Quote Originally Posted by Eon View Post
I can honestly say I have never played a Metal Gear Solid game, so take this question as you will but what do you mean by nothing cool or good happens? Like, nothing new or interesting? Or just boring in general? 'Cause I feel like I should try playing one at some point, but I have no idea what I would be getting into.

Maybe they took the game really literally, so Snake was wounded enough where he is now mostly in a robot body (Like, a solid body of metals and gears. 5 gears to be precise. ) and it is his exploration of the phantom pains he feels for his old body? Cause that seems like it would be an interesting game.
What I mean by "does nothing" is what I call the Just Cause 2 problem. Everyone I know, on the entire internet, who played Just Cause 2 was like "oh man I used the grapple to hook a dude to a plane and I flew and he trailed behind me and it was awesome whacky silly fun!"

Then I played it and all I got was shot to death by the overbearing AI and the grapple basically never worked, ever, as if it was heavily glitched. I'm worried that same thing, that feeling of "wow this game just isn't working for me" will happen.

Also for what it's worth you're pretty close to what the plot of Metal Gear Solid 5 actually is! This game takes place after 3 but before 1 and 2, and you play as Big Boss, who after his girlfriend exploded, lost an arm and a couple years off his life due to a coma. So he has to deal with the emotional and physical "phantom pain" while managing The Diamond Dogs, his revivification of "Military Sans Frontiers" his old city state he made using war.