ITs better or not better its not with snake. Its with kojima and his creation. May be he can give us a new character better than snake. its not about the character its about the creation to make people like it. i Think kojima will Give his best in metal gear 5. I have played all of metal gear series its well and my no one favourate game too. I love the creators of metal gear those who give an good fantastic game like metal gear. In my opinion the metal gear series should continue without stopping. I love Mgs woooo.

snake makes the game, he's so badass i dont see how theyre going to replace him. even if they do, everyone one will be thinking of snake.

I agree with both these comentators. Here's the deal. they have a lot of "what if's" from other games. Like the son of naked snake. The SOn of Raiden, even meryl can continue on the saga somehow. Hal also can be used, maybe in a desperate attempt to save his friend, finds a way to break the "genetic Lock" on snake and clones him again. There can be a multitde of possibilities.

Iloved all MG series and wouyld be nice that it continues and continues forever XD the MG story is so awsome that I remeber evrything from begining of the first MG. So I hope that MG will not die ;(

I don't believe the fans would want a new character, but one that's already been established.

They still have 20 years of Big Boss to cover if they want to. Now Hideo said it's the "end" of Solid Snake's story, but that doesn't mean they couldn't make another game featuring Solid Snake again. They still have Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake to remake into Playstation versions to finally establish the relationship between Big Boss and Solid Snake (and also Gray Fox and Colonel Campbell) using cutscenes, voice-overs, and much needed updated new generation graphics.

As far as gaming, Konami should remake the first Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake as we played the Metal Gear Solid series, full of story & characters, cinema and 3D aspect rather than the 2D 8 bit graphics on the MSX, NES versions back in the 80s. It's understandable that the technology wasn't available back then. I think this would make a more complete series. Perhaps combine Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 into one game but in Solid format.

i think that without Solid Snake Metal Gear is tasteless,like no one will ever forget the characteristic voice over of David Hayter ,the coolness and awesomeness of Solid Snake-which is by the way in compared to any other Espionage game protagonist....so i believe for the sake of that beautiful game and all it's nice chapters please don't make a sequel not featuring our beloved Solid Snake.....maybe a prequel to feature Big Boss's past would be nice as the well received Snake Eater ;)

for all lovers and fans of Solid Snake out there stand tall for your legendary hero!!!!!! :))))))))

MGS is probaly my favorite game series to me. I remember the first mgs and plus i remember when mgs got real good when it first came out on the ps1. I loved that game so much and i beat it a million times. Then the second 1 came out and it had raiden in it. I was a little dissapointed because i love snake being the director but it was still a good game. Then the 3rd 1 snake eater.... no words to tell how amazing it was. I loved seeing more about snakes past and all the emotional stuff that happened to him. The game was real creative and had amazing graphics. Now finally the 4th 1 guns of patriots. The gameplay was awesome and the graphics were amazing and had a great storyline. even tho there will be a 5th 1.. im going to miss snake dearly.. mgs wont be the same without him but i will always be a mgs fan! Thank you konami

i think that konami should make a prequel for before metal gear solid 4. Where it's about raiden getting his cyborg body. And he unlike snake will never age because he is a cyborg. So he won't get old and die like snake eventually will. Plus after number 4 when raiden came into it i thought it would be awesome to play him. Big improvement to metal gear solid 2. Well done konami.

Hideo is lying. He will bring Solid Snake back, He never leaves characrers utterly 'finished'. I'm calling his bluff.

1. nano machines used to reverse/stunt the aging process.
2. some sort of retarded 'brain transplant' where they close snake in order to farm him a new body and house his original brain in it.
3. Cyborg ninja

2 is most unlikely to mesh with the MGS scheme, but I just ad libed 3 easy ways to revive snake. Hideo is full of shit and he will think of his own way.

Or, maybe theyll just 'clone' snake for a third generation of Big Boss's linage, and set it 20-25 years in the future.

A red haired Snake maybe? :O

Again, I hate to triple post, but I can't exactly edit...

