In a recent interview with IGN, Hideo Kojima talked about Death Stranding, and the current virus pandemic. Kojima looked at the world at that time, and felt that it was becoming divided, and that people were becoming isolated. Which is very similar to what is happening right now.
According to Kojima, the situation was the same all over the world during the production of Death Stranding. However, thanks to the world wide web, the world is also increasingly connected. The use of social media has become second nature, and technology like WI-FI and mobile tech keep people in touch.
Nevertheless, even on the internet, many people are still becoming isolated and divided. And even if they are connected with each other, sometimes they still resort to conflict, bullying, and so on. In such a society, Kojima wanted to create lighthearted, positive connections between people within the game.
Death Stranding is very unique game, and definitely not for everyone. However, it did try to take a different approach on multiplayer and online features. And while this is my least favorite Kojima game, I have to admit the online features were a welcome addition. Except the damn signs that are literally everywhere.
Below you can watch the full interview.
Thanks IGN.
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Hideous Kojumbo is a hack fraud who is constantly being paraded & circlejerked around by games media, prove me wrong.
he is weird
You’re absolutely right. I have no clue why he’s considered as some genius. The plots in his games are whacky and nonsensical. In addition he’s obviously obsessed with showing almost nude chicks when it’s stupid and inappropriate (for example Quiet in MSG V).
The plots are whacky and nonsensical in the majority of games. And that’s what I love about video games, they allow me to enact any fantasy.
Not “any” fantasy.
would you look at that another leftists that hates sexy stuff.
Imagine my shock. Back then when quiet was revealed and the argument was to encourage cosplay i called him Pimpeo Kojima.
But yeah he made metal gear 2 and then ripped his own game off for metal gear solid. MGS 2 was him basically “subverting our expectations” and giving us raiden instead of snake, what a huge bait and switch and the only part in that story that was actually good, was not written by him. I am talking at the codec moment with the ai. Then you got metal gear 3, which is a wacky campy joke of a story, gameplay is good though and then it went off the rails. He is a hack, mgs 1 was amazing, 2 was ok but its like he handicapped his own game, 3 had good gameplay, story was awful. Peacewalker was much better. MGS4 basicly played itself more custcenes than movie and the story was meh and then you got v that had good gameplay but story is an unfinished mess.
“almost nude chicks”
Where? Quiet is your only example, and a weak one.
Quiet was lovely.
“prove me wrong.”
First you need to back it up your claims with evidence.
1. TGA’s almost always showers Hideo Kojima with praise, to the point Geoff Keighly borderline started crying during the 2017 game awards when he was introducing him on stage and had exclusive Death Stranding previews at the 2018 and 2019 TGA’s. Geoff also shows up as Ludens fans in Death Stranding, need I say more?
2. Hideo Kojima mainly directs his games, but nobody talks about the writers, the other directors, or the game designers. He is the Japanese equivalent of George Lucas, someone who needs restraint when working on different projects.
3. Hideo Kojima’s distreatment of David Hayter is almost infamous, all because Kojima wants to work with only famous actors that he likes. Did you David Hayter provided funding for MGS3 and Kojima didn’t even thank him?
4. When he doesn’t want to work on a Project, he shows it. Look at MGS 4 and how nonsensical it is. That game has a plot of that is the equivalent of a train wreck, and is only really fan service-y to the die hards of MGS fans.
I wasn’t that skeptical of point 1, but it’s not like journalists only praise him, any game with a 90 plus metacritic hardly gets criticism.
Point 2 doesn’t prove he is either a hack or a fraud and it is something that happens on the industry at large. People who are at the helm usually gets more recognition, shocking i know.
Point 3 proves that Kojima can be a jerk? Ok, but not your original claim(i’m not much of a fan of David btw, i would rather play the game in japanese with subs if i could).
As for point 4, taking into assumption that MGS4 is objectively bad(which i don’t think it is bad) i think you only need one good game on your resume to be considered good, so it doesn’t prove your main point.
You do realize people call George Lucas a Hack Fraud for things similar right? It’s not really an accusation, only in jest.
