As the other thread requires spoiler tags and there's not really been any good discussion for the story and the series going forward I thought I may as well make another thread.
I was listening to the Giant Bombcast today and Jeff mentioned something about how he thinks this wasn't actually planned to be the final game in the series and Kojima and co. started production of the game with potentially another 2 Metal Gear games to come after this. This is why the game didn't focus on the real Big Boss and his descent. He also said that Kojima said before that all the main games in the series will have normal numbers and Kojima had went for a fake sequel thing by using the numeral V (V for Venom?) and that it would be real shame if another game isn't made after this. So MGSV is kinda like a side game like peacewalker.
Also they said something about how Konami have started hiring people for a new metal gear game so I guess they will go on to make the rest without Kojima. It's not like he makes the whole game himself so the new ones should be similar and still good I hope if they retain a lot of the team.
Another point they made was that they should have just called Chapter 2 the epilogue instead as it led people to having too much expectation from a section of the game which was probably intended to just give greater depth to the story of the series in the whole.
http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/giant-bomb-presents/
I like the ending and it's cool how they managed to tie V and MG1 together with Venom Snake and I liked how they showed him right before he was about to be killed by Solid Snake (you can hear the gun fire in the background when he's listening to the tape). Also apparently in MG1 at the start Big Boss (the real one) is guiding Snake through the mission on a certain radio frequency and then near the end of the game when he turns on you the frequency changes (Venom Snake). Of course it's not like Kojima planned that but it's pretty interesting if that influenced his decision in creating Venom snake for this game. Also it can help explain how Big Boss managed to be a commander of Foxhound while running Outer Heaven at the same time. The real Big Boss went to Foxhound while Venom took over Outer Heaven which BB had built up during and after the events of MGSV.
There's also been some discussion about whether the conversation shown between Ocelot and Kaz occurred before or after the games events. If it happened before then it explains why Kaz was always so angry throughout the game as he feels betrayed by Big Boss and he stuck around to help Venom as like he said he would support Solid and Venom to screw Big Boss. Also when you kill someone on motherbase Kaz says 'I guess your not the Boss we thought you would be' which could be interpreted to suggest that he knew from the start.
I was listening to the Giant Bombcast today and Jeff mentioned something about how he thinks this wasn't actually planned to be the final game in the series and Kojima and co. started production of the game with potentially another 2 Metal Gear games to come after this. This is why the game didn't focus on the real Big Boss and his descent. He also said that Kojima said before that all the main games in the series will have normal numbers and Kojima had went for a fake sequel thing by using the numeral V (V for Venom?) and that it would be real shame if another game isn't made after this. So MGSV is kinda like a side game like peacewalker.
Also they said something about how Konami have started hiring people for a new metal gear game so I guess they will go on to make the rest without Kojima. It's not like he makes the whole game himself so the new ones should be similar and still good I hope if they retain a lot of the team.
Another point they made was that they should have just called Chapter 2 the epilogue instead as it led people to having too much expectation from a section of the game which was probably intended to just give greater depth to the story of the series in the whole.
http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/giant-bomb-presents/
I like the ending and it's cool how they managed to tie V and MG1 together with Venom Snake and I liked how they showed him right before he was about to be killed by Solid Snake (you can hear the gun fire in the background when he's listening to the tape). Also apparently in MG1 at the start Big Boss (the real one) is guiding Snake through the mission on a certain radio frequency and then near the end of the game when he turns on you the frequency changes (Venom Snake). Of course it's not like Kojima planned that but it's pretty interesting if that influenced his decision in creating Venom snake for this game. Also it can help explain how Big Boss managed to be a commander of Foxhound while running Outer Heaven at the same time. The real Big Boss went to Foxhound while Venom took over Outer Heaven which BB had built up during and after the events of MGSV.
There's also been some discussion about whether the conversation shown between Ocelot and Kaz occurred before or after the games events. If it happened before then it explains why Kaz was always so angry throughout the game as he feels betrayed by Big Boss and he stuck around to help Venom as like he said he would support Solid and Venom to screw Big Boss. Also when you kill someone on motherbase Kaz says 'I guess your not the Boss we thought you would be' which could be interpreted to suggest that he knew from the start.