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I don't mind MG1&2 being retconned at all because I personally consider only the events canon (Outer Heaven Incident in 1995 & Zanzibar Uprising in 1999)

Back then, technology did not allow Kojima to create a complex storyline with lots of dialogue and attention to all kinds of details, so the plots of the old MG games are only intended to give a very loose sense of context to the gameplay. I am also against remaking them, as they were never designed to be played with modern graphics and gameplay.

I would have liked the series to end after MGS2 or at least MGS3, but given MGS is Konami's biggest franchise, it sadly will not end. As Phantom Pain takes place in 1984, there'll be only 11 years until the Outer Heaven Incident and I hope Kojima does not cram another Big Boss adventure in.

As the canon has been screwed up enough with MGS4, I believe a game featuring The Boss and the Cobras in World War II would be best. I am just hoping the game will return to the linear, cutscene- and codec-based style of MGS1-4.