Justice is served! MGR first week beat DmC first month!

[Michael-5]

Wright said:

But here's where you contradict yourself, using the Mario example. You say Mario (And later Super Mario)  is a 2D/3D platformer, and the rest is merely spin-offs.  Okay. Yet you say that Luigi's Mansion (A 3D adventure game about a plumber who goes capturing ghosts with a vacuum cleaner) with is canon, because there's characters from Super Mario in it. What? You are saying basically what I was saying about Metal Gear Rising. Metal Gear Rising is not Metal Gear Solid, as Luigi's Mansion is not Super Mario, yet if both are canon, both are part of the same saga!

Metal Gear Rising is not a replacement for Metal Gear Solid, nor a side story using MGS characters. Its a new series that carries on the story finished in Metal Gear Solid. Finished. Metal Gear Solid story in the Metal Gear universe is over. The fact that there's two Metal Gear Solid coming is because they're both prequels. A prequel that can only serve to explain unresolved things in a finished story. Metal Gear Rising keeps the plot of Metal Gear and while being a different genre and style of Metal Gear Solid, is an integral part of Metal Gear. It's a canon, but not a side story.

Luigi's Mansion is canon to Super Mario, but not part of the main franchise/saga.

MGR is canon to Metal Gear Solid, but not part of the main franchise/saga.

I'm not contradicting myself, but you are twisting my words. Metal Gear Solid 5 could be a prequel, and it could be a sequel to Metal Gear Solid. Anything is possible. Heck Metroid Fusion is a sequel to the Metroid series which saw the demise of the Space Pirates and Metroids in Super Metroid, yet they still made it work.

I never used the word finished once, you added that in there. Metal Gear Solid is unlikely over.

Metal Gear Rising is a side story, which takes place after the current MGS games stop. If/When they release a MGS 5 or 6, those games could take place during the time frame of MGR and I doubt the events in MGR will affect MGS.