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I added the "Career in game development" header to break up the article some, and cleaned up the introductory summary. Specifically:
It's a matter of taste, but I think it would be good to relocate the second paragraph elsewhere and leave the introductory summary as a single paragraph. -- C-squared 19:11, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
"It is the common misconception that Kojima originally said he would not direct, but later in the June 3rd Issue of the Japanese Famitsu Weekly Gaming Magazine, he clarified that his earlier statement that "he will focus more on producing" was misinterpreted as stepping down from the Director position"
I very much challenge that, their is no misconception, Kojima was VERY vocal about his disinterest in continuing the Metal Gear Solid franchise after MSG2. He designed the basic concept for Metal Gear Solid 3 and was seeking a director to take over the project but got annoyed that no one would rise to the challenge because of the vast change from MGS1 and 2.
I think this quote sums it up quite nicely;
"Kojima says he's ready to move on from Metal Gear. He's been saying this since the middle of the production of Metal Gear Solid 2. This isn't to say he wants the series to end - he very much wants it to stay alive. He understands the significance of Solid Snake, the first manly man's hero of videogames. "I want Solid Snake to live on, like James Bond: different actors, different directors, same feeling." Yet his team pulled him back at the start of Metal Gear Solid 3. They were afraid that, without him, they'd pull out an uninspired sequel, like a Resident Evil sequel with more, bigger, faster zombies. He mentions Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki, who is pulled back into making another movie every time he announces his retirement. Kojima doesn't want that to happen to him. "Put it in your article, in big, bold capital letters," Kojima instructs me: "'NO MORE METAL GEAR FOR HIDEO KOJIMA'. Then I can be free.""
[1]
Clearly he either had a change of heart or Konami gave him a bigger bag of Gold to make more games. Clearly to cover his past comments he said that he was misunderstood. So I suggest the line be changed to something like "After completeing Metal Gear Solid 2, Kojima openly opposed the idea of working on another Metal Gear Solid game but later retracted it in the 3rd Issue of the Japanese Famitsu Weekly Gaming Magazine claiming his original comments were misunderstood." This way all the information is their and the reader can read in between the lines themselve whether he REALLY didnt want to make another MSG game or really was originally misunderstood (but you dont get much clearer then "NO MORE METAL GEAR FOR HIDEO KOJIMA" ;) ). - UnlimitedAccess 17:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
I am researching info on the Meme Gene Scene themes of the MGS Series. I wonder if anyone could give me some ideas on where to find some information on these concepts as they relate to the games. The research is going to a report I am doing for school, but if it is sufficient I may add it as some extra details for the Metal Gear Solid articles. Thank you for any help you are willing to offer.
HiddenMask
15:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Considering that MGS3: Subsistence is now out and AC!D2 is nearing its North American release, that section is a bit outdated. Reorganising it to reflect that should be something to consider. I'd be bold and do it myself but I fear I may make things worse in the process since the article is in a decent state, outdated somewhat, but still decent. 4.224.249.141 21:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hideo Kojima denies that Uwe Boll should make/direct MGS movie.
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/03/kojima-on-uwe-boll-its-impossible/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.209.241.7 ( talk) 11:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Someone wrote "Kojima begged for Solid Snake to be in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl", so I did a little rewrite to make it sound more...neutral, although I'm not entirely sure if it is even worth mentioning in the article, consider it's deletion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.78.15.99 ( talk) 15:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I've put together a Hideo Kojima navbox that is intended to be used on his games (minus the Metal Gear series which has it's own infobox) any thoughts?
