This was supposed to be the greatest video game ever made, Yea Forums. It was supposed to be about PTSD and how power corrupts you until you don't recognize yourself anymore and you justify your actions by claiming it's for the greater good. I wanted to become a demon. I wanted to take back what my country took from me after I was made to kill my mentor which set me on a path where I couldn't return home because I didn't have one anymore. Because I didn't recognize my home country or the people who I had once sworn to protect.
I wanted to recruit the outliers of the world, the ones who would pledge their loyalty to a country with no borders and who didn't have a home to return to either. Zanzibarland would be their home and I wanted to create it away from the elite who determine who should die for them to keep the "peace". Mother Base was supposed to be a safe haven for a scared young girl and her surrogate brother who I would take under my wing and nurse back to health or a young but confident blonde assassin who had a knack for sniper rifles.
Instead I got to be a voiceless nobody who's identity, name, and even face were a lie. Who had no character or personality for me to care about. A random grunt who was Fultoned years prior is somehow just as capable as a legendary hero. Who builds a completely useless and replaceable base that has no connection to the rest of the series. Who recruits a sniper who has no impact on the current story or events that take place in the future. This was supposed to give meaning and a weight to the handshake scene in 3. It was supposed to be the conclusion to John's arc while also being the beginning of his sons'. Giving his story to Venom and splitting his legendary status among two men does a disservice to what Big Boss had gone through. Venom didn't deserve the title. What had he done to earn to be called Big Boss?. John lost everything when he was sent to kill the woman he loved.
MGS needs closure. As do I.
