Should Kojima Return to Metal Gear? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 06.28.24

[@h1stout1]

I'm writing Greg in this election

[@NF_Redux]

i'd love to see Kojima come back to the world of Metal Gear, but only if he wants to, not only because he's being paid to.

[@nightowl5959]

Gavin newsom said he listens to Metallica and greenday

[@dav2-094]

If Konami wants new entries in the saga they simply have to make Metal Gear Rising 2 with Platinum games. Make it a sequel with Raiden or a Prequel with Gray Fox (Cyborg Ninja).

[@STI_Shoryukage]

Not with platinum games, but i agree. Before the revengeance tag was added, i was so excited for that game. Take the story on with one of those 2 for sure.

[@MarioNotBros]

I SO agree about the debate last night.

[@BamBOOZLE992]

I'd love if they worked with Kojima and actually finished Metal Gear 5 properly.

[@joshuatealeaves]

12:11 little Ben is somewhere with a thousand yard stare on him. Poor guy & his smoke machine 😅

[@Intellectual-Warrior9]

I really hope they pull a resident evil and remake all the Metal Gear games.

[@joshuatealeaves]

I’m holding out to see how Snake Eater was treated. If it’s respectful I’m all for it

[@TheAhmadable]

Why the WFH?

[@War624]

Tim's doing a big Nvidia sponsored live stream at the studio for his and Gia's wedding. Honestly, I can't believe she agreed to it.

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

Honestly no, I’d rather other creatives take a shot at Metal Gear, let Kojima carry on making his weird stuff.

[@tinotsutchie]

You say that like the President wearing a Doc Ock suit and surfing a jet is completely normal.

[@Razlo]

I'm not personally interested in a Metal Gear that doesn't have Kojima's approval

[@FoxHowell]

I would rather a biopic prequel for "The boss" if youre a fan than you know everything shes done up until snake eater could be incredible.

[@christopherburnett8889]

What if Konami approaches Kojima, makes amends and does some sort of joint production between Konami and Kojima productions…similar to how Konami worked with silicon knights on MGS: Twin Snakes for GameCube. It’s not unheard of for companies to outsource IPs to outside companies. So what if Physint eventually gets to be revealed as MGS 6 a joint project between Kojima studios and Konami allowing Kojima to once again work on MGS and have full creative control over the project. It also allows Konami to split the development costs between Kojima studios and PlayStation. I know it’s a pipe dream but in a perfect world hopefully Konami and Kojima can somehow make this happen.

[@eldenlord-op9rf]

did blessing forget how trump presidency ended

[@Leadbullproductions]

Blessing is so young. He's saying stuff about Biden but makes me question if he remembers Trump doing exactly what he is worrying about. There are many super cuts of Trump doing that in the last year. Only focusing on one makes it sound like you're in the tank or unaware of the other. Yes last night Biden was bad... Trump lying and flipping stuff was bad too.

[@totalXgarbage]

I love Blessing and know he's got a good heart, but it does seem like he's focusing on the meme of it all and not thinking about Trump's actual policies. Old is not worse than evil. Blessing if you read this, please read about Project 25 and reconsider.

[@kingjosh_]

@@totalXgarbagelol if having actual morals is evil then you’ve lost the plot.

[@marcoa7263]

I sympathize with Blessing's point of view, what does it say about the Democrat party that they allowed Biden to run for presidency. It's a disgrace. Honestly, I would go to the polling station and rip up my ballot in protest. The system is old and corrupt, just like the candidates and their supporting parties.

[@War624]

​@@totalXgarbageProblem isn't the age. It's his mind. Trump a super POS and a liar, but Biden is clearly going through early stages of dementia. You can't have someone like that running the country, policies aside. You need to have someone who exudes strength. And he doesn't. He mentally can't. Either way, there needs to be an age limit. 60-65 cut off.

[@androidisaloser]

​@@totalXgarbageDem policy has been harmful garbage too though, they have barely shown up. They also once again neglected to fulfill campaign promises like codifying Roe V Wade when they had majority, which also happened under Obama.

