Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-204.111.35.233-20150307163421/@comment-93.40.9.213-20151106000623

105.224.245.203 wrote: What I don't get is this:  Big Boss wants to create a military force without borders(Outer Heaven), so he gets a decoy who goes on to create a........ military force without borders(Diamond Dogs)

Why did Big Boss need a body double? If Venom could build Diamond Dogs without much interference from the world why should Big Boss go into hiding, just to hide from XOF? He doesn't really need a body double. He could have done everything by himself. As I said before: "the whole world wants you dead"... not really. It's not like Venom is drawing particular attentions. He does his shit, he cool. Big Boss could have done it without any cardboard body double. Killing Skull Face? Not a big deal. He dead in Chapter 1. Basically it's still 1984 (in the game there is no indication of time progressing so...), in Chapter 2 not much happens, so there's plenty of time to build Outer Heaven. At some point he wants to go back to Foxhound? Fine. Go back there. He can totally leave the command of Outer Heaven to one of his lieutenants. Some S++ soldier with a true face. It is not like you need a guy with a plastic face who is similar to you. Outer Heaven is SeCrEt so you don't need to yell to the whole world: "LOOK OUTER HEAVEN'S LEADER IS BIG BOWSS, HE MUST BE; HE HAS HIS FACE". Promote The Shotmaker to Outer Heaven's leader... he earned it, he cool.

At the end of the day the body double could have been avoided. Kojima thrown him in just to destroy the fourth wall and insert DAPLAYA in the story of Metal Gear. Doing so he ruined (imo) Big Boss as a character and fucked up the saga quite a bit. Unnecessary, but this is just my opinion.