Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-6747658-20140612233045

Weedle McHairybug wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote: Secondly, Kojima has assured us several times that we will be only playing as one character, -the- Big Boss, the only Big Boss, as he did not want the whole backlash like that from MGS2 again.

Actually, Kojima stated he intended to pull a similar twist to what happened in MGS2 for MGSV back when MGSV was first announced. I remember the discussions on it on GameFAQs. And considering how the Phantom Pain teasers were a bit too obvious that it was Metal Gear Solid V, I'm extremely doubtful the Moby Dick Studios bit was what he was aiming for. Not to mention, Kojima also "assured" us multiple times Phantom Pain had no connection towards MGS, yet guess what, that's exactly what it turned out to be: connected to MGS, specifically MGSV.

And either way, don't you find it even a small bit suspicious that the Ground Zeroes ending timeline mentioned that the Les Enfants Terribles project ended in 1976? They didn't mention it in Peace Walker's ending timelines, or any other official timelines for that matter, and it doesn't help that Ground Zeroes was effectively part one of MGSV.

I still highly doubt he'd screw us over again in regard of us not playin Big Boss, there would be way too much backlash and he'd loose a lot of credibility. Also MGS2 had more twists then just that, if though it was the biggest one.

I still stand by my comment that it cannot possibly be a clone in either case due to explained reasons.

Also, since there is high speculation that Eli is Liquid and people thinking that we will see a young Solid Snake, it is reasonably to have the LET Project to be mentioned.