Kojima to speak at GDC for first time

Solid Game Design: Making the 'Impossible' Possible.

Turning a game into a movie?

"The presentation is scheduled for an hour, but given the designer's inability to edit, don't be surprised if it lasts 8 hours, with two 90-minute cutscenes and a couple of codec conversations included."

Har Har ...


Moving right along ... MGS 4 was an epic masterpiece in every sense of the word and I would love for him to expound a little further about the dichotomy between Snake and Liquid (Ocelot). Through subversion Liquid was able to make the Patriots puppett (Snake) do his work for him. I'm still a little torn when I think of who sacraficed more in the long run and who the real hero was. Was it the mastermind that was able set forth a plan to disarm and dismantle the controlling shadow forces of the world or is it the eternal soldier who always did what he though was best for his country that unwillingly did the bidding of evil but who always had the best interest of his nation at the forefront of his mind.

It kind of reminds me a little bit about the new season of 24 and doing what is necessary for the benefit of your country. Sadly it also gives me chilling reminders about the war on terror from a group of "terrorist" (relative term) that our government put in power to fight a proxy war against Russia. Like how our own government flooded our country with drugs to illegally fund the post vietnam wars. What's good and what's bad is always relative to what side of the conflict your allegences truly lay.

The most important message I was able to take away from the Metal gear saga as a whole and from MGS 4 in part is that war is a business. If you can initiate a conflict and through proxies arm both sides of the conflict you stand to see the most benefit regardless of the outcome. Another theme I was able to take away from the social commentary made by Kojima is that the benefactors of war are never the people who the war's behalf is being fought for. I didn't need Kojima to tell me any of this but he was able to get his point across in such a powerful way that you would have to be blind or ignorant to miss it.

I'm sure a lot of people didn't think critically about the moral delima and the overarching themes that played out in the Metal Gear Saga. However, there are some of us that understood the message that was being conveyed. The series really deserves to be preserved as one of the best and most important in gaming history. The only other game this generation that has made me think as much as MGS 4 was Bioshock. I like a game that doesn't spoon feed me and force the story down my throat. Sometimes you come across something that requires you to actually use your brain and Metal Gear is one of them.

Kind of like the comment you just made.

Kojima Is God.

Why do I always have to confirm my comment? On my Email?
The password they gave me does nothing, I still have to confirm my comment!

Is it safe to say we'll see a "Director's Cut" of MGS4 like we did with 2 and 3? Maybe it won't be announced now but maybe we will see it by years end?

He wanted to take a break from MGS from what i remember, so it is obvious.

He is going to call Itagaki out of hiding, and challenge him in a duel to the death. Doesn't take bottle rocket scientist to figure that one out.

If you don't care then why make the comment in the first place?

Hmm.... You can asshole huh..

Apparently, fanboys don't like it when you talk shit about Hideo Kojima in this blog.

Hmm... Interesting.

Wow! You're a real tough guy.

You can question your manhood when Will Wright comes along and starts to taunt you...
/facepalm

What was that game Kojima Productions made for the DS again? It got really great scores & i'm looking to pick it up but cant remember what it was called, I believe it was an RPG

Dear Kojima

We need a new Metal Gear Solid game for the PSP

Fondest Regards,

Angel M.

The keynote will actually be a masterfully crafted simulation. At the end Kojima will start flipping out saying crap about the purple stuffed worm in flap jaw space. You'll see.

I Just found my original copy of Metal Gear in pristine condtion. Dam I wish there was a way to get him to sign it

Thanks guys, The pass then gave me now works!

I still have the origanal Metal Gear solid disk, Sadly It crashes all the time during the DARPA Chief convo :(

Even the pc version crashes during the Hind d boss!

no luck.

im really getting tired of these dumbass, when ever they hear Kojima, the start bitch about MGS4 being on XBOX but everone know that it will nver happen even if microsoft give Kojima money. Stop destroying your brain cells, u only got few left anywa.

Well I'm volunteering at the conference this year. So I hope I'll have time to catch this lecture and mabye snag a picture with the man. :)

Chako,

Did you purposely not read my reply because you did a damn fine job of completely misinterpreting every thing I wrote. You don't even make sense.

May I present Exhibit A

you replied...
No, it's Joystiq's blog. Do YOU pay for domain name? Because if YOU did, then it would be YOUR blog.
I said...
"It's ALL OF OUR BLOG because we are the community that reads the articles and then engages in conversation."
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Exhibit B

you replied...
Being a commentator does not make you a "blog contributor".
That is like saying the people that mail in letters to published magazine makes them a editorial contrubuter.
It doesn't work like that.

I said....
"A blog is where the blog contributors give their punditry (usually misunderstood as bias) and we the community weigh in on the topic."
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"It would easier to ignore if you didn't post a essay on Metal Gear Solid 4, and how it relates to a fucking television show.
Like I said, GET YOUR OWN GODDAMN BLOG."

So your saying it's more difficult to ignore my post because it's long and compared MGS 4 to (a "fucking" tv show) 24. All I'm going to say on that is you can click the ! (exclamation/report comment) button to make the comment completely disappear until you post again. It takes the same minimal amount of effort to skip long posts as well as short posts.

Fucking Jackass."
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@TheBigOAnime / LordVesper / Premature Assassain / Whatever other alias you go by ...

I wouldn't expect anything else from you than the comment you just posted. Besides, I even mentioned Bioshock as the other game this generation that gave important dialogue in social commentary and my love of MGS 4 is far beyond any individual console. The majority of us don't live in such a fragmented world that judges everyone by console preferences. Hell I had a at 360 since launch and the other four consoles. I prefer the PS3 but I haven't let that get in the way of broadening my gaming horizons on all of the other platforms and it hasn't stopped me from playing any game I choose.

Be careful taking the Lords name in vein like that.

Good, we can ask him why the fuck the new metal gear game is on the iPhone.