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As for where the story could go. Although TPP has kinda warn me down on the whole prequel saga, it did introduce the beautiful and badass Quiet, the sniper. A user, in the last year, mentioned the idea of bringing her back. Could she make for an interesting villain in a game set around 2020, kept alive by Parasites? An interesting conflict revolving around the use of old tech (Parasites) and new tech (Nanomachines, cybernetics) could ensure.

Setting the game in the future and avoiding a reliance on characters and events from previous games obviously gives the series a lot of breathing room: the BB and SS sagas become part of the game's lore in much the same was the events of Morrowind are in Skyrim: they happened, people remember them and reference them now and then, but are largely inconsequential to the game's plot. Perhaps "Dr. Emmerich" is part of the support team or something.

With that said, perhaps some more prequel games could be interesting: would a pre-Metal Gear adventure during WWI be interesting? Or perhaps playing as one of The Philosopher's first agents? The games could involve something similar to The Shagahod - not an actual Metal Gear, but filling its gap in the story. I don't really want too much more down with Big Boss - I think the way TPP handled it kinda killed it for me a bit, I feel we'd be retreading old ground.