Redid the opening just now and when you go to create a character the doctor says "what you look like, however..." And cuts off. Also quiet says "the patient in the next bed saw my face" before trying to kill you. I think it's worth pointing out that our character does not have the snake shaped scar that Big Boss had in Peacewalker
Judging from that I can assume we are not BB, but for whatever reason we see ourselves that way, probably form the debris in the brain. Quiet was there to kill Ishmael who is the real Big Boss.
Maybe it's Morpho and BB was the last face he saw before the debris or coma hit.... I don't know. this is nuts.
@geraltitude: I like the idea of that. Ahab wanting revenge and eventually becoming the villain of the MSX games. Ishmael, the noble side of BB we know from Snake Eater and Peace walker.
I don't know that I believe that to be the case but it matches the Moby Dick symbolism pretty well.
The idea that the Big Boss from Metal Gear isn't the real BB doesn't sit right. That would be a massive retcon and also be super lame. I guess it's possible, but we shall see.
@jinoru: that's supposed to be BB's blind eye from what I can tell. He never lost it, just damaged it in MGS3, I imagine that's why its like that.
Actually the doctor never mentions a blind eye from the crash, and it would be a dumb coincidence if morpho or maybe that medic was blind too... Hmm
As for not looking the way we think we do, Kaz recognizes BB, they do talk about his eyes for a second but I think he can see. I haven't played far enough past that to know if it's later addressed, and that's getting out of the prologue stuff anyway
Surgery was clearly interrupted, we know that. The doctor showed us BB and told us "this is how you've looked your whole life, but tomorrow will be different" (paraphrasing) but listen to what Ocelot's saying. "Get used to your new body" and his talk with you at the start of the first mission.
The whole "return as Big Boss" and "that's how Kaz would want it" sounds like your taking on BB's persona.
Now that I think of it, assuming that most of that stuff was hallucinations. Why would someone other than BB see Volgin? There's no way that wasn't volgin
So do you guys think we're playing as the real BIg Boss? I think Im starting to doubt it. Just from stuff Ocelot is saying at the start. I thought maybe Ishmael was BB but he seems to have both eyes, when even after being reassembled in mgs4 BB still had the eyepatch...
I do hope if we're not BB that we do get control of him at some point. Lol it's MGS2 all over again!!
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