Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-6747658-20130503070451

Evil Tim wrote: Well, it's possible it's a hallucination of Grey Fox, and it'd hardly be the first massive retcon (that would be MGS ignoring almost the entire plot of MG2, especially the parts about the oil-making bacteria and global nuclear disarmament). I think Kojima felt more comfortable setting MGS into a more modern representation of nuclear weapons/stocking that actually occurs where as MG still goes on with the wishfull thinking of how the Cold War should end since both were released during the final years of the Cold War.

Back on topic, I would not mind Ishmael being Big Boss's hallucination of Gray Fox, that makes more sense then it actually being really Gray Fox.