Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-6747658-20150826194634/@comment-1672596-20150831110524

0nighthawk0 wrote: I fully agree, people are judging the story far too quickly purely based on the ending. Which is like picking up the book, reading only the last chapter and then claiming it's garbage because of that.

While I too, am disappointed that we are not played Big Boss but rather someone else, I am not going to make any judgements until I have experienced the story for myself.

Also, I notice that people keep comparing this to MGS2, but really it's by far not comparable. This isn't just a switcheroo with Medic replacing Big Boss like Raiden did with Snake. Raiden was never led to believe that he was Snake, he was Raiden, he had a history to him, an ongoing story with people involved with him. We learned about him as the game progressed.

With Medic, right from the getgo we're made believe that we are Big Boss and none other then Big Boss, we have his memories, his techniques, involvement with the people who know him. We are, by all means, Big Boss.

'''TL;DR: Don't judge the story purely by it's ending, experience the story, gather from it all that you can, every bit and piece of it. And then, and only then, judge the ending.''' It's not just the ending though: There's also the fact that they just decided to make Psycho Mantis' powers magnetics-based, as well as make the Cobra Unit's powers parasite based (you might remember the whole nanomachines nonsense from MGS4, because it's exactly the same. Actually, screw that, it's even worse. At least with MGS4, the only thing MGS4 did that actually ruined a character's abilities was Vamp, well, that, and possibly Liquid Ocelot, at least it didn't ruin an entire set of prior bosses), basically have Big Boss, EVA, Ocelot not only in on the whole ruse, but even be very well aware that Zero was actually in a coma at the time (he went into a coma because of Skull Face, not to mention was already in a coma by the 1980s), which basically ruined MGS4's bittersweet scenes where Solid Snake meets his mom for the first time and having a reconciliation with Big Boss and to some extent Liquid (Ocelot) due to it pretty much implying that they lied to Snake completely, not to mention rendered the entirety of the MGS4 plot and their conflict completely pointless. We don't even get to see Big Boss's fall, which was the biggest advertised element of the game, and it also causes a lot of plot problems with the whole Venom Snake debacle (namely, it rendered both the S3 Plan and even Les Enfants Terribles pointless in the end), and even makes Big Boss severely out of character in various ways (for starters, he hated the idea of being genetically clone so why would he settle for a memetic clone or any clone for Outer Heaven? Besides which, a pretty heavy element about Big Boss's character is that he DOESN'T like exploiting his own soldiers as tools and actually cares for them, so why would he basically use and manipulate Venom Snake like that?).