Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-50.189.240.162-20140807193139/@comment-1672596-20140808214311

Bluerock wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: The open-ended ending would actually suggest a sequel to be made. Otherwise, he would have made sure it was closed ended, left absolutely no room for a sequel. In other words, Ocelot would NOT identify the president as being Solidus. Even Kojima mentioned that he already had planned Solidus for an eventual sequel (hence his name). That's not exactly true. Open endings are sometimes deliberate, and MGS2's is proof of that. Solidus was likely created as a backdoor for a sequel if the first game was successful enough to warrant it, but Kojima clearly hadn't planned out an entire saga from the get go. Yeah, I know he didn't plan out the entire saga (certainly, MGS4 wasn't planned, nor was MPO or PW or both MGSVs), but he did at least plan out MGS2, that much was made clear from the ending of the first game (Meryl Lives, to be more specific), and Kojima even admitted as much in regards to Solidus's creation.