Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.192.64.32-20130901061132/@comment-192.160.117.141-20140319202617

211.30.134.168 wrote:

Just one thing annoys me - it seems the Metal Gear world is a very small one. What the hell are the odds of a scientist named Emmerich being involved with Big Boss and then years later the guy's son Otacon becoming best friends with the clone of Big Boss? the odds of that really happening are next to none, so much so it is stupefying

That's because it's not really that much of a coincidence. The Metal Gear world - that is, the community of people involved with the early metal gears - really isn't that big. It's a secret project, and everyone who knows about it is either R&D or a spy. The odds that Huey Emmerich, who builds metal gears, would meet Big Boss, who wants metal gears, and that then, later, at any point in time, Huey's son, who also builds metal gears, would run into Big Boss's son, who destroys metal gears - are not really all that low.