{"id":960004,"date":"2024-09-01T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/960004\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:00:09","slug":"metal-gear-solid-5-im-afraid-its-been-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/960004\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Gear Solid 5: &#8220;I&#8217;m Afraid It&#8217;s Been NINE YEARS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Metal Gear Solid 5: &quot;I&#039;m Afraid It&#039;s Been NINE YEARS&quot;\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ch2BVmEQLRo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFew franchises spark debate and conversation to the degree that Metal Gear does, but even within the series, no game has done that quite the way that Metal Gear Solid 5 did. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of that was obviously by design, what with its open world structure and its new approach to storytelling that took so many longtime series fans by surprise, but a lot of Metal Gear Solid 5\u2019s controversy came not from the game, but from the circumstances surrounding it. <\/p>\n<p>Hideo Kojima left Konami under acrimonious circumstances shortly after development wrapped up, which capped off what had already been a long and eventful development cycle. Here, we\u2019re going to talk about all of that and more, as we discuss the reveal, development, launch, and more for Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain.<\/p>\n<p>Credit for PlayStation Awards 2014:  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8LwGJftuDcc<\/p>\n<p>Intro: 0:00<br \/>\nThe Ruse Cruise Begins 2:00<br \/>\nFace of the Franchise 6:40<br \/>\nRuns for the Hills 10:58<br \/>\nA Flawed Masterpiece 15:22<br \/>\nThe Phantom Pain 19:08<br \/>\nNine Years Later 27:30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few franchises spark debate and conversation to the degree that Metal Gear does, but even within the series, n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":960005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20976],"tags":[211033,30307,77194,338441,338443,39446,21844,338442,20984],"class_list":{"0":"post-960004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ps4-games","8":"tag-a-look-back-at-metal-gear-solid-5","9":"tag-gamingbolt","10":"tag-metal-gear-solid-5-ground-zeroes","11":"tag-metal-gear-solid-5-nine-years-later","12":"tag-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-2024","13":"tag-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain","14":"tag-metal-gear-solid-vthe-phantom-pain","15":"tag-mgs5-in-2024","16":"tag-ps4-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}