Hideo Kojima - I Will Continue with Metal Gear Solid
But his role will be different.
Posted 29 May 2008
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Metal Gear Solid creator, Hideo Kojima has been speaking to the Western media (see 'Kojima and the Nationalist Slur' for why this in itself is news) regarding the future of the series.
Having said at E3 in July 2007 that MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots would be his last involvement with the franchise, he's now told Reuters:
This idea of the future is strange given that the forthcoming MGS 4 was to close of the series. Not according to Kojima-san:
More MGS 4 news as we get it.
Source: Reuters
Having said at E3 in July 2007 that MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots would be his last involvement with the franchise, he's now told Reuters:
"MGS will always be around. I feel a responsibility to continue this series as long as users demand it. But it doesn't mean I'm going to sit in completely.
"I'll probably take a different role in the next game. Maybe I'll sit in as producer and let the young staff take control of the new series. I really want to go on to new things."
"I'll probably take a different role in the next game. Maybe I'll sit in as producer and let the young staff take control of the new series. I really want to go on to new things."
This idea of the future is strange given that the forthcoming MGS 4 was to close of the series. Not according to Kojima-san:
"Yes, it wraps up all the stories of the past MGS games. I'm not a genius like George Lucas, I didn't have this story planned out. I always tried to finish the story in each game. But by some miracle in MGS4 I was able to resolve the mysteries left behind in past games and resolve the side stories from past games."
More MGS 4 news as we get it.
Source: Reuters
Comments
2/11
I wouldnt call either of them genius, Lucas stole most of his material from Westerns and mixed it with his imagination of SCI FI where as Hideo Kojima pretty much stole the MGS idea from escape from New York with Kurt Russel, watch the film and play the PSONE MGS and you pretty much have it there.
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3/11
hmmm not sure this site is 100% true as i am sure this will be the last mgs well for the ps3 anyway but i think that he psp may get 1 more spin off
4/11
George Lucas a genius, give us a break, have you seen the latest Indiana Jones movie?
He's only ever made one film.
He's only ever made one film.
5/11
Haritori, use words carefully. I think the word you are looking for is an homage. or Kojima was influenced by EFNY etc. Nothing wrong with that.
When you start wording things wrong, using words like stolen or copied (especially in this dumb copyright infringement era), it does the work we enjoy an injustice.
As for Kojima continuing the series, I can't say I'm surprised we'll get more. The series is without a doubt Konami's biggest cash cow, next to Pro Evo and Silent Hill, and it seems Konami refuses to give its other games IP as much attention. A real big shame, because I'd still like to see Policenauts and Snatcher grace my DS or PSP, before I die.
On a bigger scale, Konami needs to develop new IP, something cronic. Its not funny anymore, but they are being left in the dust. Silent Hill is an exhausted but good series (you can only visit that dumb town, so many times), Pro Evo is great but still kinda looks like PS1 game to me. Time Hollow does look good though.
Target Terror on Wii?? Konami don't have a clue at all, and that's a big shame.
More MGS? I wouldn't say no to it, though.
When you start wording things wrong, using words like stolen or copied (especially in this dumb copyright infringement era), it does the work we enjoy an injustice.
As for Kojima continuing the series, I can't say I'm surprised we'll get more. The series is without a doubt Konami's biggest cash cow, next to Pro Evo and Silent Hill, and it seems Konami refuses to give its other games IP as much attention. A real big shame, because I'd still like to see Policenauts and Snatcher grace my DS or PSP, before I die.
On a bigger scale, Konami needs to develop new IP, something cronic. Its not funny anymore, but they are being left in the dust. Silent Hill is an exhausted but good series (you can only visit that dumb town, so many times), Pro Evo is great but still kinda looks like PS1 game to me. Time Hollow does look good though.
Target Terror on Wii?? Konami don't have a clue at all, and that's a big shame.
More MGS? I wouldn't say no to it, though.
6/11
Joji wrote:
Haritori, use words carefully. I think the word you are looking for is an homage. or Kojima was influenced by EFNY etc. Nothing wrong with that.
When you start wording things wrong, using words like stolen or copied (especially in this dumb copyright infringement era), it does the work we enjoy an injustice.
When you start wording things wrong, using words like stolen or copied (especially in this dumb copyright infringement era), it does the work we enjoy an injustice.
agreed but he blatantly stole the opening credits!!!! and i very much doubt my misuse of wording would invoke some sort of law suit against konami or indeed stop people enjoying any part of the game, i feel its a great game with massive influence from EFNY including a pretty much near reconstruiction of the opening credits.
7/11
haritori wrote:
I wouldnt call either of them genius, Lucas stole most of his material from Westerns and mixed it with his imagination of SCI FI...
simpleton.
I suppose Akira Kurosawa is chopped liver then?
8/11
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9/11
PreciousRoi wrote:
I suppose Akira Kurosawa is chopped liver then?
Sure The Castle explains the Death Star element, but you still have Arthurian legends, WWII dogfights, Flash Gordon and a small amount of Beowulf in Star Wars IV-VI. Probably more than that, but I didn't sleep last night so I'm a bit slow today.
TBH, Lucas is a genius, just not a film making one. He took a load of basic elements, fused them together and created a film that spawned a series that re-defined a genre. Sorta like Miyamoto did for games with SMB.
<runs>
10/11
errr, Fortress is how I always seen it translated...
Yeah, I was gonna mention Flash Gordon and some other stuff but I left it short and punchy...also, the Death Star isn't the only element Lucas got from Kurosawa...my intent certainly wasn't to insinuate that Akira Kurosawa was the sole influence on Lucas' work.
Lucas is/was a student of comparative mythology, so aside from asking him, its hard to nail down exactly what influences were affecting him, since he was looking for cross-cultural, universal archetypes. Certainly he didnt't merely plunder the plotlines of Westerns...if anything the Westerns were cribbing from the same sheets Lucas was.
Westerns, like Sci-fi, as a genre, is a catchall that includes a myriad of different stories which would find themselves in other genres were it not for details of setting.
Yeah, I was gonna mention Flash Gordon and some other stuff but I left it short and punchy...also, the Death Star isn't the only element Lucas got from Kurosawa...my intent certainly wasn't to insinuate that Akira Kurosawa was the sole influence on Lucas' work.
Lucas is/was a student of comparative mythology, so aside from asking him, its hard to nail down exactly what influences were affecting him, since he was looking for cross-cultural, universal archetypes. Certainly he didnt't merely plunder the plotlines of Westerns...if anything the Westerns were cribbing from the same sheets Lucas was.
Westerns, like Sci-fi, as a genre, is a catchall that includes a myriad of different stories which would find themselves in other genres were it not for details of setting.
11/11
Again stole is the wrong word to use, an homage would be better used here. George Lucas used very similar shots in the creation of Star Wars: A New Hope, to some of Kurosawa's work. He didn't steal, he reshot the scene, in his own image. That's an homage, surely.
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