Big Boss got his eye shot, right?

[Bordo]

He's not "blind" in that eye. There's just no eye at all.
No?

[JohnTravoltage]

I thought that in earlier sections of the game you could see his right eye, and it was pale as if it had been cut or something, but it was still there.

[Vyrex]

...first mgs?...

[PoutineQuebecoise]

Hmm, can't even say the reason people can't answer this without giving away a big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥... thing? Ugh you people in these forums are driving me nuts with how much of the story you want to know or not know.

[Bordo]

Originally posted by John Travoltage:

I thought that in earlier sections of the game you could see his right eye, and it was pale as if it had been cut or something, but it was still there.

Yeah, well. That's where I'm trying to get.
But you shouldn't read until you've completed mission 46.

Originally posted by Cyanx:

...first mgs?...

Operation Snake Eater (MGS3). Ocelot shot his eye clean off.

[Regen7]

Originally posted by Mr. Hue:

Hmm, can't even say the reason people can't answer this without giving away a big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥... thing? Ugh you people in these forums are driving me nuts with how much of the story you want to know or not know.

It's because 80% of the people that bought this game aren't even mgs fans or have never heard of/played a mgs game in their lives. They bought it because its a shiney triple a game with good graphics.

[Arctic Fox]

Big Boss's eye was damaged by the muzzle flash of Ocelot's revolver in Snake Eater, leaving it blind. The eye itself wasn't actually shot out.

[Elphelt's Biggest Fan]

oh look, purist ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ talking about why people can't just enjoy a good game. they must've bought it out of idiocy.

[Regen7]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k023M1uIUqg

I'll just leave this here

[Bordo]

Originally posted by Arctic Fox:

Big Boss' eye was damaged by the muzzle flash of Ocelot's revolver in Snake Eater, leaving it blind. The eye itself wasn't actually shot out.

Oooh! ♥♥♥♥♥. For real?

I though I saw blood in that scene... Then again I played a long time ago. And my TV wasn't...
Let's say it wasn't a LCD monitor... xD

Edit: See? There was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of blood! Was that really the muzzle flash only...?

[Mav]

His eye was shot...or at least a part of his vision, but it wasn't shot off.

Should be called Pirate Snake.

[平和ThePhantomPainウォーカ]

Originally posted by Arctic Fox:

Big Boss's eye was damaged by the muzzle flash of Ocelot's revolver in Snake Eater, leaving it blind. The eye itself wasn't actually shot out.

Yep.

[Bordo]

Originally posted by 平和ThePhantomPainウォーカ:

Originally posted by Arctic Fox:

Big Boss's eye was damaged by the muzzle flash of Ocelot's revolver in Snake Eater, leaving it blind. The eye itself wasn't actually shot out.

Yep.

Explain the blood fountain then. :/

[Arctic Fox]

Originally posted by T-Bear:

Originally posted by Arctic Fox:

Big Boss' eye was damaged by the muzzle flash of Ocelot's revolver in Snake Eater, leaving it blind. The eye itself wasn't actually shot out.

Oooh! ♥♥♥♥♥. For real?

I though I saw blood in that scene... Then again I played a long time ago. And my TV wasn't...
Let's say it wasn't a LCD monitor... xD

Edit: See? There was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of blood! Was that really the muzzle flash only...?

I might be wrong, of course, but this is the explanation I remember and one that I have seen repeated often. Might have been in a codec conversation?

If his eye was physically shot off there would be much more serious damage to his head.

[JohnTravoltage]

Originally posted by T-Bear:

Originally posted by Arctic Fox:

Big Boss' eye was damaged by the muzzle flash of Ocelot's revolver in Snake Eater, leaving it blind. The eye itself wasn't actually shot out.

Oooh! ♥♥♥♥♥. For real?

I though I saw blood in that scene... Then again I played a long time ago. And my TV wasn't...
Let's say it wasn't a LCD monitor... xD

Edit: See? There was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of blood! Was that really the muzzle flash only...?

If you fire a blank from a weapon, the expanding gasses that escape from the barrell are enough to cause damage, and it isn't like the 'fire' (which is nowhere near as obvious in real life, don't know why games/movies seem to portray weapons as just shooting fire out of the barrell with every shot) damaged his eye, the sudden pressure wave would probably be enough to rupture blood vessels/the eye That and also the gasses that would escape from around the cylinder can also cause damage, I've seen some pretty bad injuries from revolvers when people had their thumbs in the wrong place.

[Bordo]

Originally posted by Arctic Fox:

If his eye was physically shot off there would be much more serious damage to his head.

What I had always imagined was that the bullet flew past near enough to destroy the outermost part of the eye, but flying away after that.
That was why there was so much blood but he didn't eat a bullet with his head.

But now the scenes in the hospital... It's like... mmm wut?

You can give Ddog an artificial eye, so I guess this is not that far.

Originally posted by John Travoltage:

If you fire a blank from a weapon, the expanding gasses that escape from the barrell are enough to cause damage, and it isn't like the 'fire' (which is nowhere near as obvious in real life, don't know why games/movies seem to portray weapons as just shooting fire out of the barrell with every shot) damaged his eye, the sudden pressure wave would probably be enough to rupture blood vessels/the eye That and also the gasses that would escape from around the cylinder can also cause damage, I've seen some pretty bad injuries from revolvers when people had their thumbs in the wrong place.

So then, his eye was actually destroyed. Not by a bullet, but there is no eye, right?