Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-26638644-20150912193924

Fantomas wrote:

Doulomb wrote:

Fantomas wrote: He also says "it's a continuation of the story," but we'll just ignore that and hope no one notices.

Do you not understand that it can continue the story while still being parallel? For example Snakes Revenge is a continuation of the story in Metal Gear, however it is parallel to the canonical isntallments. Yeah, but there are no other games for it to be parallel to, so taking his comment that way and just jumping to "oh, that means it isn't canon!" is just petty.

No its not petty. I love MGR. I'm a huge fan. In fact once I get done with MGSV I'm probably going to go back and try to 100% it. That said I acknowledge that its a spinoff game which is a parallel continuation. I look at it like an alternate ending on a DVD, where the original ending was the one from MGS4 (that Raiden reunites with his family and the war economy is dead).

Weedle McHairybug wrote: 212.35.23.158 wrote: i think we must ask him again that mpo is canon or not: and this time he should take it serious, you all can wrote it as no canon, but we not know and its  controversial If you're going to do that, make sure you do it before December 31st, 2015, since he's gone by the end of the year, meaning by that point, what he says and thinks won't matter.

I have to agree with Fantomas here, in that this logic is completely fucked up. Kojima is the series creator regardless of his relationship to Konami. Any true MGS fan knows that Kojima is the creative force behind our cherished series and Konami is simply a big corporation that is just interested in money. They were the ones who decided to fuck with Kojima by doing things like disbanding Kojima Productions, taking his name off the boxes and pushing him out of the company.

Kojima will always be the arbiter of the series until he hands the responsiblity off to someone else or says otherwise.