Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - Is This Game For You?

Metal Gear Solid V is the fifth (obviously) installment to the MGS franchise produced by Hideo Kojima, a former gamer designer of the publisher Konami who are responsible for the series.

So lets jump into it, you want to know if this is the game for you. Metal Gear Solid has its own style of game play that can't be compared to anything but itself. Metal Gear invented this type of tactical, quirky stealth game play and it really is something brilliant. If you're somebody into anything other then action adventure/stealth games then right off the bat, NO, this isn't the game for you. If you're a die hard action adventure games then.. okay maybe it is but, you wont have nearly as much fun as you would if you played using tactics, cardboard boxes and route planning. Even though the game DOES allow you to run and gun as well as call attack helicopters and mortar strikes, this is the very base of the game. This method of playing allows no where near as much as stealth tactics.

Now the main feature I want to talk about is the shire size of the open world and everything included in it. Now to give you just an idea of how big it really is, I've logged about 20 hours into the game so far and im only 8% of the way through. The plains of Afghanistan are absolutely loaded with random activity's, bases to capture and a couple of hundred side ops missions. The only down fall to this I see is, sometimes it is a little over whelming to see just how much you have left to do, I like to 100% most games and I honestly think I will be playing this at least December.

This isn't a full review so you are not going to see page after page of game mechanics or how well it runs on PC vs. Console, I simply want to tell you if this is the game for you or not. With that said I think I can do that with just one sentence. Metal Gear Solid V Allows you as the player to Air lift just about anything into the sky using little tiny balloons - including, and most fun of all - people and animals.

Still not convinced? Well okay its more then just that, The Phantom Pain offers a kind of game play and story, especially the story, that will absolutely blow you away. From time to time I've found  myself trying to explain to friends why this game is great and why they should play it but in all honesty, this game has to be experienced 1st hand to really understand the feeling it gives you. MGS V is the fist game in years of AAA history to finally produce something worth this new price tag of £50/$60.

I do play a lot of stealth games from time to time but, MGS V is my first in the series due to never being interested in its hugely confusing story line, but boy am I glad I started with this one. The story of TPP is twisty and a little confusing to begin with but its nothing a few lore videos from YouTube can't set straight.

The last point I want to talk about is the Multiplayer. The god awful launch of the multiplayer was enough to make me loose all interest until they confirm the servers and feature itself is completely fixed and ready to go. Even then I still might not play it as the single player is enough to hold me over nicely. The online aspect allows you to build up your mother base and invade other players worlds to infiltrate their version of mother base which they have built up the same way you have, increasing security and weapons making it hard to win. Both players will face off trying to find each other as well as sneaking around and tracking, trying to come out on top.

Over all I have to give it to Konami for The Phantom Pain, it has provided an experience I haven't gotten with other games in a long long time. I personally recommend this game to those looking for a great single player with amazing characters and looking to get into stealth games. I definitely think Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a brilliant place to start for those looking to get into stealth games or this series. So is this the game for you? If you're looking for a massively open, free roaming, stealth tactic, guard strangling bonanza then yes. If you're looking for a Shoot em up adventure game then no probably not, you'd be better of waiting for Rainbow Six Siege or Black Ops III.

What did you guys think? Did you like this new Short and to the point type of review im doing, be sure to leave a comment to let me know and i'll make more!

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Pokemon GO Allows You To Capture Pokemon With Your Phone.. Unless You Own A Windows Phone

Nintendo recently announced Pokemon GO, A Free-to-play app for both iOS and Android that allows you to see VR Pokemon on your phone depending where you are. The app works by tracking your location and directing you to a nearby address using a google map type system, here you will find a Pokemon sitting still and from here you try your best to catch it with Pokeballs. The free to play element comes in when you run out of Pokeballs or decide you want a better quality ball to increase capture rate. The game is being developed by Nintendo, Game Freak the guys behind the original Pokemon games and Niantic a company known best for its GPS work in apps.

This idea remind me a lot of a different app called GEOCASH where people would fill a tiny box with a mini note pad to sign your name and a few small trinkets, players would follow directions and clues to find the box once at the location and put the box back where you found it once finished signing.. but as you can guess people stole the boxes or hid them very very very well. The map system used for this app wasn't too great and I just have high hopes Niantic don't make the same mistake of making the location too vague and hard to follow or the gimmick will wear of very soon.

So what else can you do with Pokemon GO? Well there's a few things that were highlighted in the trailer shown and they were trading, battling and special social events. Trading allows you to complete your Pokedex collection by swapping your spare Pokemon with your friends to get the ones you couldn't find. It works similar to the original Pokemon game trading system where you must give 1 to get 1 so this means you will have to make pointless journeys to catch Pokemon you already have. So good luck finding all those Zubats!

Battling Pokemon on the app wasn't shown to clear in the trailer, CGI Pokemon flying around the screen wasn't enough information to determine f you would control Pokemon the same was as the original games or if it would be an automated test of strength and level to decided who dies first. Not much information was given about this but we'll keep you posted if more details arise.

