Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.45.77.96-20140326042831/@comment-72.50.80.22-20140725022030

The people many people didn't like the choice of bringing in Raiden again is because they are basically breaking him down for the third time, as if he wasn't already at his lowest in MGS4. Heck, he got so beat up in MGS4 that Platinum Games had to literally destroy him and almost wipe away his very memories to even top the amount of crap he went through in MGS4.

Basically, we already saw Jack's fall and redemption (along with Snake's) in MGS4, that was their swan song. The fact Kojima even admitted he disagreed with the idea of using Raiden but rather just let them do it because he wasn'tthe director anymore is very telling, makes you think that he actually really doesn't considers Rising to be "his",meaning he doesn't think it's his story. This may help explain why he's focused only on prequels lately, he considers MGS4 to be the end of the series.

Maybe if they'd actually gone ahead with his idea of using Gray Fox it would have been better off (after all,bringing a legendary cyborg soldier back from the world of the dead sounds like the kind of crap a world trying to revive the technological wars would do). Plus,Gray Fox is literally the prototype for Jack, and was never given a reprieve for his sins,even the one he sacrificed everything for was killed (several years later but still).