>>718412454
It's not about personality cult, publishers don't want anyone to know about the actual creators of the games.
They want people to look at their logo and say "hey, it's a [company] game!" not "hey, it's a [person] game!"
>>718412597
You literally miss out of a bunch of context in MGS3 too though.
In MGS1 Snake tells his backstory, in MGS3 there is no "where are they now" and then they show Sigint becoming the DARPA chief or Big Boss getting milked for the cloning project