I personally feel that the 'downfall' of Big Boss is more metaphorical, while gamers wanted to playact committing warcrimes or something. I've commented on it before, but BB splits from the Patriots because he doesn't want clones of himself, then goes ahead and makes one anyway in the form of Venom. Especially considering how you never really play as the big man himself, while Venom does a lot of mostly good things under his name, the game has a lot of underthemes about identity and it being stolen.
I personally feel that the 'downfall' of Big Boss is more metaphorical, while gamers wanted to playact committing warcrimes or something. I've commented on it before, but BB splits from the Patriots because he doesn't want clones of himself, then goes ahead and makes one anyway in the form of Venom. Especially considering how you never really play as the big man himself, while Venom does a lot of mostly good things under his name, the game has a lot of underthemes about identity and it being stolen.
I feel like the overlooked point is that even Venom creates a private military state with nukes and force recruiting, loads of it via brainwashing.
Like I know it's cool and shit but that's not a good thing.