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This is outrageous. He also needs to have a link in the "Metal Gear Franchise" box at the bottom of all Metal Gear pages. Did anyone notice this or is it just me?
Pretty self explanatory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.36.75.134 ( talk) 15:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
1up has a full week's worth of articles on Metal Gear 25th anniversary. Probably some stuff worth including here. Axem Titanium ( talk) 19:13, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
In the themes section, it mentions Gene, meme, scene, sense, and peace as the themes for most of the Solid games. Yet it does not mention the theme of Portable Ops. Why is this not included? 134340Goat ( talk) 22:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Wonder what will happen if I try to improve this article again... 134340Goat ( talk) 07:10, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
1.) Early on, two soldiers are talking about their dissatisfaction with Gene as their leader due to his brutal methods.
2.) When Gene explains his goal for his Army's Heaven, Snake calims that he is nothing but a dictator, and what soldiers are really looking for is outside his "heaven".
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By the looks of it, a 5 is in the works. http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_5 - 88.104.86.135 ( talk) 21:18, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
You guise can help with it. Also, The Boss (totally) and EVA (maybe) also need their own articles. -- Niemti ( talk) 19:14, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Alright. To some this might be tiresome. This is mainly about how Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance should be treated within the various articles concerning Metal Gear Games. This is an official site by Konami for the 25th anniversary last year: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.konami.jp%2Fmg25th%2Ftruth%2F Now, this is only one of myriad sources, that skips over MPO as if it isn't canon or at least not important. Similarly, Rising has constantly been referred to a spin-off or a "new standard", something that stands apart from the main series, especially by Kojima himself, THE ultimate source regarding Metal Gear. Actually he himself said about MPO "It happened, but it is not a main chapter." What I am getting at: A Main Series does NOT equal whether something is Canon or Non-canon. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a spin-off of the Star Wars films, even though it is canon, it has its focus on a side story (namely, the titular Clone Wars which are skipped over in the main cinematic saga). Even though Metal Gear Rising's events did happen in the larger Metal Gear Universe, it still is not part of Hideo Kojima's Main storyline. Even though Portable Ops did show events that happened within the main universe, Big Boss first taking on a command and becoming a leader, they are apparently not an important part of the core series. (In one main game, MGS3, Big Boss goes solo, in the next, MGSPW, he is already a commander years later. How that came to happen is not important to the main series, but if you are interested, there is a side story about how became a commander in MPO.) All things said: currently the myriad articles concerning Metal Gear tread MPO and MGR as part of the main series, when they are clearly not. The articles should reflect the official stance on the matter, more precisely, the CURRENT official stance in the matter. MPO may have been a main chapter once, but it has since been superceeded by Peace Walker. And Rising was never more than a spin-off game in the first place, albeit a canonical one. Suggestion: 1. the main series currently consists of seven titles: Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain are two upcoming title which will continue the Main Series. The articles should reflect that stance. 2. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are unique among the various spin-offs in that they present canonical storylines, meaning storylines, that did happen within the main Metal Gear universe and not outside the regular continuity in some alternate reality or something. This should be clearly mentioned as well as the debate arround MPO, which originally was announced as a main chapter but has since been shoved under the carpet by Kojima Productions, especially following Peace Walker. Thoughts anyone? 141.35.40.137 ( talk) 10:33, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Read this article: http://www.siliconera.com/2013/03/27/the-phantom-pain-and-metal-gear-solid-ground-zeroes-are-two-separate-games/
I saw another article, though I can't seem to retrieve it now. In it, Hideo Kojima confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 5 is not a game. It's a project composed of two games - MGS:Ground Zeroes and MGSV:The Phantom Pain. He did later say he was unsure of HOW they will be released, but he did also clarify that they're still two games. In addition, the official Metal Gear website still lists MGS:GZ and MGSV:TPP as two separate products.
Also remember that trailer confirming Metal Gear Solid V is NOT pronounced as Roman numeral 5, rather, the V is literally pronounced as letter V (the trailer flashed across words like "vapor, victory, V has come to", etc.
So with all this confirmed info, why is so much in this article inaccurate? 134340Goat ( talk) 21:51, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone else feel like we can make a splinter page for Metal Gear Solid as a sub:series? In the same way that persona has its own article as sub series of megami tensei? Osh33m ( talk) 16:40, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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This is outrageous. He also needs to have a link in the "Metal Gear Franchise" box at the bottom of all Metal Gear pages. Did anyone notice this or is it just me?
