Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-1672596-20150916010356

128.100.8.217 wrote: Fantomas wrote:

There's the current "main timeline:" Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, MGS1, MGS2, MGS3, Portable Ops, MGS4, Peace Walker, Metal Gear Rising, and MGSV. All these games establish themselves as being part of a single timeline, so that's how we present them.

This is literally completely false. This youtube video shows the interview where Kojima explicitly says only the Core8 are part of the main timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMlZ-HQY4jQ I always say ‘this will be my last Metal Gear,'” Kojima said, “but the games in the series that I’ve personally designed and produced — Metal Gear on MSX, MG2, MGS1, 2, 3, 4, Peace Walker, and now MGSV — are what constitute a single ‘Metal Gear Saga.’ With MGSV, I’m finally closing the loop on that saga. In that sense, this will be the final ‘Metal Gear Solid,'” Kojima continued. “Even if the ‘Metal Gear’ franchise continues, this is the last ‘Metal Gear.' Just because games "present themselves" in some way does not make them part of the main timeline. Hideo Kojima himself said unequivocally what games are part of the SINGLE Metal Gear Saga. End of story. Kojima also, as Fantomas pointed out a few times before, specifically stated that Metal Gear Rising and Portable Ops were indeed canon and in the case of the former even explicitly referred to it as a continuation of the story. They may not be main entries, but make no mistake, they are canon. It's not the only time side games were considered canon anyway: Need I remind you that Resident Evil CODE:Veronica and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis were side games, yet both games were obviously canon?