Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-88.193.240.30-20150822201105

64.33.250.214 wrote: I have doubts that it's official. When I think official, I think of an employee giving a confirmation. As of right now, the strategy guide remains listed under unofficial information. Do you know how many people exactly are involved in this leak? Because if it's only like 10 people, then it could still be an elaborate hoax. Nearly everything the translations say the guide claims can be theories based on what we've already learned from trailers and previous games. For example, the translation doesn't mention anything about characters like Gurlukovich or Vamp. The characters shown in the guide are almost entirely taken from Ground Zeroes or Phantom Pain trailers. With the exception of Chico, who doesn't appear to be mentioned at all.

The translation says nothing more or less about the Medic theory that we haven't already heard. I take issue with Medic being any sort of clone of Big Boss, on the grounds that he neither looks nor sounds like Big Boss. Medic doesn't even look like Naked Snake from Snake Eater, who should be around the same age. Is Kojima ripping off the plot of Face/Off now?

If it wasn't for online sources taking Medics voice and altering the tone to make it sound like Kiefer, most of us wouldn't have thought Medic and Big Boss were related. Speaking of sources... I hope Yong Yea takes a moment from those retrospectives and addresses this issue. Or at the very least warn fans that there's a potential plot leak circulating the internet. I'm not sure how many people are involved, I've seen 2 videos showcasing the guide and over 10 pictures of the guide. But those videos and pictures are extremely convincing to me. I have no doubt in my mind that they're real. Some guy even claimed that he saw the guide in a store and it looked exactly like in the videos / pictures. And yeah, in that "Who is Ishmael?"-page it looks like some of the points are pretty much identical to some theories, but there is new stuff as well, such as Ocelot saying to Eli that "your father is not here" even though Venom Snake was nearby, DNA testings indicating that Eli and Venom Snake aren't related, Huey suspecting Venom Snake's identity the first time they meet... Of course that is something the fans could come up with, but having seen all the pictures and videos, I just don't think they're fake. There's so much content and pictures and artwork that we have never seen before. You would have to be truly desperate to fake all that.