On a serious note, are there any other developers in the gaming industry that are more prominent as of late than Kojima?
It seems like every week there is another article with snippets of a much longer conversation that has transpired being thrown out. I understand the gaming media outlets are doing this on purpose to get views/clicks but still it doesn’t detract from the initial question that was posed.
There is no doubt in my mind that Kojima will be remembered as one of the great videogame developers years from now (he already is considered one in many circles now.) but is the reason he is so heavily put on rotation because he is such a controversial figure to many?
Or is it simply because all the other game developers out there today have no personality (or ego depending on your point of view.) or just don’t play as much an integral role in the development and production of their respective games?
Regardless of what anyone personally thinks of the man it is undeniable to refute his claim to having a "more than average" role in our gaming culture. I mean c’mon, everyone in this comment section will no doubt know the guy’s name (That's because it's in the title of the article Ninja...) in addition to some other extraneous information about him. The same can’t be said for 99% of the other figures out there in the land of videogames.
Hate him or love him it’s hard to argue with the statement that he must be doing something right to garner such widespread attention, regardless of whether that attention is good or bad.
Is Little Big Planet 3 more or less the same as 1 or 2? Either way I'm going to check it out due to it being free but still would be nice to have a "heads up" before I download it.
I hope for Nintendo's sake that everything Takahashi said is true. If so that would give the Switch a huge advantage over it's predecessor not just from a technical perspective but also in the minds of 3rd party developers.
LOL! I must have missed that one (or conveniently blocked it out.).
I remember people saying there were tons of different things/Easter eggs to find. Hell, some people were devoting months upon months to finding them all, and it was just a demo, lol.
Since my introduction to the survival horror genre I have never and I do mean EVER played a game/demo/piece of gaming entertainment quite like the PT demo.
I’ve been there since the first jump scare of the Resident evil series (the dogs through the window.), treaded carefully through waves of blinding mist with the groans of unspeakable entities only a few feet away in Silent Hill and more recently run through the hallways with a psychotic murderer behind me in outlast, but all pale in comparison to what I felt playing that demo.
How do I know this? How can I make an objective and reliable comparison to justify my rational for this statement? … Simple.
When I played PT I was actually sweating. Never have I done that in a game before or since.
I don’t know whether it was the foreboding imagery or the eerie soundtrack beating against my eardrums but something was markedly different. Somehow that demo tapped in psychologically to some kind of primitive fear.
There has to be something said about seeing a truly horrifying figure just a few feet away from you, just standing there, waiting for you before the lights turn off or the sounds of a radio broadcast playing only to be interrupted by a gravelly voice saying “Don’t look behind you.”
That demo was littered with tons of moments like that. I can't even imagine if I had played through it in my younger ninja years. I probably would have ended up more messed up than I already am.
Truth is if they actually made it into a full game today I’m not even sure I could bring myself to play it, lol.
@thetruegamer28: Personally, I'm hoping it does well. Many of the articles about the game that have come out (especially over the last 2 months.) have piqued my interest. Would also be nice to see a new IP take off and possibly spawn a franchise. That is however IF it is deserving of that kind of recognition.
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