>'I’m going to be very honest, we have been testing the game with players and the results are too good. They like it too much. That means something is wrong; we have to change something.'
>According to Kojima, "If everyone likes [your work], it means it’s mainstream. It means it’s conventional. It means it’s already pre-digested for people to like it."

I KNEEL!

Cringe

least obvious paid shill article

>It's SUPPOSED to be bad!

based and true artist pilled
e33sloppers could never

>>712916936 (OP)
Damn he's good.

Such a visionary

>>712916936 (OP)
Reads like an Onion article.

Kojima invented the too good it's bad.
A true auteur.

>>712916936 (OP)
Never understood why people praised this guy. He seems like an asshole who smells his own farts. Kojima hasn't directed any good games since MGS 3.

It's an insecure way of pre-empting middling reviews by going on the record to say you made the game worse "intentionally"
It also plays into this fart sniffing image of an auteur that Kojima so desperately craves and is extremely on brand for le creatividad

>>712916936 (OP)
what an asshole. nobody likes tryhards
so what, he will shift it from good to mediocre? I mean more than he always is

>>712916936 (OP)
He is surrounded with retards that can not say "no" to him. And he knows this. Good for him. I liked DS1, the parts after mountains was great.

>>712918334
>journos played the game for 30 hours at a preview event and they were all EXTREMELY POSITIVE
What do you say now?

>>712918275
Hes asian george lucas. The less control he has over the product, the better it turns out. Up until mgs4 he had tard wranglers making sure he didn't shart all over the games. After, hes basically been ouroboros tubgirling himself with his own hype. Thats why mgs4, 5, and death stranding were such fucking garbage

>people who didn't play DS still think it was a bad game or Kojima "fucked up"
MGSV is really good as well, for that matter.
You only think MGS1 through 3 were flawless because you were like 12 when you played them. He has *always* written terrible dialogue

>>712916936 (OP)
Reminder
only Americans hated death stranding 1
only Americans will hate death stranding 2

>>712918887
Death Stranding is nothing more than postman Pete simulator. If I want to deliver packages I just get a job instead.

>>712916936 (OP)
>openly states the only reason he's making Metal Gear Solid is because he wants to make movies and can't make it in Hollywood
>openly embraces the fact that people praise the game being more about cutscenes and conversations than actually playing it
>trolls the fuck out of his faggotry fans in MGS2
>stated he had no choice because his life was in danger daily from death threats
>proceeds to claim this while ignoring everyone asking for proof
>MGS3 and MGS4 literally have 3-4 hours of gameplay at most if you're not a shitter but over 3x time as cutscenes/codec calls

So tell me, why do you believe this man?

>Death Stranding 1 came out
>Uh why would you put all these guns in the game if using them means the players will get penalized by void out mechanic
>YU DON UNDUSTRAND GAIJEENS! YU SUPOSE TO USE DA ROPE NOT DA SUTICKKU!!!!!!
>His shills all came out and defend this retarded gameplay design
>DS 2 gameplay trailer
>Now there are more actions, can use weapons without penalty
>Kojimbo himself and his shills act like they never say all those retarded rope & stick defense for the lack of action in the first one
>mfw

>>712918574
I hate retards that parrot this line about George, there was absolutely no point in the development of any of his Star Wars films where he didn’t have full creative control over the final product. I challenge anyone to find a single source that refutes what I just said. Ditto for Kojima, please adduce evidence demonstrating he was tard-wrangled or “told no” for any of his games. Yes, he listens to feed back from his staff/play-testers, but that’s quite distinct from some notion that there’s a cabal of editors/collaborators who were the REAL creative masterminds behind his most palatable works.

>>712919464
The action is mediocre. The game needs more difficult hills to climb.

>>712918887
>only americans have good taste
Based

>>712919464
>Expedition 33 fan criticizing a mediocre pretentious game
The irony

>>712918565
Game cancelled, go back to work on the game for 2 more years until nobody likes it anymore

>>712919813
33 devs never smell their own fart like Kojimbob

>>712919990
>33 devs never smell their own fart
Ahahahahahahaha

>>712920038
show me an article, an interview, or a video of 33 devs saying something like their game is a new genre, they are visionary, or they are elevating gaming to a new height.

I will now pre-accepting your concession, because I know you can't find any.

>>712919464
E33 tranny, you will lose against DS2.

>>712920960
Absolutely. There is no way Geoff won't make DS2 win.

>>712921531
Yeah like he let DS1 win, right? fucking retard, Geoff has no say in which game wins. If DS2 wins it was fair and square and not because he's best buddies with Kojima

>>712921962
>Geoff has no say in which game wins
Wuh??? Do trannies really??!?

