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Didn't Kojima meet up with Wada recently?

 

[Gravijah]

ALREADY DEAD

ACHOOOOOOOO

 

[Boken]

This + the Raiden voice actor comments can only mean one thing...

 

[Michan]

Sakurai + Kojima.

My head would explode.

The slash would be epic.

 

[Kafel]

Konami finally come to their senses and can a Kojima game.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

I think this is his original twitter account. Did he post anything interesting lately?

http://twitter.com/#!/Kojima_Hideo

 

[Krev]

At the PlayStation Meeting he was talking about making a cross-compatible NGP/PS3 game. Maybe he feels PSP remasters has stolen the project's thunder?
That's my 'optimistic' interpretation...

 

[The Bookerman]

I doubt somebody would translate this tweet if it had serious ramifications on Konami, his employer.

hopefully, it was a side project and he'll show us what's he's working on @ e3.

 

[Goon Boon]

My guess is Rising fell apart, that led to his new secret thing falling apart.

Unless something like his dog died I guess.

 

[Numpt3]

This + the Raiden voice actor comments can only mean one thing...

Nooooooooooooo!

 

[Michan]

I think this is his original twitter account. Did he post anything interesting lately?

http://twitter.com/#!/Kojima_Hideo

Yeah, basically the same thing.

 

[daffy]

I think this is his original twitter account. Did he post anything interesting lately?

http://twitter.com/#!/Kojima_Hideo

Nope, just those two tweets and random stuff about a talk show he was on and Blue Valentine movie discussion with fellow tweeters

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

It's a shame, whatever it was. Wasting a year on something never feels good.

 

[bathala]

Kojima PSN got hacked. dammit
or
Activision stole his idea of Franc3 G3many Am3rica Japan3

 

[Gawny]

Have steal his announcement?

Report – Peace Walker PS3 to be announced at E3

 

[Chinner]

does anyone know why kojima actually stays at konami? they're basically a sinking ship.

 

[Nirolak]

I think this is his original twitter account. Did he post anything interesting lately?

http://twitter.com/#!/Kojima_Hideo

I think these two are the same message as the OP, but hopefully in more readable Japanese.

Kojima_Hideo 小島秀夫
1年かけて精緻に準備したものが、意味のないものになった。
20 hours ago
小島秀夫

Kojima_Hideo 小島秀夫
やりきれなくて、なかなか前向きにはなれない。
21 hours ago

 

[Tron 2.0]

Would like to see him do something outside of Metal Gear.

 

[MalboroRed]

I doubt somebody would translate this tweet if it had serious ramifications on Konami, his employer.

hopefully, it was a side project and he'll show us what's he's working on @ e3.

Wait, his tweet is translated and it's still in fucking engrish?

 

[SolidSnakex]

What the hell can you make that would get you kicked out of the game industry?

Shit I want to know now.

He's just being overly dramatic. But my feeling is that his taboo project is a big budget game that doesn't really have a large appeal (like MGS). That's obviously going to be a tough sell to Konami.

 

[daffy]

This + the Raiden voice actor comments can only mean one thing...

Raiden game has been in development more than a year. Pretty sure that game is just an idea right now anyway.

He calls it a "refinement" in the Japanese tweet. I'm betting it was a failed prototype he was working on or something.. or a birthday cake.

 

[Colasante]

does anyone know why kojima actually stays at konami? they're basically a sinking ship.

I believe Kojima is actually a Vice President at Konami. Konami is also responsible for giving him Kojima Productions, which has a couple hundred people working under him.

 

[vodka-bull]

Com on dude, there's no place to hide!

 

[IrishNinja]

Rising, or the Devil game he was on about...this is Konami, the house with one leg these days, and that leg is called MGS. still, with Raiden's voice actor saying he's heard nothing yet, could go either way?

ps be glad we got Snatcher and ZOE2. that's all we're getting.

 

[Tron 2.0]

I don't think Kojima is anything but tangentially involved with Rising. Can't imagine he'd be devastated if it fell apart.

 

[Suzzopher]

NGP cancelled!

 

[Daigoro]

Wait, his tweet is translated and it's still in fucking engrish?

er, thats what engrish is...

 

[Graphics Horse]

NGP cancelled!

This.
Plus Kojima Productions shut down. I mean, he sounds pretty gutted so that must be it.

 

[SolidSnakex]

I don't think Kojima is anything but tangentially involved with Rising. Can't imagine he'd be devastated if it fell apart.

It's the younger staff on the team getting a chance to make a big project, so i'd imagine that he would be upset if that game was canned.

 

[S. L.]

Kojima bought the rights to the Dreamcast and has been working on a relaunch for the last year, but Konami won't have it

 

[Colasante]

It's the younger staff on the team getting a chance to make a big project, so i'd imagine that he would be upset if that game was canned.

