When Does "Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" (2019) Take Place?
"Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" is a political historical fiction short story written by Jamil Jan Kochai that released December 30th, 2019. So when is "Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because the first sentence of the story reads: "First, you have to gather the cash to preorder the game at the local GameStop, where your cousin works"... and GameStop is a video game retailer chain founded as Babbage's which changed its name to GameStop in autumn 1999 AD. So it must be during or after 1999 AD.
2015 AD
We know this because the first sentence of the story reads: "First, you have to gather the cash to preorder the game at the local GameStop, where your cousin works"... and GameStop is a video game retailer chain founded as Babbage's which changed its name to GameStop in autumn 1999 AD. So it must be during or after 1999 AD.
More specifically, the first paragraph ends with the phrase ..."you’ve got the cash, which you give to your cousin, who purchases the game on your behalf, and then, on the day it’s released, you just have to find a way to get to the store." and follows this almost immediately with ..."it’s Metal Gear, it’s Kojima, it’s the final game in a series so fundamentally a part of your childhood that"... So the video game is certainly "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" (2015), the last in the "Metal Gear" series, which released on September 1st, 2015 AD in the real world. So it is certainly September of 2015 AD.
