Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17468962-20130906041556/@comment-17468962-20130906212310

12.77.204.38 wrote: maybe all of the characters named in the E3 trailer(Quiet,Eli,Kaz,Snake etc.) are boss battles........ or playable characters. Hmm... I think Eli, aka Liquid and Solid Snake (Eli and David) both, would be too young to proper portray boss battles. But then, again, one of the main themes of the game will be child soldiers. But perhaps other roles are reserved for them.

I think there are four from the "Those who Don't Exist" unit elements (excluding 'Psycho Mantis'ish child), which would correspond to the four Cobras from Snake Eater and the four Beauties from GotP. If we establish a paralel relation in regards to boss battles paradigm between MGS5 and these past games, and if Skull Face would be the final boss, there would be only one more slot left; that one of Ocelot or Vamp, respectively, aka the wildcard, and there are still some potential characters vacant to fill than role, like the Psycho Mantis child, Quiet, Ocelot, Miller, etc. But the game could be extended beyond that and end up having more boss battles; after all, it's open world now, and the game is promising to be much bigger than before (as is expected, but even more so because of the new open world style).