Metal Gear Solid 5 Could Be a Prequel

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When Metal Gear Solid 3 was announced as a prequel to Solid Snake's adventures, many fans of the series expressed disappointment that the main narrative would not be continued or completed in that game. Now with Metal Gear Solid 4 tightly wrapping up all the loose ends of the saga, prequels may be the only way for Konami to continue fleshing out that same epic narrative.

Speaking in an interview with 1UP a week before the game's release, MGS4 assistant producer Ryan Payton said there is "still a lot of room for filling in the gaps as far as Big Boss is concerned." When asked about the possibility of a Metal Gear Solid 5, Payton responded, "There are some misunderstandings that this is the final Metal Gear game. But it's really the final chapter of the Solid Snake story. That's all."

"I'm happy we could wrap up Snake's story in MGS4," Payton stated earlier in the interview, continuing, "because it gets to the point where if we continue on with Metal Gear Solid 5 with more Solid Snake adventures, we'll get to the point where the game has absolutely no basis in reality. I do like the idea that this character has had four or five big missions and then that's when it ended, rather than have 20 missions where there's no chance in hell a secret agent could ever survive. He's had four or five really big missions, and that seems a little more realistic to me."

In the interview, Payton also discussed the shift in game design in Metal Gear Solid 4 and whether or not Japanese developers should be moving toward a more western style of game design. "If other Japanese publishers want to improve their controls, I wouldn't say they need to adopt western ideas, but rather that they simply need to improve them," Payton said. Later he added, "Most Japanese development studios have producers who came up through the ranks over the course of fifteen years or so, which encourages a xenophobic atmosphere, because, outside of E3 or GDC, they haven't branched out to foreign countries."

Payton also hinted at the future of Metal Gear Online: "We're working on a handful of new maps, skills, and rules that we're bug checking at the moment. A lot of the stuff is pretty far along. It's not going to be too long before people are going to start seeing screenshots of the new stages.... By the time you're tired of the maps that come in the game, it'll probably be around the time we'll be bringing out the new ones."

Source - 1up

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Doesn't really hint at a prequel that strongly. Just says their is some gaps for Big Boss.

"There are some misunderstandings that this is the final Metal Gear game. But it's really the final chapter of the Solid Snake story. That's all."

Yup, here's hoping for Metal Gear Raiden :p

[Blackice]

It'll probably be big boss, but one as ocelot or Solidus would rock, too.

[Scirwode]

Yup, here's hoping for Metal Gear Raiden :p

I knew someone was going to say that :p .

Scirwode

[KoL Veteran]

Doesn't really hint at a prequel that strongly. Just says their is some gaps for Big Boss.

Yup, here's hoping for Metal Gear Raiden :p

They have to make a game about Raiden mission to rescue Sunny, getting Big Boss body and how he get his cybor ninja body. That would be an interesting game.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

They have to make a game about Raiden mission to rescue Sunny, getting Big Boss body and how he get his cybor ninja body. That would be an interesting game.

And there probably will be - I think it's intentional Kojima didn't answer why Raiden had the body he had.

[Corris Veteran]

Good be interesting.

I look forward to any more MGS games, there are still a few bits that we don't find out in MGS4.

As mentioned already the ideas is what my first thoughts would be.

I would also love a remake of Metal Gear 1/2, so we can see Snake vs Big Boss, and also Grey Fox before his Ninja transformation, and of course the older Metal Gear models.

[gigapixels Veteran]

Oh man, after seeing Raiden being so ridiculously bad-ass in MGS4, I've been hoping for a game with him again. Perhaps to fill the gap between 2 and 4, or even something that happens after 4.

I would also love a remake of Metal Gear 1/2, so we can see Snake vs Big Boss, and also Grey Fox before his Ninja transformation, and of course the older Metal Gear models.

That would be great as well. They were cool games, but pretty poorly done (the translations are laughable, to say the least), so if we could get well-made versions done for the PS3, that would be awesome.

[+shift. MVC]

A prequel would be nice. They tied up the Solid Snake saga of Metal Gear Solid nicely, but there are still several loose ends left, and a few questions left unanswered.

[richardsim7]

And there probably will be - I think it's intentional Kojima didn't answer why Raiden had the body he had.

Hmm, interesting point!! :D

-Rich-

[Nick H. Supervisor]

I haven't played MGS4 yet (it arrives tomorrow, can't wait) so I haven't scrolled over any of the spoilers, making this quite a short thread to read through :lol:

I agree with Corris though, a remake of MG and MG:SS would be brilliant. They did it for MGS, although I guess doing a remake from the MSX would be considerably more difficult.

It's good to hear that they've finished with Solid Snake though. I would feel horrible if they ruined my favourite game series by flogging a dead horse. I'm not sure how literal that previous sentence is though, don't tell me! :)

[Michael1406]

Actually, remakes of the original Metal Gear games would be pretty awesome. For the people who haven't played (or know the story of) the original games, the relationship between Solid Snake and Big Boss would be a little mysterious. Hell, I even forgot about the old games when I first started watching their cutscene.

[Kushan]

I didn't think much of metal gear, but I did really like Metal Gear 2. It felt pretty much like a 2D MGS, although some of the game was silly in that you had NO POSSIBLE WAY of knowing what to do without a guide of sorts (Example: There's a bit near the end of the game where there are these "puddles" in your way - if you touch them, you die, but you can't jump over them or anything. You need to have a specific type of ration equipped to "clean up" the puddle or something...it really didn't make sense and there was nothing to tell you this).

I'd like to see another, more low-key Metal Gear game, one that's actually all about the Metal gears and is more "terrorists have taken control of a small military base" and less "some nutjob wants to hold the world to ransom".

[+shift. MVC]

"some nutjob wants to hold the world to ransom".

But we all know in almost all the MGS games that "some nutjob holding the world to ransom" is only a cover up for bigger things. ;)

[richardsim7]

But we all know in almost all the MGS games that "some nutjob holding the world to ransom" is only a cover up for bigger things. ;)

Just like 24!! :D

-Rich-