Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6431205-20130423195835/@comment-1672596-20150131161945

186.62.13.182 wrote: Yeah, I dont think we should worry about that, Platinum were the first ones that asked to move on from the main saga to have more creative liberty, i think this is gonna be a direct sequel for the first game. Yeah, I wouldn't call that "creative liberty", considering they still directly referenced the events of Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Solid, the MSX2 games, even a brief allusion to The Boss from Snake Eater as well, and I'm talking events, not simply cameos. True creative liberty would involve not only not referencing prior titles at all, but also making it so that previous canon is utterly destroyed and actually blatantly crapping on it. Think Training Daze from Pokémon Chronicles and how it utterly butchered continuity with Jessie and James' pasts. True creative liberty is essentially anarchy and chaos, pure destruction.

Besides, they already completed the boss concepts and even the storyline when the original rising got shelved anyways, so we're going to need that in the near future anyways.

That being said, I won't mind a direct sequel.