Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-186.236.151.248-20130612132932/@comment-4913740-20130615145236

Soul reaper wrote:

Misterbunnsy wrote: Well then, it doesn't seem possible he could be Eli then. Another point is that patterned rug in the background suggests he is in a Middle Eastern area as opposed to Africa. What would Raiden be doing in the Middle East when he's supposed to be in Liberia, being trained by Solidus? Unless Kojima retcons Raiden's story, which seems unlikely to me despite Kojima's fondness for altering the storylines, this character is not Raiden. Not that I think there's any chance of Eli being Raiden, especially given that Raiden went by the name Jack when he was a child soldier (as evidenced by Solidus), but what makes you think Eli is in the Middle East. The last two home console titles in the series have taken place in multiple countries. The trailers for MGSV themselves have a lot of evidence pointing to multiple countries. It's not unthinkable that Afghanistan is just one area we'll be playing in. I know that, but I never suggested that because the Red Band trailer took place mostly in Afghanistan that the game would exclusively take place there. I pointed out that the background in the short scene we see of Eli has a patterned rug hanging behind him, which is similar to the traditional Middle Eastern patterned rugs one would see in a market today. That lead me to the conclusion that Eli was somewhere in the Middle East, not that the entire game is exclusively there.