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  StarJet | May 20, 2008
  Bah, this should have been expected. No company likes to stop milking a very popular franchise even if their life depended on it. But I don't think Metal Gear without Snake will be as good as that with Snake.
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  Donnelly | May 20, 2008
  Lets be honest, who didn't see this coming? A popular francise isn't just going to be dropped like this. Spin-offs, almost certainly starring Raiden were obvious.
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  Jaseyboy12 | May 20, 2008
  well if snake isn't going to be the protagonist then who will?
  
  
  i hope it's little gray
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  PangTong_Blademaster | May 20, 2008
  i would like to see flashbacks of other characters such as Roy Campbell, Revolver Ocelot and of course Gray Fox
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  reaver11 | May 20, 2008
  More Metal Gear or not, this is my last Metal Gear. I've been waiting for a series closure for a while and now I've got it. No sense starting a new one and getting wrapped up in that one just to have it drag on for another 20 years. No another Metal Gear game would be the equivalent of having an Episode VII in the Star Wars saga - pointless.
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  Final Blade | May 20, 2008
  _{I thought this was confirmed awhile ago.
  Well like Donnelly said who didn't really see this coming?}
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  Rune Ripper | May 20, 2008
  Hopefully Metal Gear won't lose it's spark with Solid Snake no longer being in the game.
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  Storm | May 20, 2008
  Guess this slightly confirms Snake's death in MGS4?
  
  It'll likely be a different series altogether, just with quite a few similar concepts, so no, it won't be like a 7th episode of Star Wars, reaver, that is different. Like a new PoP for it's latest game.
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  Koloth | May 20, 2008
  Remember Metal gear didn't start with Solid Snake anyway. It was Metal gear Solid that introduced us to Solid Snake and his brothers. Raiden is one possible choice for a future protagonist. However they could always create another caracter with a completely different story line that we have never seen before.
  
  I think the key feature is really more along the lines of whoever the protagonist is he has to be working to stop the next generation of Metal Gear. That tends to be the real point of Metal gear rather than who is doing the stopping. The character just makes for a more interesting story beyond the main plot.
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    Seeker X | May 20, 2008
    Metal Gear DID start with Solid Snake (against Big Boss himself). Solid's been in every MG/S game except for the third game (and Portable Ops, but that's more like an expansion of MGS3).
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  Alvaroduck | May 20, 2008
  Seeing more of Raiden would be pretty cool if he was to become the new protagonist. Playing as Gray Fox in the past (before he was made into a cyborg ninja) would be pretty cool too.