Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25277765-20140830032157/@comment-49.194.161.92-20140830134500

I find the Two Snake theory quite interesting, so I hate to poo-poo the whole thing, but I think the fact that Kiefer Sutherland voices both Ishmael and Big Boss (Ahab) suggests that we can't exactly put any weight behind Ishmael as an independent character. Similarly to how Richard Doyle voiced Big Boss in MGS4 so Hayter wouldn't be playing off himself, I doubt Ishmael will be around for very long for the same reason. Then again, who knows with Kojima?

The difference is probably to do with different stages of development, and we know from the "Snake with grey hair" fiasco that it can present optical illusions so I don't know about this one.

I definitely find the difference in scarring interesting but I'll just have to chalk that up to being further in the development process or something. I mean, if you compare MGS5 Big Boss to MGS3 there's practically no resemblance anyway, so I don't know.

But, as I say, I could be entirely wrong. We'll just have to wait to find out.