Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-175.159.163.39-20150824035316

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

Geekius Maximus wrote: To comment on this remember in MGS4 they mention that neither Solid nor Liquid have an exact DNA match to Big Boss due to genetic tampering

This was why neither was able to access SOP Yes, except it was nonetheless similar enough for Solid Snake to successfully fake his death by using Liquid's cadaver as a decoy, something that would have been impossible if it were a precise scanning, that's what I'm going at (and despite what people claim, no, MGS4 did not "retcon" Solid and Liquid being 100% identical, because common sense would indicate that one clone being based on the dominant genes and the other being based on the recessive genes would NOT be 100% identical). I don't speak Italiano, nor have I been very closely following on this, but what is already confirmed in previous games is that only Solidus is 100% clone of Big Boss. I am no expert of forensics but if understood correctly, people probably don't sequence the whole genome of a person and compare it with a sample of an unknown to determine whether the sample belongs to so and so (because it is too time consuming). However as the Twin Snakes are highly similar, Snake thus managed to use Liquid's DNA to fake his death, but when Liquid Ocelot used Snake's DNA to access SOP, it failed becoz SOP requires an exact match to unlock.

In any case, for us right now, I think the best is just to find the answers by ourselves by playing through the game, and then come back to discuss what are the positives and negatives (if any) we felt towards the game.