Hideo Kojima To Deliver GDC Keynote
Hideo KojimaIf there's one guy who can talk about "making the 'impossible' possible," it's Hideo Kojima.
According to Gamasutra, Corporate Officer, Executive Producer and Director of Kojima Productions, Hideo Kojima, will stand before a crowd of attentive listeners and deliver a keynote address at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The event, which takes place next month, will also feature speeches from notable members of the industry, including Epic's Rod Fergusson, LittleBigPlanet creators Mark Healey and Alex Evans, and Lionhead's Peter Molyneux. Kojima...well, we all know about him. Best known for the legendary Metal Gear Solid franchise, this mastermind's speech title is, "Solid Game Design: Making the 'Impossible' Possible," and everyone will gather at the Moscone Convention Center at the end of March to hear it. We should also remember that at the start of 2009, Kojima stated that he would make a "fresh start" with his team, mostly in an effort to appeal to a wider audience. He believes he's still missing some of the mainstream Western gamers, and like so many Japanese developers in this generation, he aims to change that.
In some ways, this sounds a little frightening, especially to those who have adored the MGS series. But we have complete faith in Kojima and Co., and we'll be one of many who will be interested to hear what Kojima has to say in that address. He probably won't drop any hints regarding new projects, but you never know...
2/10/2009 Ben Dutka
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JPBooch
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 1:02:13 PM
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:46:57 PM
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 4:21:37 PM
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 1:35:20 PM
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vicious54
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:03:29 PM
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coverton341
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:15:46 PM
I know quite a few people who have the PS3 because it is more reliable and is more powerful but they have it because they like FPS games. A lot of the people I know could care less about story and only play COD(insert whatever) online and have the Resistance's and are about to sh*t golden bricks waiting on KZ2 and while these are great and all it is all they play.
Sony having the most powerful system and free online play seems to be a double edged sword of sorts in this regard. It seems to me at least a great number of people are getting on board the more they hear about great FPS and action titles and in turn selling more of these and per capita selling less of the story driven games. Sad really.
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wano
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:30:01 PM
I think i see where your coming from if you ment to say "not every one who has a ps3 likes this sort of game", but I love the series (from uk BTW). I also got a ps3 cause i had ps2 and I thought at the time (ps2 times) there was a hell of a lot more FPs's on the pc (or thats where i played them anyway.
May be i didnt have the good fps's on the ps2 or something, but i deffo had MGs2, GTA (3d one, was it GT3 by the way, always get mixed up with that one). thunderhawk, desert storm, dropship (dropship probably got slated, but i though it was pretty good at the time) and a few other games that i cant remeber at the moment, but i dont remeber any FPS, they were all 3rd person. maybe I probably just missed em (or need reminding)
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Sir Shak
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 5:47:28 PM
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PS3_Wizard
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @ 10:10:46 AM
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wano
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:16:35 PM
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Another thing in the back of my mind is the fact that during MGS4 in one of the cut scenes, theres a list of all the MGS games on the right in date order, below MGS4 it had two boxes that said "in production" so there could be an extra game on the way (may not have snake in them mind, but who knows, could be an MGS set before MGS4). Im assuming that ipod game could have been one of the boxes.
If ive missed any other new MGS anouncements then im probably totally wrong, im sure someone will let us know...
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:17:23 PM
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Come on, just drop one hint on the fresh start.
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coldbore
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:37:34 PM
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Scarecrow
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:40:11 PM
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It's so sad............sheeesh sad I say! -_-
:*( The US is only going to ruin v-games just like it ruins everything from movies to music
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 10:37:57 PM
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PS3_Wizard
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shaydey77
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:40:35 PM
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I realy cant wait for his next project. I just hope it keeps a decent storyline whatever genre he and the team decides to try. Too many games these days lack a real storyline.
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JoshuaAdam360
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:50:02 PM
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wano
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 2:59:41 PM
ah..dont know if it sucks mate, but its deffinately different.
Wonder if he can come up with something that appeals to both masses. Suppose granturismo does in a way..or does it.
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jdt1981
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 3:15:48 PM
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smileys_007
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 4:06:43 PM
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anyway, i just hope that the next metal gear game will still be ps3 exclusive. and dont worry vicious54, ps3 sales will increase when kz2 comes out and when that happens, mgs4 will increase in sales.. that's for sure!
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 4:09:27 PM
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Veritas Vincit
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 8:25:03 PM
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http://www.callofduty.com/supplies_map_pack
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 9:23:22 PM
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orangpelupa
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @ 6:42:46 AM
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and, japan should stop westernizing their games.
IMO, its ok if it will apeal west+east, but japan games that become "too west" will lost its "unique, story oriented japan-feel"
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @ 8:10:14 AM
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Arvis
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @ 1:03:24 PM
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"When I started playing video games, 85 to 90 percent of them were made by Japanese developers. Nowadays, the video game industry is worldwide and a lot more mainstream. In some ways that's good in other ways it's not.
I grew up playing games made by Japanese developers and today video games are shifting toward mainstream westernization and away from the charming Japanese games I love. There are still a few games that have that distinct Japanese charm, like Valkyria Chronicles, but that game only sold around 350,000, which is a joke IMO, and that's probably why we don't see many games like that anymore. I don't like where the video game industry is headed, when a mindless twitch game like Halo 3 can sell over 9 million but an awesome game like VC with great characters, great story and great gameplay can't even crack half of 1 million..."
This was wonderful and did my heart good to read it. Use paragraphs next time, though, because I almost skipped over it. I just saw the words "Valkyria Chronicles" and forced myself to read the whole thing.
-Arvis
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SmileyGrenades
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @ 4:53:12 PM
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I think if he wanted to really affect the industry in a positive way, he would publicly step down from making games in disgust of what it's become. Let's face it. MGS4 wasn't as successful as it should have been (especially when compared to the heaps of garbage out there). I think that'd be a great indication that the industry is in a nosedive-state.
Kojima is a dying breed, and it's a shame to see it come to him resorting to westernizing his games. It's kind of saddening for me to see him basically throw in the towel and take the Western path. To say he's Westernizing means to me that he's basically taking a blind stab at making a bit more money, and at the same time, not great games. To me, that's what it means to Westernize.
Multiply his mentality now by a few million, and you get what we see today. Nothing special.
If he goes through with it, you can officially say gaming's on serious life support, because instead of MGS, we'll be getting more bulky spacemen, and uninspiring plots. None of which the MG series relied too heavily upon.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 12:59:01 PM