At age 45, Hideo Kojima to receive another lifetime achievement award

by Randy Nelson on Feb 17th 2009 10:20PM

Although he's most famously known for his work on Konami's Metal Gear titles, Hideo Kojima is unquestionably a master game designer, right up there with the greatest in the medium. His work is so highly praised that, at the relatively young age of 45, he's set to receive yet another "lifetime achievement" award -- this time as part of the Game Developer's Choice Awards taking place on March 25.

Okay, here's where we voice how much the whole "let's give out lifetime achievement awards just for the sake of it" thing irks us, through sarcasm. *Ahem*

It seems only fitting to bestow such awards on Kojima now, given his advanced age. It's not like he's going to make anything besides Metal Gear that would warrant, oh, a few more "lifetime achievement awards" when he's actually, y'know, a little closer to the end of his lifetime.

But that ... that would make sense. This is like saying Brett Favre reached his peak as a high school quarterback.

Tags: awards, game-developers-choice-awards, hideo-kojima

Reader Comments (48)

Why so sarcastic Randy? You almost sound bitter or something

Yea i agree totally man. I dont like this guy "Randy's" tone at all. WTF?

just to give the story a bit of flavor all of joystiq's stories are written like this.

You would have to understand that making one game series probably doesnt warrant a lifetime achievement award. Unless the guy is about to die soon which then it's more than understandable.

Take the Favre line he threw in there, if you watch football you would of totally understood this type of sarcasm. We should be expecting alot more out of Kojima. His career is only really starting. At 45 you gotta believe he's got another +10 years in him to design more than just Metal Gear Solid.

*claps*

this guy is a gaming god along with his holiness shigeru miyamoto, will wright, and sid meier. *salutes*

also, he looks like he's in his 30's. certainly not 45. wow. i guess he's not gonna look like old snake anytime soon.

why do i still have my pedobear avatar? it's like joystiq hates my sly cooper avatars. i have 2 or 3 good ones that never upload but this one came up on the first try. this means... joystiq is owned by a network of OVER 9000 PEDOBEARS!!!

You have Mario from where I'm at dude.

i'm sorry for this stupid question, but who's sid meiers??? I don't think he's that famous.

who's sid meiers???

C'mon , stop messing with me

Yeah dude quit fucking with all of us.

Who's Sid Meier ... That's like asking who Jesus or ... who fuckin Mohammed is in a synagogue.

If your on a gaming blog and you don't know who Sid Meier is you might as well just get a new hobby.

(was supposed to be a funny joke!)

Here you go:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Sid+Meier

@ Johnny

yeah it switches between mario and pedobear. i don't know why.

man he deff. deserves it.

p.s aggie is weird looking.

"p.s aggie is weird looking"

What do you have against black people?

His face does looks weird...

I'd love to give him a third lifetime achievement award once he gets ZOE 3 up and running. Not that I think it will take a lifetime for it to come out. >_>

But it sure would be nice, eh Kojima?

Foxdie could strike at anytime. Give it to him before it's too late.

Yea, and Kojima has accelerated aging, so they have to give him his lifetime achievement award now.

Has any game journalist expressed their distaste with Kojima in public before?

I'm a fan of the MGS series but I can see where it can become self-indulgent at times and where it warrants criticism, and I just know there are people out there who hate Kojima but are too afraid to say it due to the backlash they will get from the fanboys.

Exactly, it's not like he would do really anything to merit ANOTHER lifetime achievement award. C'mon, I mean REALLY merit another one. C'MON. REALLY. He's no Shigeru.

OVERRATED

Dude, you're just shooting through usernames now days. I've seen, what, 3 different ones in the past week? 0_0

Can you give a reason why he's overrated?

Yeah?

Based on what you've played? Oops, now ya can't

I still think Kojima looks drunk in every photo he takes.

Kojima changed the way we view and play games, he took story telling and gameplay to a higher level and if you cant comprehend that go back to playing pong. He gave the gaming industry a new approach to making a game. Rather then just make a good game, give the player something to feel and experience. Get the person playing the game to think after they finished the game. Its like art, an artist isnt going to tell you why he painted that picture or made that sculpture they want the viewer to have their own opinion and thoughts, this can also be shown in novels and short stories. So think before you diss Kojima and keep an open mind.

Kojima is my favorite game designer and story teller.

Unrelated:
The television show Leverage is AWESOME! This season of 24 has also been balls to the wall.

/unrelated TV bullshit

Speaking of unrelated TV bullshit, has anybody been watching Heroes? Sylar is the MAN!!!!!

I'm actually really sick of Sylar. He should have died a while ago.

He did, but...you know...

Unrelated:

Yakuza 3 demo coming to the Japanese PSN this week

I get goosebumps just watching Chloe vs. Janine Garofolo's character. I mean it's not literally a match between the two, but you constantly make the 'computer geek' comparisons between the two, knowing that Chloe could kick her butt blindfolded.

BTW, I was referring to '24'

So Randy, They should give the lifetime achievement award only when u are getting old? that's kind BS

Besides... Did u even play Metal Gear Solid?

I can just imagine Randy trying to steal his award lol. Why so bitter?

Totally deserved, a visionairy in gaming. like the artical says, "a master".

Here's to kojima making many more amazing games and winning many more lifetime acheivement awards.

Mainstream gaming hasn't really been going long enough for peoples actual lifetimes to expire yet. Give it 20 years and Kojima will certainly be up for another.

Totally deserves it, not just for Metal Gear.

Somebody seems to be forgetting about Zone of the Enders 2...

See, it's shit like this.
Being absolutely condescending to every little thing is not funny, it's just annoying.

Amen. I don't care how old the guy is - he has achieved much during his life. Why wait until someone is dead or nearly dead to recognize them? Kojima could quit game designing tomorrow, but would that detract from all that he has accomplished?

My lord, cynicism is so trite.

When I look at how far the Metal Gear series in particular has come since the classic MSX/NES original, I can easily see how Kojima merited this award. With that being said, there are many more producers of whom I could say the same. Let's hope the industry continues to recognize those who've helped to bring video game design to where it is today.

From what i get, Randy is basically saying they are dishing out the "award" fast and almost untimely. He has earned/deserved said award, now is lined up to receive another. Those might take my thoughts on the post as Kojima hate which is not. Yet if you want to go there...
We can fire off names to deserve the award "again", which i don't feel is necessary.

He looks like he's in his early 30's in that photo.

Congrats to Kojima. He truely is one of the great game designers.

All he needs is a really good story editor and his next game should be the best ever.

Yuu guys are joking right?

Rob Pelloni the genius behind "bob's game" is not considered, not even a little bit?
I call shenanigans.

;)

So the tip is to not hire an editor for your games story? Gotcha.

congrats again. been playing his games since nes

It really depends on how deeply you look at the game. If you don't look into the philosophy, the themes, and politics that are involved in the UNIVERSE (not just the story from a single Metal Gear game), you see that the story carved is really something special.

I wholeheartedly think that Kojima deserves these awards.

At age 45, Hideo Kojima to receive another lifetime achievement award

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