Metal Gear Solid 5 dev defends Ground Zeroes length

I'm guessing english isn't you're native language.

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I don't mind the length so long as the game is priced accordingly. There's so many games nowadays that are inflated with useless padding. I'd rather have a short but sweet game than a long and tedious one. Still, at 2 hours' length the game should be $20 tops.

I laugh at all the whiny peasants who can't afford a $30 game.

Must be members of the PC beggar race.

Does anyone else thinks that Konami will lower the prince of GZ after all this scandal???

The original MGS is barely nine hours with cutscenes, though.

I'll buy this shit used in a couple of months, how bout that, konami? do you rike it?

Hideo Kojima, truly the modern day Voltaire.

If you want to compare your game to the quality of 'Dear Esther' and 'Journey' then you better be sure to back it up. Because a prologue that's being sold for $30-40 does not leave it off to a good start.

I think the casual consumer will be very annoyed to find that this isn't the entirety of MGSV, and the game's length wouldn't be so bad if it was reasonably priced. But it's not. No one wants to spend $20 an hour for campaign content. The extra missions should benefit the game as extra content and not pad it out to justify charging extra.

The article kills any defense in one sentence. The other two games cost 10 and 15 bucks, and if you want the MGS game on the next gen, which you probably do it will be 40 for a physical or 30 for a digital.

When are you going to realize people do want to buy it, but they refuse to support poor business practices?

I agree that quality > quantity but price has to reflect the quantity. Hence why indie games that are this short are cheaper and just as much quality can be found in them. You can also get DLC for some games that's cheaper and longer that's also quality. It's a demo you're buying here that costs too much money for what it is and it's that simple.

Nice pulling that 5 hours out your ass. If dev comments are anything to go by there will be about 2 hours or side missions. And they'll be on the same map, so I can really see them not being utterly repetitive, right?

This wasn't a seasoned veteran of MGSV doing a speed run. Apples and oranges.

Just wait for the discount re-release before Phantom Pain releases. Or the bundle that will probably come out shortly thereafter.

Comparing your game with two others of the same length that sell for much less money than yours is going to is no way to win an argument.

Eddie mac had to point out the ps4 version is slighty better than the xb1, even though the article is about the length of the game.Im still gonna buy ground zeros because I admit I love Metal Gear Solid.People buy bluray movies which are priced 25 dollars and the length of some movies are two hours long. So i cant blame kojima for what he's doing.

$40 demo. I have been saying it for months to much derision. Now it is confirmed.

half of mgs games are cut scenes

Sorry Kojima you lost me as a customer.

Game Informer's word is the only thing I ever need to make a fully informed decision.

Ground Zeroes is literally the worst gaming-related deal in many years. It should be a $20 disc across all platforms. When you compare it to other offerings in the market, it's a terrible value. Unfortunately, video game prices aren't indicative of the market, as proven by Rogue Warrior and Skyrim having the same initial MSRP from Bethesda.

What Halo game--games, by the way, with substantial multiplayer components--did you finish in two hours?

Except those games didn't cost 30 to 40 fucking dollars. Those games would have gotten bashed to hell and back if they cost as much as ground zeroes does. Not only that but Koji said the main Phantom Pain game would be delayed if GZ sold poorly too, it's like he's bribing people to buy GZ or holding TPP ransom.

I agree to a point that quality is greater than quantity but I don't want to shell out up to $40 for a 2 hour experience no matter the quality. If the game was $15 no one would care about the length.

Every time I go to one of these articles and see Facebook posts I almost can't help but feel that GameSpot just doesn't give a shit anymore.

They know fans will buy it anyway, and theres plenty of them to go around. Just look at MGS2, many literally bought ZoE just to access the MGS demo (tho ZoE was a good game).

They cant defend the pricepoint by comparing it to games that cost half. He might aswell just have said something stupid like "you cant put a price on art"

Hmmmm, It greatly depends if the game was optimized for its short length and offers good replayability, or if will feel like only the first 2 hours of a larger game.

Retail versions of arcade shooting games cost more than this and are 30 minute long. Still, you don't feel ripped off because that's pretty much how they should be.

If the game is designed just to be played once and leave players hyped for MGS : V, then yes, it's gonna be hard to justify the price.