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Rafux on 03 March 2013
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Wright said:
Michael-5 said:

Well no because Metal Gear Solid replaces and adds onto the original Metal Gear Games. If they continued making Metal Gear games, then MGS would be a different series, but they don't. Metal Gear Solid continues on what Metal Gear started, and expands on it.

Metal Gear Solid is to Metal Gear, what Super Mario 3D Platformers are to Super Mario Bros. It's the same series.

You yourself are admitting this in the bold when you say Metal Gear Rising will be its own series (to me it already is it's own game).

As for your example on Resident Evil, Code Veronica is technically a main series game, but it's not a main entry. You can skip Resident Evil CV and not be missing out on any story from RE 0-6. The events in CV are an isolated event. I haven't played Revelations yet, but I think it's the same. This would be similar to RE: Dead Aim, except the characters in CV appear in other RE games.

So like Rising, CV is not a main Resident Evil game. When they eventually do release a MGS6, the events in MGR will have little weight to the story, if any.

 

I'm tired of explaining this already, so I'll try to be clear using your same arguments.

Metal Gear Solid continues on what Metal Gear started and expands it? Well, Metal Gear Rising CONTINUES on what Metal Gear Solid did and expands it too.

Metal Gear Rising will be its own series, the same way Metal Gear Solid went and become a series of its own. The same way Metal Gear became two games.

When they eventually do a release of MGS5 (MGS5 I suposse, not MGS6 =P), they'll expand more the Metal Gear Solid saga, but mind you, it is a prequel featuring Big Boss. So no, the weight to the story of Metal Gear Solid will be little, as it will explain events that we already know. Yet Rising is build upon the closure of Metal Gear Solid 4 and carries on the Metal Gear saga story.

Its like Star Trek (2009), is canon because Nimoy/Original Spock is there but it branched out into its own thing. Yes it continues with some of what classic Trek started like the Kobayashi Maru test but it also breaks free from previous canon and let the developers make it its own thing they even change the genre too (classic Trek = Sci Fi, new Trek = Action movie with Sci-fi elements, MGS = Stealth, MGR = Hack and Slash).