Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17468962-20130906041556/@comment-17468962-20130906201717

Mr. Grave wrote: The GDC trailer raises more questions than it answers. The whole trailer is kinda questionable due to the appearance of Psycho Mantis and the strange apparitons that appear throughout the hospital escape level. Apparently, what Big Boss and Ocelot fight seems to be like..what, a guy in flames riding a horse who's also in flames? That seems plain weird, even for Metal Gear. Besides, we know Ocelot didn't expose himself as he still worked for the Patriots a number of times after the events of TPP.

True, Ocelot did fight with Big Boss during Snake Eater, but he did it to conceal his identity. Now that he seems to be very much acquainted with him, there's no reason for them to fight. And I never completely erased the possibility of Kaz being a boss fight. After all, he does seems to hold hatred for him during the Zanzibar Land Disturbance. So, there must be something wrong that Big Boss did, and that made Kaz go against him at some point. However, instead of him facing Snake in a hand-to-hand duel, I could rather see him riding a huge-ass Metal Gear. After all, what's a Metal Gear without a Metal Gear battle? Yeah! Actually, both trailers raise more questions than answers; typical Kojima behaviour... In the GDC trailer, as you stated, there's the whole 'Psycho Mantis' real or hallucination scenario, the fact that both Ishmael and Ahab (Big Boss) are voiced by the same actor (the controverse Keifer Sutherland), and the whole "Moby Dick" circumstances, along with the fake game company, and the novel references. And in the E3 trailer, we don't really know the context of the footages shown; seemingly multiple Big Boss characterizations (one from the GZ trailer, one BB with scars and one without), Big Boss apparently strangling Chico (or he could be applying pressure to prevent further damage to an eventual injury), shooting unarmed prisioners (actually, although it appears to be the right sequece of events, BB may be firing just above their heads, as the gun looks to be pointing slightly higher than their position), etc. They must serve to provoque debate and confusion amog us fans. Which is kind of fun! Isn't it?

And my point about Ocelot's allegience was that we all know he will be/is loyal to Big Boss, and is well capable of faking a fight with him to further pursue his agenda, which, in this case would not contradict his commitment of achieving his ultimate goal of supporting Big Boss perpetuating his ideals, as he has done it before.