Hideo Kojima Says Next Project Will Transcend Video Games, 'It's Almost Like a New Medium'

“ Are we all getting a little ahead of ourselves here?”

nope , let him be confident and ambitious .

This next game starts with an unskippable 5-hour cutscene, and if you suspend your console or PC during that cutscene, it will start all over again.

He kinda said similar things about death stranding. I don't think death stranding is a bad game, I just don't think it transformed anything.

@Bamila
I do think that Death Stranding is kind of genius in that it throws out hostile humans/alien/zombie/things as your primary challenge and instead opts for the environment itself being the real challenge. I am just glad we got a AAA game that was so different. It's rare to have a very "indie" sort of game with such high production values.

@Max_the_German next game will be requiring to pay a playing fee each time you run it. So you will get charged hourly rate rather than full price at the start. Instead there will be a threshold of maximum 5euro per gameplay hour.

Does that mean another mediocre snoozefest game like Death Stranding? Count me in!

I would have a guess going off his comments that this is the Xbox title that uses cloud tech.

Is this another one of those "Strand-type" comments?

Every time I hear about Kojima hyping up his next big project, all I can think of is that episode of Bojack Horseman where they were making a movie, and by trying to go so outside the box, it ended up becoming a bimonthly basket of curated snacks. The future of cinema

It will be mediocre at best

I don't want to upload my consciousness into a game just yet, Kojima.

Kojima's such a hack.

As much as i enjoyed Death Stranding, we didnt see an influx of 'strand' games flood in as Kojima assumed. Ill play whatever he makes, but take his words with a pinch of salt.

That's a dangerous thing to say. It getting never live up to the hype he's creating now. Death stranding looked amazing. But i ended up trading in both the PS4 and ps5 version because I just couldn't get in to it. It took way to much time to get to point A to B ( and if you got to B you can go back to A again) and not really doing anything in between.

Sounds like what Silent Hill is trying to do with that interactive show or whatever it's supposed to be. With how much Sony loves "Cinematic experiences" it wouldn't surprise me if they immediately jumped on board with this idea. Then again I'm sure it's every suit's dream to be able to somehow tap into both the gamer and the netflix audience at the same time with whatever Frankenstein combo they're planning.

@ThorsHammer Yeah it's certainly a moment where Kojima is a bit up his own ass. Death Stranding was a great experience but I don't see it as a "New genre."

The dudes ego is off the scale lol

What has this guy done in the last 10 years except death stranding, the most boring and slow game of all times?

Overrated in any possible way

@PegasusActual93 no, the real challenge is still the mules/terrorists and bts. The environment itself is very easy to navigate, even more so if you play online so there's already structures everywhere.

If he thinks he's gonna change the film industry, sounds like he's making an FMV game.

I wish nothing but the best for Kojima, but he is just asking for people to call him egotistical with comments like these. Regardless I'm interested to see whatever idea he has cooking even though Death Stranding was a bust for me.

@Milktastrophe
Bt's only appear sparingly, and I can count the amount of times I encountered mules probably on a single hand. Meanwhile much of the game is still balancing your equipment, charting a path, scaling and descending great slopes, surfaces and mountains and hills, braving dynamic weather patterns, crossing rivers, I can go on and on. All of that is still the focus, even with roads and ladders donated by players which still only make things slightly easier. Combat is at most 5 percent of the experience. I am replaying the game at this very moment on PS5 so all this is very fresh in my mind.

So, another game that a very small minority enjoyed?

@IAmAshCohen17 Yeah, and Phil Spencer's words at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase suggest as much too:
"We will be working together to create a brand new experience, like we've never seen before..."

It's like kojima has been let out of his chains since he left konami, I bet he was miserable back then but I like his creativity and his ambition even if it can be outlandish sometimes lol, I'm glad to have met him all those years ago 👍😁😁

@nomither6 just like I said, 😂😂😂

@huyi
Under what circumstances did you meet Kojima?

I never played death stranding, I've seen trailers. It just didn't catch my interest.

Isn't this the game he's working on with Microsoft

Controversial statement here, I don’t like Kojima’s games. I don’t get the fuss around what he does. The original MGS on PS1 was good but anything else I just find it a bit weird.

He is talking about the cloud. Even when the infrastructure is there in a decade or two I don't think it'll take off like they are hoping, as dedicated hardware will always be better.

@IAmAshCohen17 My first thought too 🤔

Well Blooper did take a new Silent Hill from him. Only fair he takes a new medium from them.

Kojima being Kojima & people still act like ‘how dare he!’. Death Stranding is one of a kind so I feel like whatever he’s up to will probably be too.

These egomaniac directors are a riot. Feel sorry for anyone who works for him, tho.

If you kill someone in your game they die in everyone else's 😬

Or if you get game over everyone gets game over 😬

Death Stranding promised the world and it ended up being a walking simulator. Sorry if I can't get too excited about Kojima placing emphasis on his own perceived talents and originality, but I learn from the past.

Geez, the dude is full of himself.. And his obsession with putting Hollywood actors in his games is so ridiculous, lol!

@themightyant

Yes, something episodic if I remember the rumors.

I mean there's hyping your game and then there's making ridiculous claims about your game.
Seems like Hideo is trying to "out-peter molyneux" the original Peter Molyneux!