The infobox is here
†he Bread 07:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it is important to the general viewer of this person's wikipedia page to know that he has received death threats if he wasn't involved with the upcoming game MGS4. link here...
http://www.ps3today.com/Blogs/News/hqs/blr_957.aspx
I am aware that this is displayed on the game's page itself... but it seems too important to leave it there alone since Kojima is one of the most respected video game creators of all time next to Shigeru Miyamoto and Hironobu Sakaguchi (I don't even like his games and I can admit this much). That someone would care enough about a video game to do such a thing I think is quite something in itself, because I can recall no other person in the game industry that has caused such a fervor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.20.142.137 ( talk) 21:45, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Deleted comment about SSBB "selling millions" as it was not really relevant to Kojima or his involvement with the game. It would be more appropriate in the article about the game itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.181.246.50 ( talk) 02:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
"When he was little the Hideo family moved to a small city called Shiraski. Just as quickly, his family soon moved to the city of Kansai." I don't believe either of these statements. Shiraski is not the name of a Japanese city, and it doesn't sound like a Japanese name at all. Kansai is certainly a Japanese name, but it's not a city - it is a whole region, several prefectures, centred on Kyoto. Maproom ( talk) 23:56, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
“ | At a very young age Kojima moved with his family from Tokyo to the small city of Shiraski, where he enjoyed the ocean and the nature surrounding his home. Then his life took a different turn when his family moved to Kansai. Missing nature, he became withdrawn, and began playing on his own. The he turned to television, "My parents forced me to watch television since they didn't have time for me," Kojima explains. "I watched everything obsessively: entertainment, cooking shows, nature and wildlife, anime - the subject didn't matter." | ” |
changed the release date to TBA as no official announcement of its release date has been revealed and IMDB has it listed as 2009. I can find no source that says 2008 plus we surely would've heard something more on this by now if it was releasing this year. NinjaRooster ( talk) 04:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Users from 4chan are spewing their usual antics and editing a fake death for Kojima. Just a warning for the more diligent users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.6.26.65 ( talk) 19:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
From [4], he was accused of plagiarism of stealing the work of Georgy Sviridov. How are we going to to put that in? SYSS Mouse ( talk) 15:34, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Kotaku -- 82.19.97.172 ( talk) 23:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I think I might have skimmed through it, but should THIS be added in the article? -- Gouryella ( talk) 05:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h223/jleelink/Untitled-1.png —Preceding unsigned comment added by JleeLink ( talk • contribs) 08:03, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Should information reguarding Suda 51 and Hideo Kojima's collaboration ' Project 'S'' be added? Currently information on the project can only be found on the Suda 51 page. It is easy to write this project off as nothing more than rumour, as it was first mentionned in a jovial comment at a party thrown by Grasshopper Manufacture that Hideo Kojima attended, but the fact that Suda 51 refers to it as a planned game in interviews and that it was mentionned the two directors are having meetings to discuss the project in an official Kojima Productions audio report suggests that the project is indeed real, and is planned to move ahead sometime in the future.
Should the project be left off the Kojima page until we have more information on it? Putting it up now on such a popular page as Hideo Kojima's could mean references to Project S will be removed from Wikipedia by a less informed user, as information on the project is hard to come by, but as I said earlier, it does exist.
Do you think Project S should be mentioned?
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/ hmm that might be an S such as project S....-Greylynx —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
24.6.165.197 (
talk)
01:05, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Why does Project S redirect to this article when there is no mention of Project S on it? Kouban ( talk) 06:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/ hmm that might be an S such as project S....-Greylynx and yes I personally copied it down here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.165.197 ( talk) 03:30, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Besides the ones mentioned on this site, were there any games that used to be listed on the Japanese official site for Kojima Productions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vnisanian2001 ( talk • contribs) 13:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I added this section for obvious reasons -- it's importance to his life as a video game developer.
However, I cannot be arsed adding all the lil' links and shit, so somebody might just wanna give that a bit of attention (or I might get around to it later... I dunno; whichever comes first).
