Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150830172128

42.98.59.197 wrote: Well you provided a possible answer to the part of the question why Big Boss wanted to kill Ahab/Venom but not HOW he gained Zero trust again to regain FOXHOUND's commanding position.

And yes, if Ahab is so good, why bother having Big Boss back as the iconic hero? Why doesn't make Ahab the hero instead?

Btw, this is the link of the first bit of the hospital scene where you got to see the appearance surgery at around 12:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU1IFHcZvcs

You can see it yourselves how confusing it is, first showing that you have Snake's face, then the Doctor told you that he had to change your appearance or you won't escape your enemies' eyes and just then, you got to create your own appearance, and then in the mirror, you see in the mirror what is supposed to be your new face and then... you see Quiet stepping in killing the nurse, before the Doctor show you the mirror again, this time with the face of Big Boss again, telling you to remember that this is how you look like until today, before he is killed by Quiet.

Hurry and watch it, or Konami may have youtube take down the clip faster than you can say La-li-lul-le-lo You were right, by the time I clicked the link Konami had already taken it down. This must be that information control the Patriot AIs were talking about.

There's a lot I haven't personally seen, but based on comments from those who've watched the streams, Zero and Big Boss aren't as much mortal enemies as they previously seemed to be. From what I've read of the leaked scripts which have mostly been confirmed, Zero still cares about Big Boss, so he created a double for his protection. Though he could still have ulterior motives, and this could be an early version of the S3 program.

The S3 program from MGS2 was designed to replicate the battle of Solid Snake vs. Big Boss, with Raiden and Solidus as replacements. Now that it turns out Venom was Big Boss during Outer Heaven, the S3 program might have actually replicated Solid vs. Venom.

I'd have an easier time accepting the twist if that's what Kojima was going for, but he didn't need Venom to be the player. Spending time customizing your own character doesn't matter. We only see glimpses of the custom character in a couple brief scenes.

You're exactly on point. Why have Big Boss around if you can duplicate him using hypnotherapy? Maybe Zero just wanted to be Big Boss's support buddy.