10 Terrible Video Games That Could Be Fixed With One Simple Change

7. Add Mid-Mission Checkpoints - Metal Gear Survive

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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.

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