Cheers, lads. Tamashi 7 ( talk) 22:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Did Kojima-san go to a Kousen or a Daigaku, it just mentions College, a kousen is more like a college in England which is in between Highschool and University(in fact people go into a kousen about the same time we finish Highschool at 15 a year before us), or is the reference of college refering to University or a Daigaku. If he went to a Daigaku then the word should be University. I have done a search on the Japanese entry and he attended a Daigaku so I will be changing the word to better reflect. -Gav 01:10 BST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.242.207.123 ( talk) 00:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
The image I submitted was deleted...why I don't know..it's a simple picture of Hideo. -NLUT
Why is the only picture not even Hideo Kojima but in its description says it is? It says he was born in 1963 and yet the picture is of a 20s something guy. Fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.168.106.177 ( talk) 03:03, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
http://games.ign.com/articles/122/1221499p1.html Axem Titanium ( talk) 19:18, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
In my last edit message I stated I would be adding details about Hideo leaving Konami, however it seems this has already been done. Will try and keep it updated though. AnthonyJ Lock ( talk) 07:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
I made the following edits that were reverted. I believe they should be restored, and here is why:
1. "He is the director of
Kojima Productions, which he originally founded in 2005,"
2. "while featuring its version of the originally planned ending".
3. "Initially wanting to be an artist or illustrator, he was often discouraged by societal norms of Japan which favored finding safe, well paying jobs and was also discouraged because his uncle was also an artist but suffered from financial difficulties."
Ground Zero | t 10:45, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
If there is no objection to these edits, then, I will restore them. Ground Zero | t 21:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I know this might be kind of picky, but should we update the picture? The current one is 7 years old and since he's been sporting a beard, he's got quite a different look. 2003:E0:6F20:3F47:7828:C6A0:983D:AC97 ( talk) 15:58, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi there!
I'm going to be spending some time over the next week on bringing the article up to the standards of WP:VG, with a long-term eye towards pushing it through GAN. I'll be updating this section with what I'm changing, why I'm changing it, and occasionally asking if anyone has any feedback. If anyone wants to assist, I'd really appreciate if you replied here, tagging me, so we can coordinate, rather than engaging in an edit war.
In Kojima's "The Creative Gene" page 39 he tells the a story about playing Baseball with his other son. so he has more than one child. Sa674 ( talk) 12:23, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
I added the "Career in game development" header to break up the article some, and cleaned up the introductory summary. Specifically:
It's a matter of taste, but I think it would be good to relocate the second paragraph elsewhere and leave the introductory summary as a single paragraph. -- C-squared 19:11, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
"It is the common misconception that Kojima originally said he would not direct, but later in the June 3rd Issue of the Japanese Famitsu Weekly Gaming Magazine, he clarified that his earlier statement that "he will focus more on producing" was misinterpreted as stepping down from the Director position"
I very much challenge that, their is no misconception, Kojima was VERY vocal about his disinterest in continuing the Metal Gear Solid franchise after MSG2. He designed the basic concept for Metal Gear Solid 3 and was seeking a director to take over the project but got annoyed that no one would rise to the challenge because of the vast change from MGS1 and 2.
I think this quote sums it up quite nicely;
"Kojima says he's ready to move on from Metal Gear. He's been saying this since the middle of the production of Metal Gear Solid 2. This isn't to say he wants the series to end - he very much wants it to stay alive. He understands the significance of Solid Snake, the first manly man's hero of videogames. "I want Solid Snake to live on, like James Bond: different actors, different directors, same feeling." Yet his team pulled him back at the start of Metal Gear Solid 3. They were afraid that, without him, they'd pull out an uninspired sequel, like a Resident Evil sequel with more, bigger, faster zombies. He mentions Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki, who is pulled back into making another movie every time he announces his retirement. Kojima doesn't want that to happen to him. "Put it in your article, in big, bold capital letters," Kojima instructs me: "'NO MORE METAL GEAR FOR HIDEO KOJIMA'. Then I can be free.""
