SHINKAWA MECHS?!!?!??!!
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It's Kojima. Good chance it would have mechs anyway.
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Hideo Kojima IGN interview
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SHINKAWA MECHS?!!?!??!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
It's Kojima. Good chance it would have mechs anyway.
Aye. Hopefully all four get to go out later and watch new Star Wars to end the day off. They deserve it after the crap they've had to put up with in past while.
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Deleted member 80556
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Pretty sure he said mechanical design, which is vehicles, guns, etc. It could've been contracted to mechs. Or maybe it will! Who knows.
NoctisVsStar
Member
No, he means vehicles,weapons and of course the mechanical designs aka the metal gears.
SolidSnakex
Member
It's possible, but he was really close to Kojima. Basically second in command of the series. It's hard to imagine that he'd stay behind instead of moving on with Kojima and the rest of the group. Especially with how the studio was treated toward the end.
Well, they are looking for 'mechanical' artists on their website, so yeah
Aren't stuff like vehicles and weapons based on real life counterparts? Seems like mechs makes more sense considering his work with ZOE.
Rising_Hei
Member
Please Kojima-san, create a new cyberpunk universe with games for it, anime series, etc, the world needs it.
Hire Madhouse for the anime.
Do it.
Hire Madhouse for the anime.
Do it.
Sounds like the new game is going to be an open world RPG going by that other thread. The question then is whether this will have mechs.
Not really, just that designing mechs is part of his job description at Kojima Productions. It was like that at Konami, too. He has a role in the studio as 'Mechanical Designer'.
So, if mechs have to be designed, Yoji will be the lead as always. But it didn't seem like a confirmation of anything regarding the current project. Besides, of course it'll have mechs - the studio logo is evidence enough of that.
Heaven help us if he doesn't decide on UE4.
No way is he making another engine.
Gotta keep my ZOE/XenobladeX hopes alive man.
He's John Lennon reincarnate.
StrawberryJam
Member
Man, that is quite sad to read. Past year must have been super stressful for him.
Mech game, confirmed. Alert Kotaku.
Yup. They're hiring people with knowledge of Military equipment and mecha.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=189563219&postcount=1064
100% Mecha.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
edgy huh
BreezyLimbo
Banned
....Doesn't every Kojima game have a mech of some sort? I'm thinking Boktai might not but I never played it but...I know you use....solar power so I assume there's robots of some sort. There's Castlevania, but he didn't directly work on those...
Demoskinos
Member
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KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Well I'm eating crow I guess. I fully assumed he'd go for a big AAA title out the gates. Seems the first title at least won't be super big. I guess there's a shot we see the first title by the end of the PS4's prime time after all
RazielCuts
Member
Exactly. I'm sure there's a mech in P.T. somewhere too.
The Silver
Member
Kojima do not make another goddamn engine, Kojima no, stop, don't do it. Just take UE4 and move on to actually making shit.
vpance
Member
Yeah that's what I understood too after I watched the video. Building up things gradually.
Kojima's stated focus is on having a small, agile team focused on game creation, at least until their first IP is established. That wouldn't facilitate building a game engine.
Even if having their own engine is a goal it seems way down the line. They'll probably use UE4.
Yeah, this quote says a lot about the working conditions at Konami.
So glad KojiPro is finally free, they did not deserve all this.
This was my biggest concern about Kojima's inevitable independent venture. Of course Kojima is a talented designer and visionary in his own right, but Shinkawa has been such an essential part in bringing those visions to life. So glad that he's on board.
Sounds like a Kojima Productions game! So excited to see what sort of ideas Kojima's been sitting on while he was chained to MGS. Unfortunately, given the job postings on the website, I have a feeling we're three or four years away from seeing anything substantial...
He was a producer. All his games he's directed have mecha in it besides PT and some of his early games.
There's no way they are gonna make their own engine. They don't have the manpower for that. They are most likely gonna use UE4, esp. if there's gonna be a PC version.
Not sure about the first game, byt eventually Lunar Knights went full mech. They did make a Stock Trading game without mechs tho!
It's probably sad to him that he spend years making his own engine and only used it to one game
But if he want to release another game before the Playstation 5 he have to use Unreal
StrawberryJam
Member
Foetus mech in the sink.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
It might still have AAA production values. Just not open world like MGSV(which is good).
Lys Skygge
Member
Is there a chance he uses a Sony engine? Like the Killzone or Uncharted engine?
That's how I interpreted it, but who knows.
Miniature Kaiju
Member
Cerny's tub confirmed.
I would guess not, unless it really suits his plans.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
I'm so down for a tight and focused game with high production values. I was never big into Metal Gear (it's like telling someone to just "jump into" Kingdom Hearts lore). But this new IP business will finally give me the chance to give Kojima games a shot.
Darn, there goes my perfectly reasonable Tolkein-esque Fantasy prediction.
DangerMouse
Member
Drool.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I would play a hearthstone-like game from Kojima studios.
DangerMouse
Member
Naughty Dog's independent. Their engine is very much their own.
The Killzone engine was used by Supermassive, an independent studio making a Sony exclusive, but I don't see why that would be worth using over an engine with far more support available, like UE4.
Why a Konami exec can't just give Kojima and his team a license to use the engine they created is maddening.
Hope he reins himself in a bit at least. I'd rather have a tight, linear Kojima experience in 3 years than a massive, open world thing in 6 years.
Yeah it's like the abusive parent getting to keep the kids.