At the end of my interview with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima last week, I asked the renowned game developer about the desire of many of our readers for him to make games other than Metal Gear.
It’s been years since Kojima attached his name to projects like Boktai or Zone of the Enders, and while he may have a supervisory role on the next disc-based Castlevania game, he’s been consistently making Metal Gears for most of his recent career. Up next for him are two more: Metal Gear Peace Walker on the PSP and Metal Gear Rising on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
As I reported last week, Kojima said this about the topic of expanding his horizons beyond the adventures of Snake and Raiden:
“Not only the Kotaku readers but I myself am interested in doing something besides Metal Gear,” he said. “But, right now, I am working on Peace Walker. Eventually, after the project is done, I might think about it.”
He joked: “If you write that ‘Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more’ every day on Kotaku, and write to the CEO of Konami and tell him that, then it might be easier for me to make non-Metal Gear games.”
It’s not like the Metal Gear games that Kojima is still making are bad or anything. The new PSP one actually seems to be very good. But since the publication of my Kojima story on Friday, at least 45 readers have written the sentence “Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more” in the comments section to that post. I promoted the comments to make them easier to see.
So just remember, if and when Hideo Kojima announces that he’s making a game that isn’t Metal Gear, you’ll know what caused it. That said, we won’t be publishing that sentence every day here on Kotaku. The point has been made.
Kav
September 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more
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September 29, 2009 at 8:40 AM
kojima-san doesn’t have to make metal gear any more!!!
Now make me a shiny Zone of Enders please! Jehuty (and more importantly, Vic Viper, deserves to live!)
Report PermalinkMatfei
September 29, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more.
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September 29, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more.
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September 29, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more.
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September 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more.
But, please make a PSP Zone of Enders
Report PermalinkMatt
September 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more
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September 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more
Report PermalinkShuvo Minhaj
September 29, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more
Report PermalinkChadi Affan
September 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM
kojima makes great work, i do want him to leave the metal gear series and move onto something else, preferebly another game in the snatcher and policenauts style, and if he does, please for the love of god add crossovers like in snatcher having chibi metal gear (i wished for something like that in policenauts).
Report PermalinkCerberus
September 29, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more
Report Permalinkplmko
September 29, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Kojima PLEASE make more Metal Gear games.
Report PermalinkAPK
September 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Rule 95. Combo breakers are inevitable. If the combo is completed successfully, it is gay.
Report PermalinkArghZombies
September 29, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more
Report PermalinkNate - deezy
September 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Kojima-san doesn’t have to make Metal Gear any more!
Report PermalinkKhuntza
September 29, 2009 at 7:54 PM
And thus Kotaku spawned its first meme..
Report PermalinkLiquidius
July 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Kojima-san has to make more Metal Gear!
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