[1]
Clearly he either had a change of heart or Konami gave him a bigger bag of Gold to make more games. Clearly to cover his past comments he said that he was misunderstood. So I suggest the line be changed to something like "After completeing Metal Gear Solid 2, Kojima openly opposed the idea of working on another Metal Gear Solid game but later retracted it in the 3rd Issue of the Japanese Famitsu Weekly Gaming Magazine claiming his original comments were misunderstood." This way all the information is their and the reader can read in between the lines themselve whether he REALLY didnt want to make another MSG game or really was originally misunderstood (but you dont get much clearer then "NO MORE METAL GEAR FOR HIDEO KOJIMA" ;) ). - UnlimitedAccess 17:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
I am researching info on the Meme Gene Scene themes of the MGS Series. I wonder if anyone could give me some ideas on where to find some information on these concepts as they relate to the games. The research is going to a report I am doing for school, but if it is sufficient I may add it as some extra details for the Metal Gear Solid articles. Thank you for any help you are willing to offer.
HiddenMask
15:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Considering that MGS3: Subsistence is now out and AC!D2 is nearing its North American release, that section is a bit outdated. Reorganising it to reflect that should be something to consider. I'd be bold and do it myself but I fear I may make things worse in the process since the article is in a decent state, outdated somewhat, but still decent. 4.224.249.141 21:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hideo Kojima denies that Uwe Boll should make/direct MGS movie.
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/03/kojima-on-uwe-boll-its-impossible/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.209.241.7 ( talk) 11:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Someone wrote "Kojima begged for Solid Snake to be in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl", so I did a little rewrite to make it sound more...neutral, although I'm not entirely sure if it is even worth mentioning in the article, consider it's deletion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.78.15.99 ( talk) 15:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I've put together a Hideo Kojima navbox that is intended to be used on his games (minus the Metal Gear series which has it's own infobox) any thoughts?
The infobox is here
†he Bread 07:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it is important to the general viewer of this person's wikipedia page to know that he has received death threats if he wasn't involved with the upcoming game MGS4. link here...
http://www.ps3today.com/Blogs/News/hqs/blr_957.aspx
I am aware that this is displayed on the game's page itself... but it seems too important to leave it there alone since Kojima is one of the most respected video game creators of all time next to Shigeru Miyamoto and Hironobu Sakaguchi (I don't even like his games and I can admit this much). That someone would care enough about a video game to do such a thing I think is quite something in itself, because I can recall no other person in the game industry that has caused such a fervor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.20.142.137 ( talk) 21:45, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Deleted comment about SSBB "selling millions" as it was not really relevant to Kojima or his involvement with the game. It would be more appropriate in the article about the game itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.181.246.50 ( talk) 02:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
"When he was little the Hideo family moved to a small city called Shiraski. Just as quickly, his family soon moved to the city of Kansai." I don't believe either of these statements. Shiraski is not the name of a Japanese city, and it doesn't sound like a Japanese name at all. Kansai is certainly a Japanese name, but it's not a city - it is a whole region, several prefectures, centred on Kyoto. Maproom ( talk) 23:56, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
“ | At a very young age Kojima moved with his family from Tokyo to the small city of Shiraski, where he enjoyed the ocean and the nature surrounding his home. Then his life took a different turn when his family moved to Kansai. Missing nature, he became withdrawn, and began playing on his own. The he turned to television, "My parents forced me to watch television since they didn't have time for me," Kojima explains. "I watched everything obsessively: entertainment, cooking shows, nature and wildlife, anime - the subject didn't matter." | ” |
changed the release date to TBA as no official announcement of its release date has been revealed and IMDB has it listed as 2009. I can find no source that says 2008 plus we surely would've heard something more on this by now if it was releasing this year. NinjaRooster ( talk) 04:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Users from 4chan are spewing their usual antics and editing a fake death for Kojima. Just a warning for the more diligent users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.6.26.65 ( talk) 19:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
From [4], he was accused of plagiarism of stealing the work of Georgy Sviridov. How are we going to to put that in? SYSS Mouse ( talk) 15:34, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Kotaku -- 82.19.97.172 ( talk) 23:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I think I might have skimmed through it, but should THIS be added in the article? -- Gouryella ( talk) 05:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h223/jleelink/Untitled-1.png —Preceding unsigned comment added by JleeLink ( talk • contribs) 08:03, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Should information reguarding Suda 51 and Hideo Kojima's collaboration ' Project 'S'' be added? Currently information on the project can only be found on the Suda 51 page. It is easy to write this project off as nothing more than rumour, as it was first mentionned in a jovial comment at a party thrown by Grasshopper Manufacture that Hideo Kojima attended, but the fact that Suda 51 refers to it as a planned game in interviews and that it was mentionned the two directors are having meetings to discuss the project in an official Kojima Productions audio report suggests that the project is indeed real, and is planned to move ahead sometime in the future.
