Dark Souls 2 or MGS Ground Zeros?

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Poll Dark Souls 2 or MGS Ground Zeros? (5 votes)

Dark Souls 2 60%
MGS Ground Zeros 40%

Got a couple of Steam wallet cards for Christmas, and while I'm saving the majority of 'em for GTA V, I wanna get a new game, and can't decide between DkS2 or MGS:GZ. I played a bit of Dark Souls 2, but that was months ago. Never finished it, don't even remember where I left off before I traded it in, but I remember that I didn't like it as much as 1. I've never played any MGS game, but I like stealth games, and GZ looks really awesome. How many hours do you think I'd get out of; how many did you get out of it?

Do you have any other suggestions? I'm looking for a good experience that'll hold me off until GTA V in January, in the 10-20 dollar range. Bonus points if the graphics are nice, because in addition to the Steam cards I also built a new PC for Christmas :D

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#1 SovietsUnited
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Ground Zeroes is over way to quickly and isn't the best place to start with that series IMO; start with MGS1.
I like the original Dark Souls far more than the sequel as well, but regardless get it instead as you'll gain much more gameplay value out of it

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#2 Lulu_Lulu
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I really hate it when people value gameplay by length..... but its your steam card.....

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#3 Macklin_
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@Lulu_Lulu said:

I really hate it when people value gameplay by length..... but its your steam card.....

I usually don't, but I'd like whatever game I get to last the month.

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#4 Lulu_Lulu
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@macklin_:

Back in my PC Gaming days I use to do it a lot. I valued each game purely by how many hours I could squeeze out of it...

It was no way to live. :(

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#5 Macklin_
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@Lulu_Lulu: I understand that. I will get MGS if I truly think I will enjoy it more than Dark Souls 2. However, I'd like to have something to play for the next month, rather than sit there staring at Steam and waiting for GTA to come online.

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#6 Krelian-co
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Dark Souls 2, i love metal gear and GZ but is quite short, is more like a demo for mgs 5, meanwhile with dark souls 2 you get a complete awesome game that will last you at least 20h.

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#7 Lulu_Lulu
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@macklin_:

Well MGS definitely won't last one month. But is Dark Souls Il the only alternative ?...

Also I don't know what a steam card is... can you buy any game with it regardless of Price ?

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#8 Krelian-co
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@macklin_ said:

@Lulu_Lulu: I understand that. I will get MGS if I truly think I will enjoy it more than Dark Souls 2. However, I'd like to have something to play for the next month, rather than sit there staring at Steam and waiting for GTA to come online.

ps Lulu is the local try hard troll, be advised he failed miserably because he couldn't get past the tutorial of dark souls 1 so all he does is talk bs about it without playing it.

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#9 Lulu_Lulu
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Calling me a troll.... lol the Irony.

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#10  Edited By Krelian-co
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@Lulu_Lulu said:

Calling me a troll.... lol the Irony.

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#11 BattleSpectre
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Let's please stick to the topic, and avoid petty arguments.

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#12 Lulu_Lulu
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Proving my point..... did it ever occur to you to.... I dont know..... maybe offer your help to TC ?

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#13  Edited By Krelian-co
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@Lulu_Lulu said:

Proving my point..... did it ever occur to you to.... I dont know..... maybe offer your help to TC ?

i already did very clearly posted my reply to him, if you are blind is not my problem, did it ever occur to you not spam a thread about dark souls with nonsense?

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#14 pook99
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Why only those 2 games?

MGS is supposed to be good but I hear it is extremely short so it may not be worth the money. Dark souls 2 seems like the safer bet if you liked dark souls, if you have not played dark souls 1, just buy that instead and with the left over money you can probably find some good dirt cheap or indie games on flash sale.

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I really enjoyed dark souls 2 so recommending it.

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#16 Flubbbs
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get Dark Souls 2.. i would start at the beginning if youve never played MGS before

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#17 Archangel3371
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Ground Zeroes is great and all but you'll get more out of Dark Souls 2 so get that one and just wait for MGS: The Phantom Pain to come out.

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#18 Macklin_
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Do you guys think there'll be an encore sale where Dark Souls 2 will go back down to 15 or wherever it was at a couple days ago?

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#19 Krelian-co
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@macklin_ said:

Do you guys think there'll be an encore sale where Dark Souls 2 will go back down to 15 or wherever it was at a couple days ago?

probably, you would do well to wait until the steam sales are over.