Metal Gear Solid 5 Is Apparently Happening

@BlueWolverine said:

Let your horribly written series die Kojima. Work on something different, and actually make it have gameplay that isn't interrupted with every 10 steps.

Thank god Kojima doesn't listen to people like you.

I wonder if this could be a launch game on the new hardware that is presumed to hit next X-mas

I don't give a shit what Kojima does, I've loved every single MGS game... So all I have to say is, YAY!

MGS is the only series I know that has all sorts of crazy crap always put into it thats absolutely extra and goofy. Love to play another next gen MGS title - that said I really love Snake as a character so it would be too bad to play an MGS game without him. Certainly nano machines can clone him somehow? Nanomachines, nanomachines, nanomachines..

Metal Gear Solid Rising = Metal Gear Solid 5 that's the "thruth" reveal at the VGAs Im calling it.

Dude I don't know, the language on that cover makes me think it's just some bullshit magazine cover hype.

"THE LATEST DETAILS ON METAL GEAR SOLID 5" and then the details turn out to be "nah, it's still not happening, stop asking"

@Brodehouse said:

There's room in the Metal Gear fiction for stories, even more Snake stories... but not past MGS4 in the timeline. Show Young Snake before the Outer Heaven incident in Metal Gear, or show him between Zanzibarland and Shadow Moses. If you have to set it after MGS4, for the love of fuck, retire Snake as the playable character. I think we'd all feel better if we could watch Snake die in peace. MGS5, you play as Raiden, and you're forced to kill Snake to prevent nuclear war. Here lies a patriot who saved the world.

Didn't Snake effectively die at the end of 4? I know it wasn't explicitly shown, but it was a pretty large thematic point...

If they brought him back again, then a lot of what makes 4 great is lost.

It says a lot about MGS for me that I actually screamed "what" out of excitement upon reading this headline. Can't say I usually have physical reactions to things on the internet very often. Nothings official yet, but this would just make my next couple of years...

Is there no reason to think this is simply Rising he's referring to?

Wasn't too impressed with MSG4 (I felt like I spent more time watching that game than playing it) but I am interested in what Kojima has in mind for MSG5. Hopefully, he'll further modernize some of the game mechanics because MSG4 was definitely not up to par in certain gameplay areas (gunplay especially).

I do believe love can bloom on the battlefield

@bkbroiler said:

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Perhaps Rising is simply being renamed MGS5?

</3. MGS4 was the perfect way to end the series; it resolved everything. There's no need to continue the story, it's over. Another prequel would just be lame, like Peace Walker.
 
But since it is a Metal Gear game, I'm going to have to buy it, and I'm going to buy the limited edition. Don't goof it up Kojima!

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I am feeling so many emotions right now! Anger that I was lied to about MGS3, sadness that MGS4 disappointed me, yet fanboy glee that my favorite franchise will see another entry. 
DO WANT.

I kind of don't want this to happen. MGS is my favourite franchise and I am totally fine with them ending with 4 and it being done. Plus I don't really want to have to buy any more consoles, as this will inevitably be on the next Sony console.

</3. MGS4 was the perfect way to end the series; it resolved everything. There's no need to continue the story, it's over. Another prequel would just be lame, like Peace Walker. But since it is a Metal Gear game, I'm going to have to buy it, and I'm going to buy the limited edition. Don't goof it up Kojima!

LET IT DIE, FOR FUCKS SAKE!

I'm hoping it's just a spiritual sequel in the same universe, and not a direct sequel. The Metal Gear lore is so far up its own ass that you need at least four compendiums to understand what the fuck is going on.

This is poor news writing, nothing about that cover says Metal Gear Solid 5 is happening.

I think you could make an absolutely amazing Metal Gear Solid 5- and I think Kojima could possibly use a break- which he might get for the first Fox Engine project- potentially something different from Metal Gear Solid 5.

Does Kojima have a wife? kids? I tried to find out- but Wikipedia failed me.

This is poor news writing, nothing about that cover says Metal Gear Solid 5 is happening.

Neat.

@Gabriel said:

This is poor news writing, nothing about that cover says Metal Gear Solid 5 is happening.

I guess "The latest Rising and MGS5 details" doesn't suggest MGS5?

Fox...Die!

