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Metal Gear Solid V PS4/PS3 Full Speed Run Videos Posted: 34 Minutes, 24 Without Cutscenes (Spoilers)

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes can be quite short, especially if you do a speed run of the game without caring for side mission content, and since the game is already out there despite the fact that we’re four day away from release, the first speed run videos are being posted on the Chinese YouTube knockoff Youku.

And they are... quick.

Depending on where you live, the video embeds at time load very slowly or show loading errors because they're streamed from China. In which case the direct links often work better. Reloading also may help.

Quite obviously, before you watch the videos, you must be warned (if the headline wasn't enough) that they spoil the whole story of game, besides the side missions. Watch them at your own risk.

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listenkids3708d ago

Then don't speed run it. Instead, take your time, do side missions, get trophies/achievements, do the exclusive mission attached to console of choice, have fun.

Grave3708d ago (Edited 3708d ago )

I totally agree. I hate it when people instantly dismiss a game because of a speed run. Example: My buddy refused to ever pick up Dark Souls because he saw a video where a guy beat it in an hour. He was like "if it can be beat in an hour it's not worth buying". Such a shame.

sonarus3708d ago

Lol Fuk don't speed run it. If it's too short for u don't buy. I'm just happy it's 30 bucks cus would have paid 60 regardless. Phantom pain is 2015 if we are lucky and I personally don't want to wait that long because metal gear solid for me is one of the greatest game series I have ever played if not tops. It probably isn't the same for most of you which is perfectly fine. continually calling the game short won't deter me from downloading that shit on ps4 day one

Alexander1Nevermind3708d ago (Edited 3708d ago )

@ Grave

The DS speed run is the perfect analogy. Those of us who have played and still play DS (while waiting for the PC version of DS2....) know the countless hrs. put into the game.

For the 20.00 price tag, a 6-8 hr campaign is fine imo.

PoSTedUP3708d ago (Edited 3708d ago )

ill be Staying In One Spot for 24 mins scoping out the enemys, enjoying every second of it. run through MGS? never.

but hell ppl, dont get then if you think its too much money. its known to be small, its a prologue and is touted as one. id pay $60 to play 2 hours of uncharted 4 right now, and you would too probably. and if a lot of fans were asking for it, we'd probably get it bc then it would be worth it for ND, too. watch ppl devour this game, $30 (im getting DD on ps3 $20) is a steal imo. $30 instead of waiting for over a year, pshh, cant beat that tbh.

vishmarx3708d ago

lol the mission takes atleast 60-90 first time.
and there are 5 other similar missions.
dumb asses hate everything
game is 4-5hrs minimum if youre good at it.
6-8 if youre gonna be a little thorough
and longer if youre a completionist.
GZ mission nets you with 9% completetion
i did another which got me to 12%

judge for yourself
what do you want from a $20 game

GearSkiN3706d ago

not worth 30. ill wait once TPP comes out

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Blaze9293708d ago (Edited 3708d ago )

rushed or not, we all have to agree this is pretty ridiculous on Konami/Kojima's part with that price point. Sounds like this is nothing but a downloadable title that shouldn't be more than $15

The hell am I going to go after 30 minutes of the game for $40?

Eamon3708d ago

Agreed, a 34 min speedrun pretty much confirms that the main game is around 2 hours long. It shouldn't be sold for £20 over here and should be maximum £15

PoSTedUP3708d ago (Edited 3708d ago )

its $30 on ps4, $25 on ps4 if you do the newegg discount, $20 on ps3 and you get PWHD of you preorder it. and you have to factor in distrubution and royalties, development costs + content. so what would make someone feel so entitled that they should get the convenience of getting to play it Way earlier AND only have to pay a s*** price where kojima would probably lose money considering he is doing this for the fans? (if he was Really trying to scam money he wouldnt have set it at $40 and then afterwards make the game look incredibly small by saying "PP is 200x bigger than GZ, and overall hurt GZ greatly). its a prologue, you need to really want to play MGS earlier and to have the luxury and dough to do so(and acually understand what a prologue is).

would everyone here pay $30 to play 2 hours of uncharted4 Right Now? exactly. and would every ps fan here be defending GZ if it were PS exclusive? most likely. if the fans didnt want it/ask for it, there wouldnt be it. there really arent many prologues for games, its not gonna be a trend to make money, the people that want this/are getting this, know exactly what they are getting, no? thats cool f youre not getting it. just had to shoot you some logic to make you understand whats going on.

