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Kojima Tries To Explain Naked Norman Reedus At Tribeca
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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If he gives us a future trailer like the Reedus one with a naked Stephanie Joosten or Emma Stone would it be fair play since he already gave us a naked guy and no one complained about it?
Also we all know the reason he wanted Reedus nude was because he just likes the guy, no big mystery.
Also we all know the reason he wanted Reedus nude was because he just likes the guy, no big mystery.
Why exactly is that?
Kojima never disappointed me. And I mean never, not even when his games had terrible controls (every MGS except Peace Walker, MGS4 and TPP), little gameplay with TONS of cutscenes (MGS4) or the opposite (TPP).
Guy is a visionary, one of the few in gaming industry. Glad to see Yoko Taro on semi-mainstream board recently.
No lies detected.
It will likely be done by 2020 but I fear it'll be in the same situation as MGSV and end up as a cross gen title.
show me your skeleton
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gah, this guy. on the one hand he directed metal gear solid 2 but on the other i just, ehhh.
Neff
Member
If he succeeds, it's going to be unmissable.
If he fails, it's going to be unmissable.
For better or worse, what gamer can afford to overlook Kojima going full batshit insane with a killer budget?
As others have pointed out, he's 100% bought into the cult of Kojima, and when an artist pursues that route, it often ends in disaster. It's one of the reasons I'd have preferred him to go with a different partner than Sony, because they're only going to encourage him. Even though he's no longer a part of MGS, he's still promoting his work with all the pomp, fanfare and self-indulgent tease of that series. He's replaced MGS with himself, which is fair to a point, but the potential for all his excesses displayed during the last 20 years or so to go supernova is real.
Still, like I said, I wouldn't miss whatever he has up his sleeve for the world.
immortal-joe
Member
I just think you're looking too hard at this.This is just his usual playful style. He enjoys his work, and talking about his work,and he pokes fun at himself often.
I agree wholeheartedly with your first statement though. Whatever he does, it will be something worth experiencing.
SolidSnakex
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immortal-joe
Member
Doesn't really tell the story though. Dude is unique, and goes way outside the box with concepts while applying an impressive level of polish and incredible attention to detail.
People like that are best kept unhinged and in control, for better or worse.
he's with sony now. running overbudget shouldn't be much of an issue
It's the weirdness married to great gameplay that makes Kojima who he is. It'd be odd if people expect him to change this late into his career.
It's in my backlog, but most accounts I've seen has TPP as a great game that felt unfinished. And impressive despite an insane war going on with Konami executives during its development. I'd like to see what he can do with more time for his creative expression to be realized. I think Death Stranding will give the fairest and truest judgement on his current skill as a game maker. I'm looking forward to it.
It's in my backlog, but most accounts I've seen has TPP as a great game that felt unfinished. And impressive despite an insane war going on with Konami executives during its development. I'd like to see what he can do with more time for his creative expression to be realized. I think Death Stranding will give the fairest and truest judgement on his current skill as a game maker. I'm looking forward to it.
What's funny is the fact that's is how I place MGS games.
MGS2 > MGSV > MGS > MGS3 > PW > MGS4.
SJRB
Gold Member
Doubtful.
Konami can get fucked, but I have no doubt that after 5+ years and still not delivering they were more than done with Kojima.
I mean, his twitter feed is insane. All he does is travel the world, goes to see expositions, watches movies, meets other devs. His office is crazy luxurious. Expensive clothes and gadgets.
If he goes on living like a rockstar for another 5 years [like he did during MGSV production] I'm pretty sure someone over at Sony would step in and ask him to deliver a videogame at some point in the near future.
Papo Swing
Member
IMO Kojima is the only one trying to do what he does. He is the only one, for better or worse, that gives that big auteur effort to his games. Like a Tarantino he can get to be too much or crazy, but his end products always deliver in some way(and in gameplay they are at least too notch every time). I also love the camera work/movement that Kojima does to his cut scenes. He could write less crazy over the too characters but why?
The only other game I can think of that go this far are the Naughty Dog games, but they are mostly shallow action flick types which are great but those dont as deep.
The only other game I can think of that go this far are the Naughty Dog games, but they are mostly shallow action flick types which are great but those dont as deep.
