Sequels that take the bad ending as canon?

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Wright said:

NobleTeam360 said:
Saw you playing MGS and knew you would say something about it in this thread

I always liked how Metal Gear Solid 2 just assumed that Snake failed at saving Meryl in MGS1. They never explicitly said it, but every single character from the original game is mentioned except her, and the fact that you're stuck with Otacon also gives the theory that she's dead much more strenght. Then, out of nowhere, she appeared in MGS4 like "hey there!".

For some reason, I never made that assumption. I always thought she just wasn't relevant in MGS2 and thus wasn't shown/mentioned at all.