![]() ![]() It also doesnt help that David Hayter got replaced as Snakes voice actor (which Hayter himself was quite upset about), and Hideo Kojima himself left the project partway through as well, leading to a game that felt like its vision was not fulfilled. ( Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance dont tend to get this same feeling despite also being released afterward because they are side stories and not full-fledged numbered titles). There are also some fans who do not consider Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain canon, due to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots giving such a definitive ending to the series, leading to a feeling of Franchise Zombie with such major stories being retroactively added into the timeline.However, there are just as many fans who do like to keep them in the canon due to them both having clear spots in the series timeline (Portable Ops taking place between Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Revengeance taking place after Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and currently at the end of the series timeline), adding to the stories of characters like Raiden, Sunny, Big Boss, and Gray Fox in ways that most fans agree are in-character and done well, being considered fun games in their own right, fitting in well with the tone of the Metal Gear universe, and not causing any major conflict with the rest of the canon. They arent included in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroess ∽eja Vu recap of the series because of this, which some fans take as a sign that Kojima doesnt want the games to be canon. Despite being officially counted as canon, there are many fans who dont count Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as canon entries due to Hideo Kojimas lack of involvement with those games as well.The overwhelming majority of fans dont count Metal Gear Survive as canon, due to it being made after Hideo Kojima left the series, not to mention how extremely different it is from every other Metal Gear game.There are even multiple common approaches to this: The majority of this comes down to how much a fan is attached to Hideo Kojimas own specific vision of the series. Fanon Discontinuity: Its surprisingly rare for fans to accept every single installment of the series as canon.As of the late 2010s, there have been several fans who refer to Solid Snake as "Snavid" (a portmanteau of Snake and David, his real name), both as a term of affection and to differentiate him from the other Snakes.A few fans additionally classify a few of the games into a "Raiden Saga" (consisting of Sons of Liberty, Guns of the Patriots, and Revengeance), despite it mostly overlapping with Solid Snake's own saga. Some fans of the franchise like to divide it into two so-called sagas: the "Solid Snake Saga" (consisting of Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, Solid, Sons of Liberty, and Guns of the Patriots) and the "Big Boss Saga" (consisting of Snake Eater, Portable Ops, Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain).The plan for Metal Gear Solid 2 states that Raiden was designed to appeal to a female audience. Yes, even the strong male bonding is verbatim action movie. Estrogen Brigade: The series is extremely popular with women considering it's basically a crazy Rated M for Manly action movie in video game form.Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker takes the crazy awesomeness to even greater heights with a tank-shaped cardboard box (with a working gun turret), an ambulance-shaped box (complete with siren) that can heal people dragged into it, and a "Love Box" that has room for two. Metal Gear Solid 4 upped the ante with the drum barrel which had much of the same functionality plus it could be used to literally barrel over multiple enemies. A badass soldier with a strange affection and reliance on cardboard boxes is this.To simplify, there are the fans that are still sticking by the series and then there are those that feel the "Solid Snake Saga" should've just ended with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and the "Big Boss Saga" with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and that anything released afterwards is unnecessary. ![]() ![]() Similar to other franchises, the fandom seems to have its divisions regarding the sequels and prequels.Heck, there are even some who wonder if Raikov was actually related to Raiden due to their likeness. Some fan have debated as to what Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov's actual fate was, as well as whether recruiting him in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is canon. ![]()
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