No... kojima is not a hack

So do I, but we have to at least acknowledge that the quality of writing and dialogue is abysmal. I'm still gonna play Death Stranding 2 and honestly I look forward to it because despite the flaws in the original game I still had fun playing it and 2 looks like it's going to improve a lot on the gameplay.

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Cool thanks, just want to see what he’s been in for kojima to cast him.

It's a cultural thing. Americans will never understand.

his "games" are "fun"

here's another 45 minutes unskippable cutscene, don't you just love gameplay?

and here's the part of gameplay that is not a cutscene but you can't do anything anyway, don't you just love watching your characters cinematically driving a car for 30 minutes?

made movies in a college you know? could've gone pro if I wasn't a pretentious hack

mgr is the only good kojima game mainly because it is not a kojima game

I don't think you know what a hack is anon

which kojima game has unskippable cutscenes?

I don't see how that makes him a hack, honestly.

I'm glad you asked, Anonymous. I don't believe any of them do.

youtube.com/watch?v=HdzIwQhYABQ

did you rike it?

Created a really bleak and interesting world only to ruin it by adding random quirky stuff in it, this ruins the atmosphere

Konami was right

The "random quirky stuff" is what makes it good

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It's because he isn't they just don't like his style but don't know how to communicate that. Hacks are the people churning out by-the-numbers quests in RPGs no one's heard of (the mayor asks you to retrieve taxes from the bandits, do you kill them and return them to him, persuade them to leave, or hear them out and join their cause by replacing the mayor with the noble bandit leader??) or scripting simple action game plots (the colonel has murdered your wife and left you for dead, and worse yet he's got the first piece of the alien device which is actually a key to a temple on another planet that grants immortality and you have to save the world and get revenge!!) or gacha item descriptions. Kojima has interesting conceptual ideas and loves heavy theming he's just on the nose about it which people confuse as him lacking any subtlety. This is unironically true even if it seems trite.

hes italian

it's kind of crazy that they credit the celebrities that they face scan instead of the actors that actually do their voices

I already have a ps5 so i'll be getting it on release because I want to see the potty humor

30yo boomer simulator 2 sounds fun to me. I hope they bring the monster cans back though.

You really hating on a guy who played Mussolini in recent Mussolini mini-series?

There are no genius creators. People just make shit and then everyone looks way too deep into it because the want to make it what they want. So creativity trumps any illusion of artistry that people think exists.

He like, predicted drones in warfare or something. He's the voice of a generation.

why's there so many dogshit stories then. maybe it's idiots like you that write them.

writing a story is still a craft. there are correct and incorrect ways to do things. you seem like the type of person who would defend literal shit if you thought it was deep enough. so don't bother replying to me again.

He's a "hack" in the sense that the vast majority of the individual ideas or components that make up his games aren't original. He is not a hack though because how he combined these elements is ultimately more important than the source of each of them

it seems like only a small minority know this "craft"

So do I, but we have to at least acknowledge that the quality of writing and dialogue is abysmal.

Do we really have to? Kojima has a particular style of writing and dialogue. And yes, it's stilted and awkward. But would I call it categorically abysmal? Not really. His stories are good (he is one of the few writers in the business not afraid to get political), his worldbuilding is in-depth, he commits to his themes and say what you want, all of his games have a lot of memorable lines.

I mean, I get that it's easy to make fun of his style and I sometimes wish he'd be less heavy handed too but I'd argue he's still one of the better writers in the industry, simply because he actually gives a shit when a lot of other writers will just outright say that they aren't even trying because they assume no one cares about writing in games anyway.

Death stranding is one of the worst games i've ever played. Everyone raved on about the "real" game starting when you unlocked zip-lines. Zip lines are great because they allow you to circumvent the actual gameplay more than anything else

My friends, of which none have have ever actually played a Kojima game, think he's a genius and all want him to make a movie because their information of him are videos explaining the plot to Death Stranding/Zoe/MG without any of the camp, random bs, fan service etc. I don't know when this started, I feel like Kojima was understood to be a great game maker but they were cheesy games not to be taken too seriously and now everyone thinks hes some avant garde amazing writer. I've played Death Stranding twice and have tried to explain some of the stupid shit in that game and they refuse to hear me out on it and just assume "I don't get his vision" again despite them never having tried DS or even MG.

