Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5038094-20140721042428/@comment-1672596-20140824184545

Bluerock wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: Yeah, and even MGS1 cut it extremely close since even Kojima indicated that it was his final game, so really, only Peace Walker was undoubtedly intended to have a sequel. And that's precisely why I have no sympathy for Kojima putting himself into a corner with the MSX2 games being so retconned that remakes are literally the only shot at them remaining canon. Why are they no longer canon? Retcons never made them so. The MG1 plot was very minimal to begin with. MG1's plot may have been minimal (more than most games released during its time, but still minimal), but MG2's plot wasn't minimal at all, and they heavily retconned that starting with Metal Gear Solid. That's the main problem. And when most of the story of most of the MSX2 games, especially Metal Gear 2, is heavily retconned to such an extent that there are very few things, if anything that even remains canon (heck, Snake is still the same in Metal Gear Solid if not worse than in Metal Gear 2, despite the ending making clear he was cured of his PTSD), then even if the games technically are canon, they are effectively saying they aren't canon. That's why his constant retconning made the remakes very necessary.