*SPOILERS* Ishmael *SPOILERS*

[Vixus]

I replayed MGSV and noticed something, why does Big Boss (Ishmael) have both his eyes? Was it just to confuse the player? I don't get it, and Big Boss doesn't have any beard either, like NO beard visible on the opening around his mouth. Or was he just wearing a mask like Kojima did on E3 2013?

[supertrooper225]

It is probably just a glass eye to throw off anybody that may even get half of an idea of who he might be.

[Vixus]

Originally posted by supertrooper225:

It is probably just a glass eye to throw off anybody that may even get half of an idea of who he might be.

Oh damn, didn't think of it like that. His glass eye moves though, is that even possible?

[supertrooper225]

Originally posted by Vixus:

Originally posted by supertrooper225:

It is probably just a glass eye to throw off anybody that may even get half of an idea of who he might be.

Oh damn, didn't think of it like that. His glass eye moves though, is that even possible?

Sure. Or it is like a cybernetic glass eye that let's him see like a Terminator or something. It's Metal Gear.....♥♥♥♥ gets odd.

[Bite]

It's most likely a mask. Kojima also used the same mask when he was pretending to be Joakim at the MGSV reveal, and he just, well, took it off (Note that you can't see any distinctive features of Big Boss, like even his beard or his hair).

In a world where bionic arms are fully functional in the 80s, having an organic functional mask isn't such a stretch at the end of the day.

[Vixus]

Originally posted by Bite:

It's most likely a mask. Kojima also used the same mask when he was pretending to be Joakim at the MGSV reveal, and he just, well, took it off (Note that you can't see any distinctive features of Big Boss, like even his beard or his hair).

In a world where bionic arms are fully functional in the 80s, having an organic functional mask isn't such a stretch at the end of the day.

Haha, thanks for the insight guys. Oh also, iDroid in 1984, why didn't we think of that?

[Hooligan Spooks]

Lots of technology that is modern is a lot older than people realize due to secrecy and being so ground breaking its not practical for mass production at the times. Hell Electronic ciggs and vaporizors were invented around 1930 and patented in 1965. Not saying all the tec was there, but some of the tec in game was possible during the time period in a top secret, one of a kind, not mass produced way.

[Kamikrazy]

Coincidentally dataminers reported Ishmaels face uses the same textures as the Medic's from Ground Zeroes pre TPP. Conspiracy likely

[supertrooper225]

Originally posted by Vixus:

Originally posted by Bite:

It's most likely a mask. Kojima also used the same mask when he was pretending to be Joakim at the MGSV reveal, and he just, well, took it off (Note that you can't see any distinctive features of Big Boss, like even his beard or his hair).

In a world where bionic arms are fully functional in the 80s, having an organic functional mask isn't such a stretch at the end of the day.

Haha, thanks for the insight guys. Oh also, iDroid in 1984, why didn't we think of that?

Or the electronic cigar. XD

[Agirin]

Originally posted by Vixus:

I replayed MGSV and noticed something, why does Big Boss (Ishmael) have both his eyes? Was it just to confuse the player? I don't get it, and Big Boss doesn't have any beard either, like NO beard visible on the opening around his mouth. Or was he just wearing a mask like Kojima did on E3 2013?

thanks for the spoilers m8... (and no it wasn't saying spoilers ı dunno why but when i entered it started to show spoilers)

[supertrooper225]

Originally posted by The Suspect:

Originally posted by Vixus:

I replayed MGSV and noticed something, why does Big Boss (Ishmael) have both his eyes? Was it just to confuse the player? I don't get it, and Big Boss doesn't have any beard either, like NO beard visible on the opening around his mouth. Or was he just wearing a mask like Kojima did on E3 2013?

thanks for the spoilers m8... (and no it wasn't saying spoilers ı dunno why but when i entered it started to show spoilers)

2/3 of the headline is a spoiler warning.

[Chao~]

Do remember that Venom Snake could have been having hallucinations, not everything was as it seemed to begin with as shown from the differences between Mission 1 and Mission 46, so it's not unfathomable to think he could have seen Ishmael as a normal person. It was already hinted that Ishmael was a figment of his imagination and that Venom did all that nonsense in the hospital all by himself, but who can say for sure other than Kojima himself?

[Bite]

Originally posted by Chao | 宇宙 (うちゅう):

It was already hinted that Ishmael was a figment of his imagination and that Venom did all that nonsense in the hospital all by himself.

That's proven false, though, the game blatantly spells out who Ishmael is and how real he is, both in Mission 1 and 46.

[Chao~]

Originally posted by Bite:

Originally posted by Chao | 宇宙 (うちゅう):

It was already hinted that Ishmael was a figment of his imagination and that Venom did all that nonsense in the hospital all by himself.

That's proven false, though, the game blatantly spells out who Ishmael is and how real he is, both in Mission 1 and 46.

In the context of when you were playing Mission 1 I mean. You learn that Ishmael was real in the next mission IIRC (or perhaps in the cassette tapes, I can't say for sure).

[BalboaJR]

mask.

http://www.onemetal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/hideo-kojima-mask-660x390.jpg

[Antonio Neto Kosovo]

Originally posted by Kamikrâzy:

Coincidentally dataminers reported Ishmaels face uses the same textures as the Medic's from Ground Zeroes pre TPP. Conspiracy likely

because it is just a default generic texture - since the medic in GZ has no specific face due to TPP.