Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-58.172.124.48-20141005022154/@comment-1672596-20141006194654

64.33.250.214 wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: Didn't stop Kojima from essentially spoiling that Kazuhira Miller is the same as Master Miller, and we don't even learn who he is until... what, the timeline for the second ending? Or his strongly hinting at Huey being related to Otacon (and even then, thanks no less to the confusion generated to the MGS4 Database, it was unclear whether that meant he was Otacon's father or grandpa until the first ending timeline flat out confirmed he was Hal's father). True... But we knew from previous games that Miller had worked with Boss before, and that Huey was involved in development of Metal Gear. We didn't know child Mantis met Big Boss, or that child Liquid spent time in Africa. Mantis and Liquid rank high among the most popular characters in the franchise, so there's more of a reason to keep their involvement a mystery. Technically, only Huey we actually know about beforehand (and even then, only from Metal Gear Solid 3's leaked character concepts specifically IDing him as Granin's friend, as his friend was otherwise ambiguous even without MGS4's Database muddling the issue further [it only alluded to it being an Emmerich. It never made clear which Emmerich was involved]). Miller even working with Big Boss was only alluded to in an optional Codec conversation when he mentioned that Big Boss was a monster late in Metal Gear 2 (not even the manual hinted at his having a history with Big Boss beyond common FOXHOUND affiliation), and even then, it never specified whether that meant he worked with Big Boss at all before FOXHOUND, as he could have just known him from FOXHOUND (he was FOXHOUND's survival drill instructor after all).