Kojima Shares Snaps Of Phil Spencer & Co. Visiting During Tokyo Game Show Week

@Kaloudz He has a vivid imagination and will go out there on ideas. On the more grounded side, his games bring in a lot of real-life tech, some even were prototypes or concepts back then are realized today. The industry needs more free thinkers like Kojima. He keeps things interesting.

I personally have a lot of admiration for what he accomplished. When I was in elementary school, Metal Gear came out. It was advertised on the back on comic books, displaying all the in-game gadgets and weapons. I was about 10 yo at the time; I'm 46 now. This guy is still at it and highly regarded. That's impressive.

Yes, MGS4 had excessive cutscenes and the boss-fights were underwhelming.

@Kaloudz
I can't say I love his games either. But, I do play them through them (except Death Stranding) and I do get that he is pushing boundaries more then any other AAA game maker. I see most of his games as just above average from a gaming perspective. But from an art perspective I see the makeup of his games as very high end abstract art.

His games add artist diversity in a good way to the AAA games industry. Not everyone will like his stuff for sure, but he brings a certain crowd to the table for each game he makes. And that crowd is unique and loyal fans that think his games are the best by far. And that crowd isn't a standard XB fanbase so hopefully he brings new gamers to play on XB too.

At the same time, I would expect his game to be a timed exclusive on XB. I would expect it comes to PS one or two years after it ships on XB. Because his core fanbase is on PS and only PS.

Hope they had a great time in Japan!!!

@themightyant Good to know about the podcast. I've yet to listen to it, added to the "play later" list and then got sidetracked by other stuff.

@Kaloudz Couldn't agree more. He is without doubt one of the most overrated people in the entire industry.

@Kaloudz For me he is more in the lines of a creator that has his best years long behind him. Regardless of which way you spin it he is still creator of MGS2 and MGS3. Even one of his weaker games (MGS4) was perhaps the single best exclusive PS3 had back then when I got that console (the overrated and overhyped exclusive games on that console are far too many). It is definitely a unique style and taste and I am also convinced he is ... eccentric, to put it mildly. But at least his games still benefit from having that handcrafted feeling of being someone's creation rather than "AI please make another GTA competitor/Halo killer/ Sad dad and son game" feel. In terms of his games I haven't played Death Stranding because it never came to Xbox and his MGS1-3 are too old and creaky now for me to have a play through (but I am intimately familiar with their story and universe). MGS4 was a blast though.

@Kaloudz
To me, all exclusives are bad. I don't care whether it is Forza, Starfield, Gears, Halo, God of War, Uncharted, TLOU, GT, Horizon, Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Duck Hunt, etc.

I do not understand why people like to buy specific hardware for specific content. I reward vendors (by purchasing their stuff), based on how broadly I can use their hardware to run or play all the software I want to use. I have no loyalty to a specific hardware platform. I have loyalty to the specs of the hardware, the form factors, and the services I can get from the hardware.

The hardware is a conduit for me to play games, run software, and subscribe to services I want. I do not care too much about the look of the hardware or what is inside. I care about it being the appropriate form factor to do what I want it to do.