God, I wish they'd drop it already.
Metal Gear Game 1: Solid snake, yay sneaking etc. At the end, snake retires.
Metal Gear Game 2: Solid snake again. He comes out of retirement. yay more sneaking, still not very popular game
Metal Gear Game 3: Metal Gear Solid. OH MY GOD! INCREDIBLE! AWESOME! HOLY SHIT!!! Snake
once more comes out of retirement. He retires yet again at the end.
But from here you have metal gear Solid 2, metal gear solid 3 (?) Twin snakes? Snake eater? Acid?
It's like if Tomb Raider went Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II, Tomb Raider III, Tomb Raider III-II, Tomb Raider III-III, Tomb Raider III-IV, etc, though with tomb raider II they'd decided that was enough for the poor hero and he wasn't going to be doing anything anymore. Did somebody just say sellout? Because I think I just heard somebody say sellout.
For the record, I think Tomb raider has sort of crashed and burned also
. It's peak for me was TRII. But that's another thread entirely.