Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25168690-20160817194149/@comment-26985269-20160921022653

Samuspartan wrote: after Volgin emerges from the elevator his flames send Venom and Ishmael flying back and I remember him getting burned and yelling or at least is seen rolling on the floor, and one second later he is next to Venom helping him get up, as if he teleported. That's the scene from one of the early gameplay demos. Do you know if it was in the final release version of the game? There were a few scenes that got cut from the trailers. I didn't see it in any of the let's plays of the hospital mission I watched recently.

but like I said that is just me refusing to accept the truth You aren't alone. A lot of people had the game ruined for them by the Truth ending. No one more than PythonSelkan. It'd sure suck to create an entire video series dedicated building up hype for a character who had no involvement in the plot whatsoever.

There's definite "mind-fuck" moments with Ishmael. When the group gets gunned down in the hospital, there just happens to be another patient wearing the exact same robe and face bandages.

Kojima probably wanted us to let our guard down and think he was willing to kill Ishmael so we wouldn't think he was anyone as important as Big Boss. There's a quote from Kojima under subverted on TV Tropes:

"In other words, the story does not trick the player, it is the player that tricks himself."

And, technically speaking, couldn't the entirety of TPP be a hallucination. I know it's not of course, but there's definite moments of clear hallucinations

That was PythonSelkan's conclusion in their 4 hour magnum opus they released back in March. They almost made me want to believe Grey Fox had gone bonkers and imagined the whole thing, especially Miller's idea for starting his own McDonald's.

Maybe we should talk about Survive? I heard Kojima was throwing shade about zombies, even though he directed a game that has a guy named Skull Face who looks that one zombie from Resident Evil:

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