So, you're saying that they should've scrapped the whole story of the previous games and left it without an ending so the games could please you? Nah, nope.
MGS didn't do this back in psx era, it didn't scrap the OG mg1 and 2 story and it did well, KH shouldn't have done it either.
here's the thing. i don't even remember the story from 2. I own it, I played back when it came out in 2006. I would have continued the story of the characters from that point being 13 years later. Reference the other characters from the spin offs lightly, but be a new story that is a continuation in characters only.
Would rather they done that then to try and understand where the story is, and who all these new characters are that are in the spin offs probably being referenced plot wise.
MGS1 and 2 are literally different games where you play mostly as a new character, new location, different timeline, with only the characters being the continuation.
The patriots storyline was a whole new story plot. Shadow moses was referenced only, and characters from past games referenced in story through flash backs. The way it starts with you as snake, then as raiden is great. Like only returning thing from first game is Liquid/ocelot(characters).
You can play MGS 2 not knowing much since past events are referenced in well done flash backs.
