Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-2112031-20150913085726

Adachi Did It wrote: Yh, I'm pretty sure Big Boss says he was 'one of the damn best we had'. But that doesn't explain how he was just as good as the real Big Boss in MGSV. MSF started in '72, destroyed in '75. 3 years is not enough time to become as good as Big Boss in every conceivable way. No matter who trained him.

I'm also pretty sure Ocelot tells BB, that Medic has all of his experience and memories, that he is in fact BB for all intents and purposes (could be wrong there though, but I'm pretty sure). How? no bloody idea. Seeing as Kaz raises no suspicions to anything being amiss, that kinda confirms this.

I'm not educated enough in hypnotherapy to disagree with you, I just see too many variables at play for it to be a good enough explanation. I'm pretty sure that Ocelot only said that the Medic merely believes himself to be the real Big Boss. His amnesia combined with the hypnotherapy would have conditioned him to integrate everything he considers familiar into his false belief that he was Big Boss.

It's probably safe to say that the Medic was already a soldier before he joined MSF and while I agree that he probably wouldn't be as good as the real deal, he would still be pretty damn good nonetheless.