New myth article, some minor updates, and a tiny review

[Abel]

[John]

"Naomi told me... everything."
"There's something else, Naomi wanted me to tell you."

Now we're just going around in circles.

[Abel]

This doesn't imply anything but that Naomi told Big Boss about Snake's situation and all that Patriots AI garbage.

[John]

You know, have you ever considered that, maybe, Kojima has left this little detail unexplained because he wanted the player to find it for themselves?

He did something like that in MGS2, which would lead to the VR Theory.

[Abel]

No I don't think so, I first thought so too but it's too far fetched and retarded to be planned by Kojima.

The Vamp and Eva examples aswell, I doubt Kojima thought about this.

It's badly written.

So is Big Boss.

[Elman]

So now all the MGS3-4 hate is coming to the Soup too?

Come THE FUCK on.

[Zerim]

[John]

[Abel]

[Son of Liberty]

My confusion is this: people see Big Boss in MG2 as the personification of an evil bastard who ostensibly created Outer Heaven over his lifetime simply because he is an asshole. It's like you wanted a one-dimensional character. That is shitty writing.

MGS3 could have portrayed Big Boss in a darker, more philosophically troubled character, but it didn't contradict anything either. He was green. He listened more than he spoke. The Boss was everything to him. He was deluding himself into believing war and killing was a patriotic service and that, for the most part, his superiors were honest with him. The Snake Eater mission crushed everything he felt was real, stable, and lasting. War, politics, love....everything became a fleeting memory to him. He let go of everything that mattered.

As he began to travel to different war-torn countries, Big Boss was exposed to even more corruption and manipulation that the American Philosophers perpetuated--in addition to other fucked up governments. Soldiers left abandoned by their countries (ala MPO's Soviet soldiers), war orphans (like Fox), child soldiers, etc.

So...
Big Boss let go of his country, identity, and past affiliations
His trust in nations and ideologies dwindled
He was only living when he was in battle
He realizes peace is not a natural state of mankind, that war is everlasting
His only place is on the battlefield. Other soldiers feel the same so they join him.
He saves countless war orphans and child soldiers. He gives them a chance to fight back at those who destroyed their lives. hence, feeding them back into the battlefield...a perfectly logical system.
By the time of Outer Heaven, he has lost hope in humanity, like The Patriots, and decides to fuck America aka THe Patriots up the ass.
MY perspective (after playing the series) is that he wanted to either collapse America or find a way to destroy The Patriots's countless facilities and systems using Metal Gear. He knew they were planning a spreading their control to the point where the world would NEED to rely on them, so he needed to act.
Plus, he was losing his mind and wanted Western nations to experience what the rest of the world was experiencing...a battlefield every day, starvation, death. Liquid Ocelot said this of Big Boss at the end of the game.

My point is...nothing was contradicted. Play MG2 again. There are many hints as to why he created Outer Heaven. Perpetuating war wasn't the single reason...it was the result of his betrayal and all the betrayal he witnessed wandering the world.

[Elman]

[John]

[Elman]

[Abel]

This doesn't change anything, you just wrote down WHY Big Boss has become such an asshole.

This doesn't change the fact that he indeed WAS a selfish asshole.

Starting war in order to get more soldiers, feed them with your own sick beliefs and brainwash them, that's what Big Boss did and this is not being misunderstood or having different morals.

This is having NO morals and being selfish, he never talked about his soldiers like they are his children or brothers, he calls them nothing but tools.

[Zerim]