-Foxtrot3708d ago

It's not even the price points...cutting the prologue of MGSV shouldn't of happened in the first place.

They could reduce the price to $15 or less and the point still stands this SHOULD be in the main game. Not sold to us separately for more money.

This is an EA tactic and yet because it's MGS/Konami/Kojima no one bats an eye lid but if it was EA there would be bloody hell on...and rightfully so.

stavrami3708d ago

@foxtrot i don't think it is a cash grab,well not entirely anyway . i think with the new style of open world kojima is looking for feedback .

PoSTedUP3708d ago

whos to say it "shouldnt" have happened in the first place? thats a lazy argument which doesnt combat anything i said. the fans asked for it. and if its an EA tactic, its a PD tactic, and look how That Sold and how Many people Didnt complain. which my comment kinda proves its far from a scummy move opposed to something of that of EA. if that is your opinion, sure thats fine, but the fact that youre here in the first place, why not have a solid argument? lets "talk".

dcj05243708d ago

I saw a speed run of Sonic the hedgehog 3. It took 19 minutes.

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anonjohn233708d ago

Remember, it will be like 8-10 hours if you take your time, do the side missions, etc. The game only cost $29.99 on PS4 and Xbox One and $19.99 on the PS store for PS3 (not sure about 360 having that price). Tomb Raider was like 12 hours, so yes, it is short, but it is money well spent.

Utalkin2me3708d ago (Edited 3708d ago )

How you get 8-10 hours. And why would someone purposely take their time. Why not just play like your normally would? And tomb raider was a little longer then 12 hours, but by your logic if you took your time it would be 24-32 hours long.

anonjohn233708d ago

@Utalkin2me When I say "take your time" I mean like a normal playthrough, not a speed run.

inmusicutrust3708d ago

Utalkintome

Mgs games are not games the normal player speed runs. They are games you hold back, watch guard patrols and slowly advance. That's all he means by take your time. The main mission plus side missions will be closer to 8-10 hours and considering this is for the fans of the series the price shouldn't even be debated.

Tdmd3708d ago (Edited 3708d ago )

@anonjohn23

8-10 hours? lol
It is already confirmed: it's a 2 hours game on normal playthroughs, 6 if you count the side missions. To finish it around 10 hours I guess you'll have to stop and count the trees for a little while.

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Sam Fisher3707d ago

wasnt skyrim's speedrun like 5 to 15 mins or something like that?

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IRapeLolis3708d ago

Long for a demo. Too bad we have to pay for it.

CYCLEGAMER3708d ago

I am going to rent this game out of spite!

BattleTorn3708d ago

I really don't want to support this type of practice.

But it releases on my BDay, so I know I'm probably gonna say meh and treat myself

bigboss19903708d ago

Saw this last night on YouTube 1 hour and 10 minutes it took to clock......... Think I wait till the full package comes out on ps4

LOL_WUT3708d ago

34 min? Now this has me worried i'm going to be damn sure to take my time

FinalomegaS3708d ago

you're not going to post anything negative? surprised~

don't be worried, it is a speed run after all.

Bonkerz3708d ago

Not getting day one, i will have to wait a couple days to see what people are saying. Not gonna spend that much on a game that may last me 30 mins, unless it is absolutely mind blowing, and i will wait to find out.

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The Metal Gear series has sold over 59.8 million copies

300,000 Metal Gear games were sold during the first quarter of 2023, Konami has announced, bringing the total number to 59.8 million.

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FallenAngel1984356d ago

Still waiting on Konami to put the MGS Collection back on digital stores

Nyxus356d ago

I know right? And rerelease the games for current gen systems while they're at it.

just_looken355d ago

Do not worry they will give use those pichincko remakes for top dollar soon.

Metal gear solid 3 in the fox engine looked/ran amazing but was sealed away :(

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Sarcasm355d ago

I know re-makes and stuff have been played to death this generation.

But damn I wouldn't mind an MGS4 remake

gold_drake355d ago

i played it quite recently and it holds up very well

CantThinkOfAUsername355d ago

It does, but a remake will be available on platforms other than PS3.

itsmebryan355d ago

I thought the series would have sold more over all these years and different releases.

