I replayed Peace Walker and Portable Ops recently, and I still very much love both of those games. After a certain point in Peace Walker, I started to ponder what the MGS universe would have been like if Solid Snake had failed his mission in Outer Heaven back in the first Metal Gear. I kept envisioning this idea for a story where the US has some kind of scenario where gangs overtake Washington DC and MSF gets hired to infiltrate the US to find out who is pulling their strings and stop the uprising. It's really interesting to think about what role Frank Jaeger, Hal Emmerich, and more pivotal members of MGS lore would play in support of MSF. It's also interesting to consider the possibility that members of the Patriots, particularly Ocelot and Eva, would have left to support Big Boss if he'd come out on top. Would the Patriots have survived at all?
Even without that particular script, there's still some interesting things to consider about a MGS world where Solid Snake failed to ever become a legend. Would Outer Heaven have led the world to a war economy like the AIs did? It certainly seems plausible that rival mercenaries would try to emulate their structure and compete with them, and that could lead to a rise of proxy wars in a sense. Only the world wouldn't have the SOP system to keep everyone in check. Then again, if the Patriots managed to survive, it's plausible that the AIs would still have been created, and that the world would still plunder into the World economy WITH the SOP system, only the circumstances used to R&D the AIs would have been inspired most likely by Operation Snake Eater, and not Shadow Moses.
What do you think the Metal Gear universe would be like if Solid Snake had failed to bring down Outer Heaven?
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