If it is set in the near future, it should be a post-apocalyptic proxy war setting... Sort of like how they did Terminator's future. The world after Metal Gear finally realized its purpose. :O

I would like Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 remade for the next-gen, that would keep the series on ice for a number of years, and any Big Boss missions between Metal Gear Solid 3, and Metal Gear.

it would be a crime for the MG series to suddenly just stop and vanish off the face of the earth! it has so many fans right across the world who are dying to get there hands on a fresh metal gear game.
the story is great along with the characters.
please big boss of kojima continue to work your magic!

i think that if they don't include solid snake in the next mg then they should do a prequel about how raiden gets his bionic body

psp mgs:portable ops covers early big boss story don't forget, so theres really only a little bit of big boss story not yet shown : his rescue of Eva in hanoi before portable ops, and within 15 years afterwards the establishment of outer heaven (which has its roots in portable ops).
For solid there is what amounts to mgs:philanthropy covering snake between mgs and mgs 2, plus the four years after big shell. Then theres another approx. decade between mgs2 and mgs4, most of which has been told in some detail in oral form in mgs4. Then of course theres the 'paralell' snake from ghost babel, and the 2 ac!d games. Though he could turn out to be a variant on 'null/grey fox' the perfect soldier, mindwiped between missions (joss whedon's new series does something similar.) and only believing himself to be snake. (though they will probably remain apocryphal, misinformation like the stories spread by Zero about big boss.) And theres the fact that we never see solid die.... i was half expecting a reference to his namesake, with him shedding his skin.

I would like to see more of raiden, but he had to have bad things happen to him just to please the fans....mgs2 was fine, and raiden has always been cool.

some of the other chara's have tales to be told...mei ling....otacon.....even campbells past, pre-meeting big boss...in fact how come he wasn't in outer heaven, given it was practically his idea?

big boss is better than solid snake anyways.. so i think thats the perfect route to take.

they better not just remash solid snake. having a character that is similiar to solid will!!! kill the story of mgs 5. they could inturduce a clone from one of the main characters from the known stories. ex. a clone of ocolet. i think kenami will not let a remash of solid happen. now going back to big boss in the past it could work but it might be very confuseing to peaple, especially if konami doesnt direct it.

to even think about generating even half the revenue brought in so far, by the mgs series, konami absolutely have to include either big boss in a 'prequel' like mgs3, perhaps another mission after operation snake eater, or, solid snake in a mission after the big shell, highly covert style, just him and otacon and the usual arsenal of gadgets and weapons. as a long long standing metal gear fan, i would like to assure everyone, even the employees of konami that will probably never read this, that unless 1 of these first criteria is met, i will not buy the game or even rent it. i will not taalk about it and i will not even recongnize it as a true mgs game. the same goes for the alleged mgs film thats in the pipeline. if its CGI or not, they must use david hayter, he's the only snake the western world recognizes, if its CGI no probs, only voice required, if its live action, he'll have to buff up a bit and grow some facial hair. either way, he's the only sensible option and i hope that anyone who does read this, truly agrees. join the fight. help keep the greatest icon of the gaming world in the machines on the screens..

I have been thinking a lot about mg 5 ever since mg4 all of the mg game have been big hits mg5 shold be the bigist hit out of them all snake a great character but ... they need a new character like make it a co op game like re 5 that whold be great... make it only on the ps 3 or 4 not 5 i am not waiting that long for a game!! so 3 or 4 NOT 5!!!!

I would honestly wait for mg5, although it wouldn't be the same without snake. Even in mgs2, I was disapointed you played as Raiden for most of the game even though Raiden is pretty sik. I wouldn't even mind if Konami makes like..... a cheesy reincarnation of Snake for mg5, he will forever be a legend. David Hayter is the man too....I'm pretty sure everyone has tried to imitate his voice....
after the end of world war 2 the world split into 2, east and west......

