And hearing solid snake tell them is the best

GODAMN IT I THOUGHT I WAS COOL AND ORIGINAL USING THIS PIC

@@uberxl as far as we know, we're the only ones with this profile picture now

In my opinion, the best games happen when you start with crazy ideas out the wazoo and pare it down to what works. Especially compared to games that start out small and spend their development adding more

@@uberfreak2 Hard agree with this. Reining in crazy ideas always turns out better than trying to expand on mundane ones.

「お前を傷つけたのは誰だ?」

At least you can get pissed on by a male guard.

I hate to say it but Hideo "I wanna make a lot of weird period jokes" Kojima needed the leash that Konami kept him on just as much as Konami needed his whacky ideas.

@@lightsideofsin8969 I think it's a good thing he mostly has the freedom to do whatever he wants ideas wise these days. Not all of those ideas are guaranteed to be good, but at the very least they'll be interesting and keep players guessing 😅

He is based i love him lmaooo

For real. Billy Joel in mgs? No.

The music choices are like the first and last impressions of each game and I would argue are some of the most important aspects

I think, New York, New York would’ve been a fitting closer to MGS2, but the other choices are kind of silly lol. The ones we got are definitely classics.

While that's true, Kojima did make a masterpiece with this game. I think his staff was charged with reining him in

i wouldn't say better, but I'm very thankful for the 'irish' song cuz that shit is awesome.

Kojima- They laughed at me... At my Vision!!!!

"I can't believe they won't let me give Arsenal Gear a vagina! They're so childish!"

Why am I imagining this like a clip from The Office?

I love that the moment the collection came to pc one of the first mods made for it was an emo femboy retexture with a tramp stamp (same person also did an emo/goth redesign for Dante and Vergil in dmc3 yes also with tramp stamps)

@@MemesToa Y'know, thinking about that, a T.V series about a games developer company in the style of the office would probably be hilarious!

Maybe it was supposed to be morbid? Like she was so unaware of her impending death that she(in delirium) was just correcting them??? Idk.

Kojima: "The staff are irate that I wish one of the Cobras to embody the emotion of nausea. They claim that having a guy jump around farting and puking everywhere is just weird. But they're fine with the guy covered in bees? I don't get them."

@@Del_S actually completely wouldnt mind that. Try watching Gyo: Tokyo Fish attack. Its creepy

its not just a joke

He also told us fans that we would be ashamed of ourselves once we found out why Quiet needed to be so scantily clad... It was cuz she breathed through her skin and could have too much of it covered... Edit: capitalized Quiet who is from MGS V The Phantom Pain

IT's funny how both series suffered a somewhat phantom pain in the absence of a satisfying conclusion to their stories. HL2:e2 clearly implies a sequel and MGSV didn't come full circle the way we hoped.

@@MarlonAnthony Suffered a what?

kojima in a nutshell

We say that, looking back, but who knows? Maybe it would have created a whole new generation of OMD fans? We attach the emotions of the experience to the music. I don't think I'd have liked Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday, had I not first heard it in the wind down from a mesmerised push to the end of the game.

@@NoobixCube That's a great point, but especially the ending song I just can't imagine hittin' as well as the real score when I was seeing my own name on a dogtag because I'd completely forgotten I'd put it in at the beginning of the game But the ending could have been so different back then, even the very late stages of MGS2 ending was censored because of 9/11 (supposedly) so who's to say how much it evolved

Like the song at the end of MGS 3. First play through it flows but when you listen it sounds really dumb

Back when I was like 8 years old and beat mgs one and heard that beautiful song with the polar bears made me cry.

Love how he called them childish when he's the one trying to name parts of the ship after vaginas.

It was a blessing that Kojima wasn't surrounded by bunch of yes-men

You're right, was

​@@kraatarin8226 he clearly was when he made ds. The staff that kept him in check are heroes.

Kojima is like George Lucas, the insane visionary with all the ideas. And while you need him you also need to curb his enthusiasm or his prequels will be garbage

Agreed. That lack of people might have made Death Stranding playable.

All a huge part of why I say Metal Gear can still be good without Kojima, lol. He was important as a charismatic lead, but he was FAR from the only creative force behind these games! I say this as a Portable Ops enjoyer, so I guess probably take what I said with a grain of salt or whatever, lol.

