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Kojima on Death Stranding: “Even now, I don’t understand the game”
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Probably kids that never played his old games, and that doesn't own the console it's on/exclusive.
And, The Internet.
ps: he also made one of the best horror game of this generation.
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Hehe, the hilarious thing, I think, is that all of these responses would be UNCHANGED if Kojima had said any of the following:
"I know exactly what this game is, and you will too in just a short while"
"I know exactly what this game is, but that's for me to know and you to wonder about"
"The meaning of the game is constantly changing, so I couldn't ever really tell you what it's about"
"This game doesn't really have any meaning, it just is what it is"
"What do you think this game is about? Oh? Hmm. Yes. Well Done."
"OMG Based Kojima - that's exactly what I wanted to hear. HYPEEE"
"What? Lol ok... Kojima gonna Kojima."
"Pfft. Kojima has no clue what he's doing. Can't believe everyone is falling for this"
It's a testament to the Kojima machine that he has squeezed out such strong responses out of the community with next to nothing. This is where we are at, and we can only watch on from the sidelines inside our brain.
"I know exactly what this game is, and you will too in just a short while"
"I know exactly what this game is, but that's for me to know and you to wonder about"
"The meaning of the game is constantly changing, so I couldn't ever really tell you what it's about"
"This game doesn't really have any meaning, it just is what it is"
"What do you think this game is about? Oh? Hmm. Yes. Well Done."
"OMG Based Kojima - that's exactly what I wanted to hear. HYPEEE"
"What? Lol ok... Kojima gonna Kojima."
"Pfft. Kojima has no clue what he's doing. Can't believe everyone is falling for this"
It's a testament to the Kojima machine that he has squeezed out such strong responses out of the community with next to nothing. This is where we are at, and we can only watch on from the sidelines inside our brain.
Hope the game is received well, and doesn't become a No Mans Sky situation again.
Kojima's story telling might be iffy, but I have complete confidence in his ability as a game designer.
This man brought us
MGS: Peacewalker - one of the best portable games I have ever played.
PT - a free to play demo which has influenced the horror genre so much that it's insane it was literally just a teaser
MGSV: One of the best open world stealth games out there
You actually believe the whole interview is a troll?
How embarrassing that this is immediately seen as a positive by everyone. Who is behind a game should never change its reception and praise
I met someone last night who has play tested DS. i couldn't get much out of him but he said:
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The first 2 hours are solid gameplay
[*]A playthrough will be roughly 200 hours
[*]You play in pergatory - between life and death.
[*]The baby is you for if you die in the game you can be reincarnated again
[*]He honeslty thinks it's going to change the industry
[*]After playing it for a few days it's still hard to comprehend the game
The article itself isn't much different from the few quotes in the OP honestly. Maybe the most notable thing is that he says a risk like this can end up badly, but is hoping it'll be well received
He created this universe, its rules, its story, how could he not understand it ?
He loves trolling too, remember Raiden or Moby dick studio stuff ??
It's more a thing of seeing a product come together of different ideas and elements. It has to click at some point where you can say it all came together well or excellently, but it CAN be the case where it doesn't and you're left with a kind of uncertainty.
So it's either trolling or that
Can somebody please tell me what Keanu Reeves was doing at Kojima Productions?
I mean.... seriously... this can't be more hyped.
I mean.... seriously... this can't be more hyped.
LOL I was joking about this with my friends for months that not even Kojima knows what this game's about. Damn... it never occurred to me we have been right all the time and it wasn't a joke...
Explaining Kojima what this weird game of his is about.
I think he is trolling. But the outrage who causes to the haters is hilarious. I mean, people can easily ignore him, if they really don't tolerate him or his behaviour. It's not that tough.
It's not that he does not know what the game is about. This is just more PR speak from him saying his game is a new genre and does not fit into the old conventions.
Also I think this game is going to be a massive trash fire. It's running on hype like Star Citizen, and the gameplay looks nothing special
Also I think this game is going to be a massive trash fire. It's running on hype like Star Citizen, and the gameplay looks nothing special
Imagine actually believing this.
On the other side Era is known to take everything literally and serious that i am not shocked by some responses.
On the other side Era is known to take everything literally and serious that i am not shocked by some responses.
comparing kojima to random UK guys which only game their before was Joe Danger is more than unfair.
I don't hate Kojima and I actually think Death Stranding will appeal to my taste (I like experimental exploration games), but he makes it so hard to like him sometimes. He seems to lack the notion of, "Show don't tell," when it comes to these sort of things. I like arthouse works and experimental indie games, but them telling me how deep and mysterious they are is not going to make it seem more appealing to me. I also don't really trust Kojima on handling certain story themes this game seems to be tackling well, there's many examples of this but I still won't forget the infamous, "regret your words and deeds," comment he made before MGSV to the criticism of Quiet's sexualized design, only for it to be she breathes through her skin so she has to wear as little clothing as possible.
I feel I'll actually like this game, but I don't really trust Kojima's take on what's deep and meaningful, and him talking like this doesn't fill me with confidence.
I feel I'll actually like this game, but I don't really trust Kojima's take on what's deep and meaningful, and him talking like this doesn't fill me with confidence.
It's probably something that he shouldn't say out loud, but I think this statement is true for every creator who's working on something new. Who the hell knows if this thing is going to work? When I designed Blind Forest, I was always having second-thoughts whether mixing Metroid'ish gameplay with precision-platforming mechanics would actually work. Would those two genres actually match? Would people adapt to it? I thought it was fun, so we stuck with it... but I always thought it could totally backfire. My motivation was simply to bring better platforming to this genre, cause I didn't understand that in games where platforming is one of the main components, the platforming usually felt pretty bare-bones.
As I'm writing this, I'm already working on a completely new game where we're mixing various genres together and I love it - but we have people in the team and on the publishing side that are less convinced. Such is the nature of creativity - You see some boundaries that don't make sense to you, so you try to take things a step further and the only two outcomes are that you're either batshit insane for trying what you want to try or you're actually seeing something that others aren't seeing and you might just have struck gold.
So let's just hope Kojima is onto something :)
As I'm writing this, I'm already working on a completely new game where we're mixing various genres together and I love it - but we have people in the team and on the publishing side that are less convinced. Such is the nature of creativity - You see some boundaries that don't make sense to you, so you try to take things a step further and the only two outcomes are that you're either batshit insane for trying what you want to try or you're actually seeing something that others aren't seeing and you might just have struck gold.
So let's just hope Kojima is onto something :)
Thank you for this Mahler.
Some of the comments in this thread have been utterly ridiculous and reactionary, embarrassing stuff.