Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-204.111.35.233-20150307163421/@comment-27125019-20151106003141

Bluerock wrote:

BigBenzilla wrote: If I remember right, didn't he have a part in utalizing the body double in MGS4 as well (poor Solidus)? how about that for ethics? Not directly. According to Big Boss, he could only awaken when the Patriots' System was destroyed. Thanks, I got the Big Boss Emblem on MGS4, but I didn't play it nearly as much as I played through MGS1 or MGS3.

Jim Logan... I won't talk any trash, it was a long time back. We're cool, and I love and Miss CM Punk (Did you know he works for Marvel Comics now?). Lets hug it out sometime.

I agree with the last couple statements that a body double is not NEEDED, however it made sense why this path was chosen. It is the easiest way to kill off a character in the next game that looks like Big Boss. You can even kill him brutally the way they did Skull Face. Because essentially you aren't killing off anyone important now. And I think that statement is the major failure of MGSV, is that they not only made the actions of Venom pointless, they made the actions of Solid Snake defeating Boss in the first Metal Gear pointless. Nothing that important happened after act 1 that couldn't have been told almost immediately afterwards.Why didn't they dedicate Act 2 to actually giving Venom his own personality? Did they think it would conflict with the RPG like nature of making your own person to play as?

I guess what I'm grumpy about is that Venom was created as a puzzle peice to fit how Snake could kill Boss in Metal Gear 1 and yet Boss comes back for more. Venom is hollow, he has no personality or character about him. We don't know what drives him, and we don't why he went through with the body swap. What makes him do this for Big Boss? So many chances to tell ANY story about him and neglected to do any of it.

Good writers know what happens IN someone, is more important than what happens TO someone.