Hideo Kojima has stunned the world by saying that this really was it, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the very last Metal Gear game he will ever make.

Roit.

Today he said he may produce another Metal Gear title, possibly a prequel involving Big Boss. Now as I mentioned in this week’s podcast I used the very nice Piggyback Games official guide to make it through my first MGS4 playthrough to earn the no-kill and doll collecting rewards and I’m playing it through again to go after a no-alert playthrough. I never finished Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops on the PSP because of my old-man-like complaints about the I’m-so-great-I’m-gonna-use-circle-instead-of-X and one-analog-nub-is-cool-too control scheme. Since MGS4 controls so much better than any previous MGS game I’m not sure I’ll be able to double back and play the rest of MGS:PO. But as I was saying, not playing MGS:PO meant there was a good hunk of story revealed about Big Boss that I hadn’t seen before.

That also leaves open the situation that enough of what MGS4 showed didn’t happen in MGS:PO, leaving some nice ground to cover in Kojima’s next game. Ah well I guess we’ll find out, or be confused by long cut scenes in that game too.

So why would Kojima make even more of these games? Is 20 years of them not enough? Does he lack faith in that Zone of Enders franchise he kind of flailed around on for a little while there? Maybe Konami has given him a limitless supply of those nifty little syringes that give you a psyche boost so that on those days when he looks in the mirror and wonders why he’s doing another one he just pokes his neck and he’s good to go again. Except these don’t have the ugly side effects like the ones Snake gets warned about in MGS4.

Source: PlayStation Universe