Ready4nxtgen355d ago

Yeah I would have thought over 150 Mil. Something.missing here

Nyxus355d ago

Metal Gear isn't that big, and there hasn't been a new release in years. Also MGS2 and 3 are still missing from digital storefronts.

shinoff2183355d ago

5 mgs games in total if I'm not mistaken. 59 60 million seems about right. Mgs is dope to some of us but it would be hard for a lot of regulars to understand

ChasterMies355d ago

I would love to buy MGS4 but it’s still a PS3 exclusive.

JEECE355d ago

Although there are notable exceptions (GTA, certain first-party Nintendo games, Gran Turismo), as a rule games didn't sell as much in earlier generations as they have in the past few generations. So a lot of PS1-PS2 era titles that are viewed as seminal games didn't actually sell all that much by today's standards (yes, despite the large install bases of those systems lol). I remember a similar surprised reaction happening a few months ago when Square announced the total overall sales of Final Fantasy VII.

Deathdeliverer355d ago

Some of the best fun you can have online was the first metal gear online and to a lesser, but still fun to an extent, MGO2. The magazine, CQC, stealth, and tactical play Vs real players is just a blast. Not to mention playing Snake vs everyone? Amazing. The game will never be the same without Hideo, but Konami can definitely update what’s already there and take my money.

ceyoga355d ago

You wouldn't be talking about the OG MGO that was included with MGS3:S would you? It's rare running into another former player. Those were some of the best memories of any online game I had.

Deathdeliverer355d ago

Yes my man!! That seems like the BEST game that nobody played! Tranquilizer pistol, drag the body to a corner and lay a girly mag right by their head so they wake up and instantly get caught by the mag. You could get real toxic if you wanted at that point, but man that game was incredible! The only thing annoying was that damn Konami ID

P_Bomb355d ago

Did my part!

“You’re pretty good” 🫡

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Kojima looks back on Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on its 9th anniversary

Hideo Kojima: "After the launch, many people seemed to expect GZ to be a full game."

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-Foxtrot414d ago

People would have gotten “your intention” if you stated it from the beginning but people didn’t want smaller episode like MGS games.

He should have just focused on MGSV and work Ground Zeroes into that game instead

I_am_Batman414d ago

I don't remember there being confusion over Ground Zeroes being a full game. But then again I was just starting to catch up on the MGS series as a whole at that point so I might've not paid enough attention or simply have forgotten that there was confusion about it. I bet the whole Moby Dick Studios thing didn't help the casual observer understand what the hell was going on though.

I only got both MGSV games when Phantom Pain was already out and I kinda agree that it probably would've sucked if I had to wait one and a half years to pay The Phantom Pain after Ground Zeroes.

jambola414d ago

I'm sorry what now?
Who expected that?
If it was meant to be episodic or an experiment for that, the price should / would have reflected that

MadLad414d ago (Edited 414d ago )

To be fair, there really wasn't enough content to actually justify even the smaller price tag. It was still half the cost of a full game, yet a 20th of the content.

I can't stand these paid glorified demos.

CrimsonWing69413d ago

Honestly, it was basically similar to the FF15 Duscae demo. My theory is he was taking too damn long to make a game and Konami was like, “Sell what you got!” It just has kind of a scummy corporate “let’s sell this demo for half the price of a full game,” feel to it.

That’s just my take on it. I love Kojima and I love the MGS series, but this and 5 were the biggest let downs, ever. Clearly unfinished work forced out because, in Konami’s defense, Kojima was going over budget and taking forever on the project.

MIDGETonSTILTS17414d ago

Lol, I loved Ground Zeroes, but releasing that level at $40 during a dryspell for games at the onset of the new gen was an obvious cash grab.

I handed over my money happily, but plenty of non-diehard fans were understandably letdown by the scale of what $40 bought them.

Chocoburger413d ago

The price was originally $40 for the physical PS4 and XBO versions, but due to controversy it dropped down to $30 before launch. And as much as I love GZ, and even bought it twice, I do agree that $30 was too much. It should have launched at $20.

https://kotaku.com/konami-c...

staticall414d ago

I don't know how about anyone else. But i've bought it for $20 1 week after release (or $15, don't remember the exact exchange rate) and spent 24 hours beating every mission and getting all the steam achievements. I was 100% aware what the game was about beforehand though and i did enjoy every second of it. I knew it was a work in progress and it was probably the best and less restrictive game i've played in a long time (and controls were just perfect).