But he also spent some of MGS V money developing p.t. without telling Konami and left hints of it in Ground Zeroes
“But he also spent some of MGS V money developing p.t. without telling Konami and left hints of it in Ground Zeroes”
P.t. was massively popular despite being just a “playable teaser” and inspired a lot of developers, so it is not just the journalists that are doing the circle-jerk rituals.
You do know what the legal definition of spending money for something instead of what it was intended for right?
Embezzlement. Would you really trust Hideo with money after p.t/TPP fiasco?
TPP was a best selling “fiasco”, p.t would go the same route if Konami wanted, but all of that is just gossip for me, it hardly matters.
Kojima agrees: most gamers and fandom is dumb.
Different is always welcome in a sea of copy-paste
Government overreactions are leading to isolation. The correct approach is to protect people in nursing homes and help at-risk people living at home protect themselves. Mortality rates are dropping everywhere, this thing is already mutating into a milder, but more transmissible form. Focusing on just case numbers is basically dishonest at this point, which is why the media does exactly that.
yup, the lockdowns did nothing every country that locked down is now locking down again. One could say that is because neoliberalism and open borders are incompatible with a pandemic, so you should shut the borders down instead of occasionally opening them up. Countries that did not shut down did better than countries that did. Herd immunity? Who knows but its stupid crippling our economies for a virus that has 9.999999998% survival rate. By the way where did the flu deaths go this time of year? Hmm, almost as if they pin down everything is china virus, because it came from china.
“Countries that did not shut down did better than countries that did.”
China is the country that did best economically this year, and politically lockdowns are more popular which is why New Zealand gov got reelected(and a rare case of a western gov actually using a real lockdown). If Trump loses, you can blame his failure on his lolbertarian stances.
“One could say that is because neoliberalism and open borders are incompatible with a pandemic”
For the average people, they surely are, most lockdowns in the west is just fake theatre to distract people from the elites looting the country, a distinction a lot of you don’t get.
The plutocrats didn’t really need the pandemic and lockdowns to loot, especially in the United States under Trump.
If the orange charlatan loses, it will be because he is a one-trick pony who can’t adapt to different circumstances.
“The plutocrats didn’t really need the pandemic and lockdowns to loot, especially in the United States under Trump.”
Trump definitely helped them with tax cuts, but you can’t deny they got massively more rich during the fake @$$ lockdowns. There is plenty of interest in making sure the crisis continues for as long as it can, in some sort of managed decline, and they also need to sell vaccines and overpriced medicine (one of the reasons cloroquine was bashed was because it is a cheap drug).
This is one of the reasons the lockdown in the west where half assed to begin with, they want a perpetual crisis to exploit and loot, there are only 2 valid choices, herd immunity or going full totalitarian like China and stopping the infection dead on it’s tracks, the west chooses herd immunity and economic lockdown that doesn’t, and also selling new overpriced medicine.
what a load of bullshet.
“. Games are not f4cking political trash or current era of b.s.”
they are though. Which is bad.
Weak argument that is easily debunked by the lowest IQ SJW. Games where always political. Are those politics worth defending? Debatable.
the argument hideo is making can be summed up as “the more realistic and boring the game is the better” Which is the reason i found gta v to be a borefest, but a t least that game had some decent missions, meanwhile bore stranding is repetitive fetchquesting in empty boring areas. The reason most games are so boring and repetitive and samey these days is this focus on realism, nothing new comes out anymore just more of the same and this game isnt any different because it has shadowy black goo monsters.
“Holy shlt WTF is this garbage ? US Elections, CA moving out of U.S (I wish that happened really), Brexit and all, and they wanted to put all into the game while writing ?”
Wow, it’s almost like Kojima have a point about current trends of people becoming divided and isolated.
“Games are not f4cking political trash or current era of b.s.”
Don’t you know that video games was born in the military Research & Development, and it was a tool used in military training? Sorry, video games where always part of politics and culture, you are just bitter because we are not the main target like it used to be in the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s, but that doesn’t make it any less true.