27th March 2013 - After an incredible amount of rumors, fake studios and
game names Kojima has finally settled the score.
After an incredible amount of rumors, fake studios and
game names Kojima has finally settled the score.
Not exact matches
The short announcement deepened the wedge between the
game publisher and its fanbase, which has been up in arms since Konami removed
Kojima's
name from the Konami website in March.
There is currently a controversy over the fact that, following disputes with the
game's publisher Konami,
Kojima has left the franchise and Konami behind — and as a result, his
name has been stripped from the cover of what is now his final Metal Gear
game, The Phantom Pain.
Series creator Hideo
Kojima has been making Metal Gear
games with publisher Konami for close to 30 years, creating sequels and prequels that bounce back and forth between the future and the past of a labyrinthine fictional world of spies, cold wars and walking nuclear weapons bearing the series»
name.
Konami today released the final box art for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and guess what the term «A Hideo
Kojima Game /
Kojima Productions»
naming has been removed for it.
Of Metal Gear Solid 5, Nikkei says
Kojima Productions is now internally
named «Number 8 Production Department,» and that the
game's development has gone past $ 80 million.
Hideo
Kojima has now revealed the actual reason why he change the
name of the
game from Metal Gear Solid Rising to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Read Only Memories is a narrative adventure
game heavily inspired by Hideo
Kojima's»90s cult - classic Snatcher, putting players in the shoes of a down - on - their - luck reporter who joins forces with a sentient robot
named Turing.
However, it ended up a completely different
game — a non-canon followup to
Kojima's first Metal Gear on the MSX2, its story taking place seven years after that
game's events — but the Metal Gear Solid
name was kept anyway, for, according to Metal Gear fan site Snake Soup, «marketing purposes.»
I want to deliver a
game with the love from a man
named Hideo
Kojima to an audience that has «a deep love for
games and love itself.»
He also confirmed that he has started a new production company,
Kojima Productions (the
name of his old studio, but with a new logo), and has a partnership with Sony for a new
game series.
Remember, even though Konami is removing his
name from the
game's branding, this is a Hideo
Kojima game.
Hideo
Kojima is a familiar
name to most, after - all he's the head honcho for a massive video
game series, Metal Gear Solid.
The saga continues today with promo images for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's box art showing the removal of both
Kojima's
name and the
Kojima Productions logo from the
game's sleeve art, according to sources from NeoGAF.
Reports of
Kojima and Konami drama began earlier this year, and has extended through the final year of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's development, with
Kojima's
name ultimately being removed from the
game's box art.
In terms of video
game storytelling, Hideo
Kojima is the most important
name in the business.
Kojima's
name is still included in the
game's credits.
Metal Gear Solid V is clearly a product of
Kojima, and not just because every mission starts with his
name on the opening / ending credits, as the
game is simply gripping, and has the classic Metal Gear Solid contrast between realism and the absolutely crazy, typically explained via «nanomachines» and «metal gear».
After discussing the franchise's innovation in video
game trailers,
Kojima segued into a confirmation of a Metal Gear Solid film under the production of Columbia Pictures and Avi Arad, whom you will remember as the
name next to Stan Lee's on the credits for every Marvel film released in the last five years (as well as the driving force behind the upcoming Pac Man TV series).
The way the treated
Kojima was despicable and everyone should be against this
game for the sole reason of not letting Konami profit off of the Metal Gear
name.
Kojima's
name is in the company title, but that doesn't mean he's personally creating every
game the company is currently making.
Also, a young Hideo
Kojima made a
name for himself by perfecting the stealth genre with a little ol'
game called Metal Gear Solid.
And letting go
Kojima and now saying all of this, even taking him
name off the box of the new MGS
game, I'm sure they'll go under sooner or later.
The judges presiding over this award are particularly noteworthy industry
names: Todd Howard (Bethesda
Game Studios), Hideo
Kojima (
Kojima Productions), Illka Paananen (CEO and Co-founder, Supercell), Kim Swift (EA Motive), and Vince Zampella (Respawn Entertainment).
However, it ended up a completely different
game — a non-canon followup to
Kojima's first Metal Gear on the MSX2, its story taking place seven years after that
game's events — but the Metal Gear Solid
name was kept anyway, for, according to Metal Gear fan site Snake Soup, «marketing purposes.»
