Why is Zako survival harder for Snake than it is for Raiden?
Is it because Snake has had more experience or is Hideo Kojima trying to give us a clue?
Post People B)

It would obviously be due to the fact that Snake is a man with more experience than Raiden, even if Raiden has spent a lot of time in VR training. Why do you think there would be a clue though?

Could be cause Snake isn't as used VR as Raiden, hence it is 'harder' for him... or maybe Raiden is just better than Snake? (Ohh, controversial!)

^ :lol:

I think he's taking about why the difficulty is higher on Snake than Raiden.

I don't know.
But there could be a clue and maybe someone have an idea on what that could be

I really don't think so. VR Missions aren't canonical, they're just a part of the spin-off features of the games. It would be pointless for Kojima to leave a clue in any of these missions. Some of they can however give references to the storyline, but it's just a reference.

Yeah sure but you never know there might always be a single little clue.
Even though it might be pointless.
Or is it that since Snake has killed more people than Raiden that Hideo Kojima just want to make it harder for him even though Hideo made Snake.
you're right it's probably pointless.

Trust me, there's not really any secret hints or clues in the VR Missions themselves. Snake's missions are more difficult because he's a far more experienced soldier.

Exactly, think about it, he's the best living soldier the world has seen, they'd tip the scales a bit to make it more difficult for him.

Yeah why not.
But there might is a clue.
I want it to be a clue damn it

Different equipment, case closed.

tbh, you keep droning on about a clue, well work this clue out and tell us about it, anyway
it could be because of the fact that raiden has used VR that much that he would pretty much memorise the sequence of event sin it, where as for snake, he's more of a think on the go person.

but as for the actual difficulty being harder? I'd say it's because they though snake, being such an experienced soldier, needed his VR missions to be harder for us than raiden's.

I think the best question would be:

Where does Snake keeps the Stinger and the Nikita launcher?

Snake is the "bad ass" in this game. Thats why all Snake's missions are harder than Raiden's.
After all, that was Hideo Kojima's original intension. He included Raiden in MGS2 so that he can give another prespective of Snake. Make him look more like a hero, more like "the star of the movie".