METAL GEAR SURVIVE

After replaying this game on PC, I've grown to like it more compared to when I played it during launch week on Xbox in 2018. Despite this, I'm still giving Metal Gear Survive a negative review. As a game on it's own, I don't think it's a bad game. I now find it quite enjoyable. However, even with my new found enjoyment of this game, it'll never become a good Metal Gear game. That's why this is a negative review. Konami shouldn't make Metal Gear games like this. What happened to the amazing cinematography Metal Gear is known for? It was in the opening of the game, but as soon as you reach Dite it's gone. Replaced by "cut-scenes" with just text boxes. There are cut-scenes sometimes, but they're nowhere near as capturing as Metal Gear SHOULD be. The twist of this game's story is highly predictable, and most of the missions are fetch quests with some defense sprinkled in. This just isn't a Metal Gear game. There's some parts where I see effort to make it feel like one, but it's not enough to save it. A good game on it's own, but it'll always be a terrible Metal Gear game. Don't make another Metal Gear game like this Konami.

- Be me - Play the game from Steam Deck - Got a disconnection error screen while playing (Steam still connected) - Kicked out to login screen - Lost every progress had Remove the nasty DRM. I understand games nowadays require this to prevent hacking, but always-online is absurd.

9/10, kinda weird nobody talks about the oiled up zombie twerk scene...

"I forgot to save simulator." I'd like to start out by saying the game in and of itself isn't bad. Its a little clunky, but the overall gameplay is decent. However, the games only save function is when you enter your base camp, while several of the missions have you traversing far from home. Because of this, you can easily lose hours of progress due to various reasons, including failing an objective they forgot to brief you on, death, random server disconnects, and being automatically logged out because you had to go AFK for 5 minutes because your cat got stuck in the toaster again. All in all its a decent game that makes me not want to play it due to an infuriating save system.

Always online is a cancer on gaming.

Incredibly fun multiplayer base defense game that forces you to constantly interact with an absolutely miserable single player survival game that checks all the mobile game boxes, from progress gated by real world timers to endless, repetitive material farming to restock your ammunition and consumables. It's a real shame, too, because the weight of the combat and the intensity of the multiplayer sessions make for a great time with friends, but the single player grind you have to tolerate to engage with it is truly [i][b]insufferable,[/b][/i] and I promise you, there is [i]no way[/i] to simply avoid engaging with it. You [i]will[/i] wind up hitting softlocks in your multiplayer progress thanks to real world timers, staff levels, or resource availability in the single player portion of the game. Avoid unless you have an extremely high tolerance to the exhausting mobile game elements. If you can put up with them, the multiplayer's a real banger, but as I progress further into haghood, I just don't have the patience anymore.

Not at all a Metal Gear game but a great Survival game. Really fun up until the post game. Then it got wayyy to grindy. But no where near bad as people mad it out to be. All because some some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ youtuber like dunky made the game have a bad rep. Content creators ruin gaming.

Whoever at Konami OK'd this piece of garbage should be strapped to a rocket and launched into the stratosphere