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Oh yeah for sure, no doubt that it'll be a bit of an awkward transition but it'll be good to cross it off the list. Really gonna have to push my way through PP tbh. It's more just cause it's probably the weakest of all the MGS games imo but everything with Konami and all the stuff removed from it and god knows what else they forced Kojima to take out for time has the game leaving a bad taste in my mouth. The lack of cut-scenes and Ocelot not being much of a mad bastard doesn't help things for me, which is a shame cause I was always really interested in the formation of The Diamond Dogs and would have enjoyed more content putting forward that brotherhood mindset.
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I know MGSV's development is understandably a touchy subject for a lot of people, but even though I'm still kind of salty about what Konami did to Team Silent and Igarashi, it's pretty hard for me to lay all of the blame on Konami with MGSV. They gave him 80 million dollars and a few years to make the game, which is more than a lot of developers could hope for. When I played the game and drove through all those vast expanses of wilderness with nothing significant in them, it really struck me as a waste of time and money, and coupling this with the writing fumbles like the one you mentioned with Ocelot really gives me the feeling that Kojima and his team were doing a poor job at managing the time and money they were given, whether it was sufficient or not. Even if he'd gotten it, rounding off the game with yet another Sahelanthropus fight like it was supposed to still feels pretty underwhelming.

But yeah, those optional scenes with Venom breaking up fights and shit with his boys were pretty cool and I would have liked to see more of that sort of thing.