Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-1672596-20150909161234

Fantomas wrote: I think that's stretching it a bit, Weedle. Your interpretation is a little OTT from where I'm sitting. No it's not. Look at what the characters have stated about each of these events: They considered Big Boss's fighting skills to be so valuable that they actually had to clone him just to ensure it survived into the next generation, and don't even get me started on the Genome Soldier project where they actually had to replicate said genes for the Genome Soldiers via genetic engineering, both prior to and after his various coups. If all they needed to do was use hypnotherapy and a little plastic surgery on someone to become a body double, there was no reason to even need to clone him or even genetically alter some soldiers.

Then we get into the S3 Plan, which while ultimately meant to control society nonetheless had them trying to have Raiden molded into the next Solid Snake as a crucial step to controlling the populace. Since this took place in 1984, about 25 years before the Big Shell Incident, they really wouldn't NEED to do the S3 Plan since it proved to be a success long before the events of MGS2, meaning it would just be pointless.

And for the tapes, EVA and Ocelot, at the very least, knew about Zero's health being at a rapid decline, so their speeches to Solid Snake in MGS4 and their actions came across as them lying through his teeth to him, thus manipulating him, as well as pointless, and since Big Boss most likely listened to those tapes since it's implied those tapes were the same ones he gave Venom Snake in the true ending, it also means he basically lied to his son as well during the ending, thus ruining MGS4, to say little about how it made their actions even more pointless than before.

How exactly is that a stretch again, especially when I'm actually citing what's stated in the games? I go by exact words, exact meanings. Precision, in other words, is the only real truth.