Even previous MGS games didn't gave me that much freedom as Ground Zeroes did.
Love stealth? Got you covered.
Want to speedrun? Here's the timer.
Wanna kill everyone? No problem, grab that AK then and let's party.
Wanna cause chaos? Just tell Pequod where to land.
Love to drive? Then go ahead.
Miss Raiden? Then play as him.

I wish they would continue MGSV, finish remaining chapters and add more missions as DLCs, there was SO many options... A poor man still can dream...

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Metal Gear Solid V Is The Greatest Stealth Game Ever Made

Hideo Kojima was dealing with a hostile publisher who was pulling his team’s game apart at the seams in order to launch in some form of finished state, and it’s still downright masterful. Everything about it is mechanically focused and aesthetically nuanced, and not a single thing feels out of place or without purpose. Big Boss moves about each environment with a pace that provides the perfect cadence to use all manner of gadgets in whatever ways you like.

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Mobis-New-Nest585d ago

You are incorrect and I will be taking this time to correct you. The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker Forsaken Fortress is stealth that no game has yet to match. Having Link, crawl, sneak and hide under a barrel is innovative stealth that Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell, Thief and Tenchu wish they had achieved. I rest my case.

ChubbyBlade585d ago

Cardboard box beats barrel

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got_dam585d ago

Lol I see what you did there.

fr0sty585d ago

So tired of opinion pieces... I come here for hot news, not hot takes.

-Foxtrot585d ago

Shit Metal Gear Solid game though

It's boring, empty, repetitive

Great mechanics and gameplay but it's just so dull....

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Chard586d ago

I played it long after the hype had settled, and I had a blast with it. Strip away the disappointment over what it could have been, and you're still left with a great game

porkChop586d ago

The gameplay loop was phenomenal, no question. From a gameplay standpoint it's an incredible stealth game.

porkChop586d ago

"Hideo Kojima was dealing with a hostile publisher who was pulling his team’s game apart at the seams in order to launch in some form of finished state, and it’s still downright masterful."

Let's not pretend Kojima was entirely innocent there. The game was 5+ years into development, way over budget, and wasn't even halfway done. That's why Chapter 2 is so unfinished and Chapter 3 was scrapped entirely. He was wasting time micromanaging and second-guessing everything his team was doing, and little to no progress was being made. The same thing happened with MGS: Rising. That's why the game got rebooted as MGR: Revengeance and was handed off to Platinum. That's the only way the game was going to get finished. And yet after wasting millions on a scrapped game, MGR only went on to sell a little over 1 million units. It was a failure no matter how you look at it.

That's why Kojima was "locked away" in his office for the final 6 months of development of MGSV. So the team could actually piece together and finish the game. Was Konami just supposed to let Kojima spend more than a decade with infinite funds to make one game? Kojima isn't Rockstar, his games don't sell 170+ million units. At some point the game has to come out.

I get that Konami are a garbage company but they aren't solely responsible for what happened with Kojima. As much as I love his games and will always be a fan, MGSV was almost entirely Kojima's fault and I'm tired of people pretending that it wasn't.

MIDGETonSTILTS17586d ago

Sounds like mismanagement by Konami.

generic-user-name585d ago

Can you prove any of what you're claiming? Because I've seen Kojima build a studio and release a AAA game in 3 years with Death Stranding. All I'm seeing here are the same conspiracy theories that people like to believe to confirm their biases towards certain people, same with Neil Druckmann. For instance, MGSV may have been in development for a while but you leave out that he was also having the FOX Engine developed alongside it, an engine so good that MGSV ran at 60fps on a PS4.

He's gone on record disputing that he ever goes over budget on very rarely has to delay his titles.

"He was wasting time micromanaging and second-guessing everything his team was doing, and little to no progress was being made."

Where did you get this from?

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Workshyskiver586d ago

Best gameplay of the series hand down, its not even close. Worst story in the series hand down, its not even close.

Ezio2048586d ago

But that ending though with amazing music. The Man who sold the world.

1Victor586d ago

I can’t say it’s the best or the worse to me I stopped playing metal gear at the end of 4 the official end of the snakes saga and the best in my book was 3 snake eater excellent gameplay and excellent story telling giving us the reason for big boss to go and create his own country before the metal gear saga on the 4-8 bits consoles.

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