Metal Gear Solid 5 discs reportedly contain a Steam installer and nothing else

[Hinda65]

Since when was 30gb huge? I downloaded it in 25 minutes....

Its huge when your top DL speed on steam is 1.9mbs.

 

[StinkyPinky]

This is unacceptable and I cannot believe some people are defending it. Some people have bad internet, as in sub 1meg download speeds. Downloading 30 gig with those speeds would take an entire day. On top of that, many people have data caps.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

This is unacceptable and I cannot believe some people are defending it. Some people have bad internet, as in sub 1meg download speeds. Downloading 30 gig with those speeds would take an entire day. On top of that, many people have data caps.

Even more importantly, the sole point in buying physical media these days is to bypass downloading the entirety of the game. If the physical media contains zero data from the actual game, what on Earth is the point of it? To save you the 1.5 MB Steam download? It's ludicrous if true.

 

[nitromullet]

I haven't played a Metal Gear game since I played one on the PS1 I think... I got Ground Zeros free through Xbox Live Gold last month and Phantom Pain with my NVIDIA card, but I've been playing the Witcher 3 so I haven't checked out Zeros yet.

Should I play Ground Zeros first? For some reason I thought Ground Zeros was the prologue to Phantom Pain, and was actually part of the game itself.

As far as the disk being a just a download. Yeah, it's a bit wanky... Why bother selling the disk at all?

To the people who don't get what the big deal is because they have blazing fast internet speeds - Not everyone has the same options that you have. It's also not always the providers at fault either. In my case it's all about Seattle's local bureaucracy: http://crosscut.com/2014/12/google-fiber-never-come-seattle-broadband-internet-2/ The providers would love to increase speeds, and charge us Seattlites more for access. ...and most of us would be willing to pay for it.

 

[Newbian]

Sounds about right, the should reduce cost and resources.

Reduced cost for the devs sure but don't expect them to pass it on to the consumer.

 

[SPBHM]

if you don't do the side stuff ground zeroes takes less than 1 hour, so I think you should play it anyway,

but for the story, I think it's more important to have played MGS3 and Peace Walker....

but I think you can play it as your first MGS game no problem, there is enough to be fun without knowing anything else about the series, and you learn most of what happened with the tapes

 

[ImpulsE69]

I was debating this as well. I have 3 and 4 and have touched neither. I won't be picking this up for awhile.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Kojima Productions got you a little something for your birthday, Big Boss. If you happen to play the developer's latest, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, on your birthday, you'll get an urgent message that you'll need to return to Mother Base.
What happens next is a fun Easter egg that some players born in August probably won't see for a long time. But it's a nice detail that, if you don't mind spoiling yourself on, is worth watching. Ocelot, Miller and some lesser-known Diamond Dogs sing Big Boss a birthday song — not the birthday song, however, as licensing rights for "Happy Birthday To You" can reportedly run upward of $10,000 — and present him with a cake. Big Boss even gets a real cigar, which he seems to appreciate more than vaping his Phantom Cigar.
Someone else at Mother Base has a birthday surprise for Big Boss, which you can watch in the video below.


There's a perfect example of stupid copyright laws if there was any.

 

[Grooveriding]

Game is pretty great. The beginning takes a while to get through with no gameplay happening. Assuming it's to set up the story.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Kojima Productions got you a little something for your birthday, Big Boss. If you happen to play the developer's latest, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, on your birthday, you'll get an urgent message that you'll need to return to Mother Base.
What happens next is a fun Easter egg that some players born in August probably won't see for a long time. But it's a nice detail that, if you don't mind spoiling yourself on, is worth watching. Ocelot, Miller and some lesser-known Diamond Dogs sing Big Boss a birthday song — not the birthday song, however, as licensing rights for "Happy Birthday To You" can reportedly run upward of $10,000 — and present him with a cake. Big Boss even gets a real cigar, which he seems to appreciate more than vaping his Phantom Cigar.
Someone else at Mother Base has a birthday surprise for Big Boss, which you can watch in the video below.


There's a perfect example of stupid copyright laws if there was any.

Yeah that's pretty dumb to be able to copyright but the Easter egg is kind of a nice touch anyway.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Since when was 30gb huge? I downloaded it in 25 minutes....

That is about 5x my data cap due to no good internet options where I'm at. Of course, I'm used to getting the shaft from the big PC devs. Friggin Battlefield 3 requires a 10 GB patch just to launch Single-Player, and this is after installing the entire game via physical discs, and activating through Origin.

 

[Aikouka]

There's a perfect example of stupid copyright laws if there was any.

Interestingly enough, that copyright is currently being contested in court.

 

[Omar F1]

I don't why I tried downloading it through Steam, two days later at 75% it just reset itself and started again. Did it again and I gave up for now.
Downloading at 200KB sucks.

Anyway, it's a 20GB download, not 30.

 

[PC_]

Game is pretty great. The beginning takes a while to get through with no gameplay happening. Assuming it's to set up the story.

didn't care for the intro, was looking for skip button.

 

[IEC]

Doesn't work very well if you have metered internet...

 

[cmdrdredd]

didn't care for the intro, was looking for skip button.

I kind of liked it personally.

 

[QueBert]

On the free city provide wifi I use, teh Googlez is telling me 745 hours and 35 minutes to download.