Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-79.10.218.64-20141103172213

The last trailer of TPP showed Quiet joining the battleground to help snake with her sniper abilities and her super-powers, giving us a taste about how much buddies could help us on the field marking enemies, taking them down, syncronizing them strike with our and so on. Also, the extended version of the trailer showed then there would be more then Quiet to join us on the field: D.D. (the wolf-dog) seem to be another buddy which would join us in the mission, not to mention then Big Boss already used another buddy in the last and even the preview trailers: Diamond Horse, which seem to be more then a 'veichle'.

All those information makes me wonders: how many buddies would be there in the complete game?

Sure, those already showed are cool and I'm realy excited to see them full potential, but still, there would be more then them? What do you think about it? Would there be more buddies? Who shall they be? And what do you think about those already proposed?

About other buddies... Well... Technically, every soldier in the Mother Base could be potentialy an ally! In Peace Walker (and Portable Ops but let's focus on Kojima only game, shall we?) we could use other soldier to play extra mission, we was also 'forced' to don't play as Snake but as a random soldier in a couple of them. So, would we be able to parachute generic soldiers in the field to help us during the mission? It would make sense since many of our operative would be in a matter of fact soldier more then researcher, spy or such... The combat unit would be full of people, and since probably not every one of them would be imploied for Outer ops (always if Outer ops would make them return couse I don't remember them have been confirmed yet), or to patrolling out base. Also, seem like a good way to implement Co-operative function as friend would be able to join us in mission as generic soldiers with the same (or at least similar) abilities then Big Boss! Sure, them use would be limitate, as just one (or three maybe) soldier joining us at time, but still... I think it could be an idea.

About other characters that could be a buddies... Well... Buddies are suppose to could dies during the mission, so I would tend to exclude characters too important for the story as possible buddies... Ocelot, Miller and so on would then be excluded by the buddies system, but let's be a little more specific.

Ocelot is probably the best candidate to be a buddy with all his abilities as gunslinger, but he surely couldn't die, so or his use would be limited (if he die is game over) or otherwise no Ocelot buddy at all.

Same for Miller, then also would be too debilitate for the limb lost and the torture to could join us in the battlefield. Yes, he could use prospettic as Big Boss, but still... Somehow I can't see him as a 'Buddy'.

Huey... Well... Would you realy have Huey on the battlefield as buddy? His loyalty is still in doubt since the event of Ground Zero, not to mention he's not a soldier, at all...

Code Talker? We still don't know anything about the character, just he would be important, and even if The End surely showed us then people could be old but still not death, still I won't hold my breath to see the old man join us on the field.

Eli, otherwise, could be definitly a buddy. Sure, he looks a lot like the joung Liquid Snake, but still there no confirmation he is actualy Liquid or not. Despite I think they are the same person, until Kojima didn't said so there still the doubt he could be a complete different character. Also, the boy seem to know how to defend himself, since he gone so far to even surprise and get the upperhand even against a legendary veteran as Big Boss. Also, child soldiers are already confirmed to be in the game, and even if it would be cruel by Big Boss to imploy them too, it could happens... Maybe Eli would be able to infiltrate child soldiers units too, maybe even going as far as make them defect in favour of Big Boss too so we wouldn't have to hurt them, but still... Cruelty for cruelty... This MGS would be the harsh of ever, despite the fulton, the sexy things and the poopy horses...

Last but not least, Ishmael. Would he realy die in the prologue, during the hospital sequence? Would he realy be just a Big Boss allucination? Or what else? Maybe he could be a buddy too? Who knows... Is still soon to say it, even if actualy he's never seen anywhere else then the hospital... We shall see...

Would there be someone else? Well, lots to says the true... Grey Fox, Sniper Wolf, Python, Chico... There a lot of characters which could have a place in the story, and which would makes excellent buddies, but before to advances theories about them as buddies, I'll rather wait until they would be ufficialy confirmed in the plot. What do you thinks about it? 