Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25366375-20140923122450

I've made a brief reference to it before in discussions, but what do you guys think the likelihood of us seeing any UMAs in The Phantom Pain is? For those unaware, a UMA is Unidentified Mysterious Animal, and Zero was known to have founded the UMA Club at some point.

We know that Kojima wants to include humour in the game, most recently seen by things like Lisa from P.T. as a decoy balloon in The Phantom Pain. And with the inclusion of the support buddy system, there could be "joke" buddies such as UMAs.

The general consensus at the moment seems to be that TPP's "Africa" is the Congo (of course nothing confirmed as of yet as far as I'm aware) and correct me if I'm wrong, but Mokele-Mbembe, one of the many UMAs Chico talked about, was from the Congo. Obviously I'm not suggesting we'd get a giant dinosaur as a support buddy, just something to consider being present in-game. Another user mentioned in another thread that there's a yeti-like creature in Afghanistan, which happens to be one place we're going to in TPP.

For those of you thinking this may be entirely immersion breaking, let us remember the Tsuchinoko from Snake Eater and, although it was due to a partnership with Monster Hunter, the Rathalos and related monsters in Peace Walker. We also know that Big Boss is afraid of vampires and believes in Santa Claus, so the inclusion of UMAs may not be as crazy as it first sounds. Besides, all the UMAs so far have been a fun little Easter Egg, so maybe we'll get some UMAs randomly populating our world after a certain mission/certain conditions or a cleared game save file.

This may even answer the question of what happened to Chico, perhaps he leaves MSF/Diamond Dogs and truly does go on to become a hunter. This could make for some pretty interesting side missions!

So, guys and gals, do you think we'll see any UMAs in TPP? If so, which kind do you think we'll see and where? And, will we get any UMAs as support buddies, or perhaps just something to fight/encounter while exploring? 