Maybe they could make a liquid snake prequel. What liquid was doing in the middle east before shadow moses. Everyone loves liquid snake. Maybe a raiden spin off on how he rescued sunny. Maybe another big boss story showing us just why he's the world's greatest man of combat. Maybe stuff like how he founded foxhoundi. I.e rescuing sniper wolf... Anything is possible. But i'm happy snake's story has ended he earned his rest.

I would put my money on a prequel that features Big Boss, The Boss, and maybe even the Cobra Unit. Theres a whole new game waiting to be developed around sneaking up on and slaughtering Nazis. WWII is the perfect setting for the usual themes of nuclear weapons, govt plots, and the birth of modern special forces. Plus, having the player as Big Boss is a good way to get rid of Snake while still keeping him around...

YEA I LOVE MGS! EVEN IF SNAKES NOT IN IT.. I LOVE THE STORY! IT ITS LIKE A MOVIE WIT ALOT OF STUFF TO THINK ABOUT.. YEA SURE HE MIGHT NOT BE STARRING AND HE MIGHT EVEN BE DEAD BUT YOU KNOW KONOMI IS GOING TO PUT SUMTHING IN THD GAME TO REMEBER HIM SUCH AS EASTER EGGS ECT... IN MY OPINION I THINK EVRY ON THINKS DAT SNAKE IS GOIN TO BE DEAD BUT HES JUS STEALTH CAMOFLOUGE HELPING SUM ONE OUT OR SOMETHING.. OR HES A MENTOR TO SUM1 ONE OR SOMETHING BUT THATS JUST MY OPINION

Psh. Without Snake it will fail, MGS4 was already a huge let down if you go back and play MGS then play MGS4 you'll know what I'm talking about, the fact they made Solid Snake so weak in the mind and physically really disgusted me being a longtime fan of Solid Snake. Go ahead, continue the MG story, and rape all that was before it. Anything for that $$$$, fucking zombies.

They've already said something about making Raiden the new character which would be awesome, there will still most likely be more games with Snake in the future. Raiden needs a good story too, he just came out of nowhere so they're probably gonna have a lot about him.

Ive always Played MGS and MGS 4 Is by far the greatest game i have ever played but if solid isnt in it or someone connected to him like someone seen in the past games then it will suck... but i think they should make it to where solid finds a way to have a kid and use the kid in MGS like when the kids all grown up and just make a story and theres ur game now that would be a great game.

metal gear is the best seris/game ever made real talk

id like to see a metal gear game about Liquid snake. he's such a mysterious character and we know almost nothing about him.

The new character of metal gear will be Raiden

I agree with revamping the original mgs stories to next-gen. but my grand idea for the next game is a ww2 espionage thriller like never ever seen before, mgs style. it could have the boss and the cobra unit and the sorrow and show how it all started. it would show the production of the first cyborg ninjas in the pacific theature, and nazis! the playable character would be the sorrow or the boss maybe. what do you think?

i think soild snake will be back

As much as I love Metal Gear series, I love Snake more. Without him I'm really not interested in buying or playing a Metal Gear game.

I think he will be back, if the series wants to stay alive.

Maybe Sunny will come up with something to save him........

i agree they should remake metal gear 1 & 2.

make anouther metal gear! with snake it ent metal gear without him

metal gear is the best game that i playied all 4 of them really is something that should contiune with the sequals and the sceans are awsome and there should be no stop too it

Snake has to stay wit metal gear hes the hero of it all

no snake, shure as hell not buying the game just like i'm not buying MG rising

snake is king no one can replace that

i think it would be real awsome if they re created the metal gear games for the NES for 360 and ps3

Please make more metal gear games PLEASE!!!!!!!!

WE WANT SNAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i have been a MGS * since the beginning and i am sad to see the end of the solid snake series i hope the next generation of the MG will not stray far from the type of game it has made i give all the people that made all the MGS's big props i have never had a video game or a series to hit me like MGS has i actually just finsihed MGS4 cause i was away for awhile and it made me tear up through out the game thinking of all the way back to the very beginning and all the way and the story line start to finish of solid xnake