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Akamaru_Inu
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Bull. Roar.
Kojima was still involved with MGR. If they try and make it themselves, it's not going to be a Metal Gear game, and it's going to tank. Nobody who enjoys this series is going to want one Kojima didn't have a hand in. |
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Rychy
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lol. Go to heck Konami.
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FenixFiesta
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Any new productions without Kojima will be as canonical as "Snake's Revenge".
That said, I would not be surprised if Konami licensed out metal gear to foreign 3rd parties just to piss on the burnt bridge that was between the company and Kojima. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Well, good luck trying to make the next sequel of Metal Gear Solid without Mr. Kojima-san around to help. From what I've seen and heard, titles that had their sequels developed without their creator's assistance or are done by different developers tended to not fare as well as the initial game. Cases in point: Diddy Kong Racing DS and Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.
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BurgerKing-201
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About as canon as his appearance in Brawl. |
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Pokenatic
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If that's so, can we have a new Silent Hill and Castlevania without Konami then?
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residentgrigo
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And i wish it would after finishing TPP last week as the game felt like it was directed by George Lucas who only finished half his work and jerked off the entire time. I honestly have never been more angry at a good game in my entire life and it first needs to start turning profitable before Konami starts getting ideas. The series should have ended with the first ending to PW and rode of on a high into the sunset and ether rebooted or gone on with more Rising. The community would honest have been a happier place. Zo3, Snatcher 2 and Silent Hills would have been better avenues for Kojima and the game proves that you can truly burn out a director who wanted to exit the series for years. The non-Japanese Psp and Wii Silent Hill were pretty good and the first Lords of Shadows was a fine game too.
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Wandering Samurai
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I can only imagine there are going to be plenty of game companies happy to try and sign Kojima on board with them for a new type of game series that can potentially be a hit.
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MrBonk
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MG CAN continue and be just fine without Kojima. He's not the problem, plenty of other people have had big hands in the series.
And isn't the only writer, the series has consistently had more than one writer than just Kojima working on every game. The problem lies with Konami and whether they will gimp it before it happens with their want and need to attain the massive profit levels of Mobile with low effort, low budget releases. There are still things they can do, as long as they do it right. Which Kojima isn't entirely necessary for. Art though, Shinkawa or Wood would be missed. People have a god complex over Kojima but there is no I in team. People laud ZOE but he had about as much hand in those games as he did in MG games that he only "Produced". (Rising whether it became Revengance or not, he would still have only had a Producer role) Revengeance, Ac!d 1&2, Ghost Babel and Portable Ops (Which is canon despite Kojima backpedalling when he claimed originally that PO was important and they couldn't finish MGS4's story without finishing it first.) prove Metal Gear can be done just fine without Kojima directing. As long as they have the right people and budget and respect for the universe depending on what kind of game it is. |
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maoyen
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Of course they can. We're gonna get a new Metal Gear director that's better than Kojima. Then they will get a new studio, and make a brand new Castlevania game. Everything is okay.
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SquadmemberRitsu
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I just bought MGS Portable Ops the other day and I've put a few hours into it. The story seems okay so far but the gameplay is tedious, clunky and just not a whole lot of fun.
What I love about Peace Walker is the fact that it doesn't let the PSP hadware get in the way of things. What I don't like about Portable Ops from what I've played is that it basically feels like stripped down poor man's version of Snake Eater. Metal Gear's not Metal Gear without Kojima. Sure Rising was okay, but it's story is very much self contained and clearly takes a back seat to the action. More to the point the gameplay is nothing like the other games. There's stealth in there, but the mechanics are so terrible and unpolished that even if you don't caught you'll probably just get bored and start slicing everything to bits. I wouldn't mind a Metal Gear Rising 2. But another main game about Big Boss, Raiden or Solid Snake? No way. They can't pull it off. |
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Beatty2003
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Lol maybe in some hellish alternate reality it can continue on without Kojima, not in the real world.
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Weazul-chan
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maCSlate
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No it cannot, Mr Day, not it cannot !
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Kadmos1
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A series can indeed continue without its creator. For example, take all the James Bond books written after Ian Fleming's death. While I haven't read them, how good they are is subjective but the Fleming estate does have a say in them.
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