Read-a-long with Nintendo Power #253 (April 2010)
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Konami repeats: no more Snake, but Big Boss another matter

Submitted by Stephen Munn on June 22, 2008 – 12:33 pmComments

While it’s been said that the story of Solid Snake has ended, nobody said that Metal Gear as a franchise was over, despite what you may have heard. In fact, there’s plenty of room for more about Big Boss.

So goes the latest from Ryan Payton, assistant producer on Metal Gear Solid 4. We talked about this briefly in a recent podcast and we agreed that there’s no way Konami would let the highly lucrative Metal Gear name just disappear. Even while fans awaited Metal Gear Solid 4, no less than three games came out for PSP with the Metal Gear name on them: Ac!d 1 and 2 plus Portable Ops. And wasn’t there a Portable Ops 2?

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.”

No, there’s plenty of room for more Metal Gear. With games like these that are based around the titular walky, shooty robots, you’ve got a franchise that never has to die. More good info from Payton can be found in 1up’s full interview.

Source: 1up. Image source: I can has cheezburger?

  • LONGLIVEMGS
    metal gear solid? not going to be SOLID witout SOLID SNAKE ;(
  • Jon
    I dont think Solid Snakes Story Has to end. It should continue. MGS4 Has snake as an old man but what if somthing in his DNA made him younger? For example he is a direct clone of big boss right then he has the same DNA hence the possibilaty of the so called Gene Thereapy working to make him younger like the previous games. I hope to see a future MGS game with the younger Solid Snake.
  • I was kind of hoping for an Outer Heaven/Zanzibar combo remake so I wouldn't have to feel bad about not having played Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2.

    Side note: Just finished MGS4 tonight. I think I liked 3 better. Great game, though.
  • I saw this one coming from a mile away.

    Portable Ops, which I still haven't picked up again, is definitely a prequel, featuring among other things when Big Boss meets Campbell for the first time when he frees him from a prison he's infiltrating. There are so many stories they could mine.
  • Sifer2400
    here comes the milking i hate when games do this because even if the next one is good they will just deteriorate in quality
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