Finally finished the true ending.... man that took longer than I expected.
I would also question if most people ever saw the ending w/o looking up the requirements and how to trigger certain missions.
It's pretty insane...
Makes me wonder if there will be something similar in TPP. Like, the "normal" conflict is solved and then you have to build up your motherbase until it basically reaches Outer Heaven dimensions for the MG1 canon. Then in this final chapter you could actually play as Solid Snake to defeat your own base or something
I hope playing this was worth it for some TPP references. I guess some characters like Huey will return though I wonder what happened to the other staff (Strangelove? who is maybe Hal's mother and love interest???).
and why does Paz remain as an asset on the Motherbase
I remain by the opinion that the most interesting part of PW are the audio tapes (The Boss entered this whole mess by helping out NASA, got her child take away from her by working with the Russian Philosophers during that time. How she killed The Sorrow. That Huey talked with Granin etc.).
I started also grinding Paz diaries but then I noticed that those are also included in Ground Zeroes
(which I also replayed this week to collect all the POWs etc.).
One of the tapes also reveal the background between Miller and BB which was...underwhelming. BB was killing Miller's unit but left Miller alive after being impressed that Miller wanted to blow himself up. Just within 2 years they are best buddies, meh...
Oh and it makes NO sense that Miller didn't tell BB that Paz was up to something from the start, not to mention letting her get Zeke (though it seems her original plan was to sabotage Zeke?!). I hope TPP will explain how Miller ends up helping out SS (as the good guy basically) because the trailers make it seem as if he's more crazy/out for revenge than BB
The reason the Boss wants the truth to remain hidden is all at the end of MGS3, she didn't really defect to russia, remember russia and the US was on the brink of nuclear war because of the nuke detonated at the start of the game, The Boss acted as a traitor in order to prove the US's innocence and prevent all out nuclear war. If the truth about her actions ever came out, it could reignite nuclear retaliation, which obviously is no good for anyone.
Would it though? It seems like after all this time it would be unlikely that the Russians would care at all (that the person pretending to defect let an evil Russian guy shoot a nuke at some Russian research facility in the forest with an American nuke).
btw shouldn't Boss' superiors know the truth as well?
The Monster Hunter missions put a smile on my face. Hunting a Rathalos with an RPG lol. I can post some screenshots maybe later.
Though the game stutters immensely in that mission, why wasn't it optimized for the HD collection?!