MGS: Ground Zeroes is under two hours long - Eurogamer

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-04-mgs-ground-zeroes-can-be-completed-in-under-two-hours

It can be completed in 2 hours or under and it costs around $30 euros.

Well we always wondered how far they'd stretch the short campaign out to ever since COD was reduced to 5 hours.

Here's your answer.

what the ****? this new gen sucks... bad news, bad ports, no games is all there is. So how much are they charging for this 2h of gameplay? If its anything over 4.99------------------------

so basically a dlc

The **** does CoD have to do with anything?

Anyway I've heard 2 and 4 now, not promising. I said when this was announced that it sounded as if they were taking a prologue like the one from MGS2 and releasing it as a full game and that's sounding truer and truer which is a shame.

Its $30 euros. In Australian dollars that's $45 dollars..

Its just outrageous.

----------------oh my god----------------

Game Informer claimed 4 hours...

I think both magazines should duke it out and decide.

I bet I can speed run the game in half an hour.

That's pretty terrible.

I know what I'm buying used.

No buy for me. Maxtcb was 7 hours and $15. Oh well, Plants v. Zombies in a few weeks.

Ok then, seems I might be buying one less game in March. We'll find it for $20 soon enough.

No. Game Informer said they spent 4 hours with the game and completed the main mission AND did bonus content within the time.

and this is why there is nothing wrong with titanfall being MP only, why would it matter if they added a 2 hour campaign? would it really make the game better?

It's just like the intro for MGS5 isnt it?

Sort of like in MGS2, where you play as snake for the first bit.

It says "Can be completed"

Gone Home "Can be completed" in 2 minutes but it doesn't make it a 2minute game.

Well, this saved me $30.

You read up on it more than I did, I'm on media blackout (which is why I didn't click on the above link). I only knew that Game Informer tidbit from the title of another thread:

MGS: Ground Zeroes is 4 hours long - Game Informer

I supposed if I clicked in the thread, and then the link, I would have been able to read the details, BUT I don't want to spoil ANYTHING about this latest Kojima Opus. I always expected a MGS2 Demo disk experience when I heard about this product, which was a FANTASTIC Showpiece, but very short. Came with my $50 copy of Zone of the Enders way back when.

Thanks for the heads up, but I'm going into this sucker blind.

Zero fucks given. Still a day 1 buy for me.

I expect lot of hidden secret however and different ways to complete mission. I always get more gameplay out of MGS game than traditional. Still, only expect to be slightly bigger than 2 prologue or size of first 4 mission.

At least COD has a lot of content and replay value after you beat the campaign.

What does MGS GZ have? Surely it has something outside the campaign?

So its kind of like Far Cry 3:Blood Dragon, but alot shorter and 3x more expensive.....good job Kojima, i'm glad you are wanting to see how much you can get away with.

Prrrf I don't know why anyone thought any different.

It's one base with two hostages to rescue. Probably 40 min gameplay.

What a rip off but they know that the core gaming community are suckers for MGS.

wow, and when I heard it was 4 hours long I thought that was bad, so I suspect 90 minutes of cutscenes 30 minutes of gameplay, sound about right?

Please don't compare this with CoD, games loaded with content.

I'm sad Godjima needs to dumbdown his art for Konami's mismanagement.

A Metal Gear entry with a short campaign? Thats a first.

#sadface

:(

Im very confident that this was Kojima's idea.

Yeah-- 2-4 hours? 4 hours is a little over the time it takes to speed run MGS2, 3 and 4-- and I am talking about the whole games. I await the half hour speed run videos.

It's a shame that it will cost around 45 dollars

But not in single player, which is what's being compared.

I won't be buying this :(

Game informer said that Crysis 3 was 3 hours long and I beat that game in 9 hours, so...

Anyway, wouldn't be surprised, since they adopted the horrible gameplay from Peace walker...I mean, several missions on the same minuscule enviroment, that simply consisted on going from point A to point B.

at least that's how it looks so far.

Hope PP is better than that.

This is disgusting.

the cutscenes in mgs4 were longer then that

A "full" $30 game.

They've been honest since the beginning about this. I'm not sure what's the problem here. If they can generate revenue from this to help make MGSV, then all the power to them. Chance are, I might pick this up, even after the 4 debacle. Since it carries on after Peace Walker (speaking of which, I need the PS3 Legendary collection first).

MGS4 was like 5 hours long, the thing is that for some reason, Kojima includes cutscenes in the time counter at the final stats, so ofc the game ends up being "18 hours long".

**** you Trolljima!

and this.

Classic Metal Gear right there.

Is this with Cutscenes or without? Cause that makes a ton of difference.

LMAO! Isn't this the truth.

Getting tired of milked last gen ports being over priced.

Good........ a DLC for Peacewalker .... all that I need

So 2hrs gameplay and then 10hrs cutscenes?

Is this speed running? Because in MGS4, you could speed run and complete the game in under 4 hours you could actually enjoy the game and play it for 15 hours. Then again I completed it probably 100 times...

Will buy Ground Zeroes on day one, even if it costs $60.

BS, you don't need to speed run to beat MGS4 in 4 hours, the game takes 4-6 hours if you skip the cutscenes.

As i've said: The cutscenes in MGS4 count towards "gameplay time", so in the end when you see that the game took you 15 hours to beat, it actually means you simply watched all the cutscenes.

Wrong, it usually took me 8-15 hours completing it without cutscenes and 10-20 hours with cutscenes.

Wrong my ass,my first playtrough of MGS4 on naked normal took me a bit over 14h and I watched all the cutscenes. The short length of MGS4 is very well documented with the gameplay time going around 5/6h for most people,excluding the almost 9 freaking hours of cutscenes and gameplay interruptions.

Yeah right,you must suck at it then,the game is super short,with cutscenes most people finish the game around the 15h mark,wich means the actualy gameplay time is very little,and this is for a first time playthrough.

Not to mention it´s by far the easiest MGS game.

This sounds exactly like what they are doing. That's fucking lame as hell.

That was confirmed by the devs a while ago.

This is just to tide us over for Phantom Pain, which is the real Metal Gear Solid V... Make no mistake.

This is fucking awful, what the hell happened Kojima?

This. The game is basically the Tanker chapter of MGS2 (sold as a standalone for $40 USD), and I've clocked that in at 29 minutes before.

You expected more? It's priced at $30, and it only exists because Phantom Pain won't be released until 2015.

a two hour campaign in a metal gear game? ...

.. I don't even know what to say.

that is a joke.