{"id":388,"date":"2025-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichesitetool.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T06:38:38","slug":"metal-gear-solid-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-hideo-kojima-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/metal-gear-solid-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-hideo-kojima-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Gear Solid is the worst thing to happen to Hideo Kojima \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hideo Kojima just can’t say no to more Metal Gear (Lorne Thomson\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader feels that Hideo Kojima<\/a> is too obsessed with Metal Gear<\/a> and that Physint and the cameos in Death Stranding 2 are a sign that he can\u2019t move on from the series.<\/p>\n

Hideo Kojima will be 62 this August and given how long modern games take to make I worry how many games he has left in him. I don\u2019t mean to be morbid but looking at this list of games over the last 39 years it is disappointing how few different franchises he has worked on, despite having been in the business for nearly four decades.<\/p>\n

The original Metal Gear was his second game and since that the only other things he’s worked on have been minor stuff like Snatcher, Policenauts, Zone Of The Enders<\/a>, and Boktai. Everything else has been Metal Gear, right up until he left Konami and he made Death Stranding<\/a>, which he followed up with\u2026 another Death Stranding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now we find out that Death Stranding 2 has a knock-off Solid Snake<\/a> and Metal Gear REX in it. Plus, the other two games he\u2019s making at the moment are a horror game called OD<\/a> (no doubt inspired by his cancelled Silent Hills game) and Physint<\/a>, which is\u2026 a homage to Metal Gear.<\/p>\n

Kojima is his own man, with his own game studio, so he\u2019s free to make whatever he wants, but I know I\u2019m not the only one that views his gameography as a bit of a missed opportunity. There\u2019s no doubting his unique talent and yet imagine if Steven Spielberg made nothing but Jaws sequels for almost his entire career. Even if they were all great, wouldn\u2019t that be a bit of a waste?<\/p>\n

Long before now, people have been saying that Kojima needs a producer and\/or someone telling him no and I\u2019m sure in this instance that person would\u2019ve said, \u2018Quit it with the Metal Gear obsession. Your whole life has been Metal Gear and saying you\u2019re finished with the series and then coming back to it anyway.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a similar situation with developers like Naughty Dog, who are stuck doing the same thing because it\u2019s popular. They don\u2019t seem to want to make another The Last Of Us at all, but who really thinks they won\u2019t anyway? Just because Sony will see it as something that has to happen, given its prestige and popularity.<\/p>\n

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