This has been floating around since Phantom Pain’s release, but damn, this video had be feeling all of the feels, and I’ve never played more than a few hours of Metal Gear Solid my entire life. Of course, if you’ve watched the video, you know that one doesn’t have to have played a SECOND of MGS to grasp the emotions happenin’ in this video.
So, yeah. Here I am, a person who SUCKS at being stealthy in video games, yet I want to play Phantom Pain. Kind of makes, like, no sense. But damn the MGS community has hyped up this hype train to the point where I’m like, “HEY! I want to be a part of that!” so I find myself with a copy of the collector’s edition. Ha!
As soon as I wrap up The Witcher 3 I’m gonna jump into this bad boy — AFTER doing a few hours of research. I have a feeling I’m going to be uber confused once I start. O__O
As someone who never played a MGS game in their life, I totally feel you on this hype train. My recommendation would be reading this timeline article (skipping over the Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain sections, as I found it a useful way to quickly assimilate the necessary info: http://www.gamesradar.com/metal-gear-solid-story/
In addition, I’d consider playing Ground Zeroes before Phantom Pain. Even with being absolutely shitty at it and trying to entertain a Twitch stream, it still only took me 90 or so minutes to beat the main story.