

Take note, I'm not giving an opinion on the story or anything like that, merely pointing out that the game for a fact has around the same number of hours of cutscenes as the previous titles.

[Trez1234]

Not my favourite mgs but definitely one of my favourite games this gen.

[theshredded]

Honestly MGS4 isn't that likeable if you haven't played MGS1. It happened to me and a lot others that's why mgs4 lovers get baffled when it's not on a top 20 ps3 games and MGSV'S gameplay is light years better anyway ...but MGS3 though now that was the sh*t!!

[franwex]

"I WAITED 5 YEARS FOR THIS GAME, AND IT WASNT EVEN MADE FOR MY DEMOGRAPHIC!!!"

Wow, talk about privilege fanboy. The game was not for YOU only. Get over it. Just GET OVER IT. Seriously do.
I've owned every single MGS game since PS1 and enjoyed MGSV.

[Chumdiddy]

AMEN

[NapalmSanctuary]

I wouldn't say it was casual. It definitely went off the map with the open world busy work and the story. GZs was awesome. I can sympathize though. What this industry has been doing to truly classic franchises for years is heart breaking. Ace Combat: Assault Horizon & Twisted Metal comes to mind.

[bloop]

I agree with you to an extent EDMIX. After the first couple of hours after getting loose in Afghanistan I honestly thought it was going to be one of the best games of all time. But for me, it got old, very quickly after that. They made this amazing playground for you with all these great toys and gadgets to play with but it's like the developers didn't know what to do with them. You just end up extracting everything and anyone in the game and that's all you do!! I know you can argue that it's a stupid way to play, but the problem is the game encourages you so much to play that way, to build up your base to unlock more toys. So when you scout an area and see a high ranked officer, you're not just going to put a bullet between his eyes. You're just going to go out of your way to extract him alive!! The biggest problem with the game was definitely mission variety though. Every mission was practically the same. After doing about 20 side missions I completely lost interest in doing any more. And the main missions were more or less all the same too.

As for MGS4, I'm in the minority with you. It had some epic moments but it's probably my least favourite in the solid series as an overall game.

[theshredded]

Same. MGS TPP is still the highest rated current gen game on metacritic excluding those other re-releases which tells you how much of a technical masterpiece the game is...It's quite sad some people don't appreciate the game enough though

[Nathan_Hale53]

I am a huge fan of all the MG games, and I enjoy TPP, but MGS 3 and 4 are the best to me. But V killed the story with such a bad ending, that spat in my face, although gameplay is great, but the story was difficult staying interested in.

[NapalmSanctuary]

It has some phenomenal gameplay, best I've seen in a stealth game, it just gets dragged down by the typical open world busy work shtick. Had it been like 10-20 areas like GZs, it would have been the best stealth game ever. One thing I gotta say about GZs vs TPP is that it was a lot more fun having to get the extraction targets to the pick up zones as opposed to just using the Fulton on them. You should play MGS3 & the original MG2 if you haven't. Next to MGS (minus that BS fistfight & jeep chase) they were they best games in the series.

[bradleejones]

@Jon You need to finish them. Especially 2, 3, 4. Endings are all bad ass. My opinion isn't the common one but I'd have to say 4 has the best ending. Then 2....

[xtheblackparade]

No sex with the ex huh.

[RPG1201]

MGSV is amazing, but if Kojima did not approve this possible Director´s cut...

SNAKEEEEE!

¨COLONEL... you´ve double crossed meeeeighhh!¨ (disgruntled hayter voice)

What was that noise? (Bad luck Genome)

Who´s foot prints are these?

!

[nevin1]

You people are nuts for dissing MGSV. This game gives you gameplay. The missions are the same or have the same concept. But I'd argue the different ways you can approach them makes them fun.

MGS1 and 2 are best in the series for me, but I'll take 5 over 3 and 4.

I'd understand why people would choose 3 over 5, but no way should 4 top any MGS4. The SP campaign was literally a movie.

