Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-83.253.11.79-20131027104259/@comment-1672596-20140320231028

50.158.20.128 wrote: Hey i found this, but i don't know how accurate it really is considering some thing look out of place and contains huge spoilers, but the timeline is almost spot on, i just played ground zeros and loved it, now im just waiting for TPP. but heres the link have a look see, and if you ask me i strongly believe that we are playing a clone in TPP ladies and gentlemen. but i don't mind =P

but yeah check out the link to have a look at the timeline

http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/1970s

The reason it was accurate was because before the game was released, I downloaded the ending from Mega.com via a guy named Eduardo on GameFAQs and watched the entire thing, pausing only to jot down the dates. Only thing I needed to do was put major spoiler tags at the top of the page.

And while I'm doubtful that it's a clone of Big Boss, I wouldn't be surprised if it was, since other than Zero going into hiding after Big Boss left the Patriots due to LET, there was nothing to indicate in-game that LET would end in 1976. Plus, Kojima did imply that he intended to redo the situation from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty early in development, so who knows? I find it hard to believe the Phantom Pain ad for VGA was the thing he's talking about since it seemed blatantly obvious and not close to the deception used for Metal Gear Solid 2 trailers. Well, either way we'll see. I hope they explain how they managed to survive that crash when there's no apparent place to land.