Should the project be left off the Kojima page until we have more information on it? Putting it up now on such a popular page as Hideo Kojima's could mean references to Project S will be removed from Wikipedia by a less informed user, as information on the project is hard to come by, but as I said earlier, it does exist.
Do you think Project S should be mentioned?
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/ hmm that might be an S such as project S....-Greylynx —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
24.6.165.197 (
talk)
01:05, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Why does Project S redirect to this article when there is no mention of Project S on it? Kouban ( talk) 06:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/ hmm that might be an S such as project S....-Greylynx and yes I personally copied it down here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.165.197 ( talk) 03:30, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Besides the ones mentioned on this site, were there any games that used to be listed on the Japanese official site for Kojima Productions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vnisanian2001 ( talk • contribs) 13:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I added this section for obvious reasons -- it's importance to his life as a video game developer.
However, I cannot be arsed adding all the lil' links and shit, so somebody might just wanna give that a bit of attention (or I might get around to it later... I dunno; whichever comes first).
Cheers, lads. Tamashi 7 ( talk) 22:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Did Kojima-san go to a Kousen or a Daigaku, it just mentions College, a kousen is more like a college in England which is in between Highschool and University(in fact people go into a kousen about the same time we finish Highschool at 15 a year before us), or is the reference of college refering to University or a Daigaku. If he went to a Daigaku then the word should be University. I have done a search on the Japanese entry and he attended a Daigaku so I will be changing the word to better reflect. -Gav 01:10 BST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.242.207.123 ( talk) 00:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
The image I submitted was deleted...why I don't know..it's a simple picture of Hideo. -NLUT
Why is the only picture not even Hideo Kojima but in its description says it is? It says he was born in 1963 and yet the picture is of a 20s something guy. Fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.168.106.177 ( talk) 03:03, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
http://games.ign.com/articles/122/1221499p1.html Axem Titanium ( talk) 19:18, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
In my last edit message I stated I would be adding details about Hideo leaving Konami, however it seems this has already been done. Will try and keep it updated though. AnthonyJ Lock ( talk) 07:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
I made the following edits that were reverted. I believe they should be restored, and here is why:
1. "He is the director of
Kojima Productions, which he originally founded in 2005,"
2. "while featuring its version of the originally planned ending".
3. "Initially wanting to be an artist or illustrator, he was often discouraged by societal norms of Japan which favored finding safe, well paying jobs and was also discouraged because his uncle was also an artist but suffered from financial difficulties."
Ground Zero | t 10:45, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
If there is no objection to these edits, then, I will restore them. Ground Zero | t 21:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I know this might be kind of picky, but should we update the picture? The current one is 7 years old and since he's been sporting a beard, he's got quite a different look. 2003:E0:6F20:3F47:7828:C6A0:983D:AC97 ( talk) 15:58, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi there!
I'm going to be spending some time over the next week on bringing the article up to the standards of WP:VG, with a long-term eye towards pushing it through GAN. I'll be updating this section with what I'm changing, why I'm changing it, and occasionally asking if anyone has any feedback. If anyone wants to assist, I'd really appreciate if you replied here, tagging me, so we can coordinate, rather than engaging in an edit war.
In Kojima's "The Creative Gene" page 39 he tells the a story about playing Baseball with his other son. so he has more than one child. Sa674 ( talk) 12:23, 12 November 2023 (UTC)