And the Social events? This was shown to us by a real life clock telling us its time to defeat MewTwo and we only have 10 hours to do so! This feature works the same way as Peter Molyneux's Curiosity  -you remember that load of nonsense about a massive prize?- Where players will help each other to whittle down the targets health and if completed in the time limit those who helped will receive prizes and add-ons to help them in game.

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Fallout 4 DLC Announced Already?

Besthda have already announced their DLC plans for the highly awaited Fallout 4. As they are still finishing up the game they haven't actually got a clue what the DLC will include but can promise you wont see it till 2016. Their main plan of action is to release a DLC season pass -a phrase dirtier than your month old bed sheets- for just $30. Before you roll your eyes in your head they have already promised this pass will grant you EVERY bit of downloadable content they create, and although that should be a given, I seem to remember quite a few games where a season pass would only get you the main DLC and not the smaller expansion.. Im looking at you Borderlands 2.

So just how much will they create? Well most people have compared the game to its predecessor Fallout 3, where 5 expansion were released, and have already called to the mountains in joy of how much DLC they will get for just 30 dollars. But I don't think this will be the case, I mean if we think about just how much work has already gone into Fallout 4 and how they have already explained there's over 400 hours of content in the main game, I just don't think they will go as far as 5 bonus content packs. I have a feeling they will go down the same road they did with Skyrim and release 2 DLC's of a good size which include game changing features such as the crossbow, dragon riding or completely new lands.

Along side the packs, they have also promised regular free updates similar to those they gave to us with Skyrim, these included horse back combat and kill cams so we can expect some nice little touch ups and fan requests. They did also announce their plans to release a new version of the content creator kit, used by themselves to develop the main game. Modders can pick this up for free a few months after the game hits shelves.

I have one hope for Fallout 4's future and that is Mod Week. A few years ago when Skyrim was released, Bethesda held a week where all the employs would create mods, little or big, and place them into a showcase. This week was responsible for both the Hearthstone DLC and the dragon mounts as well as a lot of the free updates. Having the same contest for Fallout 4 would bring great things, Im sure of it.

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Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen FINALLY Makes Its Way To PC

Capcom have announced that their semi-popular JRPG, Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen, will come to PC in January 2016. The game originally released for PS3 and Xbox 360 as Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen back in May 2012 but then saw a MASSIVE expansion and disc re-release in April 2013 with the same title.

Dragons Dogma will be available to buy via Steam and Local retailers for around £24.99 and DOES support Xbox 360 and Xbox ONE controller support as well as keyboard and mouse. Capcom have also promised a great improvement to the graphics as well as FULL Steam support including achievements.

The story tells of a hero wounded in battle with a mighty dragon who steals his heart forbidding him to die and live a life of torture unless he can slay the dragon in one final battle. The game is very much an 3rd person, open world RPG with huge fantasy elements that spawns a map that would take you a couple of hours to travel IRL as well as hundreds of side quests. The game has personally given me hundreds of hours of joy from swinging on the back of a troll to stabbing a griffin in the eye with a stick. The game introduces a great feature of companions who are completely customization and are able to be sent off to the online world and joins others in battle earning you rewards in the process.

Dragons Dogma has to be one of my favorite games and I couldn't recommend it enough to those who enjoy the likes of Skyrim, The Witcher series and Dragon Age.

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A Bug In Metal Gear Solid V:The Phantom Pain Could Corrupt Your Save File!

Konami have announced an official warning to Metal Gear Solid V: TPP players. The warning concerns those using Quiet as a buddy on mission 29 or 42 as this generates a bug capable of corrupting your save file. 

The problem occurs over all platforms, both last and current gen, and happens about roughly 95% of the time the missions are played with Quite present, according to players who have been testing the bug.

Konami have given a simple solution to stop the corruption problem happening and that is to NOT take the half naked pal along with you on those missions. Konami are working hard to get this fixed but for now, hope that it hasn't effected many players yet.

I want to know how many people this has already effected so let me know in the comments below if your save was wiped or maybe someone else you know? 

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PewDiePie Passes 10 Billion Views But Does He Deserve It?

You many know PewDiePie -Or Felix Kjellberg- he's the guy that runs the most popular YouTube channel of the same name and has been in the news recently discussing how he makes millions of dollars.

Well, Felix shared news of a pretty huge milestone with us via Twitter on the 6th of September and announced he had passed 10 billion views! Now first question.. 10 English billion or American billion? For those who don't know, an English billion is a million million where as American billion is a thousand million, which raises the question of just how many views he has.

Regardless of which, it is a pretty impressive achievement and I think its well deserved. Many people have talked trash about PewDiePie saying he's lazy by making money playing games and he doesn't deserve to be the biggest channel, but in all honesty he must put in so much effort to pump out videos daily for the past few years and have them still be funny and original.

Felix described his fame saying "It's Unsettling: I'm so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raise a lot of questions like 'why is he big?"

PewDiePie may not be everyone's cup of tea due to the nature of his content, but there's no lying that we all want to earn the money he does by playing games right? I personally think Felix deserves his fame and brings a lot of joy to those who watch his videos so I say more power to him and keep up the good work, but do you? I want to know what you guys think in the comments below.

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