I'm not one to respond back to comments but to say Horizon Zero Dawn didn't earn all those awards in my eyes they deserved more they delivered on every aspect of the
game, come on the
game was so good and unique that it caught the eye of the great Hideo
Kojima let's say this again the Great Hideo
Kojima and now he's teamed up and working with gorilla
games on his Death Stranding project after that I need say anymore but one thing when it comes to all time classics I put this
game in my top 3 story mode
games of all time and this
game ain't even called a classic yet but you'll see in due time this
game stands up to great
games like God of War, The Last of Us and Uncharted just to
name a few and if real hardcore
gamers are out there they would agree with this statement, so in closing I don't think you really took the time to let this
game absorb and immerse you in all its richness and fluidity of gameplay and character movement and mind you I didn't even add the beautiful Frozen Wilds Dlc which was breathtaking and masterfully done and crafted this
game is original.
While some of the franchise's mechanics are in serious need of a tune - up, the background story and narrative of the
games have always lived up to the promise of having Hideo
Kojima's
name associated with them, and I don't doubt that Konami, if they gave a third ZoE
game their full attention, could get the functional issues out of the way.
Hideo
Kojima has said that every Metal Gear since 2001's Sons of Liberty would be the last
game in the franchise, but now with
Kojima and Konami going through a messy break - up that involves Konami removing the legendary designer's
name from the box art, and Konami largely getting out of the video
game industry as a whole, The Phantom Pain could really be Snake's last ride.
Things got even messier as
Kojima's
name was pulled from Silent Hills, yet added back to Metal Gear Solid
games.
Read Only Memories is a narrative adventure
game heavily inspired by Hideo
Kojima's»90s cult - classic Snatcher, putting players in the shoes of a down - on - their - luck reporter who joins forces with a sentient robot
named Turing.
Kojima has handled the dispute with what feels like quite grace, (possibly due to stipulations in his contract), but Konami has come across as an almost cartoonish villain, from its ham - fisted efforts to scrub his
name from MGS5 to its refusal to allow him to attend The
Game Awards earlier this month.
A debut trailer for
Kojima Productions» previously untitled
game then revealed its
name: Death Stranding.
On the other hand, a reddit user
named SerentixGaming went a bit further, chasing a theory that would parallel
Kojima's subtle messages and
game manipulation in Metal Gear series.
Hideo
Kojima is an infamous
name in the gaming industry; whether it's Metal Gear Solid or Silent Hill, most
gamers are familiar with
Kojima's adept storytelling prowess.
In terms of video
game storytelling, Hideo
Kojima is the most important
name in the business.
Bowie was one of the first musicians whose
name became a kind of brand, and you can see this same impulse driving the obsessive stamp of «a Hideo
Kojima game» all over MGSV.
More noticeably, it also comes after the studio's efforts to scrub
Kojima and his company's
name and branding from not only the Metal Gear website, but also any
games he was involved with, and finally pulling him from his executive position within the company.
Founded in 1969, Konami is one of the most venerable Japanese development studios, and Hideo
Kojima joined up in 1986 as a planner — working on several minor titles before the
game that would make his
name, 1987's Metal Gear.
While some exceptions might exist (Infinity Ward is credited for the Modern Warfare
games rather than one individual), a slew of
names have emerged around the most innovative and seminal
games of this decade and the two prior ones: The Sims is Will Wright; Metal Gear Solid belongs to Hideo
Kojima; Jordan Mechner is responsible for bringing us the Prince of Persia.
LUDENS is His
Name, Creation is His
Game LUDENS is the new mascot of
Kojima Productions.
This narrative adventure
game has been heavily inspired by Hideo
Kojima's 90's cult - classic Snatcher and puts players in the role of a downtrodden reporter who joins forces with a sentient robot
named Turing in order to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Turing's creator.
After swearing he would retire from the franchise for the second time,
Kojima returned to head up the next
game in the series, a PSP title
named Peace Walker.
Not to be outdone, Hideo
Kojima inserted his
name as many places as possible in the
game itself.
Video
game publications immediately noticed that Konami had begun scrubbing
Kojima's
name from all of The Phantom Pain's promotional materials.
Hideo
Kojima is one of the biggest
names in the gaming industry, with directorial, writing, designing, and / or producing credits in nearly all the Metal Gear series
games.