Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.182.10.8-20140416035309/@comment-93.186.157.139-20140423153615

189.122.6.110 wrote: This is my take. After Snake Eater, Big Boss lost hope in his country for what they did to The Boss. He then founded The Patriots some time after, in his mind, to ensure that no soldier would ever be forced to loose his life or place in society for a country that'd betray them. However, as he saw Zero heading towards another direction, of Peace through Control, he left them and started MSF. But time wore him down, and the only thing left in him was the will to fight. To prove that he would not be betrayed and killed like The Boss. That, added to his enmity with Zero, he slowly started carving down a path to villany. He started seeing war as the only thing left to fight for, and tried to shove it down the world's throat. Paraphrasing his words "You start a flame, save people from it, train them and feed them to the flame again", he recruited children, developed nuclear weapons, in order to make sure nor Zero nor the worlds top countries would have it their way. He distorted The Boss'es words in order to make peace with the fact he was responsible for the increasing slaughter in Third World countries and that he had taken part in the creation of other monster, Zero. Between both men, I don't think there's good or bad. They worsened each other, to the point their original intentions were as relevant as The Boss (they weren't). One sought peace through control and the other, war through freedom, and they were both responsible for the creation of the war economy and the mess that the world turned into. So, I think he was a villain. But, from what we've played with him, he just hasn't snapped into the crazed murdering, child recruitng shell of a man he is in MG 1 and 2. This is probably how the rest of the world saw Big Boss in the Soild Snake saga(Metal Gear 2,Metal Gear Solid,Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4) but now we've nearly gotten the whole truth(Just TPP remaining now) and we're seeing it through his own eyes in the Big Boss saga(Metal Gear Solid 3,Metal Gear Solid:Portable Ops,Metal Gear Solid:Peace Walker,Metal Gear Solid V:Ground Zeroes and soon Metal Gear Solid V:The Phantom Pain). In the end its jsut how you interprete what he did and i can honestly sympathise with the man(after the loss of his mother figure by his own hands b/c just to get some money for a country that would do the same to him in a heart beat,the destruction and death of his base and home he took years to build from dirt and the death of most of his friends and his family by XOF*and maybe Zero?*, losing his limbs,being betrayed time and time over in his whole life and many other things. In the end those children he had he saved them from war but they in turn would join his army later on,just look at people like Sniper Wolf, but even with that i dont agree with some of his methods that he used later on in life but it wasnt without reason. Just think for a moment and ask yourself if these things happened to you would you have dont the same? But thats why i like Metal Gear. With the exception of truly evil people like Volgin.....there is no true good or evil, just shades of grey and people fighting for what they believe in. Peace through different means like control,freedom and fear,Heroism and sacrifice of "Soldiers in the shadow of history"........sorry i really went off the rails in that last section but what can i say? I LOVE METAL GEAR! :D