Undred Fred wrote:

I really liked having to manage all that stuff (stamina, inventory, etc.) as well as being careful and working my way through areas instead of being able to walk in and pick off guards with a silenced weapon and not worry about them being able to see me 10 feet away in a brightly-lit room. I liked having to worry about being seen and making noise. One of my favorite fights was The End... Super-careful sniper battles are just fun to me.

All you've really got to do is keep your camo high, your head down, and your eyes open

And really, the whole thing makes sense. If a fugitive is spotted by a cop, can he just hide behind a corner and the cop will lose track of him?

If there wasn't something annoying about (having to go into the menu to change camo and eat so often), people would use it constantly. Eventually, about five hours in, the pause lag teaches you that you don't need to have 100% stamina all the time, don't need to burn off every leech on the spot, and don't need to have 95% camo non-stop. If it were any easier, you'd drive yourself crazy with it thinking that you always had to have everything set perfectly.

I'd actually like healing to be more difficult by extension of being more logical. Why should Snake be able to stop time and step into some alternate, videogamey dimension to administer first-aid?

The same thing goes for switching Camo patterns... how the hell is that instant-change action supposed to work? Where does he keep them? I'm not going to get into the food....

I'd like to see the player have to lean up against something and perform simple controller actions (say with the analog sticks) in real time to dig out a bullet with your knife, apply disinfectant, apply styptic, and what have you. Not only would it be really tense in an adverse situation, but survival instinct (this would make you vulnerable, obviously) seems like be a much better motivator than annoyance for gameplay purposes.

Something like this might create some balance issues, but I think they could work around it fairly easily. Seeing Snake prying crossbow bolts out of himself would be a hell of a lot cooler than jumping through interface hoops and pretend it never happened, wouldn't it?

I kind of played as if patching wounds took time, though. If I got shot up during an alert, I'd wait until I could clear the alert before I started stitching things up

Yeah. I'm fine with it in most cases (and I prefer it in a lot of them), but I liked having to manage the backpack just because it fit with the game for me. You spend a lot of time out in the jungle, so I guess I just EXPECTED to have to keep track of a bunch of things like that.