Gamers might be discouraged that 'Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain' is too big to finish, fears game dev, Hideo Kojima.

In an IGN report, the Japanese developer remarked, "The Phantom Pain has the risk that people won't be able to finish the story as it will be more than 200x bigger than Ground Zeroes."

But just how big is 200x bigger has not been disclosed. "I cannot disclose the amount of missions [in The Phantom Pain]," said Kojima, "but we'll have a lot of missions in there," he told IGN.

'Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes' has previously been criticized for being too short, as IGN notes how Game Informer reportedly completed the Phantom Pain prequel in less than two hours.

Kojima has since clarified, long before the scrutiny, that Ground Zeroes will be a prequel, and not the full game.

Translated by Siliconera, the game developer tweeted, "GZ is both a prologue to the MGSV story and, at the same time, a tutorial for a new MGS, which transitions to sneaking simulator."

"With that said, GZ has a relatively small field as compared to the main game (which is hundreds of times larger) without time zones changing in real-time. However, each mission offers different time zones with different playstyles," Kojima's tweet adds.

Speaking with PlayStation late last year, the Japanese developer also remarked that size was one of the underlying factors for the Metal Gear Solid V split. "To release them together would be an ideal case for us. But Metal Gear Solid 5 is going to be a huge, a massive scale game. So the development is taking some time."

"A lot of people have been asking for a new Metal Gear Solid experience, so we at least wanted to release a prologue so that people get to know what people will be, experience a chunk of the story," he added. Still, some gamers are bothered with having to pay $20 to $40 for the 2-hour practice game.

With The Phantom Pain allegedly much more massive than Ground Zeroes, will gamers ever be bothered with the possibility of never clearing the title? Share your thoughts below.