Crankshaft
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Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Lol, sounds just like Kojima to me.
old manatee
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You guys are going to feel ashamed of your words when you find out why Normal Reedus is naked. He was filled with nanomachines as part of a top secret war effort, and now he can only drink water by using his pee pee like an elephant's trunk.
the most mountain of dews
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I'm sorry but this made me laugh. Taro only has 1 commercial hit. Hideo has been making hits for years. I'm a Taro fan but for you think this doesn't make sense, and sounds like bandwagon hopping to me. If anything it should be the other way around.
well yeah... sony (or anybody) won't tolerate dicking around with a couple hundred million budget stretched over half a decade
but sony's probably the best place for him to be without bristling bean counters
Do you Kojima. Make this shit as crazy as it can be. I'll be there day one.
None of yall should be worrying about budget. Sony knows what they are getting and clearly have had a relationship with him for years.
The budget is going to be no more insane than any other game. They are using GG's engine rather than building one from the ground up.
None of yall should be worrying about budget. Sony knows what they are getting and clearly have had a relationship with him for years.
The budget is going to be no more insane than any other game. They are using GG's engine rather than building one from the ground up.
The man spearheaded an highly scalable engine that Konami used on annual PES games and was set to be used in many more games. He wasn't sitting on his ass writing script drafts for MGSV for 5 years, besides the fact that Konami made bank off a goddamn $30 demo before the $60 game even came out. I mean, what more could you ask of one person?
SolidSnakex
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His studio produced an open-world game on five different platforms that all managed to be polished. How many studios are doing that, let alone even being asked to do it? That's on top of them producing an extremely impressive multiplatform engine that Konami's still using to this day.
He was really just bragging that he had seen the reference material for the model
Huge Succeeded
Banned
he and his teams have really interesting ideas relating to presentation and design that other devs don't and they design really badass video games around those ideas
it's pretty simple actually
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Gibberish aside, I'm fascinated that Kojima's finally intersected with, and become legitimized by the film industry after a whole career of being obsessed with filmmaking. It's funny that a lot of people last around MGS2 release said Kojima should just direct a movie. Now he still just makes games but they're so massive and involved that he's side by side with Hollywood without jumping ship.
Eh, I'd rather not have my creators pander with the image they want to maintain.
Also, With all due respect to Yoko Taro, he's up his own ass even further than Kojima. Nier: Automata was like the last act of MGS2 but for 20 hours.
mortal
Gold Member
And on the other hand, he directed Metal Gear Solid 1. Good hands.
Neff
Member
This would be a terrible loss (and inappropriate use) of talent. He's a much, much better game designer than he is a storyteller.
ShockingAlberto
Member
He breathes through his skin.
Hm, not sure I would really agree with MGS2 as an example. I say this because it was a game completely built around subverting and commenting on people's expectations, up to and including its marketing and media coverage. The final Codec conversation by itself was exceptional, and far better than anything else that Kojima had to say in the games he directed afterward. Convoluted, yes, contrived, no.
If you said MGS4, however, I would've very much agreed. Even though I actually liked that game, it was full of contrivances (nanomachines being used to explain nearly everything and the countless unnecessary retcons being only a few examples).
I would argue that Takahashi became that way back during Xenosaga (I'm almost convinced that Xenoblade was a fluke at this point).
One of you are lying to me and I'm gonna get to the bottom of this.
Why would the guy who's made countless hits, one of the greatest video game franchises with 3 games that are often talked about as the 3 of the best games of all time, need advice from a talented, albeit far more niche, director who has made 1 game that is even thought of as noteworthy. I enjoyed Nier: Automata, but it doesn't come close to being as great as any game in the Metal Gear franchise.
Jangowuzhere
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MGSV was the highest rated and one of the best selling games of 2015. How exactly did he not deliver for Konami?
I swear, anti-kojima posters all live in their own fantasy world. In no way was MGSV some kind of failure.
It's GAF thread on Kojima, this is what's to expect. Quintessential " I don't like....."
Vital Tundra
Member
Thats some nonsense.
In their eyes because the game didn't live up to the hype, that it's a failure.
1000 times this.
Toni
Member
A current gen game being cross title with next gen (2020 consoles), is much better than last gen (PS3/360) titles being cross gen with this one. Not to mention its open world and being built for the ground up for PS4. Last time an open world game was built exclusively for PS4, we got Infamous Second Son and Horizon. With both looking beautiful as fuck.
Death Stranding will also be built with PS4 Pro in mind. So, Hideo won't be as technically restricted as he was with MGS5. He had to develop for Xbox One and PS3/360, remember.
This game is also using Horizon Zero Dawn's Decima Engine. It will be absolutely gorgeus,
LumpOfCole
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Death Stranding |OT| There's a plot