Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-72.198.199.176-20140329215057/@comment-192.160.117.141-20140330172849

It would be nice, but I doubt it. Since Metal Gear Solid, any reference to events or characters from Metal Gear or Metal Gear 2 - e.g. Gray Fox, Miller, Campbell - was made in Metal Gear Solid first. The only exception is the mention of Dr. Madnar in MGS4, and even then he had no lines and never appeared in person.

It's far more likely that MGSV will continue to call back to Metal Gear Solid, as the series has done continually since that game. This is not even really hypothetical at this point; we already know Liquid is back, again, as is, for some reason, a tiny Psycho Mantis-tan with moe moe baggy sleeves. Smart money is on Gray Fox and Campbell reappearing, since they were around for Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2, but were also in Metal Gear Solid - at least a cameo by a twelve year-old Solid Snake is also probable.

I actually sort of suspect Sniper Wolf and Vulcan Raven will show up, some how. Even though it's clearly ridiculously unlikely for Wolf to be Quiet (Quiet's age is at the very very least 15, which would make her 36 in 2005 - Wolf was supposedly in her 20s) or for Raven to be Code Talker (but he's magic, so I dunno...), I just find it highly suspicious that the only two new characters, other than Skull Face, revealed for Phantom Pain are a female sniper and a Native American (of the wrong tribe, but still) given that three of the four other Sons of Big Boss are already confirmed to appear (and we have our theories about the fourth).

Anyway, proper call backs to Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2, would be nice. Super doubting it.