⁠​⁠@@ToshisGardenRising was also good and Kojima had barely anything to do with it so we can definitely have good MGS games without him. As you pointed out he was just a charismatic lead, he basically used the games to become a celebrity but as we can see from his solo career he’s extremely pretentious without people to tell him no (Death Stranding.) I kinda get the impression that the only people who think MGS needs Kojima are people who worship him.

It's a bit hard to know who did what or contributed to what when there's always this huge text that says "A HIDEO KOJIMA GAME" everywhere. Like seeing that so much probably implanted many suggestions into people

@jackflynn412 Oh, absolutely! Creatives like him, Miyamoto, and Sakurai certainly deserve a degree of respect, but they also all definitely need to be kept on their own leash at the same time, same for Inafune. I'd argue three of the best creative-types that immediately come to my mind here that actually tend to deliver would be Koji Igarashi, Sam Lake, and Suda51...though that last one is admittedly very divisive, lol. That being said, back on topic, again you are absolutely right about Rising, as well!! Ghost Babel is another excellent example of a great Metal Gear game done without Kojima's primary involvement (I say this, and I never finished the second story; I just beat the first story). I'd say Kojima certainly has his writing credits, as I believe Snatcher was moreso his direct brainchild, iirc, and I really enjoyed the heck outta that--to the point that it's one of my favorite adventure/point-and-click/visual novel-style games!! Even with that being said, I think he especially needed more editors to keep him in check as time went on. For that, I think Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and Snatcher came along at just the perfect point in his career.

Oooooooooh... You're probably not gonna see Raiden doing any of these any time soon...

@@brigadier-tc8565 Why? He's still a huge Metal Gear fan and as far as I know there's no controversy surrounding him?

@@Efreeti Errrrrr... I'm afraid there kinda is controversy around him. Some serious allegations came up a few years ago, and if I remember correctly he didn't handle them well

@@brigadier-tc8565 damn, sorry I missed that. I'm gonna have to look that up

@@brigadier-tc8565 actually he did come back and proved that they were a stalker fan. He had the receipts.

he said many a bad word about Kojima though...

​Kojima wanted Emma to have period stuff and had the nerve to call his staff childish. He deserves it.​@@SaggyWaggy-is8it

Sutherland’s performance wasn’t mediocre at all, you can hate that Hayter was replaced without trashing his replacement. He was clearly passionate about the role and did a great job, and had nothing to do with the firing.

@@Outrack keifer was a bus rider for money. Why do you think he said very little in the game? He sucked and was an inappropriate choice, face it. Kojima just wanted to hang with a star. As soon as his rep allowed it, he traded up from games. All the death stranding stuff supports this too. They kept the original VA for Japanese Snake in that game so why remove your longtime and highly successful American VA? It's hypocrisy.

Ehhh, he had a few things to say about Kojima a few years ago...and with reason, don't get me wrong.

Kojima DOES have complete artistic control, he's just a great director, leader, and person so he listens to the people around. Those people aren't in charge, Kojima is. HE listens to THEM. But yes, if every one of his ideas made it into any one game, that shit would be so insane. Like bonkers.

Split screen mode coming back with a vengeance too

I'm pretty sure MGS4 was, in fact, made with spite in mind.

and then in GZ and V, he finally got his more interactive cutscenes... at least in some missions, like Shining Lights... also guess the skullface car ride counts....

Kojima and the Japanese game industry were woke before woke was a thing. 😂

Do you agree that why Mother 3 doesn't released outside Japan because of woke characters?

For all you know, he provides only 5% of the final product.. the rest is the actually-talented people around him.

Yea, but somehow kojima gets praised to high heavens, well gamers are dumb people 😂 ​@@Big_Dai

@@Big_Dai Kojima has great ideas and small details that make the games more alive ( and great movie scenes) but holy hell I dbout any of his shit would work if it wasn't for the team around him, his "games" would just turn like MGS4 which is barely a game, it's more of a long demo-movie to fill out the story

Id almost compare him to a George Lucas type, he’s creative but needs others around him balance him out for the best ones to stick

@@justatoaster7476 there's one big difference between him and Lucas; Kojima is fully aware how weird his ideas are. He's said as much before MGS2, he's talked about wanting to make all these, in his own words, *really* weird games, but he never followed up on them because he knew they'd be completely unmarketable and financially untenable. I don't think Lucas ever considered the idea that his ideas were over the top until people actually watched the prequels. Kojima *knows* his ideas are ridiculous.

