Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-179.197.35.147-20140929015719/@comment-3060460-20160217052639

Okay, so, Weedle compared Hideo to George Lucas, that's a fair comparison, but I'd like to make a counter. Hideo and MGS is like Bryan Singer and X-Men. What do I mean by this? Well, the first two films were written by David Hayter(Yes, Big Boss/Solid Snake helped craft the X-films), but FOX refused to do what Hayter and Singer wanted to do for X3 as they deemed it too big a financial risk, so we got the mixed Last Stand, and Origins(which was given to a director who had no idea what he was doing...), now when Singer was brought back, he was paired with the brilliant Matthew Vaugn who added elements Singer was too afraid to do as he thinks fans will hate them. Vaugn introduced color to the costumes, which was picked up with Negasonic Teenage Warhead in Deadpool(which yes, takes place in the second X-Men films timeline), Vaugn establshed an X-film can work without Wolverine in the spotlight (etc), this is picked up again, in The Wolverine, and Deadpool, two films that fit in their respective film timelines(it...gets confusing, but bear with me), the director Tim Miller confirmed Deadpool does indeed take place in the second timeline, and he introduced concepts that Singer has confirmed will be integrated into the next line of films following Apocalypse since Hugh Jackman is no longer retiring, he will be basing the teams' outfits off that from the Ultimate series rather than616(for you guys who don't know, Wolvie won't be running around in that stupid cowl).

Now, like Singer, the series works when Hideo isn't the director's chair, both Portable Ops, and Rising were great games, were they perfect? No, but they fit into this timeline Hideo really doesn't care about. Now, am I going to get MGS6? Probably. But they need a writer and director who care about the lore and the series enough to not just toss a game out with a popular name to make a quick buck...(*coughcoughLastStandandOriginscoughcough*).