they just don't like his style but don't know how to communicate that

That's sums up half the conversations on Anon Babble. Anons are unable to differentiate between something that's genuinely bad and something that doesn't appeal to them much less articulate why they subjectively don't like something without just saying it sucks. People spend all day repetitively posting about shit like Veilguard, games that even normalfags weren't really excited for, because it's easy and there's no real risk of getting their opinions seriously challenged especially when they can just say the same thing as everybody else. They're also not expected to actually play the games which is another big hurdle for the average anon.

n-no you don't understand, the character in the game refers to herself as "princess beach" it's cringe! stop liking it!

without any of the camp, random bs, fan service etc

they were cheesy games not to be taken too seriously

I don't understand why you think a game having some cheesy moments means it isn't meant to be taken seriously at all. Do you think the plot of MGS3 wasn't meant to be taken seriously because you can make Johnny shit himself and most of the bosses are goofy weirdos? Was Snake getting tortured and his eye shot out impossible to take seriously because Volgin grabbed his dick a few minutes ago?

it's metal gear evangelion. If that makes him hack then so be it, but most people that hated the game didn't progress far enough into it to get any of the story or didn't even buy it.

It's called having a consistent tone. If all of the bosses are ridiculous cartoon characters and there's goofy shit happening constantly then it's hard to take it seriously when some other ridiculous cartoon character starts going on a dramatic monologue.
MGS5 starts with an unskippable hour long forced walking sequence. MGS1 has a few obnoxious unskippable cutscenes like waiting for Meryl to unlock the cell door, "DO YOU REMEMBER SNAKE? THE CLASHING OF BONE AND SINEW", "AN UNDYING SHADOW IN THE WORLD OF LIGHTS", and Liquid's long fucking monologue after the Metal Gear fight. One-time casuals don't have a problem with these but they're annoying on replays.
Having crosses makes it Metal Gear Evangelion? Are the crosses also devoid of any actual meaning and just there to look cool like in Evangelion?

Every MGS title is a good game that would be 10 times better if directed by somebody else.

The directing isn't the problem, it's the script. He just needs a good editor for the exposition.

didn't tolkien do something similar with his characters?

I'm not talking about the story, retard. Remove the story, it's all shit. MGS has good gameplay crippled by the terrible pacing of the campaign. Kojimaniggers really do just watch these games on Youtube

two(2) whole unskipable cutscenes in the whole game

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having a consistent tone

This is just the age old thing of jap media being perfectly fine with having a wacky cartoon gag in their otherwise serious story, and people misread that into "oh it's all just meant to be stupid so just laugh at it, it doesn't mean anything at all".

Yeah, when you're playing on Extreme difficulty for a Big Boss rank, those are really annoying. And that's not mentioning having to mash through the codec calls on the PS1 version, or the fact that there are so many normal cutscenes that even skipping through all of them takes over 30 seconds of staring at a black screen because the game has to load so many fucking cutscenes. What if it wasn't a shitty movie game and had like 5 minutes of cutscenes like a good game?

Kojima is also responsible for much of the gameplay direction and general themes, so when you say "remove kojima", you're really asking for a game with different story, gameplay, setting, etc. Kojima, for better or worse, is the source of most things that are great and awful about MGS games.

Kojima is a retard who releases lots of fun games. I'll be playing Death Stranding 2 when it comes to PC but God damn that man says dumb shit sometimes. Fuck him for that PS5 times exclusive shit too while I'm at it.

Who can say how much of the gameplay of games like MGS3 is the responsibility of Kojima? Assuming he's responsible for the brunt of it, some of his ideas are good, but the actual design is sometimes laughably terrible. Like how MGS1 ends not with a challenging stealth gauntlet, but with an hour of running back and forth through empty rooms. That's just the clearest example of the storyfaggotry getting in the way of sensible game design. Metal Gear's hanger, the final actual area of the game, having only one easily avoidable guard is such an insane problem with the game that nobody else would have done. If you had Kojima as some ideas guy with someone actually sane leading the design, you'd probably have a good game.

I have to name a character who is clearly evil and manipulates people... how should I name him... you can say he has a slime worm tongue.. that's it! Wormtongue! I'm such a genius!

Tolkien is a hack

If all of the bosses are ridiculous cartoon characters and there's goofy shit happening constantly then it's hard to take it seriously

So, you did in fact find it hard to take Snake getting tortured seriously because his dick got touched earlier? I genuinely don't get that. Real life doesn't exactly have a consistent tone. Stupid or goofy shit happens all the time but I don't think it's any harder to take grandpa being in the hospital seriously because of it. Could you not take Gandalf dying in LoTR seriously because they made a dwarf tossing joke while fleeing just moments before?

