Metal Gear franchise to continue
Category: PlayStation 3, Posted: 05/20/2008 at 12:02PM CDT by Tim Mellish, Staff Writer
With Metal Gear Solid 4 soon to be released, some believed the Metal Gear franchise was coming to an end. They thankfully were wrong. Solid Snake's story will be concluded, but the Metal Gear titles are going to keep being produced. What Metal Gear Solid 4 signifies is the end of Solid Snake's story. June 12th will be the last day we all get to rush to our local game store and pick up Snake's latest adventure. Yes, this is sad but think of the possibilities the Metal Gear franchise can head now.
If Hideo Kojima is still involved with the future Metal Gear projects he has a clean slate to tell his new story. There are no questions he has to answer, or rules he has to follow. The world is open to him once again, and that is exciting.
Solid Snake was one of the most baddass characters to ever hit videogames, but who says Hideo can't create a new, equally cool, character? Only time will tell to see where the new Metal Gear games go, but thankfully we know that MGS4 is not the last time we'll see Metal Gear.
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I will never forgive this series fr becoming PS exclusive. Never.
Whats wrong with it being a PS exclusive thats like saying you'd never forigve Gears of War for being a Xbox exculsive.
It'll be sad to see Snake bow out but he had a great run and was one of the most memorable characters. Rest well Solid Snake you have earn it.
"I will never forgive this series fr becoming PS exclusive. Never."
It had to, really. Metal Gear Solid just wouldn't have worked on the N64 (what with all the CD-quality VA work) or the Saturn (unpopular and difficult to program for). I think more effort could have been made to port the other games over, MGS2: Subsistence made it's way to PC and Xbox, yes, but their success was far from stellar. All systems have their standout, killer titles, and Metal Gear Solid happens to be Sony's. You can't blame Konami for wanting to ride the popularity the PSOne and PS2 had.
RIP Snake. Somehow, you wore a mullet into the 21st century, and remained cool. That is no small feat. Not once have you owned a camero, or one of those beer hats. Business in the front, party in the back.