Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-24760016-20150810190828

64.33.250.214 wrote: 68.150.30.12 wrote: No, Ishmael is the player. He is also the guy who Miller is refering to when BB was almost dead. "What about him."

Remember when Kojima said: "That guy is me, looking into the world." It make sense because Kojima was a player, and a sculpter of that world. Kojima obviously has played the game.

The finishing blow to this theory is that Kojima showed up to GDC when TPP was revealed WEARING Ishmael's bandages.

It would only make sense, as you could use this character in MGO and the like. Recent gameplay footage showed character customization in action. Why would Kojima be secretive about Ishmael being the player, if he was just going to nonchalantly show off this feature a month before the game's release? Also, Ishmael has Kiefer's voice in the trailers. Are you suggesting we'll have the option to customize voices? I don't see how voice acting can be implemented to represent the player, unless you had the option to record your own dialogue. What footage are you talking about? The only thing we saw close to this was a soldier select screen in the MB demo, that wasn't a face customization screen. I'm sure more active boards like MGSF would have been all over that if I missed it.

Why would Kojima be secretive about it? Well, no matter what you believe, he has in fact been secretive about it. Journalists mentioned it popping up and all of them removed their comments about it, so it's safe to say it's been a secret. Every time I see this theory mentioned, I can honestly say I've never seen anyone so against it lol. I don't know how true the theory can be, I'm just surprised how resistant you are about it. But if you can't see how a custom character playing along side one of the most iconic charcters in gaming, in a game no one could imagine having such a feature within it's story, I don't know what to tell ya.