10 Terrible Video Games That Could Be Fixed With One Simple Change
7. Add Mid-Mission Checkpoints - Metal Gear Survive
Metal Gear Survive is undeniably the straight-to-video knock-off of Hideo Kojima's beloved stealth-action franchise, a rushed-to-market survival game developed following Kojima's acrimonious split from Konami.
The thing is, the moment-to-moment gameplay is totally fine - it uses Metal Gear Solid V's incredible Fox Engine, after all - but the experience of playing the game is rendered an interminable slog due to the baffling lack of mid-mission checkpoints.
Dying during a sortie will send you all the way back to base without any of the resources you picked up during the mission, and considering that it can often take a long time to even reach the mission area, it can result in a ton of time pointlessly wasted.
It is this lack of respect for the players' time which causes Metal Gear Survive to descend from a mediocre, acceptable action game into something truly awful.
Though a survival game at its core, the fact that it has a lengthy story campaign means it desperately needed to include checkpoints to cut down on the soul-draining repetition and busy-work.