@c2c said:
After seeing the ending again on Metal Gear Scanlon, I also have a thing that bugs me (ending spoiler): Why do the Patriots let Raiden and Snake go at the end? They both have detailed knowledge about the S3 plan, why would they just be allowed to leave with that information? Has this ever been addressed?
I don't think that it was ever explicitly explained why in game. I think there are several explanations though (Spoilers for future MGS games): 1. While Snake/Raiden knew about the S3 plan, the Patriots are still pretty much in control of how information flows, so its not like that information would be easily let loose on the public with the Patriots around. 2. At this point Snake would start aging at a very rapid rate; either the Patriots may have decided that Snake wouldn't be able to do much against them in that state or the Patriots may have decided they needed Snake to deal with Liquid Ocelot. 3. Raiden was actually eventually captured sometime in this period, and the Patriots used Raiden as a test subject until he was broken free. Again none of this is super explicit in the games, but that is the only way I can make sense of this.
The better question is: why did the Patriots ever reveal ANY of that stuff to Raiden and/or Snake? Some of it got accidentally revealed through Solidus and President Johnson not giving a fuck, but GW (speaking as the Colonel and Rose) and to some extent Ocelot revealed an enormous amount of information for basically no good reason. You could make the argument that the virus was making GW screw up, but aside from the Colonel speaking gibberish for a bit, GW seemed pretty coherent as it laid out its master plan to Raiden.
I can see GW telling Raiden all that to rub it in his face that he has no choice but to follow their directions because they are so powerful. Then they outline to him why they are so powerful and why he has no choice but to do what they say. I don't think they would have told them if he hadn't found out about the patriots before hand. The A.I. even saw humanity as toys to play with.
Ocelot (and Liquid) was always a cocky bastard so I can see him gloating about the S3 plan and how he tricked everyone. In MGS4 it makes a lot of sense why he would tell Snake everything.
The part where all the S3 revelations to Raiden still seems to kinda fall apart is when you dwell on the fact that somebody programmed GW, an AI, to be a special kind of super villain petty by rubbing it in Raiden's face. Then again, with games past MGS3 you can actually start to believe that Zero is the kind of person that would totally tell a dude to program The Patriots to be that kind of petty.
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