>>712921962
>Yeah like he let DS1 win, right?
It won "best soundtrack" while most of the music in that game are not original OST and was just from Kojumbab's spotify playlist

>>712922905
Fucking retard, it also had an original score composed by Ludvig Forssell, that's why he was the one accepting the trophy. You smugfaced zoomerfucks always think you know everything when in reality you don't know fucking jackshit

>>712918275
Metal Gear 1 was a neat NES game but since MGS1 for the PS1, he has been hard carried by Yoshi Shinkawa's concept art.

I must say that the game received rave reviews, especially in Europe and Japan. Here in the United States, however, we have had stronger criticisms. Perhaps it is a difficult game to understand for a certain type of critic and audience. Americans are great fans of first-person shooters and Death Stranding isn't one, it flies higher.

I always try to create new things and disputes and discussions are fine, but it must be said that the Italians or the French have a different artistic sensibility that allows them to appreciate this kind of very original product, not only in video games but also in cinema.

>>712921962
2019 had so much competition Geoff couldn't give DS1 all the awards without ruining his awards' reputation.
2025 is very different; a year full of nothing but bad games so DS2 can get all the awards gifted to it and no one wil bat an eyelid

>>712919571
Gary Kurtz (producer for the first two movies)
Has been citied numerous times as having several creative disagreements with Lucas.
Which is why when he stepped out on return of the Jedi Lucas started adding garbage shit like the ewoks

>>712924176
retard

>>712916936 (OP)
Considering the average playtester, he is not wrong.
I would be worried if all sub 80 IQ players cleared and was barely challenged.

>>712923692
The rose tinted glasses for american must have come off at some point.

>>712916936 (OP)
"too good" morally
as in, not struggling enough to make the right choice

I lost interest the moment he started scanning people to put in his games. It just looks shitty to me and obviously it's some sort of fetish to him to scan whoever is currently in the entertainment news cycle and use them as a puppet for his gratification.

The entire thing is more than a bit creepy

>>712924336
Name five good games released this year.

>>712924726
Jackie Chan

>>712919464
Unironically great design and very common in Kojima games.

He loves introducing weapons as a mechanic that trivializes the entire game. But there is always a drawback.

Usually in MGS you simply don't get as many good boy points as you would without lethal weapons. And there's also the ludo dissonance in how Snake is not supposed to murder other soldiers needlessly. These psychological elements are usually enough to make most people abdicate from lethal guns.

And that is why it is brilliant. If a game just doesn't give you weapons, you keep thinking it is lazy design and it could have had them. See: Subnautica.

On the other hand, if a game gives you weapons, but puts you through the protagonist's moral dilemmas and lets you consciously choose to NOT use weapons... It is kino.

>>712925915
>He loves introducing weapons as a mechanic that trivializes the entire game. But there is always a drawback.
>Usually in MGS
There is no draw back in going lethal in MG 1-2, and original release of MGS 1.
And non-lethal option is stronger, gameplay wise, than lethal one in all MGS. Knocked out enemies don't raise alarm when they are discovered. Enemies don't get suspicious if you poke them full of tranq darts either.

>>712923240
>sperg out at the truth
I accept your concession, Kajimbanvich's little shill.

>>712916936 (OP)
This reminds me of all the articles and magazines writing about how Death Stranding was so deep and intellectual that no one but Kojima could truly understand it. Norman Reedus even gave multiple interviews saying Kojima was a genius.

>>712919571
Kojima literally got fired from Konami because he was causing too much of a problem and they didn't want to tard wrangle him anymore.

>>712924330
Point me to a single creative contribution Kurtz made to episodes 4-5. You can’t because there isn’t one. He was a producer, his job was to secure funding for the movies and make sure they staid within their budget. And he didn’t step out over “creative disagreements”, he was in fact fired because production on Empire was a shit show, in large part because of his budgetary negligence. All this is to say is that Kurtz can go on a retroactive press tour decades later and cry foul about “creative differences” all he wants , it has no bearing on facts or reality.

>>712927453
>causing too much of a problem
>when MGSV made money
No, face it Konami simply went full retard. What was their plan after firing Kojima? Oh right to abandon gaming entirely. It was apparent they would go this way when they also cancelled PT

>>712927453
Yeah he was over budget and over schedule this one time on his very ambitious highly systems based open world stealth project which his team was developing alongside a cutting edge game engine. How is this evidence that higher ups were “tard wrangling” him vis-a-vis his design or narrative ideas, this tells us nothing of the sort. They were bitching about their investment, not what specifically Kojima was doing with that investment.

>>712916936 (OP)
Hasn't he been doing that for decades? (His games are mid (boring))