Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-6747658-20140813065957

64.33.250.214 wrote: (A lot) And again, if Kojima even did recast Solidus, then why would he would he give Solidus the same voice as Big Boss when it was already established that Solidus's voice was different? John Cygan's experience and range of vocal age aside, why would Kojima suddenly make Solidus sound exactly like Big Boss when that was never the case? You can say retcon, but then that same would have to be done to Liquid. And if Solidus does sound like Big Boss, then why exactly the same and not younger since he shouldn't have the same physical and vocal appearance yet as Big Boss.

Ishmael does help Big Boss but it is very minimal, in pretty much the entirety of the gameplay trailer all he does is walk in front of you with his naked butt. Again that doesn't make sense for someone whom is supposed to have been watching Big Boss for nine years, it wouldn't make sense at all for him to be practically naked and only wearing that robe thingy you get to wear for surgeries. In terms of not wanting his bandages not beeing peeked into or grabbed, I don't really have a counter against that other then Big Boss being too out of it to even try that.

You also do realize that Tyler is a completely different character because of casting and story writing right? This was so in order to retain the plot twist in the ending. And is an imaginary friend not an hallucination? Considering he fights with his imaginary friend, lets him drive, lets him hurt him which in reality, is him doing all those things to himself, is that not hallucination?

Sure Big Boss never really had hallucinations before, that doesn't rule them out though. We do not know what has been done to Big Boss in those nine years, they could have experimented on him, brainwashed him like the Russians brainwashed Mason in Call of Duty: Black Ops, of course this is pure speculation. But we also know Big Boss laid in coma for nine years, who knows what has been going on in that mind of his during those nine years? He could be suffering from a variety of mental illnesses, ranging from PTSD to that what war veterans have and re-imagining things when they hear certain sounds or certain words. Considering that, it would not be hard at all to explain why Big Boss is hallucinating things so vividly.

A reminder it may be, it doesn't mean that such has to always be the case. And yes we know The Panthom Pain will contain retcons, it's already making a retcon towards Peace Walker where Big Boss clearly said he wouldn't be called Snake anymore yet he's still using the Snake codename. And yes, from what we knows Solidus's accelarated aging was indeed meant to work faster on him so that he could serve as a president, but again I will point out that no infant from 3 years or younger could have started to watch Big Boss back in 1975 up to 1984, nor do I believe the accelerated aging would have him being a fully grown man at the age of 12.

Otacon said that Snake's accelerated aging seemed to be a classic case of Werner Syndrome, which would mean they don't age so much as actual aging but rather that their body grows older and appears older. Ever seen a child with an aging disease? They look like wrinkled elderly children. So far what we know, the accelerated aging is to make them look older and then to kick in as a failsafe so that they will die prematurely, considering they wanted to milk out Solidus, I cannot see this being the case with him when he was still a child.

On the notion of the CIA.....oh boy, we already know that the CIA has pulled some weird shit that is not morally right, like brainwashing people through an arcada machine (which was proven) and other things that would not be seen as right. Considering the influence that Zero has by this time, it is not at all unthinkable that they would not have the CIA use a child, knowing where the child came from and who the "father" is.

Dolly was a sheep and also claimed to be an identical clone. Also, you've just contradicted yourself "That means appearance voice and IQ wont remain completely the same", and yet you would say Ishmael is Solidus and has the same voice as Big Boss, I don't even have to go on further about this honestly.