OH LOOK someone spotted him dangling a balloon and now they've launched flares and oh deary me you're in quite the pickle now aren't you!”Īdam: I love the flares. Bet it'd be nice to have him around Mother Base. oh, look, over there on the other side of the base - an expert engineer. "You could just snatch the prisoner and leave but. The barbarism.Īlice: Fulton balloons are egging you on. Giving them value means the no-kill tactics I normally employ make more sense than in most games than in most games, too.Īlec: I loudly called my helicopter a naughty word for a lady’s ladyparts because it gunned down a dude who was chasing me. That the systems of the game fold together so neatly is great, but in a stealth game, I want the AI I'm fighting against to feel like more than cannon fodder or obstacles. Graham: I like that such a silly system makes your enemies more human than they otherwise would be. We talked last year about how Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system was maybe the best - urgh - innovation in a mainstream game, but hadn’t quite reached its potential.
You’re rewarded for it, and you self-better, and you get these absurdly dramatic moments where you’re ballooning a guy into the skies just before his mate turns around. It’s entirely in service of your central behaviour - learning to be a better sneak. Hardly anything is wasted - all these little parts are either making you think, making you laugh or doing both at the same time, with all manner of knock-on effects and consequences.Īlec: The fultoning is the unification of core mechanics and gotta catch ‘em all metagame that stuff like AssCreed and Far Cry ¾ shoots for but never quite achieves. What I love about the game more than anything is that some parts are both funny little gimmick and Essential Mechanic That Underpins The Entire Structure of The Game. I think I’ll cry when he’s all grown up and wants to go eat men’s throats instead of just roll around the helipad with me.Īdam: Before release, I thought the hoovering up of men and animals - the whole Fulton balloon extraction bit - was going to be a funny little gimmick. I’m saving up to buy him a stun gun.Īlec: I’ve been too busy hoovering up men and rough diamonds to progress far through the main missions, so D-Dog is still a puppy. I don’t like dogs and not in video games, but I do love my stealth dog. I need something that hits the chorus, refrain or whatever-the-good-bit-is-called immediately, not as the chopper blinks out of existence on the map.Īlice: The first verse of Love Will Tear Us Apart kicks in right as my (funky dazzle camouflaged) helicopter lifts up and away, leaving me alone on the battlefield with my dog. I'm enjoying collecting the tapes as a sub-objective of each mission, but none of the music I've collected fits with the time it takes a helicopter to land or take-off. Graham: I'm using A-ha's Take On Me, but I'm on the verge of switching over to some custom music. I don’t think I’ve had such acute separation anxiety from a game since the heyday of WoW. Music? I waver between The Cure and Thomas Dolby because This Charming Man does not seem to be available.Īlec: I’m still Kim Wilde (and in the game) because I had to have four days off from MGSV to be ill, visit family and unwisely attend a music festival with a toddler. So I've gone for a purple.Īdam: Also purple. Graham: Mine would have been pink, but I didn't want to be accused of copying you.
No plot spoilers here, but if you still hope to go into the game entirely blind, be warned that we do discuss some of the game's systems and mechanics in some detail.Īlec: What colour is your helicopter? Mine is pink.
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is our Game of the Month for September, but why has this traditionally non-PC series infiltrated our chests and Fulton'd our hearts? Alice, Adam, Alec and a Graham gathered to discuss stealth, balloons, dogs in eye-patches, making enemy grunts feel alive and accidental kill-sprees.
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