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Jim Logan wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: 131.107.192.106 wrote: Didn't he say his story isn't over yet? That made be think they'll have some follow up. But agreed I hope they just leave it, he had a good ending. Kojima probably meant he'd continue Solid Snake's story. He never necessarily said the story would take place after MGS4 (although then again, he also specifically referenced his plans to kill the character off in MGS4 when mentioning this, but then again, he did say something similar with MPW despite strongly implying that MGS4 was not only the final Solid Snake game, but the final Metal Gear game, period). Most likely, the game would either be a Philanthropy game (more specifically, focusing on the events between 2005 and 2007), a version of MGS2 focusing on Snake's presence in the Big Shell Incident (you know, similar to how the Umbrella Chronicles had a segment focusing on Wesker during the events of Resident Evil Zero), a prequel game to the first Metal Gear focusing on Snake's exploits in the Gulf War, or a game focusing on Snake between the events of MG and MG2 (especially seeing how the manual implied that he did CIA/Mercenary work during that time before entering semiretirement). I'm willing to bet the remakes are the most likely to occur. There's not much else to cover over in Snake's life, and besides which, thanks to Kojima getting all retcon-happy on his own franchise and thus his really putting the MSX2 games down the crapper, continuity-wise, a remake's the only sensible thing to keep the events fully canon without plotholes. Kojima already said somewhere he wouldn't be remaking MG and MG2, and I don't think there would be a Philanthropy game considering Snake said nothing happened between 2005 and 2007. Finally, if you want to play Snakes exploits during the Big Shell Incident, play Snake Tales. He never said there WON'T be remakes, though. Heck, in one interview, he even implied that he'd let some team develop the remakes similar to how he got The Twin Snakes made.

As far as your comment about there not likely to be a Philanthropy game at all, I thought Snake's comment about having their noses in the cold for too long (I assume that's what you're referring to, at least) was in reference to their becoming complacent, not that they did nothing during that time. Plus, I doubt they would have gotten UN official recognition by 2007 if the Tanker Incident was their sole mission (or, for that matter, end up wanted with an implied costly bounty for their actions even prior to 2007), and Otacon even implied that he tried to investigate Arsenal Gear's development in one call. That's also not even getting into how they stole Liquid's corpse from a facility during one of their implied missions.

And I was thinking of a more canonical depiction of Snake's exploits during the Big Shell Incident. To give you an idea of what I mean by that, in the game Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, you play as Wesker for a segment within Resident Evil Zero that depicted something that was only implied to have occurred offscreen, as well as playing as Wesker in the Resident Evil portion of the same game that explained how he got out of the doomed Umbrella Mansion. I was thinking of something similar along those lines.