[@gmak8052]

Am I the only one who thinks the whole NVIDIA relationship between having them as a sponsor for the channel let alone anything further is absolutely wildly hypocritical on so many levels.

[@War624]

How so? Genuinely curious. What has Nvidia done that's so bad? Aside from selling their gpus at such high prices, mind you.

[@gmak8052]

Well to be honest I wasn't even thinking about their price fixing strategy which is basically what enables them to sell at the prices they do between dictating what their board partners sell the cards at and using production rates to control the supply and pull back at times to intentionally ramp up the pricing. There is always this talk about protecting employees of the game industries jobs and how scary a.i could be at removing many of them as well as how the capitalist model sucks. And here we have NVIDIA who is currently edging towards being the largest corp in the world with much of the stock price based on lots of people with lots of shiny things and fancy suites investing as much as possible on the bet they will lead the way in providing the very product that will slash manufacturing and creative jobs cost like before seen. Quite possibly creating an AI tech bubble fueling at some point a crash when they all ignore the fact that a ceiling always exist at some point. I could go on but I think this already pretty long.

[@seakae]

The one where we debate who we should vote for: an old white guy with a cold or an old white guy with 34 felonies and counting.

[@War624]

You forgot the dementia as a well. Biden's clearly going through it. So you have an old man who's a criminal, and an old man whose mental faculties are clearly leaving him. There needs to be a maximum age limit for Presidential candidates, and ofc we shouldn't have literal felons as candidates either. It's wild to me that either choice is what we have. They both need to go.

[@androidisaloser]

34 felonies vs the guy who drafted legislation that has hurt and still hurts black families, aided genocide, done nothing for climate change, etc. Fuck Trump always, but let's be real about the many good reasons people dislike Biden.

[@JustJuan731]

A remake of Black Flag? Eh, would be neat if it was a seamless open world like Odyssey. An AC1 remake? PLEASE GOD YES!!!

[@96miffy]

Just continue Metal Gear Rising with Platinum Games.

[@RobbyGood1]

You're not just voting for one person... you're voting for an administration. The Biden Administration is a team of competent, thoughtful, talented young progressives. A second Trump term would be a complete disaster. There's no decision to make.

[@caynebyron]

Well said.

[@Nazgulslayer15]

I think both would equally be a disaster

[@hawt_dawg_man]

Project 2025 is already underway.

[@MrXmoda]

It’s hilarious people think the presidents actually have much power to do anything.

[@aaronjones818]

They are a bunch of former Mackenzie consultants and rich milquetoast opportunist who think politics is like "the West wing". Totally unable to use power in any meaningful way. Get serious

[@unabridgeddiversion8236]

Lmao the Geoff picture "Good stuff happening this year!... Btw EFF YOU MIKE HOWARD!"

[@calebbonebrake6486]

I'm not familiar, but is there multiple teams at Crystal Dynamics? Cuz aren't they helping quite a bit with Perfect Dark now? Rumor was they were taking over a lot of the development of that, so they're pretty busy I'd think

[@realrobrose]

What about what Rockstar is doing what Remedy and Max Payne 1&2. Just liscense the IP

[@Eclectic133]

Kojima let the fame inflate his ego. MGS1 was a masterpiece. Everything else was meh. MGS2 pissed me off when the tanker mission ended.

[@furrybproductions]

I think Kojima should return to Metal Gear one last time for the Metal Gear Solid remake as executive producer NOT as anyone on the dev team AND the game should be licensed from Konami and be made by Kojima Productions. From there, Kojima can assign a team that's ACTUALLY comfortable doing new Metal Gear games all on their own and the mainline games stay with KojiPro.

[@MitchellM929]

Re Dontnod and LiS, hear me out...do they maybe still get some sort of royalties or something for creating the IP? So its simultaneously competition but also revenue they could miss out on if they dont delay?

