Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-25366375-20141118170045

Jim Logan wrote: There's one problem with Solidus meeting Big Boss... when Ocelot said "You look just like The Boss" If he had met Big Boss he would've went "I know that you old bastard!" or "Thank you, I try."(or something) not "Really? Well then I feel MORE badass :D" (It's been a while : My point being, the dialouge from MGS2 just points to the fact that, Solidus never met Big Boss, he may of been told about Big Boss growing up but I highly doubt he met BB or even saw a picture of him if he didn't even know what the man looked like Paranoid Donkey wrote: minor inconsistencies You know that they can't rewrite what happened in games that have already been released when the overall canon gets changed, right? I know Solidus never met Big Boss (need citation for actual confirmation though), but if Kojima decided that Ishmael was Solidus then obviously he did. Therefore, it would be reflected in The Phantom Pain, and not Metal Gear Solid 2 which was released 13 years ago. It's disappointing, but them's the breaks.

Just look at how in the original Metal Gear Solid as well as its novelisation (which I finished just the other day) it says that Big Boss was in his late fifties when Les Enfant Terribles took place, and that he was in a coma when they got his DNA - both of these were proven false in later games. It happens.

As an aside, it bears mentioning that I haven't noticed anyone having reported who Ishmael's or Medic's Japanese voice actors are. Do we even have room for discussion if Akio Otsuka is neither?