[raWfodog]

I hear a lot of people saying that MGSV was their least favorite but I'll still be picking this game up for myself. Like you and EDMIX were suggesting, I like variety in my gameplay and even though the missions may feel repetitive, I welcome the ability to replay missions and approach them differently. And I also like open-world gameplay rather than making me go down a specific path.

[Trez1234]

I agree. I love this game.

[Nathan_Hale53]

I prefer 1, 2, 3, and 4 over V, but I still enjoy V a lot.

[Germany7]

SP campaign? What about the boss fights of MGS 4? Guns of the Patriots is way better.

Looks like you never played it.

[theshredded]

Might have to trade my copy for this copy mostly because online isn't working for my copy plus I love me some more mgs.

[feraldrgn]

Ha ha ha.

ps. should have given it a codename, like all definitive editions before it (integral, etc.).

[SaveFerris]

MGSV TPP is not the perfect game, it had some flaws. But now Kojima has left Konami, we can only wonder what could have been.

[franwex]

It's probably ground zeroes and phantom pain in the same disc. So far there has been no dlc.

[No Way]

There has been, has there not? I remember seeing something on the multiplayer part about a download. Duno what it was, but eh..

[marioJP87]

Maaaaaaaan, you can NOT be serious with this generation's developers!!!

[FPS_D3TH]

MGS V blew story wise but it's still a great action/stealth game IMO.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

Easily the best Metal Gear gameplay-wise but like a Micheal Bay film, story was completely forgettable and padding the game with repeat missions didn't help at all. The most interesting character of the game was written off WAY too early while the open world feature felt completely forced rather than a requirement. I really wished that it followed Metal Gear Soild 4's execution where you are dropped a few clicks from a base (or better yet Ground Zeroes which I felt looked much better than the final product due to the engine not being stressed of rendering a completely desolate world outside the objective.) Boss battles were virtually non-existent and the soundtrack should of have been a collaboration of Norihiko Hibino, Justin Burnett and Harry Gregson-Williams instead of just Justin.

Progressively difficult enemies depending on playstyle was a great idea however the Skulls were no replacement for the Frogs, Arsenal Tengu or even the Ocelot unit because they were just bullet sponges with much less imagination used in designing them. Boss battles felt almost non-existent due to the same problem and don't let me get started with the online features.

In the end, this is the only mainline Metal Gear Solid I didn't end in the first week but months later. The ebbing excitement with each passing mission and the ludicrous amount of story-based tapes made things feel even more mundane. If only there were other moments that rivaled escaping the hospital in the opening missions which alone is a concept that should be explored in other games (Tactical Military Survival Horror?) and Robert Atkin Downes delivered one of his best, if not THE BEST, voice performances in his career but 60 dollars isn't worth solely those two.

[Kallisti]

I'm definitively not buying that #fuckonami

[MasterD919]

Means nothing when most of us got GZ for free and I never played more than a few days of the multiplayer.

[KillZallthebeast]

oh look they finished the game

[Crakface]

mgs 5 had the best game play in mgs history and some of the best gameplay in gaming history. Story wise sadly it faultered. Should have really condensed the world more, added more interiors and boss battles and it probably would have been the GOAT. Still a great game and MGS3 gameplay wise cannot see TPP on any level. Its just a good complete game. Doubt we get a chapter 3 but it would be nice if they did and added more boss battles throughout the game

[Jon_Targaryen]

Even if they did add chapter 3.. I'd just Youtube it now... As much as I love MGS I cant see this game as canon... The plotholes are insane and the writing laughable not to mentioned rushed. No wonder Troy baker loves and praises this game to no end... 60% of the games' budget probably went towards his VA seeing he never shuts the hell up in it!!!

Never even got a chance to try out Hal's Metal gear... WTF is up with that!!?!?! Hal even states we can test it out some time... Did someone at Konami forget to snippit that part out??? Laughable. That part alone made me realize we got a watered down game of what it was supposed to be.

[Crakface]

It hurts. Thats why its F Konami, for Liiiife.