Wait, so what the fuck was this guy doing while Venom Snake was suffering for his sake?

Wait, so what the fuck was this guy doing while Venom Snake was suffering for his sake?

Everyone needs vacations, user.

Also, he was with V the whole time.

Building the Outer Heaven Snake invades in MG1.

But that was a diversion too, since that Outer Heaven was a decoy for Zanzibar Land, where the real Big Boss was.

Building outer heaven

Jacking off a lot probably

Hiding from Cypher like a bitch ass coward under the identity of the man whose life he robbed.

Who gives an absolute dick about the story in metal gear solid

The best case scenario for metal gear solid 5 was to have missions that leave room for the imagination, but Konami fucked it. Each mission should have been like a movie set piece that you could explore and fight in with realistic, non shitty missions tied to a flaming turd of a story. The gameplay is fucking phenomenal and feels amazing, like a whole other world you can just drop right into as soon as you boot the game up. The only thing holding the game back is the shitty missions. Cooler missions and, dare I say it, a built in map creator and/or mission creator would have sold this baby like hotcakes. It had the potential to get the same amount of hype as call of duty. But they fucked it, hideous Kojima fucked it, Konami fucked it, everyone fucked it at one point. Even with this Massive flub that is lack of cool missions this game is fucking superb. Like Crack for your goddammit eyeballs, mother Fucker. Have you even seen this shit in action? It's retarded fun. It's an absolutely fucking pants on head retardedly good time, and you should quit reality and dive the fuck into this game.

TL;DR play this game with the Hud off and skip the cutscenes for a masterfully crafted experience.

I thought Big Boss made ZL after OH blew up? or was he building ZL at the same time?

Chilling with Kaz "spot a black, knife attack" Miller.

>Who gives an absolute dick about the story in metal gear solid

>Who gives an absolute dick about the story in metal gear solid

I think I have the answer
none of it fucking matters because MGSV exists and fucks the story harder than Peace Walker's giant AI robots in 1974

Did you play MGSV you stupid memer?

>"Boss...you know I've always got your back...but if you bring that nigger back here...I'll just have him killed..."
at least kojima put the theme of RACE in the game like he said he would

I'm playing this for the first time. I'm up to Mission 31 Sahelanthropus - is this the end of the story? I saw on a mission list a bunch of "extreme" missions follow but are these just artificially harder versions of missions i've already completed?

MGSV does fuck all to harm the story of the saga.

Sahelanthropus is the end of the "Metal Gear"-like plot for the game. The rest is carrying on with business as usual for Diamond Dogs and a bunch of character drama events happening periodically.

>This was my first Metal Gear Solid game, guys!
Wow, you're transparent.

Also yes, "Extreme" missions involve restricted loadouts, no reflex and higher enemy damage/boss health, "Total Stealth" is failure on detection and no reflex, and "Subsistence" is no reflex, olive drab camo and all equipment OSP. The missions themselves are repeats of old ones, with a scant handful of new ones tossed in among them.

If being Big Boss and keeping the world safe from assholes like Skullface is "suffering" why did Venom jump in front of that fireball?
He died for Big Boss without hesitation.
Living on and fighting for Big Boss is not a burden he resents.

Yeah, that's the end of the story mostly. There's a few original missions against mercenary companies that are pretty fun and some stuff wrapping up Quiet's plot, but it's mostly redos of stuff you've done.

Do the stuff that isn't rehash.

There is unfinished business with Emmerich and that bullshit nuclear inspection that got all our boys killed in the Caribbean.
There is a romance that needs to be resolved.
These kids running around mother base are up to no good - but the conclusion to that story got cut from the game and put on a DVD that came with the Limited Edition. The contents of the DVD are a 40 minute video on Youtube.

>These kids running around mother base are up to no good

Never wanted the little shits there in the first place.

Ok thanks guys, looks like I still have a few hours ahead of me

>not a burden he resents
Nobody said it was.