Tue, Mar 20, 2012 | 08:55 GMT
Kojima’s Project Ogre will tackle “delicate, taboo” issues
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima had a lot to say as his award-winning, bestselling tactical stealth espionage series was inducted into the Smithsonian’s Art of Video Games exhibit.
“The game I’m working on right now is dealing with quite a few issues that are pretty delicate and taboo,” Kojima said in a Q&A session, as transcribed by Shack News.
“I’m not sure if they’ll end up being in the final product or not, but that’s something that I want to continue to strive for.”
Kojima said he wants to foreground real world issues in the upcoming Fox Engine game, but said he’s never completely happy with a finished release.
“What I’m making right now, in my mind, is the best,” he said – but declined to say any more, as Project Ogre is still under wraps. He did say it likely wouldn’t appear on Wii U, though.
“The way the player interacts with [Wii U} is very different than any other device out there. So if I were to make a game for the Wii U, it would have to be a unique game," he explained.
""I don't want any misconceptions that [the Fox Engine] is specific to a certain hardware platform, because it’s not. The way we envision it, it’s more this platform that isn’t mounted to a particular hardware.”
Whatever Project Ogre is, Kojima hopes it will enhance his reputation as a creator. Although he was being celebrated for his work with the Metal Gear franchise, Kojima requested the series be credited to his entire development team.
“I don’t have any problem with Kojima Productions being equated with Metal Gear, but I don’t like, necessarily, that people think that my name equals Metal Gear.
“Of course, I’ve worked on Metal Gear up to now, and I love Metal Gear. But as a creator, I want to work on new projects and create new games. I want to do new, creative things – things no one has done before. So even if I keep on producing Metal Gear, from now on, I want to have something else that I can do apart from Metal Gear. Something that pushes the boundaries, something that may not even sell, but something that’s new.”
The famed creator has no intention of giving up game design any time soon.
“If I’m not dead by that time, I will still be making games. I don’t have any intention to retire, so until the day I die, I will be making games,” he said.
“Maybe by that time, technology will be so advanced that I can just make a game by myself using a bunch of robots. Who knows?”
You can watch the full session in the video below. Kojima speaks through a translator.
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Posted in: Konami
Tags: fox engine, hideo kojima, kojima productions, Kojipro, metal gear, metal gear solid, Project Ogre, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art of Video Games
14 comments
#1
LOLshock94
20/03/12, 1:37 am
NO one gives a fuck bro
#2
Diavolicchio88
20/03/12, 1:57 am
I do.
#3
naveto
20/03/12, 2:16 am
Me too.
#4
shogoz
20/03/12, 2:44 am
Issues that are delicate or taboo in Japan are normally those that are talked about openly in western societies. It’s probably a game about an ogre that rapes people by taking a dump on their head. All the while requiring people on the PS3 to thrust their controller up and down while their pants are off. Which is what I do anyway.
#5
Moonwalker1982
20/03/12, 2:58 am
I really hope we’ll get a proper reveal later this year of this game.
#6
tatsujin
20/03/12, 3:06 am
I give two fucks. It’s Kojima.
#7
osric90
20/03/12, 6:35 am
@1 Speak for yourself, kid.
#8
Dragon246
20/03/12, 7:23 am
@1, your comments are just for LOL and nothing else. Hoping a solid story line and gameplay from this game ( and a vita release too! )
Personally I would love to have a JRPG from him based on military action like Valkyria Chronicles .
Good Luck Kojima-san!
#9
YoungZer0
20/03/12, 9:20 am
@8: “Hoping a solid story line”
… yeah, good luck with that.
#10
Da Man
20/03/12, 10:15 am
Probably some mindfuckery presented as walls of text featuring overdramatic voice acting, which explores issues about 20 year old japs having some wicked craving to animated 2d characters. The mystery of unresolved teenage complexes.
#11
bo_7md
20/03/12, 11:21 am
Taboo ? in Japan ? does that word even exist now. Japanese games have touched on almost every issue from incest to murdering children in their sleep.
#12
YoungZer0
20/03/12, 11:32 am
@11: They still censor their porn, so yeah, the word probably still exits there.
#13
jldoom
20/03/12, 11:54 pm
@12 LOL basically.
#14
bo_7md
21/03/12, 12:31 pm
@12 “They still censor some of their porn”
Fixed =P
My point was more to the fact that what ever he is putting out in ogre isn’t that sensitive/Taboo.