It's the "minutely" involved part of the quote that makes it seem unlikely to have to do with Rising, but that could always be a fault of the translation.

 

[smurfx]

lol wow i had totally forgotten about metal gear rising.

 

[Suzzopher]

It could be that his project was meant to be at one of the big conferences and now the plans have changed?

 

[SolidSnakex]

It's the "minutely" involved part of the quote that makes it seem unlikely to have to do with Rising, but that could always be a fault of the translation.

Oh, I wasn't saying that he was referring to rising. I was just saying he'd be disappointed if it were canned. This seems to be referring to that taboo game. Of course it could be related to PW PS3 also. But that doesn't make much sense considering that it shouldn't take a year to work on one of those remasters. Developers can finish a PS2 remaster in a few months.

 

[polyh3dron]

Rising Has Fallen™.

That has to be what it's about.

 

[Dever]

I'll be really disappointed if we don't see anything new from Kojima at E3. :/

 

[Gravijah]

It could be that his project was meant to be at one of the big conferences and now the plans have changed?

That doesn't seem to be worth tweets like this.

 

[brotkasten]

This + the Raiden voice actor comments can only mean one thing...

Kojima is just the executive producer on Rising. I doubt he cares that much about the game. Must be something, where he's personally more involved. Others have mentioned a rejected prototype, but you don't work for a year on a prototype for a project that hasn't been greenlit.

 

[S. L.]

I'll be really disappointed if we don't see anything new from Kojima at E3. :/

if what he was working on has been canned it sure sounds like that

 

[Suzzopher]

That doesn't seem to be worth tweets like this.

Could have been a really nice meal he had been planning on cooking for friends, now these friends have cancelled. A year of preparing the food is enough to make a man cry.

 

[daffy]

It's the "minutely" involved part of the quote that makes it seem unlikely to have to do with Rising, but that could always be a fault of the translation.

Translation of the japanese tweet:

"The refinement was prepared over a year, became meaningless."

edit:

Others have mentioned a rejected prototype, but you don't work for a year on a prototype for a project that hasn't been greenlit.

 

[Y2Kev]

kojima was carefully tweaking Peace Walker for PSN, then PSP->PS3 games came out and made his refinement MEANINGLESS /speculation

 

[Nirolak]

Translation of the japanese tweet:

"The refinement was prepared over a year, became meaningless."

Google Translate is about as useful as Engrish.

 

[Gravijah]

MGS4 DXistence RIP

 

[Hylian7]

Maybe he means he actively spent a year working on it at some point, not necessarily the past year. Perhaps he was referring to Rising if that's the case?

 

[daffy]

Google Translate is about as useful as Engrish.

lol true, sounds better than that gobbledegook in the OP though

The birthday cake theory sounds best.

 

[Wolves Evolve]

Kojima is just the executive producer on Rising. I doubt he cares that much about the game. Must be something, where he's personally more involved. Others have mentioned a rejected prototype, but you don't work for a year on a prototype for a project that hasn't been greenlit.

Its very feasible that he was, especially if it was a taboo project that wouldn't get prototype funding. Even on the board of Konami, the project would need to go through approval processes. And its much harder to go elsewhere when you're on the board. The nature of the 25 year comment may indicate a fatigue with production itself.

 

[TheSeks]

Wait, his tweet is translated and it's still in fucking engrish?

No? That _EN account uses a translation software device or something. Mikami uses similar to make tweets for his English speaking followers.

Anyway, the sound of the tweets to me is: "The thing I've been working closely on for a year has stopped. I can't be happy nor can I be sad about it."

I think he was slightly too involved with his projected new game, Konami shot it down (not a MGS game I guess), and he wasn't too far into development other than it being deeply planned in his head to where he isn't disappointed (at not having invested so much into it) but is as at the time (for "investing" too much time into it personally).

 

[reptilescorpio]

kojima was carefully tweaking Peace Walker for PSN, then PSP->PS3 games came out and made his refinement MEANINGLESS /speculation

Wouldn't Sony/Konami communicate the project though? Wouldn't Kojima have known about the PSP remasters? I would have hoped that one of the first games Sony thought about rejiging for the remasters series would have been Peace Walker.

 

[Rentahamster]

I think these two are the same message as the OP, but hopefully in more readable Japanese.

Kojima_Hideo 小島秀夫
1年かけて精緻に準備したものが、意味のないものになった。
20 hours ago
小島秀夫

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The thing that I spent one year delicately preparing became meaningless

Kojima_Hideo 小島秀夫
やりきれなくて、なかなか前向きにはなれない。
21 hours ago

=

I can't take it anymore (this is unbearable), I can't say positive.