Hideo Kojima Says His New Game Is Now In "Crunch Time," Wonders How Much Longer He Can Stay Creative

I'll be honest, it shows. a guitar weapon is very 2000s. And only sweats will think that's still cool.

So many disrespectful comments... Hideo Kojima is a legend. If you read this Hideo, thank you for your work! Keep it up, your creative talents are loved by many MANY people around the world

Wondering how much longer he can stay cringe XD

I always enjoy and will enjoy all his games, well, except that one weird Metal Gear where you basically play around as a ninja all game long.

just hope hideo kojima just stay focus and not rush it and put his health at danger.

I’ll never understand the hatred some people have toward people who take themselves seriously.

The guy is so into himself. Maybe Kojima and Druckmann can get together and pull each others heads out of their own asses. Maybe stop trying to make an Oscar winning movie via a video game and just concentrate on making a game that has more gameplay than cutscenes - gameplay that isn't walking for hours. Might also want to go back to making one game at a time again.

Everyone in the comments: "He may have made 3 or 4 games that I love but he also made one or two that I hate so therefore he SUCKS!"

I'm going to be EXTREMELY honest. Kojima is very Eccentric and is frustratingly artsy fartsy. Like if you made a dictionary that was modern and up to date. Hideo Kojima would be right there as the first image even before the word.

I have to admit. It is super, and I'm gonna say it in bold so you understand better, SUPER refreshing having a dev who isn’t only worrying about annoying bland open-world games, or worse… SIGH*, another live-service video game, and or hero shooter.

Look I get it most of the average person (especially if you're from the US) usually wants to throw up half of their intestinal track, when it comes to more artsy individuals. But is it really worse than having some guy constantly shoving DLC content down your throat every 3 seconds, without barely room to get a gasp of air? Like by god we're getting smothered over here over this microtransaction BS. And, I have to admit. I do think his games are a pinch overrated even some of the Metal Gear Solid video games. But in this day and age, I rather pick this can of poison to huff than the other. In my humble opinion, it's better for a game to be too artsy, than be too commercially monetized and milked.

Also, let's be real we actually remember his video games. But with a lot of these heavily monetized games. I have to REALLY strain my brain to remember him.

Kojima is incredibly overrated and hasn't made a coherent game since metal gear solid 3.

I posted in another article how Kojima's plots were completely nonsensical, and someone had responded how it was a GOOD thing.

Konami had it right... people like Kojima can't reign it in enough to actually make a coherent product.

Scale back and stop making 30 hour movies.

He's been around the world. Rich. Enriched. Met ppl of all of our dreams.

"I still don't have my gladiator."

Existential meltdown 😂😂😂

He’s the single most overrated person in all of gaming. I loved Metal Gear Solid 1-4. Then he made 5 and Death Stranding… The cult of Kojima just loves breathing the same air as him, though. He’s so far up his own ass. He believes his own myth and is so pretentious. When people think something he does is dumb, he says they don’t understand it. He gives Apple responses (when people complained about the iPhone 4 losing signal, and Apple said people are holding it wrong). “Creative” doesn’t automatically equal “good.”

Man, until this game comes out, how many thumbnails are going to show that "David Bowie in Labyrinth meets Heath Ledger's joker?"

Because that's something no one needs.

Kojima farts and everyone wants to have a listen and a sniff. XD

Konami was right all along.

video game devs love crunch

I never thought Hideo Kojima was creative for he only merges what he learns around, from primary school science class to whatever movie and tv series he watched. Is character names "Solid, Liquid and Solidus" creative to him? :DDD

Death Stranding proved he is nothing special as it's not even a game that actually has a story. He better stop trying to lie himself he is a video game developer and admit he just wanna be a director of interactive cinema programs as it's who he was initially at Konami. Directors don't necessarily care about writing a story and care to make the story telling decent, they just wanna control how movie is seen. However he is not even creative in being a director as all he can do is copy what other creative directors does. He has a knack for being a copyist but too bad he cannot be a copyist in this era. :DDD

He always lacked creativity but at least Metal Gear games are fun and functional as in easy to play so all he has to care about is making games functional and fun unlike how non-functional and boring Death Stranding is as it also proves he wasn't the person made Metal Gear games decent but he gotta have learnt how to develop a decent fun game from his decades in Metal Gear franchise but the issue is he doesn't wanna develop a decent fun game despite his experience lol. I have no idea who still believes he can develop video games at this point for Death Stranding should be a wake up sign that scream Hideo Kojima doesn't even wanna develop video games lol.

At this point, I truly don't care about anything that Kojima has to say or do.

Now he just mentioned his studio is in "crunch time" for his next game so their is going to be outrage right?