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GreyWolf84 wrote: Joeydo08 wrote: 76.6.212.70 wrote: Lol, Kojima never adds a 'legitimately' new character! No it just seems that way because alot of charecters have connections to other charecters. The funny thing is. The answer to the question is going to be different depending on who you ask because it is a matter of opinion. There is no clear answer to the question. Unless you look at the facts that is.

Starting with MGS we had: Liquid, Meryl (unless you feel her similarities to Holly are too much), Naomi, Otacon, Mei Ling, Nastasha, Raven, Mantis, Wolf, Ocelot, Donald Anderson, Baker and Houseman.

MGS2: Raiden, Rose, Olga, Solidus, Fortune, Vamp, Fatman, Stillman, Emma, Sergei, Scott, Ames and President Johnson.

MGS3: Zero, Para-medic, Eva, Volgin, The Boss, The Pain, The Fear, The End, The Sorrow, The Fury, Granin, Sokolov and hell, Sigint was basically made from the ground up as well despite technically being an existing character.

Peace Walker: Paz, Zadornov, Amanda, Chico, Huey (again, maybe you could discount due to similarities), Strangelove, Cecile and Coldman. The only returning characters who appear are Miller and Snake, plus EVA appears in the recordings.

Really the only game that works with what you said is MGS4, and that's kind of what happens when you make a game entirely to wrap up something that was never meant to be wrapped up.