Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209.220.66.20-20140131165820/@comment-1210805-20140201054510

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Soul reaper wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: Soul reaper wrote: It wont happen. As Bluerock said, if they wanted to do it they likely would have done it with the rest. Kojima says it's canon but considers it a side story and not necessary to understand any other game, and he's right. Having watched the cutscenes online, it really doesn't add anything. Most things were already foreshadowed/stated in Snake Eater, or confirmed and reiterated in MGS4. In my opinion, the story itself was pretty bad. It felt like poor fan fiction. The cutscenes are done in a motion comic style like in Peace Walker, but they have much less detail and are far more static.

I'm not sure: EVA's debriefing as well as who founded the Patriots were conflicted with MGS4. Besides, MGS2 pretty much reiterated what happened with MGS1, should we dismiss that as being a side story as well? No, but I'm not the one who labelled it a side story. That was Kojima. The user asked if it was worth playing the game and I expressed my opinion. Not disagreeing with Kojima labeling it a side story. I'm more objecting to your claim that MPO "didn't add anything." Again, that's just my opinion. You could play all the other games and get the full story without feeling like there's something missing. To me the only thing it added was an explanation as to how Big Boss got the money to establish something as big as Outer Heaven, but even then it doesn't really come into play as, when Peace Walker starts, MSF is quite small and never seems to have made use of that money. Rather they built it up throughout the game.