Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150417023135

Adachi Did It wrote: I agree we'll see Liquid and at least hear about Solidus in the game, I just don't think it'll be by having a biologically 2 yr old guarding the world's greatest soldier.

And no I don't believe they do bring up The Sorrow in MGS4 (been a few yrs since I played though), but the fact that Ocelot was apparently being taken over by Liquid does make sense considering his Dad was a spiritual medium. Whether intentional or not. Makes it more impressive imo if that wasn't the starting plan.

Ocelot being possessed by an arm doesn't make sense realistically. It became something of a joke among the fan community, which is probably why Kojima opted to replace it with hypnotherapy.

The spiritual medium is a realm full of pseudoscience. We're talking about psychics who can not only read minds or predict the future, but teleport and turn invisible. Shamans who get eaten by crows when they die. Russian colonels who have electric powers and ward off lightning by reciting words from a Japanese nursery rhyme. Emo chicks who deflect bullets with their minds.

Nanomachines, stealth camo, infinite ammo bandanas, wigs that give you infinite oxygen, giant roaring mechs, and identical clones, were based in science fiction. Some of these technologies are half-plausible, but largely exist for mindless entertainment.

Yet with all of that, you drawn the line at children being genetically engineered to age faster than normal? Well, alright then. But if it turns out an adult Solidus is in the game, don't say it wasn't like Kojima to pull such a plot twist.

On another note: Despite claims that Kojima is a blabbermouth, we still don't have an official confirmation for Ishmael's voice actor. IMDB, reliable or not, lists VAs for all the characters we know about. If Ishmael were an hallucination or a minor character, why the secrecy? We know more about Code Talker, the mysterious Shaman-type character, than we do Ishmael.