Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-88.193.240.30-20150822150754

0nighthawk0 wrote: Yeah but here's the kicker.....The guide speculates. From what  have read up so far, the guide itself doesn't know everything, so they resort to their own theories instead....and with that, any credibility of the guide's information on the story and all, is debatable at best.

Yes certain things the guide says are no doubt true, but other things are speculation of themselves. Hell, the whole Ishmael part says they can not reveal who Ishmael is, and provide us wth theories instead, which they even claim are also going with various fan theories that float around the internet.

Storywise, this guide lost all credibility with me by providing their own theories. If you cannot spoil the story, or if you do not know everything, then don't go about the goddamned story. I believe it wasn't about theories, but the guide left hints about Ishmael's true identity. In other words, the people who wrote that guide know everything about the story, they worked in collaboration with Konami and Kojima Productions when making that guide, and they were asked by the developers not to blatantly reveal Ishmael's identity because that will be revealed at the very end of the game. The guide is Piggyback's guide and they also made a strategy guide for MGS4 in collaboration with the developers, and at the end of that guide there were all the possible story details of MGS4, they even had their own sort of analysis of the story in there. As a matter of fact the strategy guide clarified some things that I didn't quite understand about MGS4. So yeah... I thought this would never happen, but now I'm actually convinced that Venom Snake isn't Big Boss. Even though I was almost 100% certain that Venom Snake is Big Boss, I always had that tiny bit of doubt in my mind, that "what if?", and now it seems like Kojima actually went and did what I was against the most. I'm still looking forward to the game, but for a little different reasons than before.