Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1504072-20130423225415/@comment-1672596-20130508173655

SirOnion wrote: Kojima obviously meant Peacewalker to spiritually replace Portable Ops. Portable Ops began with Snake upset about killing The Boss, ended with him getting over it. Peacewalker began with Snake upset about killing The Boss, ended with him getting over it. Portable Ops' exclusion from the Legacy edition is truly all the proof we need. Peacewalker fills us in on all of the previous events that supposedly took place in Portable Ops and leaves out stupid details that ruined MGS canon. The series is better without Portable Ops, it made Gray Fox less emotional, tied in Roy Campbell needlessly, and made Outer Heaven seem unoriginal. Actually, if I remember Portable Ops right, Big Boss reacted angrily when he learned that The Boss may have been set up to die from the start, certainly nothing like "getting over" her death, and it even being implied somewhat that Gene's words affected him (Campbell basically telling him to cheer up as he deserved that medal). Not once did I ever get the feeling that he actually got over her death other than his declaration to Cunningham. As far as your reasons why it should be excluded anyways, Roy Campbell's being the only one to remember the time when Big Boss commanded FOXHOUND makes absolutely no sense in the manual for MG2, seeing how it was also stated to be founded in the 1990s. People's memories can't be that bad, so Roy being present actually was necessary, especially now that it was stated to have been founded in the very beginning of the 1970s. And MGS4 also revealed he was inspired to make Outer Heaven by The Boss's final will, so regardless, Big Boss's Outer Heaven philosophy still would have felt completely unoriginal. Heck, its even strongly implied in MGS3 to have been from that as well. You want to complain about lack of originality, take it to MGS3 and MGS4, don't use that as an excuse to claim MPO shouldn't be non-canon.

And even it was actually true that MPO actually did end with Big Boss getting over The Boss, yet relapsing oddly in MPW, it's not the first time the series has repeated things that shouldn't need to be repeated: MG2 had Solid Snake being emotionally damaged and unsocial, yet was also implied to have gotten better by the end of the game, yet he went back in development by MGS. Should we all of a sudden say that MGS spiritually replaced MG2, then? By your logic, it does.