Having crosses makes it Metal Gear Evangelion? Are the crosses also devoid of any actual meaning and just there to look cool like in Evangelion?

No, Death Stranding lays on the Christian references pretty thick. People literally call Sam "The Great Deliverer" and the climax involves him returning from the dead.

Yes, that movie sucked and he is an insufferable commie irl. He literally said that playing the Mussolini role gave him PTSD.

Who can say how much of anything is from him or others unless he's gonna say he's the one who did it? It's just people assuming he does all the stuff they don't like and some mystery dev does all the good stuff.

Nevertheless, the things people like about the games are pretty commonly attributable to him and this dream of "kojima-less kojima games" is pointless. Look at what kojipro accomplished without him. Jack shit. If you didn't have him, you wouldn't have the characters, the mil-autism, all sorts of stuff. At that point you're better off just finding a new series and dev team entirely.

he doesn't know that's not really his name

Well, I guess I'm just a little fucking SALTY that the only arcade-y Japanese stealth action series that ever existed (besides Tenchu) was headed by a self-sabotaging faggot who literally admitted to wanting to destroy it multiple times. NOBODY makes games like this anymore and even MGS itself abandoned it to make a shitty Ubisoft game with MGS5

Look at what kojipro accomplished without him. Jack shit.

Hey, they made a neat looking trailer for Rising before they had to outsource it because they couldn't come up with an actual game without him.

presents his basic bitch 90s libtard politics as some profound message the world is not ready to see until he demystifies it

MGS2 is his only work with any literary merit.

You're sleeping on MGS V. I like Death Stranding but it was disappointingly apolitical by his standards.

You can have some goofy things happening and still take it seriously (I don't think Volgin grabbing Snake's dick is that great of an example here because it was actually reasonable for the character). I can't take it seriously when the super uber dramatic ending features a character named Naked Snake killing an elite WW2 female soldier named "The Boss" to acquire the rank of "Big Boss". Yeah, you can go along with it if you're really buying into the story but that just means you're going along with the camp. You can do the same thing with a fucking Sonic the Hedgehog story but that doesn't mean it's not cheesy or is actually high art

Hm, what should I call this manipulative character masking hi- oh Tolkien, you've done it again

The allegories there are too retarded and hackish, but I liked what he was going for, he's just too much of a George Lucas type retard to execute it properly.

Kojima isn't a hack because... because he uses big words I don't understand so that means he must be an intellectual

Kojima isn't a hack because.... because he has hollywood movie stars in his games so that means they are good. Famous people = good product

Kojima isn't a hack because.... because my favourite youtube e-celeb said he's good so I agree

LOL!

And then that outsourced team wrote a better story than anything in the mainline MGS games

MGS2 was good, but Rising does tell its story better and treats its protagonist's role in the main story much better as well.
MGR was written by a genius who thinks he's a retard.
The rest of the games were written by a retard who thinks he's a genius.

Kojima is a hack because the first FIVE Metal Gear games (from Metal Gear 1 to MGS3) have literally the same story, even by fucking design in MGS2's case

The script was actually still written by KojiPro.

Oh, so KojiPro actually can make good stories without Kojima and even made a better one. Amazing

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oy vey snakes the (((patriots))) which have nothing to do with us are messing with the whole thing again, you must go on shadow moses and enter pal codes to prevent a nuclear launch !

Protagonist is tasked with sneaking into an enemy stronghold to stop a group of zany tokusatsu terrorists

He learns from the terrorists' hostages/turncoats that they have have access to the world-threatening nuclear robot METAL GEAR (or the Shagohod)

He gets captured and tortured by terrorists and must escape the prison (sometimes with a guard that shits himself)

Villain drops some retarded shit about how actually the protagonist was unknowingly following the terrorists' plans all along!!

Protagonist blows up the super nuclear robot. Shortly before or after this one (or more) of his allies is revealed to be a traitor

He must confront his father/mother figure in a one-on-one showdown

Protagonist (or deuteragonist) delivers gay speech about the story's themes

Copy and paste this 5 times. Brilliant, Kojima-sensei

all I know is he gets his teeth fixed in Novi Sad and probably fucks trannies