Outer Heaven or Zanzibar Land?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:23 pm
Hello all,
This is an opinion question regarding the original two Metal Gear games for the MSX, so for a moment ignore everything you know about the MGS versions that added to the story or even ret-conned some of it.
The Metal Gear saga 'started' in the 'fortified' nation or fortress of Outer Heaven where mercenaries under leadership of Big Boss had founded a nation in which soldiers would always have a place, and which was to be protected by Metal Gears (I assume that there would have been more in time and varieties of them).
When Solid Snake/the player defeated the mercenaries and their leader and destroyed Metal Gear Big Boss moved his designs to the Zanzibar province (not to confuse with the archipelago of the same name), taking the remnants of the Outer Heaven forces and material with him.
Later after the Mercenary War the province would become its own nation; Zanzibar Land.
To me Zanzibar Land always seemed like a more realistic vision of Big Boss' nation for soldiers, I always imagined it larger than Outer Heaven which I really had the idea of that it was a really big fortress but not so much of a nation.
Zanzibar Land felt like a serious attempt at a nation and not an army occupying a small region, with force as apparently some of the people in Outer Heaven were prisoners.
Most of the people in Zanzibar were there because they wanted to and believed in Big Boss' vision, even Pettrovich Madnar who originally was forced to make a Metal Gear for Big Boss but later built Metal Gear D out of free will when the rest of the world rejected his idea for a bipedal tank, Madnar would even have gone off to make Metal Gear G (if that hadn't been cut from the final game).
Even Schneider who was leader of the resistance against the Outer Heaven mercenaries would in time join Big Boss after having been captured and used for NASA's "Out-of-Earth Environment Special Force".
Big Boss also took the war orphans from Outer Heaven and other countries and give them a home at Zanzibar Land.
Of course some of the things were rather unrealistic like Zanzibar Land being the world's only nuclear armed nation after the rest of the world decided to scrape their nuclear arsenal (this was suppose to be the end of the series as Kojima had not planned any sequels).
I like to think that instead while other nations were dismantling most of their arsenals that Zanzibar Land was building up its number of nuclear weapons, that making them as significant threat; having such a large number and Metal Gear that the concept of deterrence would no longer work.
What do you think?
Edit: "Big Boss", not "Bog Boss", what next? "Boss Hog"
This is an opinion question regarding the original two Metal Gear games for the MSX, so for a moment ignore everything you know about the MGS versions that added to the story or even ret-conned some of it.
The Metal Gear saga 'started' in the 'fortified' nation or fortress of Outer Heaven where mercenaries under leadership of Big Boss had founded a nation in which soldiers would always have a place, and which was to be protected by Metal Gears (I assume that there would have been more in time and varieties of them).
When Solid Snake/the player defeated the mercenaries and their leader and destroyed Metal Gear Big Boss moved his designs to the Zanzibar province (not to confuse with the archipelago of the same name), taking the remnants of the Outer Heaven forces and material with him.
Later after the Mercenary War the province would become its own nation; Zanzibar Land.
To me Zanzibar Land always seemed like a more realistic vision of Big Boss' nation for soldiers, I always imagined it larger than Outer Heaven which I really had the idea of that it was a really big fortress but not so much of a nation.
Zanzibar Land felt like a serious attempt at a nation and not an army occupying a small region, with force as apparently some of the people in Outer Heaven were prisoners.
Most of the people in Zanzibar were there because they wanted to and believed in Big Boss' vision, even Pettrovich Madnar who originally was forced to make a Metal Gear for Big Boss but later built Metal Gear D out of free will when the rest of the world rejected his idea for a bipedal tank, Madnar would even have gone off to make Metal Gear G (if that hadn't been cut from the final game).
Even Schneider who was leader of the resistance against the Outer Heaven mercenaries would in time join Big Boss after having been captured and used for NASA's "Out-of-Earth Environment Special Force".
Big Boss also took the war orphans from Outer Heaven and other countries and give them a home at Zanzibar Land.
Of course some of the things were rather unrealistic like Zanzibar Land being the world's only nuclear armed nation after the rest of the world decided to scrape their nuclear arsenal (this was suppose to be the end of the series as Kojima had not planned any sequels).
I like to think that instead while other nations were dismantling most of their arsenals that Zanzibar Land was building up its number of nuclear weapons, that making them as significant threat; having such a large number and Metal Gear that the concept of deterrence would no longer work.
What do you think?
Edit: "Big Boss", not "Bog Boss", what next? "Boss Hog"