Line #5 Trivia/MetalGearSurvive


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2	* BTeamSequel: The fact that Creator/HideoKojima did not have a hand in the game permeates all of its aspects.
3	* FollowTheLeader: It's been accused of latching on to the popularity of both survival-crafting games and zombie horror games and bolting them onto a ''Metal Gear'' game, with strong resemblance to ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}''.
4	* FranchiseKiller: Though Konami hasn't actually declared the series dead, the venomous reaction from fans (as well as former Konami devs who were working on Kojima Productions) to Konami and the reportedly low sales of the game seems to have brought the ''Metal Gear'' series to a screeching halt, with the only releases from the series since then being re-releases of older installments, until the announcement of the remake of ''Snake Eater'' due 2024.
5	* GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld: Kojima confirmed at Tokyo Game Show 2016 that he's not involved with the development of ''Metal Gear Survive''. Yoji Shinkawa, the former primary character and mechanical designer of the ''Metal Gear'' series, also denied having any involvement with the game at the same event.
6	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Despite Kojima bemoaning ''Survive'' and completely disowning it, he's toyed around with the idea of making a zombie game of his own at least twice -- once [[https://www.gameguru.in/general/2007/16/hideo-kojima-aims-to-make-a-kick-ass-zombie-video-game/ back in 2007]], which he envisioned as some sort of MMO where zombified players were ForcedToWatch their zombie self kill other players if they died, and [[https://www.videogamer.com/news/kojima-wants-metal-gear-rising-2-to-star-cyborg-ninja-gray-fox/ again in 2013]] when he asked Creator/PlatinumGames if it was feasible to make a ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' sequel where Gray Fox fights nanomachine zombies. There's also "zombies" of the {{Technically Living\|Zombie}} type in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots MGS4]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain MGSV]]'' with the nanomachine-overloaded PMC mercs and the Skulls, respectively. Had Konami and Kojima's relations not soured over the course of ''MGSV''[='=]s development, ''Survive'' could've very well been a game he directed, given his interest in the genre.
7	* WriterRevolt: Within a week of the game's release, players discovered a hidden message in the game's first cutscene calling out Creator/{{Konami}} for their infamous mishandling of the ''Metal Gear'' franchise and mistreatment of Kojima. On a list of MSF operatives beginning with "Vengeful Mosquito"[[note]]I.E., a disgruntled low-level employee,[[/note]] the first letters of the second word in each codename reveals that "MG"[[note]]"Metal Gear"[[/note]] is listed as "KIA", with the following ten letters spelling out "KJP FOREVER".[[note]]"Creator/KojimaProductions Forever".[[/note]] The last two codenames in the list are the AWOL soldiers "Bastard Yota" and "Cunning Yuji"[[note]]"Cunning" is somewhat of an insult in Japanese, typically implying underhandedness or treachery[[/note]] -- respectively referring to ''Survive'' director Yota Tsutsumizaki and producer Yuji Korekado, both ''Metal Gear'' veterans who stayed on with Konami.

Context Trivia / MetalGearSurvive