LogFAQs > #912377998

People started out liking it until they realized it was unfinished and the first 3 hours after you escape the hospital is what you're gonna be doing for the rest of the game with very little variation.

There's hardly any story in the game, minimal cutscenes, the main missions (aside from skulls and sahelanthropus missions) are exactly the same as the side missions except Kaz yells about Cypher at the end during main missions, people were pissed about misleading advertisements before release (don't remember specifics but the MGSV board went on about it forever), there's absolutely nothing memorable from the game at all (there's nothing in the game like the MGS3 codecs, or MGS2's dumb ending, etc), microtransactions, general disdain toward Konami, nothing in the game is on the scale of the Ground Zeroes base (Ground Zeroes is a perfect showcase of what Phantom Pain's outposts, bases, and creative challenges could have been), people thought the big twist was pretty stupid (i know MGS has a lot of stupid things, but in general most people didn't like it or see it as necessary whatsoever), likely lots of other things I'm forgetting.
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