Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-1672596-20150909155558

Fantomas wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: PS. Pretty much all of the games are alternate universes now thanks to MGSV's infamous plot twist.

What? Yeah, didn't you know? The MGSV truth tape basically retconned pretty much all of the events of MGS4, including the reason for Big Boss and Zero's war, basically left Ocelot, EVA, and Big Boss as liars, and pretty much made Solid Snake a tool even in death as a result. Oh, and the twist itself basically made the S3 Plan in MGS2 and, heck, even the Les Enfants Terribles project itself, completely pointless as a result, since why clone people when you can just doll them up, give them a little hypnotherapy, and voila, you've got a instant duplicate complete with his fighting skills (even worse is that he's not even a regular soldier or a former child soldier, but a combat medic). Not to mention the medic proved to be an even better candidate than Raiden, who was a former child soldier with a high kill rate and thus anything but normal, with the S3 Plan specifically requiring a test to see if they can manipulate an average joe and mold him into the next Solid Snake. Hence, retconned pretty much everything in the saga, leaving the saga in an alternate timeline. That's what happens with retcons, really, you destroy canon.