Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20140611201442

Jim Logan wrote: I just highly doubt we would be playing through Big Boss's descent into madness as someone else. Yeah, and people had high doubts that we'd be playing as anyone other than Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2, with Kojima even ensuring they believed they'd play as him via demos and trailers, and see him from someone else's perspective, yet that's exactly what they did.

And considering Kojima already indicated a MGS2-style plot twist is in the works for MGSV, we can't discount all possibilities, no matter how unlikely they may be.