Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-70.184.16.184-20140912222249/@comment-1672596-20140914125219

Paranoid Donkey wrote: Like Jim said, I'm guessing you probably haven't played (or at least fully finished) Peace Walker, OP. I kinda get where you're coming from in that I kinda want a bandana too, despite it actually detracting from the plot. I didn't really notice its absence much in Ground Zeroes but I seem to in the Phantom Pain footage.

I don't think it'd be unrealistic to expect there may be a bandana as an item once you've cleared the game though. Items like the Tanegashima and Solar Gun in the past have shown us that irrelevant/odd things in a New Game+ are pretty common in the series.

As a side note, similarly to how Big Boss discards his banada at the end of Peace Walker, though, I think a similar moment where he cuts off his pony tail at the end of The Phantom Pain would be awesome, and we finally see him come full circle as Big Boss the villain (despite not being grey haired). I was personally a bit irritated with how Peace Walker handled the bandana issue, because despite his letting it go, Chapter 5 still had Big Boss wearing it, not just in the renders, but in the actual comic book cutscenes. If they were going to make a sincere effort to make it impactful, I wish they'd actually remove the bandana, at least for the comic cutscenes.