Hideo Kojima Feels "Pressure" to Continue Metal Gear

[Artemis923]

Hideo Kojima Feels "Pressure" to Continue Metal Gear

Despite a professed desire to move on to other things, Metal Gear [http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/english/index.html] creator Hideo Kojima says he still feels pressured to continue working on the series.

Since wrapping up Kojima Productions [http://www.konami.jp/mgs4/global/] to include a U.S. operation.

But in an interview with Develop [http://www.developmag.com/news/31918/Kojima-feels-the-pressure-to-continue-Metal-Gear], the famed designer admitted that despite his other interests, he feels "absolute pressure" to stick with his most famous creation. "Maybe if I quit Konami that pressure might be a bit better, but since Konami handles the business side of our operations, yeah, there's definitely a demand continue a series as successful as Metal Gear."

While Kojima said he'd "love to" work with some of the Western studios he visited on his tour, he also seemed uncertain about the idea of handing the franchise over to anyone else. "I think that Metal Gear, well, that's..." he continued, before pausing to consider his words. "I think that what you might expect from a Metal Gear might only be possible from Kojima Productions, rather than leaving it to an outside studio to produce a satisfactory product. But, then again, if I got an offer saying a company wanted to do it, maybe!"


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I want more of Big Boss. >.<

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

I'd take another prequel playing as Naked Snake.

 

[JWAN]

You guys like using that picture, don't you?

lol, I was about to say the pressure isn't coming from the gamers its the duck hes dry humping between his legs

I think you mean chafing.

And about his story telling ability, I agree with Yahtzee and always have thought this series could use an editor. Someone to come in and say "This is the third time we've had a conversation about this" and just remove some of the filler. On a side note I especially loved Yahtzee saying "People say a politician is a person who can talk for hours and never actually say anything. If that's true, Hideo Kojima could run for government and be emperor of the Universe by mid-afternoon." Before Yahtzee's review I thought I was all alone in my hating for the script of MGS games.

If they do a sequel for God's sake make it interesting enough that I don't skip through most of the chatter they do (did?) over the com where they sat there with their partially animated pictures just chatting with each other. If they quit doing it in favor of cutscenes, then I hope those get fixed as well.

But, with MGS getting game of the year and universal acclaim, I doubt much will change.

I only played 2 when it first came out, I won't say I'm a Metal Gear expert. I played a bit of 1 when i was younger, but I didn't own the console, so I spent most of my time on the first level just dicking with the guards. But I think 2 was about all I could take of Kojima's writing.

EDIT: On another note and similarish game, I really hope they get the next Splinter Cell right, Double Agent wasn't a bad game, it just wasn't Splinter Cell.

no, I mean what I said and that grumpy look he has is because we caught him
on another note I want splinter cell to take a rest and come back when it was more like the first 3

 

[roastbeefy]

I read it on Wikipedia a few months ago, and I checked again and it hasn't been changed, so I assume it's true.