12 Awesome Video Games With One Awful Mechanic

9. Mother Base - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain Mother Base
Konami

The idea of getting to build and customise your own base in the latest Metal Gear Solid game was certainly ambitious and enticing...but at the end of the day, it wasn't really much fun and mostly amounted to tedious busy-work.

The side missions on-board the base are generic and dull, the actual structure itself looks drab, you can't enter many rooms, getting around it takes far too long, and the FOB mode is basically just an excuse to get micro-transactions in the game.

All in all, it's just a distraction from the core gameplay and oddly lacking in personality for a major component of a Metal Gear Solid title.

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