Why Konami burned Hideo Kojima (and how it cost them)

Comments · 2.3K

• HA

  @HazzaPoint · 9 months ago · pinned

  Kojima’s finest work (and mine too)—nobody explains the complete Big Boss story like I do: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A7dtitKHL8">https://youtu.be/2A7dtitKHL8</a>

  163

• TH

  @thebteamgamingchannel5701 · 9 months ago (edited)

  I could tell Kojima began sticking it to Konami during my first playthrough of The Phantom Pain. &nbsp;The beginning of every story mission had credits to remind me that this was a Hideo Kojima Game, Directed by Hideo Kojima, Written by Hideo Kojima, etc. &nbsp;They removed his Kojima Productions logo from the game and in response, he plastered his name all over every mission.

  4K

• CA

  @cactoidpinata · 9 months ago

  Losing Fox Engine was an absolute tragedy for game engines in general. It looked so good and performed so well. Optimization now is just lazy frame gen.

  2.6K

• WE

  @wegocray3830 · 9 months ago

  I think the funniest thing that happened for MGS Delta is the praise still goes to Kojima despite not being affiliated with the remake.

  1.8K

• CH

  @Charsept · 9 months ago

  All these years later, I still remember the &quot;Fuck Konami&quot; meme. <br>I still think of it every time I hear their name.

  614

• ME

  @MegaDrain · 7 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-BmDNuS7w&amp;t=1007">16:47</a> This is actually an unfortunately common practice in Japan&apos;s business sector in general. If you threaten to quit, you&apos;re threatened right back by being black listed by any other similar company which basically forces you to stay at your job. That&apos;s why Konami could do all these harsh restrictions because they knew they could just fuck over Kojima&apos;s crew into staying.

  169

• SA

  @sanokillzone · 8 months ago (edited)

  CDPR loves Hideo as well. In Cyberpunk 2077 if you look in the bar in Konpeki Plaza during the heist. They have Hideo in there talking about his vision of making games.

  286

• MU

  @mulawarmankwsuper · 9 months ago (edited)

  I kinda love and hate Kojima. Sure, he created the MGS franchise, but if you look deeper into his relationship with the MGS VAs and the English localization team of early Metal Gear—there are plenty of interviews and video essays on how poorly he treated them— thats why I&apos;m not that mad when they fired him. He fired David Hayter because he wanted to play buddy-buddy with Hollywood actors (he’s famously a huge fan of 24, which is also massive in Japan), he also tried to replace David Hayter with Kurt Russell on MGS 4. This is also reflected in the Death Stranding cast; they are all his favorite actors. That is also a major reason why the MGSV budget soared to $120 million; he was dead set on casting his favorite actor from his favorite TV series (If only he stick with David Hayter, I believe he&apos;ll still in Konami and MGS series is continue on new title, he is to blame why the series dead now). For me, David Hayter IS Snake, and Snake IS David Hayter.

  9

• UN

  @unnaturalselection8330 · 9 months ago

  I&apos;ve been in love with Kojima&apos;s games since before I knew who he was.<br>Back in the day, they put ads for the FIRST Metal Gear on the back of comics, with a list of gear you could get and I was absolutely entranced.<br>The guy knew what we as fans wanted in a video game and strove to include it.<br>He wasn&apos;t just checking the genre boxes and fulfilling tropes he didn&apos;t comprehend.<br>He was giving us the cool factor we had dreamed about and never received from the dad gang making games at the time.

  76

• AB

  @abcdefgh6121 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-BmDNuS7w&amp;t=16">0:16</a> Never thought I would hear kojima speaking english

  8

• RO

  @RoccoSuaveSuave · 5 months ago

  I still remember P.T. Having his biggest loophole around the NDA and hearing how he felt reminded me why I’ll remain loyal to the Artist and his team for their work and the original message throughout the series includes creating your own fate not being tied down by your peers or government who expect sacrifice from you while dismissing your work and merit, a lot has changed not just games but as we’ve stopped listening to radios, tv and even movies themselves aren’t what they used to be where you enjoyed in a theater after going out to dinner with friends or family- or just talking about it while listening to good radio….well time to just save money era 😅

  4

• CH

  @Chewma-o9k · 9 months ago

  Kojima is the only reason why I became an Indie dev. I wrote a school essay on him growing up.

  414