Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25017623-20140715144104/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140730224738

Adachi Did It wrote: Fair point, no way of knowing whether he is or not ATM though, there's arguments for and against him being an hallucination. I am curious though, are you implying that i said Venom has mental powers? because i'm pretty sure i never said he did. If you're talking about how i said Ishmael might be Venoms hallucination, i didn't mean he'd suddenly gained a power, i was just thinking maybe some mental trauma, i mean he does have debris in his head, so it stands to reason he may have some mental problems.

Also i'm not really too fussed who causes Volgins phantom to appear, i'm too curious why he now has an action figure based off his appearance in MGSV and not MGS3. As another said Big Boss, Quiet and Skull Face have their own ones, but they are important/big characters in the game, while we've only seen Volgin once as an hallucination.

I'm smell something fishy there. I wasn't implying you specifically, just anyone betting on Ishmael being a hallucination. Hallucinations don't work that way. Even Psycho Mantis's projections are distorted in nature. Mental trauma shouldn't allow a person to imagine a fully formed realistic human being. I wouldn't say it's beyond Kojima to create such a plot twist, but it seems less probable when he's given the character an actual name of his own.

The hospital scene will likely only comprise a small portion of the game, and take place near the very begining of the game. If Ishmael is a supporting character, then what's his role once outside of the hospital? Will we see him follow Snake while still in bandages? If he isn't a throwaway character, then it's possible we'll see him in actual clothes. That's assuming he's not a hallucination. Even if he were, it'd seem out of place for him to wear the hospital gown through the whole game.

Volgin may make several appearances, as a means for Mantis to fight Boss. Which could explain the action figure. It does seem slightly strange that Mantis can summon the dead now, when that was originally The Sorrow's ability. Though I suppose technically he's not literally summoning Volgin's spirit, but a figment of him from Boss's mind.