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Kojima -- a slave to his own creation?

Category: PlayStation 3, Posted: 10/01/2007 at 04:09PM CDT by Kelly Ng, Content Writer

Kojima Sometimes stories just need to come to an end before they start getting stretched too thin and eventually ruin the entire series. * Cough * Star Wars. Well unlike, George Lucas, Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Solid series, knows when to stop.

During the E3 Media and Business Summit in July, Kojima declared Metal Gear Solid 4 would be the last Metal Gear game he that would be directly involved with.

His own beast, however, has become too successful for Konami to just let him go like that. Anthony Crouts, Konami Digital Entertainment's new marketing VP states in a recent phone interview: "I'm sure he's never going to let go of Metal Gear Solid - Trust me. [Snake's] a big character, so as a franchise I think he'll always hold it near and dear to his heart."

Crout insists that Konami will "continue to evaluate" ways to expand the franchise beyond Metal Gear Solid 4. Translation: We're going to milk this for every penny.

Sometimes an epic has to be remembered, or suffer the fate of Star Wars. I'm sure someone with the creative capacity of Hideo Kojima can create a good game without having to use Metal Gear, and the fan base will move with him. With Snake's life thinning, and the prequel already done, I think its time to close the Metal Gear book once and for all.

{Via Next-Gen]

Posted by Blairyfairy on 10/02/2007 at 02:25AM

Great series and personaly id like to see them milk it out lol

Posted by lastdinosaur on 10/02/2007 at 03:31AM

Kojima has wanted to quit on the MGS series for awhile, and it shows in some pieces of pure antagonism toward the player, especially in MGS3. What else is the system of treating your wounds if not a method to make playing the game more annoying? Hell, he only made us play as Raiden in MGS2 to piss us off. I'm all for letting him end his own work, despite my love for Solid Snake and the MGS games. At any rate, none of them could really come close to topping the original MGS for the Playstation anyway.

Posted by Dr.Aaron on 10/02/2007 at 10:17AM

Spin offs here we come!

Posted by BahamutBBob on 10/02/2007 at 07:17PM

To expand on what lastdinosaur said, IMO, all of the additions to MGS3 were annoying and unneeded. The camo and wounds and eating/stamina just didn't work for me. I don't like being forced to go into the menu multiple times in one area, it's tedious.