Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140831111356

0nighthawk0 wrote: 64.33.250.214 wrote: Can we trust Kojima's Tweet to be legitimate? After all, he did Tweet that PythonSelkan vid. Or it could be he's teasing a Q4 Japan release. The pic he took was of a page with Q4 on it, not the whole mag. Bear in mind that Ground Zeroes released in March, and Peace Walker released in April. Metal Gear hasn't an end of year release for a long time. But who knows...

Hopefully we'll get a new trailer at TGS, and possibly a release date. We haven't seen gameplay in Africa, nor have we seen much of other characters besides Boss. Quiet, Code Talker, and Eli haven't appeared for more than a few seconds. Nor have we been shown a Boss battle. He didn't exactly retweet PythonSelkan's video, he retweeted the article that featured it and he's doing stuff like that commonly enough, he likes to retweet things that mention him or his games.

But yes, this whole Release Date discussion should go to it's appropiate topic found here: http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:42291

As for this Ishmael topic, I remain by what I've said before, Ishmael is an illusion made up by Big Boss himself due to trauma + Psycho kid. He Tweeted a video (that was linked to an article) that many believe to be inaccurate. Kojima had to have known what he was Tweeting, otherwise it would look bad on him. My theory for why he Tweeted it, is probably to add confusion to the many theories out there so the fans don't figure everything out before the game's release.

Has Kojima ever Tweeted the hallucination theory? Or what about the Solidus theory? I wouldn't know because I only started following him recently. I have no firm opinion in who Ishmael is, and based on what little evidence there is, any and all theories are presumptious. I wont be convinced on way or another until the game is released.

I highly doubt Mantis Boy would create a hallucination to assist Big Boss. From what we've seen, the psychic images he projects are unnatural and ghostly. There's some logic in the trauma theory, but how do you explain the name? Ishmael is a Biblical name, and Kojima has only given such names to real characters who are usually important. Someone in the thread argued that Kojima chose the name to trick us into believing Ishmael is important, but that's not so much an argument as it is a means to diffuse an argument.