Hideo Kojima: “I’ll Challenge the Industry’s Ultimate Taboo!”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 13, 2010 07:49 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Eroge, Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear, Twitter
Metal Gear master Hideo Kojima has made a bombastically enigmatic twitterance in which he promises to “challenge a certain industry taboo” whilst warning that “I may have to leave the industry if I mess up.”
His missive comes by way of a tweet, proving the character limit really does unfairly favour Japanese:
My next project will challenge a certain industry taboo.
If I mess up, maybe I’ll have to leave the industry. But there’s no escaping it – I can’t pass otherwise.
I’m 47 this year, and it’s been 24 years since I started making games. Today I found a companion who’ll undertake this risk with pleasure. It’s still only one person, but it’s a good start.
Speculation appears to centre on some form of erotic venture, although there is plenty of potential for this to be something much less exciting, or simply mere bombast.
Less charitable observers speculate as to whether he might finally make one long cutscene in place of a game…
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manly men vs pretty boys?
looks can't defend you from a weapon, right?
let me play terrosist then
"Remember - no Russian."
Well, legends like him deserve to go out with a bang. Go for it Kojima!!
I loled so hard with the first pic:
[Together with you, the night scenery of Manhattan doesn't seem too bad]
At this moment, bond has became love.
Tokimeki Metal Gear
Girl's Side 1st Mission.
rofl...I know the pic is only a joke, but I wonder how many girls would actually play the game if it was real, with manly men main characters instead of typical slim pretty boys...
Tokimeki Metal Gear
Girl's Side 1st Mission
Now with double the 'Snake's Ass Shots' content.
Maybe he means a feature length movie?
Everyone knows game-to-movie adaptables inevitably fail...
Ultimate Taboo
A multi-format game that lets you play against people on other consoles?
Nah, he couldn't get away with it.
loveplus snake style
A Metal Gear with Zero Suit Samus!
I hope more of you realize that the images are fanmade.
Solid Snake vs. Duke Nukem
ZoE 3 please even though i haven't been able to play 1 and 2. mecha is always appreciated.
maybe game that wont sale when it release,its taboo for profit ,or maybe its a freegame with alot of free mods
Everything has been a dream?
Maybe itll be a spoof of Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater but instead itll be called Snake Beater
inb4 another "No russian" scene
A cross with Metal Gear/Policenaults/ZOE2 + Sex Gameplay(and action scenes obviously)= Kojima's wonderland
I wouldn't put much stock in what Kojima says. He's just a shameless liar. "This is my last Metal Gear game" Yeah, right.
What kind of ultimate taboo is he going to challenge? It'll probably be something lame and boring, which involves an hour-long fmv.
Taking a chance with something new in today's industry is a very bold move. I can't wait to see what he's planning. I hope it's good. I also hope it'll be something talked about for years to come.
He's not stupid to throw his career into the bin by making a sexually explicit game just for shits and giggles (Which, if he was really eager to do, he could just simply produce it under an alias.)
I believe he's talking of a "serious" game in which the male protagonist is openly homosexual.
obviously you missed the word speculate... no one he knows what he is about to try.
Snake!
Snake!
Snaaaaaaake!
....Oh, Snake <3~
If we take the cameltoe shots of the dying girls in MGS4 as an indication, we can expect an eroge.
If we go by his impression of MW2, then we can expect a game of terrorists.
If nothing else comes to mind, then a game in which evil wins.
Probably just another gay game. Literally.
Oh Kokima, you crazy guy.
Game is good.
nooooo he's going turn in hollywood and make MGS movie
My money is on "Gay Hero".
lol forever at the fact anyone here would actually think the images included with the post had any shred of validity or relation to the article at hand (although,at the same time, tsk tsk Artefact, stringing people along like that~ haha.)
They're obviously fanart - a blatant and amusing Tokimeki Memorial parody (take it from a tokimemo fag.) Even complete with the whole "love blooming on the battlefield" bit. Hahaha.
I wonder what Kojima is up to...
Erotic game, eh?
Too bad this won't see the light of day outside Japan. :/
He will create your own over-powerful console to only one game.
Think it cause he said "PS3 wasn't enought"...
LoL Tokimeki Metal Gear
T_T Snake....SNAKE!!!
Wait there are still taboo's left?
a GTA-like game in Tokyo in which there are actually kids and dogs around (unlike GTA), who can be killed just like adult NPC
Mario Smash Bros Melee with blood and fatalities, or anything with cute and famous characters being killed savagely
Super-realistic police investigation/action FPS game in which you're cop carrying out investigation on serial killers and/or pedophiles, with some gunfight action and many sinister places to visit
Colombine School Shooting, The Video Game
that's all I can think of for now, but Im very curious about what Kojima's thinking
That's what I'm wondering... what's a taboo in gaming? I suppose making the core gameplay as a tabletop game with dice and calculators, etc, and just making the game disc an opponent player?
Or making a random arthouse experience where the buttons continually remap? But we've come pretty close to that already - there are some surreal games out there.
It's been a long time I think since anyone made a major single player game with literally no end... there are those like Disgaea you could play forever, but you could also finish them.
Aha! Maybe he wants to make a game without an antagonist? Live as retired Snake, peacefully going about life uneventfully for some 500 hours of gameplay, or 2 years calendar time, until Foxdie surely kills him off in his sleep (I'm a few games behind, so that might not apply now... dunno.)
You know what? I would want to play as retired Snake. Oh what fun I will have in sneaking in the neighbour's backyard in a cupboard box to steal some meat lying unattended on the BBQ grill.
Didn't he talk about making a new mecha game like, a few days ago?
Smells like ZoE3 or something.
Female dating sim with MGS characters.
Taking place in High School.
on a rainy day
or pants
Without umbrellas
A game about himself.
inb4 HEAVY GEAR
I say it's high quality ero game. With like a 50mio$ budget or some shit.
Or he will make his own console, like with mindreading n shit. You like meeeeen !
Or no wait, it's about sex educational game
or naaw man Where you deal drugs with kids and become their teacher in reallife yeah like when you finish the game you are all set for life and can go meet the children in the game while still teachign a class.
can only imagine snake saying "Yaranaika"
Stealth Lolis - trained by plushy-wushy Snake and Raiden - wearing pink camouflage*cough*, assimilating enemies by using moe tactics...maybe? '_'
Mahou Shyojyou Soridu Suneiku-tan!
"assimilating" you say?
That's be quite interesting depending on how we approach the subject.