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Fantomas wrote:

There's the current "main timeline:" Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, MGS1, MGS2, MGS3, Portable Ops, MGS4, Peace Walker, Metal Gear Rising, and MGSV. All these games establish themselves as being part of a single timeline, so that's how we present them.

This is literally completely false. This youtube video shows the interview where Kojima explicitly says only the Core8 are part of the main timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMlZ-HQY4jQ I always say ‘this will be my last Metal Gear,'” Kojima said, “but the games in the series that I’ve personally designed and produced — Metal Gear on MSX, MG2, MGS1, 2, 3, 4, Peace Walker, and now MGSV — are what constitute a single ‘Metal Gear Saga.’ With MGSV, I’m finally closing the loop on that saga. In that sense, this will be the final ‘Metal Gear Solid,'” Kojima continued. “Even if the ‘Metal Gear’ franchise continues, this is the last ‘Metal Gear.' Just because games "present themselves" in some way does not make them part of the main timeline. Hideo Kojima himself said unequivocally what games are part of the SINGLE Metal Gear Saga. End of story.