If he's played the original MGS (and if he had a PlayStation any time around that point he would have done, it was bloody everywhere), he'll probably be familiar with the basic story of Metal Gear 2, because 1) quite a bit of the plot of MGS1 hinges on it, and because 2) there's a very awkwardly translated summary of the game available on the MGS1 disc. I'll let you decide whether he's familiar with the MG2 fan-translation, but it's a beautiful pit of hilariously over-detailed manuals (http://www.msxnet.org/gtinter/Setting.htm), owls (http://slowbeef.com/MG2/chap47.html) and hamsters (http://slowbeef.com/MG2/chap58.html) (which, of course, it's my job as a mun to attempt to handle seriously, oh god). Also I'm going to recommend you play the (http://bluemsx.com/) fan translation (http://www.msxnet.org/gtinter/freeware/mg2rom12.zip) anyway, even if Scott doesn't get to talk to Snake or you decide he isn't interested in the series, because it's free and stupid and a ridiculously fun game in its own right even if the character designs are hideous.
BUT OKAY I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT THAT
Nothing's explicitly said about his in-universe fans, only that a) they are there and b) Snake is sick of them. From evidence provided by the fans we meet in canon, they - think he's wonderful and mostly invincible for penetrating the 'impenetrable fortress' Outer Heaven/ 'mercenary nation' Zanzibar Land/ 'Nuclear Disposal Facility' Shadow Moses (depending on canon point) - some aren't entirely sure he actually exists, hence 'Legendary' - are usually military themselves, and if they are, will go out of their way to imitate his weapons and fighting techniques and so on (later in canon Snake meets a fangirl who painted a pretend tattoo of the logo of his old unit onto her arm before she went on her first mission as a soldier, and even later she will charge into battle wearing a bandanna like his) - seem to have at least a few stalkers among them, because it's not terribly surprising when they call him up over the radio and start heavy-breathing and introducing themselves with names like Deepthroat
So I'm going to assume it's like any other loose-knit fandom with a touch of conspiracy theory fandom about it. The big interfandom war is over whether he exists or not. Some people are supersticious about him, some people send fanmail to weird government addresses, some write RPS, some (particularly post-MGS2) follow his paper trail and so on in order to find out what REALLY happened during his exploits.
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BUT OKAY I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT THAT
Nothing's explicitly said about his in-universe fans, only that a) they are there and b) Snake is sick of them. From evidence provided by the fans we meet in canon, they
- think he's wonderful and mostly invincible for penetrating the 'impenetrable fortress' Outer Heaven/ 'mercenary nation' Zanzibar Land/ 'Nuclear Disposal Facility' Shadow Moses (depending on canon point)
- some aren't entirely sure he actually exists, hence 'Legendary'
- are usually military themselves, and if they are, will go out of their way to imitate his weapons and fighting techniques and so on (later in canon Snake meets a fangirl who painted a pretend tattoo of the logo of his old unit onto her arm before she went on her first mission as a soldier, and even later she will charge into battle wearing a bandanna like his)
- seem to have at least a few stalkers among them, because it's not terribly surprising when they call him up over the radio and start heavy-breathing and introducing themselves with names like Deepthroat
So I'm going to assume it's like any other loose-knit fandom with a touch of conspiracy theory fandom about it. The big interfandom war is over whether he exists or not. Some people are supersticious about him, some people send fanmail to weird government addresses, some write RPS, some (particularly post-MGS2) follow his paper trail and so on in order to find out what REALLY happened during his exploits.