10 Times Metal Gear Solid Was A Total Dick To Fans

10. The Unabashedly Ridiculous, Total Randomness Of It All

You've either got to love or hate a guy who after building a franchise for over 20 years, then publicly states his latest work will create "inconsistencies" with the overall timeline, as all he wants to do is tell a good story. You know where else good stories can be told, Kojima? In other intellectual properties, but instead the titanic Metal Gear gets melded into what's needed at the time. Even at a glance MGS contains everything from a troop of evil (or are they?) sexy ladies twinned with animal counterparts, a water-walking vampire who survived a bombing by feasting on his own parents' blood, a fat man on roller-skates, and the idea that World War 2 was turned in the allies favour thanks to a man who fires bees from his fingers. Metal Gear doesn't have to be the Metallica of video games, bent in and out of shape to accommodate the whims of a maniacal creative group who on any day of the week might fancy bastardising their property with anything from the likes of a Lou Reed collaboration to say, a talking cat - both of which will always remain feeling more out of place than a hipster at, well, a Metallica gig.