You know what is annoying? When you're walking along minding your own business and then BAM!, you're suddenly designing two new Metal Gear Solid games when you said you wouldn't be doing anymore MGS games because you wanted to focus on other stuff. Happens all the time and it's a pain in the butt. The most recent person to suffer this fate was Kojima himself as after declaring MGS4 to be the final MGS game he would work on he came out on stage at E3 and told everyone he was actually working on two new ones (we won't count MGS Arcade).
How did this happen? Well it isn't Kojima's fault; he wasn't planning on any of this. The designer says that, "At first, I was just going to create the overall guidelines and concepts for [MGS: Peace Walker], and leave it in the hands my excellent staff," says Kojima. "I was going to have a hand in the project as a producer, and make titles other than MGS. But, I set the game in the South American country of Costa Rica and created a story with themes about nuclear deterrence and the cold war. It looked as if it might be very confusing to young people, because of generational differences. So, in the end I finally said, 'I'll do it.'" If an MGS game is not confusing with Kojima at the helm, I'd hate to see the twist and turns of one without him.
So that seems reasonable. You can accidentally start working on one game you said you wouldn't, but how do you fall into two games? It could only happen if the other MGS game was nothing like previous MGS games. "It's a completely different kind of action than what has appeared in the series so far," Kojima said of MGS: Rising. "I'll be working more deeply on the project than a normal producer."
There you have it. Two games that Kojima planned to have nothing to do with, he is now pretty heavily involved with. I can't help but feel that Konami might have pushed in in this direction just a bit too. Not so good to lose your rock star lead developer.
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5:00 PM on 06.13.2009
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But this is the last ones, he promise.
He gives his life, not for hono(u)r, but for us.
You can't get more fucked up than a giant AI controlling the world/microwave named as a United Stated historical president hidden as a satelite .
Thanks for spoiling MGS4 for ME! =(
Hahah, just kidding, i gotta admit, Kojima's conspiration phobia is a little bit over the top in MGS4, but that doesn't make the game any less awesome.
Dudes gonna have "He made Metal Gear" on his fucking tombstone.
But how awesome would that be?
Lets face it, Konami have no figurehead that the press love than him. Kojima is an industry darling, respected buy gamers and press. Just who else would step up to speak for Konami?
This kind of thing has me worried about Konami. Those that run the company are playing it far too safe in todays market, that very few to no fresh IP are being created by them. I'd hate for Konami to become a one hit pony like Koei, who jim seems to love, despite their dire output of DW after DW game.
Too much reliance on MGS/DDR/Pro coud be their undoing. However, the light on the horizon is the morning star of Castlevania Lord of Shadow. It looks fab and I pray it does well for them. I hope we will see some new rising stars from that game.
True. Konami has churned out a lot of shit non-DS games in recent years that Kojima hasn't helmed (Nanobreaker, LOL). Now, I'm a big fan of Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, but I can also admit that it wasn't very good. I can't wait for Kojima to re-vitalize the series. But what happens when he retires/gets burned out? Konami will be in trouble.
I weep for the children.
MGS1 is what got me into gaming to begin with and is still to this day my favorite game EVER.
At the risk of typing a throwaway comment: classy choice! I'm glad there are people out there who still enjoy, and recognize MGS1: personally, I think it's the best in the series (but not my favorite).
I'd suggest going out and getting Twin Snakes, and a GCN on the cheap.
Costa Rica isn't in South America. It's a Central American country. Get a fucking map, Kojima.
Does "Under Construction" mean Kojima is involved? I don't think so.