@CL60 said:

@Gabriel said:

This is poor news writing, nothing about that cover says Metal Gear Solid 5 is happening.

The cover says "The latest Rising and Metal Gear Solid 5 details." ..

Yeah like the detail he's not doing it.

Cool! At the rate that im playing it, I should be done MGS 4 by the time MGS 5 comes out.

@Gabriel: Read the end of the third paragraph. You know, the one that says "discusses his plan for Metal Gear Solid 5 and Project Ogre."

@freedo said:

@Gabriel: Read the end of the third paragraph. You know, the one that says "discusses his plan for Metal Gear Solid 5 and Project Ogre."

Magazines do this a lot, they ask questions about an upcoming game and Kojima might confirm it, or he might say he has some ideas about what he'd like to do, or he could just straight up say it's not happening. I don't think this confirms MGS5 at all yet, until people read the details in the magazine.

So, fleshed-out remake of MSX Metal Gear, anyone?

@MattBodega said:

Poor Kojima. Trapped in an endless cycle of Metal Gear games.

Poor, poor millionaire Kojima, making mad cash while he writes whatever he damn well pleases.

I can think of people worse off. If he wanted to up and quit, he would have done so, along with the other devs of the Japanese Exodus last year (or was it early this year?).

@LifeByDegrees: I think he mentoined playing with lego with his son in the MGS2 documentary that was included with the game.

Oh God yes, a franchise that has a bunch of games, yet doesn't suck!

am i surprised no....am i excited? hell yea!

Not sure what to think of this... As long as it doesn't continue the story of Snake I guess it's okay... Guns of the patriots was a nice ending for him. But a prequel or a game where you play as a different character, that could work

@solidejake said:

Oh God yes, a franchise that has a bunch of games, yet doesn't suck!

Things is.. It kinda sucks :/

(Used to LOVE MGS, dont get me wrong.)

I trust Kojima to just do whatever. As long as he's directly involved I have faith the project will turn out even if I have some reservations about a series having another main entry after it was supposed to be ended.

@Krelle said:

@solidejake said:

Oh God yes, a franchise that has a bunch of games, yet doesn't suck!

Things is.. It kinda sucks :/

(Used to LOVE MGS, dont get me wrong.)

Umm, not really. I knew someone would say something stupid like that.

It's going to be Peace Walker 2. With Snake being dead, and Raiden being in Rising, the only one we have left is Big Boss.
 
And quite frankly, I'm fucking stoked. Peace Walker is the shit on the PSP and an even bigger badass on the PS3. I can't wait to play that sumbitch in a native, non-upscaled HD format.

@Tredik said:

So, fleshed-out remake of MSX Metal Gear, anyone?

I'd second this.

OK Kojima, I believed you last time when you said you were done. This has actually completely surprised me but I still have to play 1, 2, 3 and 4 so....

So Raiden as an Old Man this time?

MGS4 was kind of bad. Especially if you actually sat through the cut scenes.

Bring 
It 
The fuck  
On

You already have my money and it's not officially announced.

Providing is a David Hayter, Snake character ofc.

Wasn't MGS 4 the last one? Oh well, who needs integrity when you can have $$$.

Kojima thinks he lives in a VR world. He's insane.

yes....mmmyes.......mmmmYEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!! MOAR CUTSCENES MOOOOOOARRRR ALL OF THE CUTSCENES ALL OF THEMMM DAMMIIIT!!!!  
 
No seriously, I actually liked the cut scenes in MGS4, including the hour long one at the end. It tied things up nicely. The part where you play the game was really good too. Especially the last part. 

Would love more from the MGS universe.

Start fresh this time Hideo, give us the odd cameo sure, but give us a new badass and let our old one live out his days in peace.

Rising will fill the void till 5, but I fear it won't be the same.

@N7 said:

It's going to be Peace Walker 2. With Snake being dead, and Raiden being in Rising, the only one we have left is Big Boss. And quite frankly, I'm fucking stoked. Peace Walker is the shit on the PSP and an even bigger badass on the PS3. I can't wait to play that sumbitch in a native, non-upscaled HD format.

or..... it could be The Boss. I mean, that would be awesome! First a strong female character is totally what this industry need right now, and then it's the effin' Boss. And that means CQC at its best, infinite ammo on the Patriot, and all that stuff!

The problem is that she would ramble alot, but what the hell... ;)