Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27052090-20151007143136/@comment-1672596-20151007145512

ShadowFoxxx wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote:

ShadowFoxxx wrote: So who is talking to who here?

There seems to be some confusion regarding all of this. It Venom Snake talking to The Boss, right? Since he has all of the memories of Big Boss, it would make sense. He also says, "We have no tomorrow, but there's still hope for the future." This is akin to what The Boss says in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

The wiki is going back and forth about the FOB ending. I've heard that it's Venom Snake talking to Big Boss, but that doesn't make any sense because he quotes The Boss. I also heard this is Big Boss talking to The Boss but that doesn't make any sense because he rejected her Will due to feeling "betrayed" by her choice to put down her gun.

What's going on here? It really doesn't make any sense in any scenario. Even if we use the whole "he has Big Boss's memories" excuse, the problem is that Venom Snake would also have inherited his template's rejection of Big Boss's will precisely because that's exactly what Big Boss did before the events of the game.

Just because he has his memories/experiences, doesn't mean Venom is going to respond exactly the same as Big Boss does it?

Two siblings can be raised in the same household, doesn't mean they're going to have the exact thought process. Same thing here. Venom does have all the memories/experinces of Big Boss but he doesn't respond the same way as Big Boss. I think of the memory transfer process more along the lines of transferring files from one computer to another, actually: When you transfer the computer's memory to another computer, it's the same computer until you start adding more stuff.