Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes could have led to several episodic games
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Released in March 2015, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes served as a prologue and teaser before the launch of the actual fifth installment in September of the same year. The famous Hideo Kojima recently talked about the genesis of this short episode which could have given birth to a completely different project.
In fact, the Japanese creator mentioned that Ground Zeroes could have been the first chapter of an episodic project. After the release of an episode, Kojima Productions would have collected feedback from the community to improve the next one. Unfortunately, the experience did not come to fruition.
Hideo Kojima explained that “many people seemed to expect Ground Zeroes to be a complete game and did not understand our intention.” That's why the studio eventually focused on a more traditional format game with The Phantom Pain.
Source: videogameschronicle.com