Even if the games he doing now don't end up game changing I'm still excited reading stuff like this on Hideo Kojima. I don't think some people realise a man's brain like Kojimas with the freedom of his very own studio and the no Konami shackles on is super fascinating to me. Hate on Death Stranding all you want there's still nothing like it before or since, I thoroughly enjoyed it

@PegasusActual93 PlayStation experience in the UK years ago, was a suprise too, he doesn't speak English very well so I quickly translated what I wanted to say to him via Google lol, he bowed to me and singed my original copy of metal gear solid 3 it's a smart I didn't have any pictures back then smartphones wasn't so popular 😑 but I'm glad I had to chance to see him

@PegasusActual93 just because it's the majority of the game doesn't make holding the left stick in one direction a challenge.

Not the HUGEST Kojima fan by any stretch of the imagination but he certainly has my interest piqued on this.

Time for the first strand-type medium.

Isnt that what PT was supposed to be?

Rofl you only need look at hideo's eyes to know he's on one

"We'd warrant tempering expectations on that front slightly, as singular creatives have made similarly grandiose claims in the past and are worth taking with a hearty heaping of salt."

Yeah, but seriously ask yourself if there is a better candidate. This is the guy to do it if any. He's always had one foot in literature, one in film, one in video games. I realize that gives him 3 legs but I guess that just further proves my point.

Yeah Kojima needs to just be gone, maybe just move on to fully making qte click videos like the dark pictures series or something... his hubris and how it affects his games is not a good thing and I get that there's a few people that are devout Kojima fans but death stranding was just arrogant and although it was something, an experience I suppose, however.... it was just not a good video game.

I feel like Kojima will say anything from a place of ego but to me he's just a joke

Go home, kojima. You've smelled one too many of your own farts today, buddy.

@KundaliniRising333 50/50 it's going to be a Dark Pictures/Quantic Dreams games ripoff starring Norman Reedus.

@Milktastrophe
You do not hold the analog stick exclusively in one direction have you even played the game

@PegasusActual93 yes, I've played both the PS4 and PS5 versions last month. Making deliveries that don't go through bt or mule/terrorist zones are extremely easy and consists of either riding ziplines, walking towards the destination and placing ziplines, or driving. There's no threat or anything to worry about. The only challenge is when you have to deal with bts or mules/terrorists since they can actually hurt you.

@Beerheadgamer82 there hasn't been a game like it before or since because if anyone else made a game so boring it would fail miserably people only bought it because the names kojima & Sony were involved lol

I adore Kojima-san and I'm excited for anything he wants to do, but sometimes the stuff he says veers into Will Wright levels of pompousness and all I can think is, "Ok, my man, pump the brakes a bit, eh?" Always happy to be proven wrong, though!

@KundaliniRising333 I do agree with a lot of the stuff you've said before and some not so much but my god you are Mr negativity lol on almost every post. I take it you don't really enjoy any of his MGS games, the last MGS was only 7 years ago 2015 and he's done Death Stranding since then plus the cancelled PT and now has a couple games in development. I don't consider myself a HK fanboy or anyone else because if he done games I think are crap I'll say its crap regardless if enjoyed his previous games. Yes HK games has a lot of story cutscenes in his games but always has way more than enough gameplay in all his games. To say something like Dark Pictures games and QTE in his video games just says to me you've never really properly played a HK game before? because those games you've mentioned have zero similarities to any HK games

@Would_you_kindly so because you say it's boring that means it's boring OK then. I take it you didn't complete DS or didn't buy it at all or just saw someone on youtube do one delivery and then thought it was boring or you did a few hours of your own on DS then thought it to be boring and now your opinion is above all those that have completed it and enjoyed it. I've spoke to and read many people online who hated MGS but have adored DS instead

Can’t wait to haul materials to repair the road, get new shoes and deliver stuff.

It wasn’t so much the tedium of the traversal based gameplay which killed DS so quick for me. I wasn’t a great fan of it but at the same time I loved how the dual sense was used and I LOVED it the first time I got out into the open, the camera panned back and that incredibly well chosen soundtrack kicked in.

What I actually hated was the ‘I’m Kojima - this is my vision - you WILL bare witness as I eek it out painfully slowly and oh so dramatically while you marvel at how transcendentally artistic I am’ business.

Cmon - it’s a video game. I’m all for artistry and production value and new concepts and merging the intellectual with playability. But this wasn’t really any of those things tbh. It was the work of someone who is too close to the output of his own vision, and who therefore cannot take nearly enough perspective to consider the experience other people are getting of that output. Basic philosophy of all artistic creation isn’t it? You don’t own the experience of the audience; you need to put that first. He didn’t.

Hideo "what I'm doing with MGSV's Quiet character if I don't get it right I'm afraid I would have to leave the games industry" Kojima

I hope Hideo doesn't become a Peter Moleneux (sp?) type. I mean he's half way there with how he talks about his games but he's managed to get away with it thankfully. It'd suck if he became ostracised like Peter did.

I have a feeling this will be the Xbox project based on the wording used.

Personally I found Death Stranding to be dull and a chore to play. I hope Kojima can put his ego to one side and get back to making compelling games. I think people are getting a little tired of him over-hyping his work.

As long as he gets someone else to write the script, because Death Stranding was garbage.