Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-78.21.225.39-20150916205858/@comment-1672596-20151031025212

186.62.50.178 wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote:

72.222.125.23 wrote: No, he was being tactical. You can't build a rogue nation to take out the Patriots when their prying eyes are always watching you. He was building Zanzibar Land up while Venom Snake took all the heat off of him, building up the legend of Big Boss and uniting soldiers under the cause. Big Boss was doing all the heroic shit Venom Snake was doing, building a nation for disenfranchised soldiers, just not out in the open for the world to see. A theory I like is eventually Venom Snake becomes unhindged (he's had to endure being mutilated, his mind being irriversably altered, multitudes of his men dying of infection, and having to kill dozens his own men, remember: HE RUBS A DEAD GUYS ASHES ON HIS FACE) and Big Boss realizes Venom Snake has become a threat to the World, and that's why he sends Solid Snake to Outer Heaven to kill him. Yeah, and besides, by that logic, Solid Snake was a coward in MGS2 due to pulling the same stunt his father did in this game. Except he was in the field.

Does that really matter? He still manipulated Raiden into playing patsy just to get into Arsenal Gear, forcibly re-exposing him to his painful past, basically kept a lot of things in the dark from him that would have proven vital to actually halting the S3 plan before it could succeed, and many times it seemed as though, far from stopping the S3 Plan, he went out of his way to ensure it succeeded. That's not exactly much different from what Big Boss did.