Same

Someone pin this thread

The perfect woman = a man.

Interesting 🥵

He's like a good looking Tom Cruise

"Diaper Chief?"

pin this

Ohhhh chat.

I can’t wait for David to say this to Vinny the next time they meet.

DIARRHEA CHA CHA CHA!!!

*sobbing *

At least his sister's death didn't end up being a period joke

But he did get to tap Naomi.

The guy forgot he voiced Majima in the first Yakuza, he probably wouldn't remember this one either.

@@snipufin To be fair Mark voiced a lot of characters over the decades with the joker being his biggest. So i would not be surprised he would forget.

"He's been hiding in the vents and we don't know how to get rid of him"

what

what

​@@spice4life.64 metal gear delta

@@Griffith74 ty

MGS2 ran at 60 FPS (or somewhere near) so maybe it wouldn't be unplayable.

@@FutureDeep I know it runs at 60 FPS on PlayStation 2, but I took the Xbox port into consideration, as that version has a choppy framerate.

Yes, the Watchmen head writer is quite a classy guy.

No

@@CerealKillerYes….look at the dumpster fire that is Phantom Pain’s story

@@davefan16 well he doesnt want to work metal gear solid after 2 but people beg him to direct it

Yes. And if someone doesn't believe, then Death Stranding is the proof. Horrible game

Phantom pain is an example… the MSX games and metal gear solid 1-4 along with the portable games were enough for me

This is why Desth Stranding is the way it is.

I'm sure, if it wasn't for the staff.. Metal Gear wouldn't be what it is. Just look at the insipid Death Stranding and all the dumb little ideas that amount to nothing. As well as a lack of memorable content. Metal Gear was a chain of lucky events, and the exact people involved in the project. Just the song choices speak volumes.

​@@zombierepublican "You, my Mario... And me... Your Princess Beach." WOMP WOMP

​@Big_Dai strong agree. I also feel kojimas "sucess" got to his head and he strong armed his team to allow more ideas as the series went on. Hence the decline from mgs4 on in games he's involved in. They got wierder and made less sense right up to ds. and ds 2 is going to be even worse from the trailer. I love mgs, but I feel kojima gets way too much credit for its success. I guess we'll see how physint ends up years down the line.

​@@oll-turny-llo8200 You just don't get it.

​@tuulenkoti I did, I was scrolling the comments while asking aloud "did anyone perchance write a screenplay based on MGS2 in college?" and then I saw this guy's comment, so I'm glad he made it.

@@Hide_Me Haha, glad I could put your mind at ease! 🤣

@tuulenkoti Idk, just figured it was a weird-but-fun fact to add to the comments under a video filled with weird-but-fun facts about my favourite game franchise. 😅

Ocelot would be proud. But damn he keeps it professional. Would be nice to see his enthusiasm for it

Legendary song

So powerful

He was supposedly prevented from having ZoE mechas get erections

I was just thinking this! They should get him for every video if you ask me lol

Can't take a bite without the sauce.

I barely…never mind.

"I'll say"

In the words of David Hayter's Guyver: "No."

@@FutureDeep Yea sadly that's the reality of things. But a man can dream.

Also in the microwave hallway, though the gameplay there is less involved

pretty sure all of those have been made decades before metal gear, by smarter people than any of us, including kojima. what is praiseworthy is neatly compiling them and putting them into a digestible format thats very accessible to people.

The man co-wrote the first X-Men movie. His powers are beyond our understanding

"My childish team doesn't understand me."

it's just highly sophisticated humor many simply dont understand!

Haha poo poo pee pee

I hope you told him they had alcohol in them...

Kojima would just descend upon you, save you and your car, then say "Kept you waiting, huh?" and then bound away.

It was goddamn awful during the Shadow Moses Gekkou fight. Thank goodness it wasn't used for MGS2.

And how it just 94% video