Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20140612234536

0nighthawk0 wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote: Secondly, Kojima has assured us several times that we will be only playing as one character, -the- Big Boss, the only Big Boss, as he did not want the whole backlash like that from MGS2 again.

Actually, Kojima stated he intended to pull a similar twist to what happened in MGS2 for MGSV back when MGSV was first announced. I remember the discussions on it on GameFAQs. And considering how the Phantom Pain teasers were a bit too obvious that it was Metal Gear Solid V, I'm extremely doubtful the Moby Dick Studios bit was what he was aiming for. Not to mention, Kojima also "assured" us multiple times Phantom Pain had no connection towards MGS, yet guess what, that's exactly what it turned out to be: connected to MGS, specifically MGSV.

And either way, don't you find it even a small bit suspicious that the Ground Zeroes ending timeline mentioned that the Les Enfants Terribles project ended in 1976? They didn't mention it in Peace Walker's ending timelines, or any other official timelines for that matter, and it doesn't help that Ground Zeroes was effectively part one of MGSV.

I still highly doubt he'd screw us over again in regard of us not playin Big Boss, there would be way too much backlash and he'd loose a lot of credibility. Also MGS2 had more twists then just that, if though it was the biggest one.

I still stand by my comment that it cannot possibly be a clone in either case due to explained reasons.

Also, since there is high speculation that Eli is Liquid and people thinking that we will see a young Solid Snake, it is reasonably to have the LET Project to be mentioned. The problem with that is that Liquid was already long born by the time LET was cancelled, same with Solid Snake and, heck, possibly even Solidus, so it definitely can't be referring to any of the known clones.

And apparently, you haven't watched the MakeItRight trailers for Rising, as they clearly depicted Solidus as being middle aged despite technically being in his late teens at the latest.

And most of the so-called "twists" in MGS2 (the ones that aren't Raiden taking over Snake's position as the star of the game, I mean) are actually ruined by the time Ocelot opened his big fat mouth regarding revealing his allegiance to the Patriots to Sergei Gurlukovich in the Tanker Chapter, oh, nearing the beginning of the game. Heck, even Iroquois Pliskin being Solid Snake was actually a bit predictable. They had the exact same voice and similar mannerisms and appearances. Raiden replacing Snake is pretty much the only thing that actually qualifies as a twist as we were literally sucker-punched and did not anticipate that Snake would be replaced by him, and for good reason as pretty much all the materials in that game up to release showed Snake as being playable and Raiden, IF he was in any of the materials, was relegated to being a minor character. Not to mention the twists were already present in MGS1 anyways. When I think of "twists", I think of stuff that's done literally out of the blue. Most of those things are actually predictable and not even real twists, seemed forced in other words.

And considering he managed to get away with effectively promoting Communism as good in MGS4 and MPW, and fawning Che Guevara in the latter game all because he saw that Che Biopic, plus the Paz torture, I'm doubtful he's going to care too much about credibility anyways.