Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25366375-20140923122450/@comment-25366375-20140924042218

68.207.141.23 wrote: If you ask me, I think (and hope, those would be amazingly fun boss fights. I enjoyed the Peace Walker fights.) that they will appear, but I'm not sure any of it would be canon. However, it's not impossible for it to be canon. Metal Gear always mixes supernatural with reality, so I'd definitely buy that it is. Besides, it could open a very fun and engaging sub-plot.

And due to how fucking difficult the Tsuchinoko was to find if you didn't know where to look, I'd be more than okay with having one as a scout to look for enemies. Maybe even kill them, due to Tsuchinokos being venomous. Yeah, they certainly wouldn't have to be canon. Them being in the game would be good enough for me. I happen to agree that UMAs could make for great sub-plots too.

It wouldn't even have to be restricted to myths and legends in Africa and Afghanistan, you've made me remember, as Snake Eater was set in Russia, yet Tsuchinoko are Japanese folklore. They've definitely got a lot of wriggle room, and with Kojima's claim  that we will "still find something new after 100 hours", UMA hunting sounds awesome to me.

69.176.10.191 wrote: It may be a bit off topic, but do you think ghost images will return in the phantom pain? In most mgs games prior to mgs5, there were areas that if photographed, would show a ghost in the photo.I think its a mgs tradition at this point, and I hope it makes a return. Not totally off topic, it's all good, I guess I'm asking broadly whether weird and supernatural things will make an appearance. I would definitely like it to make a return, perhaps even like the way ghosts appeared in Peace Walker. If you can think of any other odd things in MGS games past (such as The Sorrow and Psycho Mantis dueling), feel free to suggest and discuss that as well.

177.249.101.8 wrote: I hoope ghosts make a return, and also UMAs sound like a fun easter egg Ghosts returning is pretty likely, I think. Considering Peace Walker was the last full game (GZ and TPP are *technically* the same game) and Kojima seems to be making The Phantom Pain a sort of "Peace Walker on steroids" it would make sense. Besides, the game is full of references to phantoms, why not have actual phantoms? Besides, with the incredibly strong likelihood that the gas-masked child is Psycho Mantis, we're bound to see some trippy stuff.