I've always been a proponent of Solidus Did Nothing Wrong but you could level this criticism at Snake in MGS 1, too. Liquid was fighting against TPTB as well while Snake continues to follow the orders of the people repeatedly stabbing him in the back. He only "beats" the Patriots at the end of 4 because Naomi/Ocelot/Sunny doing the heavy lifting.
While true. I think he made up for it with the microwave hallway.
He did put himself through that, but Raiden was spot-on when he said that his body's a machine. So Snake was only in there because he's a prideful old man.
He did it because he knew his time was limited and Raiden was still young, while machine. But he had a family. Snake had Otacon.
That was intended, I thought. Solid Snake was tired of being a pawn, going through the BB betrayal and killing him twice, but his solution after that was to opt out and be a drunk, dog-hoarding PTSD hermit in Alaska.
Shit, I didn't even think about that. And all the "Liquid is in my arm" horseshit just turned out to be more psychosomatic hypnotist bullshit in MGS4. Ocelot why are you so unpredictable? I swear, you'd think he'd be cumming in his Shalashaska-slacks after seeing Solidus with the eye patch... "You're the spitting image of Big Boss".
And twink Raiden was willing to Doom the World, all for one (in all likelyhood autistic) Russian baby... what an absolute wide-hipped retard.
In fairness to Raiden, Solidus did say he was gonna kill him and extract his nanomachines to find a new lead on the Patriots. So I don't think Raiden really had a choice in fighting him. Though it was nice of Solidus to give him a fighting chance.
That was a pretty dumb retcon, even for the series. In the MGS2 comic book, The Sorrow cameo'd to tell Ocelot he was disappointed in his ghost wrangling abilities. I liked the idea of Ocelot having small-medium abilities, and especially the idea of someone being inconvenienced by having psychic powers. He has other stuff to do!
You beat me to this. Raiden is not a smart man, but "hold still while I murder you" is a really hard sell, even if the Answers to Everything are hidden in his brain. (Arthur Dent declined a similar offer in 1979.)
Wasn't there also something about BB being kept in a coma by the AIs, and Ocelot couldn't revive him until they were destroyed? I don't really feel like sitting through the entire ending again to check. IIRC once the Patriots were destroyed Ocelot did use parts from both Liquid and Solidus.
I think you're right; they wanted to keep BB as a curated icon, not an inconvenient human. All the more reason to work on the Patriots sooner.
I honestly would have loved it if he was actually getting possessed from beyond the grave by Liquid on account of the arm. Considering we've got both Psycho Mantis and The Sorrow it wouldn't exactly be out of base with the setting.
I want to live in world where MGS4 had ghost Liquid over the spoonful's of shit we were forced to eat.
And I forgot that as well. Raiden was handcuffed, yet Solidus freed him just so they could have a fair fight. He really is the best Snake.
Ghost Liquid and Vamp being an actual vampire, but no, Kojima went with NANOMACHINES.
I don't agree with all his policies, but he still has my vote.
It was a simulation, but a real one ie a manufactured terrorist incident to train the next Solid Snake. Of course, it's much more convoluted than that, but the plot is the way it is intentionally to mindfuck the player. This all happened, I just assume New Yorkers are used to this sort of thing happening by that point.
IRL simulation of what happened in Shadow Moses to be exact.