Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1918136-20130829202312/@comment-1672596-20150122005255

Paranoid Donkey wrote: 177.249.101.8 wrote: I like Big Boss, more than Solid Snake (that doesn't mean I hate Solid) But even though I understand his pain for having to kill The Boss he spends a whole lot of Peace Walker whining about her. Well, the fact that he murdered his spiritual mother aside, killing The Boss turned John's world upside down. He was a patriot and would do anything for his country (as evidenced by the fact that he killed The Boss because the CIA told him to) but her ideals about having no such thing as a permanent enemy, and her desire for...well, it's up for debate as to what kind of world she wanted, just ask The Patriots...but he was broken not only as a man, but also as a soldier.

Yeah, and learning that they might have actually planned to have her killed off anyways even before Volgin ruined everything by nuking the Sokolov Research Facility, and in fact, they actually made sure he did exactly that just so they'd have the perfect excuse to do so would probably cause Big Boss even more angst as well.

That being said, I kinda prefer how they handled his guilt for The Boss in Portable Ops and Metal Gear Solid 4. While it was definitely made clear he did indeed harbor some guilt and haunting about The Boss's death, they at least did it in such a way that he wasn't whining about it constantly, even if he did have a perfectly justified reason for complaining.