>>15376708
v is a prequel to the two games set before MGS1
>MGS3: naked snake kills the boss
>Peace Walker: disillusioned he leaves to form the first merc PMC, takes the name Big Boss
>Ground Zeroes: a character with vital intel from PW is captured, you get them out but its all a trap and your base is destroyed and you are shot down by a rocket
>Metal Gear Survive: 6 months later one of the men you left behind is sent through a portal to an alternate world that is actually the future and the nanomachines from metal gear rising have taken over the world after forming a sentient hive mind called the Dread Dust, you defeat them and stop them going back in time bar a minor outbreak in vietnam that was covered up with a fake war and you are thrown into the afghan desert 9 years later in a daze to be found by venom snake
>MGSV: after the helicopter crash Big Boss wakes up and begins building the independent military nation outer heaven while bipedal walking mecha called 'metal gears' show up for the first time
>Metal Gear: Big Boss has also moonlighted in the US for info and trained a new rookie 'snake' as his protege, he is sent on operation intrude to deal with a hostage crisis and it is revealed BB himself was behind it all, snake kills him
>Metal Gear 2: Snake infiltrates zanzibarland to extract a scientist who has designed Metal Gear D, the first mass producible metal gear.
>MGS1: years later snake is brought out of retirement and discovers he is the clone of big boss not just his protege and the terrorist liquie snake is as well. Metal Gear Rex is a nuke capable walking tank that must be destroyed
>MGS2: metal gears are now being produced all over and snake and ocelot take them down, they encounter a third clone and his protege Jack/Raiden follows in snakes footsteps but reveals that sentient AI are behind everything
>MGS4: Years later snake is ageing rapidly due to his bum clone genes and war is now a nanomachine driven economy where countries dont have standing armies but hire them. Someone from MGS1 has discovered a way to hijack this system and control the fate of the world, bringing snake out of retirement for the mission that ends all of this
>Metal Gear Rising: with the fall of the war economy employed android mercs have replaced conventional firearm using forces and raiden -now an android- follows a group of child stealing terrorists trying to start a new world war and undo the tenous peace set up in MGS4
and softcanon maybe snatcher and ZOE are further in the same timeline but never confirmed.