[@LionofDawn]

I used to be a huge Kojima fan. But after MGSV and Death Stranding, it's pretty clear the dude is just not as brilliant as he once was. Even with MGS4 his staff had to pull him back from some stupid ideas, such as how he wanted Snake and Otacon to be executed at the end of the game. And with MGSV and Death Stranding he proved that he doesn't know how to make an open world game. And he doesn't know how to tell a really interesting story anymore. He seems to just create weird stuff for the sake of being weird. Like the dude is on some strong psychedelics all the time. He once talked about the idea of making an MGS1 remake, but turn it into an open world. Which sounds good on paper, until you see his other "open world" projects that is just barren and lifeless. I wouldn't trust this guy to even bring the original voice cast back. So NO. Forget Kojima. MGS will always be part of his legacy and we can all appriciate that. But he is no longer needed, as he is no longer the same man he once was.

[@Tallahassee21]

Kojimas been wanting to leave mgs since god knows when.

[@Metalguy86]

Nope, Kojima shouldn't return to MGS. I'm more excited to see his spiritual successor physint. I wanna see what Kojima can do in the Espionage genre without it having Snake in it. He always has such sick characters, stories, worlds so I really want to see what he does there. Now as for MGS outside Remakes I'd def be open with Konami working again with PlatinumGames and do a new Metal Gear Rising. That would be awesome!

[@aaronjones818]

Blessings is 100% right

[@erinlime]

Kojima and Konami seem to have at least buried the hatchet, but I'd like to see a MGS6 without Kojima. Ac!d, Ghost Babel, Portable Ops, etc were all fine without him but were only looked down on at the time for not being "canon." Now they can do whatever and that's a little exciting.

[@TheBatman582]

Portable Ops was for a long time considered canon, it was retroactively "decanonized" around the time the Legacy Collection came out. Kojima has never explicitly said it is non-canon, more that he doesn't consider it essential since he was actively involved in its production.

[@The_RedVIII]

I am 99% sure that if Konami ever did a new MGS, it would not turn out well. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are a lot of designers who could make a great playing game, that is not the issue. But if you ask "What is Metal Gear", the answer is not Snake or whatever, it is Hideo Kojima. It's his writing, and his way of staging cutscenes. I'm not a even a big Kojima fan, but he is obviously, basically a movie director, that creates videogames, even though he actually wants to make movies. The best comparison is another very unique movie director. Imagine they do Pulp Fiction 2 without Tarantino. You could have all Travolta and L. Jackson back or whatever, it will not work without Tarantinos direction or writing. It will not feel like Pulp Fiction. And MGS will not feel like MGS without Kojima. They tried with Survive; granted that was not a story focused game as far as I know, but it bombed. Kojima would have to come on board as a director, and I think that's still unlikely to ever happen.

[@substance104]

Kojima returning would mean he’d drop Hayter again. So no, I hope Kojima stays away from MGS. Hopefully Konami make a new game with David Hayter

[@benvilimek335]

Blessing is saying some dangerously irresponsible bullshit here

[@aaronjones818]

Nah he's right

[@TheDarman]

Eff it. I like Joe Biden. I think he’s a good, decent person and wants to run the country well. I’m not just gonna vote for him because I don’t like Donald Trump; I genuinely am happy to vote for a good man, father, and husband. He may stumble on his words because of his lifelong stutter, especially when he is tense, but I still admire the guy. I’m tired of pretending I don’t because of social desirability bias.

[@wescrosby2523]

Listen, you can be uninspired by Biden as much as you want, but I really don't feel like hearing Blessing complain about how bad the country is two years into another Trump term.

[@benvilimek335]

Blessing needs a HUGE political education if he’s going to keep running his mouth about it. He is dangerously ignorant

[@gmak8052]

@@benvilimek335 What is he ignoring? Seems like an ignorant use of the word ignorant to me.

[@benvilimek335]

@@gmak8052 he’s ignoring the infant death rate in Texas. He’s ignoring the historic low the crime rate is seeing nationwide. He has no opinion of substance and simply says “I don’t know man I don’t like Biden”

[@infinitysynthesis]

Gregg looks drained in the video.

[@sutekidane94]

So is blessing not voting? Because a non vote is just increasing Trump’s chance and it sounds like he doesn’t want to vote for Biden. Whether we like it or not. Right now it’s Biden V Trump. Both options aren’t great, but one is clearly worse.

