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Kojima: "I Hope The World Comes Together And We Can All Live In Peace"

The Death Stranding designer believes in a brighter tomorrow.

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Iconic video game designer Hideo Kojima is calling for world peace. In an interview during his acceptance of the New York Game Awards' Legend Award, Kojima said the world remains divided, just as it was before he and his team made Death Stranding.

Part of the reason he wanted to make Death Stranding was to help bring people together. During the planning stages of Death Stranding, Kojima remarked that the world was becoming increasingly divided and people were becoming isolated from one another, and he observed that this trend has only continued in the time after Death Stranding was released.

In the future, Kojima said he hopes people can make peace and come together.

"The world was becoming divided. People were becoming isolated. So we made Death Stranding," Kojima said. "Then, after it was released, the coronavirus hit, Brexit became a reality, and there was another [US] presidential election. The world is still very divided. But I hope that people can come together, like they do in the game. I hope the world comes together and that we can all live in peace."

The full interview is fascinating and illuminating, with Kojima touching on numerous other subjects like next-gen consoles, the first game he ever worked on, and what his late mother might have thought about Death Stranding. Check it out in the video above.

This is just one of the high-profile interviews coming out of the New York Game Awards festivities. Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will appear alongside former executives from PlayStation and Xbox for a roundtable interview soon.

Kojima Productions is working on a new game now, but it remains to be seen if it's a Death Stranding sequel or something else entirely.

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For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

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ahh the new Kojima hype begins.

Shouldn't be long for the next cryptic game announcement.

I do like his work however,

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Nice thought, but will never happen.

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I Agree with him. This world is all about power. The political world meaning the far left, has this world by our throats. These want socialism just like China. But Kojima is right. We, the people, need to come to peace. It can be done if we can stop the Dems from gaining power.

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@liquidsky74: Might want to pay attention to where you're getting your information from. What you're talking about is stuff that QAnon promotes, which is a crackpot conspiracy group that has the world going nuts right now.

Don't believe a word of it. You'd do yourself good to read up about them on places like Wikipedia, which does in fact provide 'facts', unlike the fake news that QAnon constantly "provides", conveniently without proof nor accountability.

But wait!- they told you to avoid "big tech", right? And Wikipedia is a bunch of liars now, right? Well, they're not, that's what QAnon wants you to think. They want you to only trust THEM. They happen to only provide lies; "Predictions", endless predictions that just so happen to NEVER come true, but people just keep on following them, like idiots. Bunch of lemmings eager to jump off the next stupidity cliff to their untimely deaths. (figuratively or literally, we will have to wait and see on that one..)

So yeah buddy, if you didn't get the gist of it already, Biden, tech companies, etc. are not your enemy. You've been lied to and are unfortunately just another gullible victim of a huge scheme to control folks in all the wrong ways. It's too late for some to get out of it it seems, but you can do yourself a favor, if you really try. Save yourself.

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@armos: you are a shining example of a drive buy media consumer. I’m guessing that the majority of your political and social awareness comes from a YouTube clip of Bill Maher or the Daily Show and a few visits to CNN.

You are the reason why democracy fails, and you are living lesson as to how we collapse into a Soviet style society.

I hope you find some clarity and realize that you have been lied to, because your anger and hatred and emotional responses will lead to more of your freedoms being extinguished and the future generations from existing in a society where people are referred to as numbers instead of humans

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@armos: hey thanks for your awesome advice. This is a videogame website And your notification isn't helpful.

And now I am going to some things that you won't want to hear. Our media perpetuate this very kind of arguing in which we are engaging. And I'm actually reluctant to say what I'm about to say.

Your facts come with no information to substantiate what you're saying. I was taught the art of critical thinking in college. Critical and analytical thinking has no room for feelings or unsubstantiated thoughts. I could give a whole lecture on this, but it won't change anything here.

Show me the research and the videos that show that your info is accurate. Last I checked, big media uses an exorbitant amount of faulty reasoning and inaccurate statements.

In the mean time, may I suggest you read up on Agenda21. And read up on Benghazi. Or read about how other countries are sudden getting foreign aid. Oh, and did you like how Isis suddenly came out of hiding 1-2 days after our prince of peace president took office? And let's not get into how our gasoline was suddenly terminated. I hope you don't need to buy too much gas. I hope you have a stable job. And honestly, I do hope you don't get this damned virus. Operation warp speed put the vaccines out to us, but now it's stalled. No vaccines being replenished until Summer? May I also recall how everyone said Trump should inject ourselves with bleach? Please refer to the original footage of what he said. If you listen and not just hear what he says, you will see that big tech and media are putting out propaganda to make you think the way you do. Blondly believing Wikipedia is a scary thing. I hope you do your research to see that it is in fact, not reliable.

Buddy, I don't give a rats ass about your opinion. You're not going to change my mind and I'm not going to change yours.

I think as Americans, we need to get back to the basic value of agreeing to disagree without getting nasty about it.

Ultimately, I hope we all do our own research and find middle ground so we can stop insulting and hating each other.

Peace.

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@liquidsky74: the guy you are arguing with is a progressive moron who think that’s the Soviet Union is a great society. **** him.

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@liquidsky74: "We can all unite in our shared humanity, if we just fight against The Other!"

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Whilst I agree with the ideal it just won't be this way unless we abolish concepts of ownership such as money and international borders. Despite Corona Virus proving that humankind could be brought to its knees people haven't changed their outlook at all and the same nastiness against their fellow man continues. Petty trolling on social media continues, eBay scalpers are still trying to fleece people and even politicians have (allegedly) incited violence.

"Some rise by sin and others by virtue fall." William Shakespeare

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In an ideal world, we'd all be like Mario and Princess Beach.

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I wonder how our circumstances would impact his next core.

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I like how he badmouths Trump, but the second Pedophile Elect Biden steals the inauguration, he's all sunshine and rainbows. That makes one of us who is optimistic, Kojima.

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@defiler: Just can't let it go huh?

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@defiler: I was really disappointed you guys didn't do anything. All talk, huh?

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@rufus_: That evil asian white supremacist!

Lol. How do you people get through life? Every day must be a total struggle with your simple mind.

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Kojima Peace Simulator announced!

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I find it funny that he says this when his game was so divisive among gamers.

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This sounds like a joke, like he’s an in-character comedian parodying a narcissistic game designer who sincerely expected his game to unite the world.

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