Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-177.180.133.31-20140612222050/@comment-46.222.243.0-20150312025610

I am tired of seeing the "leave all that crap at San Hieronymo behind" line being taken out of context. If you pay attention to the start of Portable Ops they show a map of where San Hieronymo is, if we compare it to where Peace Walker starts we can see that MSF's headquarters at Barranquilla is pretty damn close to San Hieronyo, I even dare to say that they are within San Hieronymo. BB and MSF in general are probably doing a lot of dirty jobs for the locals and are probably doing a lot of stuff at San Hieronymo (there IS a millitary base there after all). Soon after the game starts MSF gets contracted to do a more serious job and is given a much better headquarters, so they leave all the crappy small-time jobs they were doing at San Hieronymo for a more serious millitary bussines. And  THIS is exactly what Miller says:

Finally we can leave all that crap at San Hieronymo behind, and get in the millitary bussines for real.

Of course if you only quote the first part of this sentence and take it out of the context that MSF is moving from crappy jobs at San Hieronymo to more serious stuff then it looks like he's calling out on San Hieronymo.

Perhaps the sentence did had that double meaning, but at this stage Portable Ops CANNOT be taken out of the canon. I see a lot of people comparing PW and PO as Metal Gear 2 and Snake's Revenge. If Kojima really wanted to replace PW with PO he wouldn't have made PW start out exactly where PO left off (San Hieronymo, BB already a commander, FOXHOUND disbanded, BB not being surprised that The Boss was set up like he was in PO, etc) and he would have most likely made PW take place in the same time as PO just to fuck it over.

What I think is happening here is what others have said, Kojima is a very egocentric man so he doesn't want to acknowledge PO as he didn't direct it, but he knows PO perfectly fits in the canon altering little to nothing and explaining key elements of the series, so it is best to leave it how it was decided to be: a canon entry into the series that explains certain events more deeply.