anybody still running this game? havent seen any forum posts or runs in over 2 months... are you guys still there? x)
I'm not sure about the other as for me I lost interest in speedrunning this game and got other games I'm busy with. I know HIKARI MGS hasn't been uploading runs for this lately and for others so probably dead Dx.
xD yeah ive been playing other games as well... bloodborne ftw
maybe ill eventually get around to doing a full game run, but probably not x)
I'm playing Bloodborne too, got it week ago and I'm stuck with the first boss hunter :3
Yes, it's dead. And I'd be surprised if it ever comes back.
All of the IL runs have been done and are pretty optimized and require completely maxed out gear to compete with now. And few people want to spend 200+ hours maxing out their gear just to compete.
Then on top of that, I think everyone sort of realized at the same time that speedrunning the full game sucks.
Why does it suck?
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Tons of long loading screens, cut scenes, monologues and the helicopter intro means that in a 3-hour full game run, you're probably only actually playing for about 2 hours at most.
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And of those 2 hours, you're on the horse at least half the time.
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The horse sucks and gets stuck on rocks a lot. D-Walker isn't much better and is a huge pain in the ass to control.
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Then there's the prologue... nuff said.
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On top of all of that, most of the missions are extremely straightforward, short and easy. Therefore, a 3 hour full game run essentially comes down to only six missions that require a lot of skill and practice (Missions 6, 12, 13, 18, 20 and 28).
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The game is very unforgiving of mistakes. Even a very simple error can lose you 30-60 seconds, if not more, thus killing your run that you've now sat through 20 minutes of loading screens and 40 minutes of dull missions (and don't forget the prologue!) to get to.
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The RNG of guard placement and being spotted is absolutely maddeningly random at times. So are some of the boss fights. Combine this with the above and yeah, it gets frustrating.
The strength and beauty of MGS V is in the improvisation of it -- the ability to approach a mission and accomplish it in three or four different ways, often adjusting on the fly based on what's happening in the moment. By speedrunning the game, you essentially bypass what makes the game so great and never get to experience it. And on the flipside, you're forced to endure hours of what the game is weakest at: shitty vehicles, poor mobility, unpredictability, etc.
I'm totally capable of improving my any% time by 6-7 minutes with some new routing and more efficient execution. But my interest in the game went from 10 to 0 in like two days at the end of October and I haven't touched the game since.
I love the game. It's probably on my all-timer list. But I have no interest in coming back to it. Maybe in a few years I'll do another casual playthrough.
It's not dead for me, that's for sure... I just took a couple months off to play Fallout 4... not sure where the mods have gone though? we kinda need them lol
Oh, messages! I often take a lot at the forum. Dead for me that's for sure. Mainly because I don't want to cheat to catch all the animals, and it's reaaally boring. So I just stopped. Thanks animals! Unrelated to running or glitching though.
