Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-6512-20150915212942

What Kojima says absolutely matters, just not to everyone.

Like, I'm trying as hard as possible to not be on any side here. There is an unnaturally large number of people who get irrationally mad whenever anyone has the nerve to start talking about Portable Ops or Revengeance and start pulling out Kojima quotes and getting on a high horse about how those games aren't canon and we should ignore them.

And then there's an equal amount of people who do the exact opposite.

It is an argument that will never have an end. Even if Kojima makes a 100% official statement (which he never has, whenever asked he always dances around the issue and people pull out whatever meaning they want), the fanbase will still refuse to believe it because die-hard fans hate to be proven wrong, especially some of the ones I've encountered in the ten years I've been running this site.

At the end of the day, we should remain neutral. And the neutral argument, as I see it, is this: Portable Ops is a sequel to Snake Eater. End of discussion.