Pretty self explanatory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.36.75.134 ( talk) 15:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
1up has a full week's worth of articles on Metal Gear 25th anniversary. Probably some stuff worth including here. Axem Titanium ( talk) 19:13, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
In the themes section, it mentions Gene, meme, scene, sense, and peace as the themes for most of the Solid games. Yet it does not mention the theme of Portable Ops. Why is this not included? 134340Goat ( talk) 22:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Wonder what will happen if I try to improve this article again... 134340Goat ( talk) 07:10, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
1.) Early on, two soldiers are talking about their dissatisfaction with Gene as their leader due to his brutal methods.
2.) When Gene explains his goal for his Army's Heaven, Snake calims that he is nothing but a dictator, and what soldiers are really looking for is outside his "heaven".
Need any more? 134340Goat ( talk) 18:40, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Metal Gear's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 03:43, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
By the looks of it, a 5 is in the works. http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_5 - 88.104.86.135 ( talk) 21:18, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
You guise can help with it. Also, The Boss (totally) and EVA (maybe) also need their own articles. -- Niemti ( talk) 19:14, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Alright. To some this might be tiresome. This is mainly about how Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance should be treated within the various articles concerning Metal Gear Games. This is an official site by Konami for the 25th anniversary last year: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.konami.jp%2Fmg25th%2Ftruth%2F Now, this is only one of myriad sources, that skips over MPO as if it isn't canon or at least not important. Similarly, Rising has constantly been referred to a spin-off or a "new standard", something that stands apart from the main series, especially by Kojima himself, THE ultimate source regarding Metal Gear. Actually he himself said about MPO "It happened, but it is not a main chapter." What I am getting at: A Main Series does NOT equal whether something is Canon or Non-canon. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a spin-off of the Star Wars films, even though it is canon, it has its focus on a side story (namely, the titular Clone Wars which are skipped over in the main cinematic saga). Even though Metal Gear Rising's events did happen in the larger Metal Gear Universe, it still is not part of Hideo Kojima's Main storyline. Even though Portable Ops did show events that happened within the main universe, Big Boss first taking on a command and becoming a leader, they are apparently not an important part of the core series. (In one main game, MGS3, Big Boss goes solo, in the next, MGSPW, he is already a commander years later. How that came to happen is not important to the main series, but if you are interested, there is a side story about how became a commander in MPO.) All things said: currently the myriad articles concerning Metal Gear tread MPO and MGR as part of the main series, when they are clearly not. The articles should reflect the official stance on the matter, more precisely, the CURRENT official stance in the matter. MPO may have been a main chapter once, but it has since been superceeded by Peace Walker. And Rising was never more than a spin-off game in the first place, albeit a canonical one. Suggestion: 1. the main series currently consists of seven titles: Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain are two upcoming title which will continue the Main Series. The articles should reflect that stance. 2. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are unique among the various spin-offs in that they present canonical storylines, meaning storylines, that did happen within the main Metal Gear universe and not outside the regular continuity in some alternate reality or something. This should be clearly mentioned as well as the debate arround MPO, which originally was announced as a main chapter but has since been shoved under the carpet by Kojima Productions, especially following Peace Walker. Thoughts anyone? 141.35.40.137 ( talk) 10:33, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Read this article: http://www.siliconera.com/2013/03/27/the-phantom-pain-and-metal-gear-solid-ground-zeroes-are-two-separate-games/
I saw another article, though I can't seem to retrieve it now. In it, Hideo Kojima confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 5 is not a game. It's a project composed of two games - MGS:Ground Zeroes and MGSV:The Phantom Pain. He did later say he was unsure of HOW they will be released, but he did also clarify that they're still two games. In addition, the official Metal Gear website still lists MGS:GZ and MGSV:TPP as two separate products.
Also remember that trailer confirming Metal Gear Solid V is NOT pronounced as Roman numeral 5, rather, the V is literally pronounced as letter V (the trailer flashed across words like "vapor, victory, V has come to", etc.
So with all this confirmed info, why is so much in this article inaccurate? 134340Goat ( talk) 21:51, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone else feel like we can make a splinter page for Metal Gear Solid as a sub:series? In the same way that persona has its own article as sub series of megami tensei? Osh33m ( talk) 16:40, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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