[@Leadbullproductions]

Kinda yes, kinda not... Our system of voting means him in SF and being in California isn't going to mean anything.

[@TheGoodMorty95]

Don't quote me, but I think Blessing said he will vote but he's apprehensive, as anyone should be after possible the worst "debate" in the history of our country.

[@nickthemage2052]

Tbf not voting in California in a Democratic Republic with an electoral college is essentially moot bc California is as blue as they come

[@Minednam]

Blessing isn’t in a swing state. You don’t need to worry. His state is going to California. Educate yourself before you try to educate him.

[@sutekidane94]

@@Minednam it has nothing to do with whether his vote matters, and more to do with the principle behind it. Maybe be less of an ass before making a stupid comment.

[@caynebyron]

If Trump gets elected, and the killings Gaza gets worse, I'm going to directly blame Blessing.

[@nickthemage2052]

You do realize both shitbag presidents are pro killing Gazans right? Thats the one point they’re united on so how is that Blessing’s fault?

[@user-lv8hn8nd5o]

L show today

[@calebbonebrake6486]

I'm just waiting for the day we can actually get a Libertarian in office... That's the dream!

[@benvilimek335]

@@calebbonebrake6486 get out of here Collin

[@War624]

Won't have any third party candidates as long as the world only focuses on Dems and Reps.

[@benvilimek335]

@@War624 And the time to focus on your third party efforts is never 6 months before an election. There were 4 years to get involved in that. We just have to approach these problems as adults.

[@War624]

@@benvilimek335 Exactly. I think most people can see the way this election is gonna go though, but many don't want to admit it to themselves. Trump's gonna win. I don't like him or Biden, and would like a third party candidate to get behind, but it's just not feasible. Third party hasn't held any meaningful percentage since, from what I've heard, Teddy Roosevelt ran for a second term against Taft. And I believe it was less than 10%. Gonna be a wild time the next 4 years, regardless.

[@benvilimek335]

@@War624 nah there’s about a zero percent chance he wins. Even with Blessing campaigning for him. His base is not activated at all, his picks are losing primaries and his rallies are way down in attendance. I just hate this whole “what about third party bs” right before the election.

[@Kyt2024]

Better question. Who cares what Kojima does? The single most overrated game dev in the industry.

[@MiniatureMorpheus]

not really. he's the creative brain behind two of the greatest IPs of their respective genres being Metal Gear and Silent Hill. That's like saying Hironobu Sakaguchi and Neil Druckman are overrated. Kojima is an icon of tactical espionage and horror games whether you like it or not.

[@Kyt2024]

@@MiniatureMorpheus actually Neil Druckman is an excellent example of another massively overrated dev. Kojima is every bit as overrated as I stated in my initial comment.

[@dav2-094]

Fr he's just the guy that created one of the biggest gaming franchises and then changed the horror game genre with a playable teaser... He then was able to fund a studio and release a new IP in just 4 years. Clearly overrated and not one of the most talented minds in gaming, right?

[@MiniatureMorpheus]

People still hold on to their old PS4s just to be able to play PT to this day. He's earned his status.

[@MiniatureMorpheus]

@@Kyt2024 GTFO your high horse. You see how much money Uncharted and TLOU made? They helped sell and define console generations and turned into a blockbuster HBO show and multiple Uncharted movies from top of the line studios.

[@kelb0y9o20]

YOU DONT HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT GODFUCKINGDAMNIT, YOUR MY ESCAPE NOT WHO I GO TO FOR POLITICS... also btw Bidens eyes and body swaying reminded me exactly of my papaw a couple weeks before he died

[@10joJoe]

Bro calm the fuck down lmao

[@infinitysynthesis]

America is screwed no matter who they vote for. Laughing stock of the world right now.

[@kelb0y9o20]

@10joJoe I'm calm I'm calm lol

[@10joJoe]

@@kelb0y9o20 hahaha!

[@nickthemage2052]

Didn’t they just call them old?