[earvcunanan]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ar-baby-snake/

Metal Gear Solid 5 will be set in 1970s Africa, star Big Boss and - and maybe, just maybe - show the birth of baby Solid Snake, according to an in-depth investigation in the latest issue of PSM3.

In a 10-page feature, Metal Gear series expert Dan Dawkins provides forensic analysis of the Metal Gear timeline, while piecing together over 12 months of Kojima's cryptic tweets, a raft of existing clues and all the 'Next MGS' imagery to date. The most obvious clue about 'the next MGS', comes from the recent Kojima Productions GDC recruitment advert, where a picture of Big Boss (the hero of Metal Gear Solid 3 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker) is accompanied by the call to arms, "Big Boss Wants You!". The Kojima Productions site itself 'hides' another image of Big Boss with a 'Diamond Dogs' logo on his shoulder, which Dawkins claims is a reference to both the 1974 David Bowie album Diamond Dogs (Kojima being a confirmed Bowie fan), but, more importantly, the diamond mines of Angola, against which some of the action could be set. Previously, characters such as Frank Jaeger aka Cyborg Ninja and Big Boss himself have all been revealed as having links to the continent via countries like South Africa, Rhodesia (neé Zimbabwe) and Mozambique, further reinforcing Africa's importance to MGS canon. Need convincing further? We've included a sample spread from the magazine detailing Dawkins' thinking. As well as all that, PSM3 explains why the choice of location and timeline could mean a reprisal for Gray Fox (aka Ninja from MGS on PSone), focuses on the philosophical dispute between Big Boss and Major Zero that inspired the plot of MGS4, and reveals how the game could address modern world, mid-economic-recession, issues. Finally, they investigate Kojima's 'Project Ogre' and whether it's the same thing as the 'next' MGS and when both games might be out. Oh, and why should you trust Dawkins? Because he was the man that correctly predicted the plot, main themes and characters in GTA V months before the official first reveal.

[Tadale]

I'd take that.

[BadWolf]

Please just... leave the Boss alone.

[salromano]

I wouldn't call it a rumor. It's an analysis.

[shinobi602]

Another prequel?

Awww =/

[Skilletor]

I'd take that.

This.

[MuddyDonut]

3 hour cut scenes every 20 minutes.

[strafer]

Told you.

Prequel.

GAF explodes in 5..4...

[spats]

[pje122]

Whoa...

[Bumhead]

Prequel? Brilliant news.

Other than a complete reboot I don't know where people think the series can go after 4.

[BeEatNU]

I'd take that.

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[Ridley327]

I don't understand why they'd show Snake being born; MGS5 is looking to take place after Peace Walker, and that was already four years removed from when the Snakes were born.

Gray Fox being in this would make sense, since Kojima seems content to re-do everything that Portable Ops attempted.

[Plasma]

Wasn't there a casting call leak for GTAV and that's how everyone knew about it before the trailer?

[Fersis]

FUUUUUUUUUU

Awesome Zappa is awesome.
* Zappa bro fist *

[ShutEye]

Just what the world needs ... a Kojima birthing scene.

[zlatko]

Sold. Day 1. Limited Edition. All of my monies.

PLEASE DO ANOTHER METAL GEAR ONLINE! :(

[bone_and_sinew]

I wouldn't call it a rumor. It's an analysis.

Yeah, and one any MGS fan worth their weight in salt made months ago when MGS5 was quasi-announced.

[Finaika]

The baby.

[giancarlo123x]

The more Big Boss I get the better.

[LiK]

more prequels......

[alr1ght]

Like a Big Boss

more prequels......

What is left to tell after MGS4? Snake in a Nursing Home...hmm maybe.

[injurai]

That is a lot of work to make a prediction of an announcement that will inevitably come. If only discoveries in hard science would be slowly leaked to us...

[StalkerUKCG]

Koji's new engine was all jungle based that looked nice.

Ill take MGS3-2 any day

[Imm0rt4l]

*does the dougie

[Net_Wrecker]

Open world MGS5 set in Africa with Big Boss + upgraded MGS3 hunting/survival mechanics?

One can dream.

[throwawayname]

I'd buy it. Prepare for pre E3 Konami website with countdown to a conference. Boom, Vita game.

[Noisepurge]

Yesss! where can i preorder? :D but they should just call it MGS6!

[Hobbestetrician]

Big Boss>Solid Snake so I am game. Africa should be sweet too.

[Rahxephon91]

Please fucking stop with these prequels. Stop with this storyline. It's done. It's over. No one listens to techno.

Do something new with this series for the love of god.

[jett]

How is this a rumor? This is borderline fan fiction.

[90sRobots]

As long as they ditch the whole ladyboy look that some as the art implies, I'd totally play as Frank.



Also never do a Google Image Search of Frank Jaeger with the SafeSearch off because ughhhhhhhhhhhh

[Minion101]

I remember Kojima saying he had an idea for a game focusing on The Boss pre-MSG3. His team decided they wanted to make MGS Rising instead.

[Roto13]

Like a Big Boss What is left to tell after MGS4? Snake in a Nursing Home...hmm maybe.

For a few months until he dies?

[Live Free or Die]

YES!

[Angry Fork]

Wish there would be a game around The Boss. Big Boss already got his fair share with MGS3/Peace Walker.

[madmaxx350]

YES!

lol, what is that from ?

[Rahxephon91]

How is this a rumor? This is borderline fan fiction.

So MGS4 quality?

[Omikaru]

All seems like common sense to me. I'll take it, provided they play down some of the MGS4 "twists" on account that they were awful. I'd just prefer that they didn't exist...

[injurai]

I was kinda hoping that MGS5 would be set after 4. In which Sunny has grown up to become the new Cyborg ninja, and fights to dismantle other military organizations to crop up which prevent the world from rebuilding.

[LiK]

Like a Big Boss What is left to tell after MGS4? Snake in a Nursing Home...hmm maybe.

Revengeance.

[XANDER CAGE]

As long as they ditch the whole ladyboy look that some as the art implies, I'd totally play as Frank. Also never do a Google Image Search of Frank Jaeger with the SafeSearch off because ughhhhhhhhhhhh

Fuckin' really?

The Metal Gear Solid art has always had "that whole ladyboy look".

[bone_and_sinew]

Wish there would be a game around The Boss. Big Boss already got his fair share with MGS3/Peace Walker.

There would be if KP didn't suck without Kojima. The team was too scared to do it without him so they went to Rising, and they sucked with that too.

[GQman2121]

Sounds like pure speculation, but fuck it, I'm in for that.

[jett]

Frankly if I was a betting man I'd say the setting at least will turn out to be true, at least some of us had already figured it out. The dog in the Big Boss pic Konami released is a Rhodesian Ridgeback, that should tell you enough, plus the jungle and desert pics that are out and about.

So MGS4 quality?

[Live Free or Die]

lol, what is that from ?

I don't know. lol I saw it used here on GAF. I thought it was funny so I saved it. Maybe someone else knows.

[injurai]

There would be if KP didn't suck without Kojima. The team was too scared to do it without him so they went to Rising, and they sucked with that too.

Anyone other than Molyneux would be afraid to step into Kojima's shoes.

[Jarmel]

I'd buy it.

[Ridley327]

How is this a rumor? This is borderline fan fiction.

To be fair, what exactly is the difference these days?

[Chinner]

every prequel we get just makes the mgs backstory more ridiculous and cultivated.