Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-3365837-20150304213210/@comment-1672596-20150305022937

Jim Logan wrote: Do we really need another prequel that, knowing Konami, they'd spread into a trilogy which would cause even more plotholes and continuity gaps the size of Jupiter? In this case, blame Kojima instead of Konami, since he pretty obviously is doing scout locations of Normandy, meaning if there is going to be a The Boss game, he's obviously going to be involved (if he really didn't intend to make a new Metal Gear game after MGSV, why would he be doing scouting locations at Normandy of all places and of all things, and not only that, but implicitly attribute it to Metal Gear Solid 3).

And personally, I really think they shouldn't have created The Boss in the first place, considering she basically peddled nihilism and relativity, was basically a huge hypocrite regarding her ideals, and all of that. Metal Gear Solid 2's promotion of nihilism and relativity via Solid Snake was already bad enough. I actually like Portable Ops precisely because they don't promote nihilism, moral relativism, or anything like that with the heroes. And quite frankly, her "ideas" were garbage, especially the true ideal about "trying your hardest to keep things the same," which is completely unworkable, less realistic than even Big Boss and Zero's interpretations of her goals (not to mention she failed to live up to her ideals, and even contradicts the very blatant relativity and nihilistic messages about things changing with the times and there being no such thing as absolute enemies or that beyond the mission, there is nothing meaningful). She failed to even ensure that an end to the whole infighting occurred, and if anything made it even WORSE with the Patriots and Big Boss's infighting.

Heck, I'd even argue that they really shouldn't have made MGS1, as that alone basically was responsible for about half of the retcons the series already has, not to mention ruining what would have been a fairly decent ending and even implying that Solid Snake was a remorseless psychopathic mass murderer from various statements from not only his enemies, but even his own allies. I actually prefer Ghost Babel's depiction of Solid Snake, at least that one actually HAD clear remorse for his misdeeds.