Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-93.40.5.79-20150815230147/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150817115700

175.159.163.39 wrote:

64.33.250.214: We need to appreciate the fact that MGS was written since 1998 and was based on the MG stories as way back as in 1988, and that MGS3, MPO, MGSPW and MGSV are "prologues" prior to the original 1988 MG game. Kojima can add whatever details to the characters he likes so long he is not contradicting himself.

Just a few examples of what additions we already saw

(1) Sergei Gurlukovich -- he was merely mentioned at the end of MGS1 but appeared in MGS2 and with a daughter

(2) Emma -- she was only included in MGS2 and within the story, it was made clear that Octacon didn't mention it to Snake in that 2 yrs between MGS1 and MGS2.

(3) Huey -- he was first implied (without a name) in MGS1 but didn't appear until PW.

(2) and (3) certainly gives much more depths to Octacon, when he has a smaller role compared to the twin Snakes, Campbell and Meryl in MGS1. So although some characters have little to no background info in previous games, I don't see why Kojima cannot add new stuffs to them now.

On the other hand, despite I would like to see more characters from previous games, in addition to Liquid and Mantis, to appear in MGSV in their youth, it doesn't mean all of these characters must be shown “on camera” -- the last thing I want is to see them appearing only for the reason of appearing. If a mere mention of the name or even just a hint to the person (like how they hinted Huey’s father in MGS3) would fit the story best, then so be it.

If we accepted that "Kojima can add whatever details to the character he likes" and left it at that, then we'd have to leave open the possibility that Gray Fox is Punished Snake. Even though two characters might have things in common, I feel as though we shouldn't assume they are the same character. Someone said Chico was a spy, and that therefore it's possible he will become Decoy Octopus, because Octopus also spied. So the theory seems legit right? Well, if you looked back through all the games and realized nearly every character has done some sort of spying, then any one of them could have been Octopus because he's a master of disguise. The problem with Ishmael being Chico, or the Medic, or Morpho, is that we haven't seen them display any hidden talent for changing their appearance.

All those characters you mentioned, Sergei, Emma, and Huey, have only had active roles in one game (thus far). They were also more integral to the plot than Octopus. Chico has been in 2, maybe 3, games. That's a considerable amount of character development to give to one of the least popular characters in the franchise. Don't get me wrong, Decoy Octopus is an interesting character if only for the fact that he's mysterious. Yet he's nowhere near as popular as someone like Gray Fox, and he never had 2+ games of backstory.

Could Octopus be Chico? He COULD... just like Skull Face, Ishmael, Paz, and Eli COULD all be hallucinations. There's very little evidence to go by is what I'm saying.