Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-179.197.35.147-20140929015719/@comment-64.33.250.214-20151102145648

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Actually, he only lost to Big Boss once in Portable Ops, which was the second fight. Yes, you did need to beat him in the first fight, but that's just for gameplay. For the cinematics, it was made pretty clear that Big Boss and Null, if anything, fought to a stalemate. Solid Snake may have beaten him both in MG2 and MGS1 (though the latter's in the gray area, no pun intended). As far as being killed by Liquid, he did at least manage to cripple REX enough to force Liquid to expose himself, so it's not like he did nothing of value in his last stand.

So far as Raiden, he did do some really impressive stuff in MGRR, like taking down Desperado as well as going one-man army against a huge PMC when no one else was willing to directly go against them for various reasons, all to save orphaned children. And for being outmatched against a senator souped up in nanomachines that rivaled even Vamp's, he did very well, actually.

I do agree that with MGSVI, IF there's going to be an MGSVI, they need to retcon the mess that was MGSV. The thing fans of Raiden seem to forget, like the person I replied to, is that Rising is stylistically and tonally different from previous games. It also took liberties with the canon, and how neatly Raiden's character arch was completed in MGS4. It wouldn't be fair to compare anything Raiden did in MGRR with Gray Fox some 10+ years prior. I'm more inclined to believe that MGRR exists in its own expanded universe.