Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-9174065-20140320083325/@comment-42.98.58.128-20151108120901

There's the aspect where Kojima did retcon established story as in the case of the very first two MG games. As for the rest, I think most the time he is just making the story as vague as possible, to a point that you cannot be 100% sure of the story until the relevant details were shown on screen -- What I mean is (and I've said that countless times) that for things like The Patriots were dead 100 years ago by the end of MGS2, he "retcon" it by providing a convincing reason in MGS4 that, the data Snake got from the GW was fake. In MGS5, he even had Huey (in a cassette tape) telling that no one even know if Dr. Clark is a male or female, thereby excusing himself from that MGS1 translation problem.

As for the age problem mentioned in post #21 in this forum, I think he is applying the same principle although I admit, in this case, we can only cite the Fact that Liquid (in MGS1) was misinformed on many things, such as whether he is the superior or inferior clone, and by extension, he might as well be be misinformed on Big Boss' age too, and now, like we all know, he was led to believe the MGS5 Fake Boss is his father, so in short, it's like Kojima tell us that "hey whatever Liquid say, think twice before you take it as the truth".

On the point about future MGS, my estimation is that there will be less story surprises, more repetitive game play (like AC), or even direct retconning (i.e. not by providing a convincing reason) of the story, but perhaps the worse will be it being reduced to phone games only. Either way, allow me to be selfish to say that, by then, I will (hopefully) be too old for whatever Konami provide under MGS' name.