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Fantomas wrote: Yeah, the difference there Doulomb is that Snake's Revenge and Ghost Babel (and Metal Gear Ac!d) specifically set themselves in their own timeline. Portable Ops sets itself up to be part of the "main" timeline, and then Peace Walker and Guns Of The Patriots reference it, establishing it as part of the main timeline.

Rising I get confused by though. Like, I get why people aren't into Portable Ops being "canon" because it does contradict stuff, but Rising doesn't affect anything by being where it is. It's not like there's some pre-determined post-MGS4 canon that Rising ignores. I do sometimes get the feeling that some people don't want Rising to be canon just because they don't like the game (not saying you do Doulomb, I'm just thinking out loud).

Same here. Portable Ops does contradict stuff but Rising doesn't. Then again, Weedle does have a point when he says that other Metal Gear games contradict stuff too due to Kojima's retcons. I won't go into specifics in order to avoid spoilers. Either way, they are at the most "spinoff games" that aren't important to the main storyline.