Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25168690-20150111204934/@comment-1672596-20150112133757

Paranoid Donkey wrote: It's not the same principle at all. The side ops are non-canon, and even if they are canon they don't take place at that same base.

Big Boss coming to the sunken remains of his old Mother Base doesn't make much sense to me, but that's not to say it won't happen. I'm just saying I can't see why it would happen. I'm pretty sure the Side Ops are indeed canon, especially when they already were familiar in-game with the base being a black site, which wouldn't have made much sense especially if they hadn't encountered it before (in most Metal Gear games, the main protagonist is completely clueless about the location, never mind about it being harboring a dark secret), not to mention having already learned about Skull Face from one of the tapes collected there. Besides, if they wanted them to be non-canon, they would have made it such that there's literally no way it could have happened, like, for example, claiming they occurred in the 1950s even when it is extremely obvious that MSF couldn't have even existed during that time, or even having them occur in 1978 when it is clear even from The Phantom Pain previews that Big Boss wasn't even awake during that time.