Talk:Hideo Kojima/Archive 1

Archive 1

Restructuring

I added the "Career in game development" header to break up the article some, and cleaned up the introductory summary. Specifically:

• Removed "although he didn't direct them". His credit as a producer (along with the clarification in the previous sentence -- "creator and director of several games") is enough.
• Removed "and inappropriate or at least unlikely". Awkward and unnecessary.
• Cleaned up the hideous run-on sentence about postmodernism.
• Cleaned up the final sentence of the second paragraph.

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)

I challenge that their was a misconception about directing Metal Gears

"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 added it, and also included Tim Rogers' (what the hell is style on that? Rogers' or Rogers's?) interview in the external links. It looks like this:

• After completing Metal Gear Solid 2, Kojima openly opposed the idea of working on a new Metal Gear Solid game. [2] However, he later retracted his comments in the June 3rd issue of the Japanese Famitsu Weekly Gaming Magazine, claiming his earlier statement that "he will focus more on producing" was misinterpreted as stepping down from the Director position.

I think it's awkward and a little bit of a run-on in the second sentence, but it works for now. If somebody could clean it up, that'd be great. --C-squared 18:33, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah I didnt mean for you to use MY sentence.. im dyslexic.. :P I ment something similar to it... every sentence I write turned out convoluted.  :) - UnlimitedAccess 22:04, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Meme-Gene-Scene

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)

Outdated section - Current Kojima Productions releases

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)

Should this be added?

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)

• Following that, An article on a website named Gamespot which claims that at E3 2006 a handout was produced by Konami on Studio Kojima's forthcoming games, which states they have struck a deal. Kojima says "I have received many offers to adapt Metal Gear Solid. It has taken a long time, but we have finally settled on an arrangement,False facts aside, a movie project is underway. I have finalized a Class-A contract with a party in Hollywood." He also specificaly says Uwe Boll will have nothing to do with the project, but there are very few details besides that. The link can be found here [3] - 15:02, 17 May 2006 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.234.134 (talk) 14:08, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

On SSBB Comment

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)

Navbox

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)

Death threats...

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)

SSBB comment

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)

Shiraski? Kansai?

"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)

I took this from the EDGE interview he did, transcribed here which says,

“ 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." ”

I'm not sure whether or not this is true I only cited it from the interview. Doing a quick look on Google I cannot find anything about Shiraski Japan (this page being #1 actually). As in regards to Kansai, I assumed it was a city but the quote actually just mentions moving to Kansai. The article can probably be changed to "moved to the Kansai region" Strongsauce (talk) 00:06, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

"-ski" is a sequence of sounds that I don't think occurs in Japanese. "Saki" means "cape, headland". The north-easternmost point of Honshu is called Shiriya saki, the southernmost point of Hokkaido, Shirakami saki, and the north-easternmost point of Hokkaido, Shiretoko misaki. You would certainly experience lots of ocean at these places, but none of them has a city, even a small one. Maybe he was being figurative, and alluding to one or all of these places, meaning "a remote place on the ocean"?

I have changed the Kansai text. Maproom (talk) 10:54, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Metal Gear Solid film

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)

Kojima death prank

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)

I have a request for semi-protection in for this article, hopefully they approve it. Nezu Chiza (talk) 19:25, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

plagiariism?

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)

• First of all, he wasn't the composer. Secondly, nobody's made any serious accusation of plagiarism, it's just internet jammerings about the similarities. Somebody decided that the MGS theme was a rip-off of the Speed movie theme a while ago, too. 192.101.108.250 (talk) 19:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Lifetime Achievement Award?

Kotaku --82.19.97.172 (talk) 23:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

New game at E3 2009

I think I might have skimmed through it, but should THIS be added in the article? -- Gouryella (talk) 05:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Signature

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h223/jleelink/Untitled-1.png —Preceding unsigned comment added by JleeLink (talk • contribs) 08:03, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Project S with Suda 51

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)

redirect

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)

Other games question

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)

Hideo Kojima's Will

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)

Hi first off thank you for contributing to the article. However as I see it, a majority of your article is what your opinion of Hideo Kojima is and therefore is considered speculation or WP:OR. The Wikipedia entries for the games already have discussion about Hideo Kojima coming back for another game as producer/director despite saying otherwise.

Also please do not cite sources if they do not contain what is in the sentence you reference. For example, you state that: "Around the time of 2005, Kojima was rumored to be in a slight state of depression because of always having to come back to Metal Gear development." and use http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3144171 as your source. However he never says that in the article. The closest thing is Kojima mentioning that he gets depressed about growing old.

Finally, if you are going to be adding to articles in Wikipedia, they sections you add need to be cited/sourced.Strongsauce (talk) 00:51, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Clarification of Education

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)

Pic Deletion?

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)

Kojima at Smithsonian source

http://games.ign.com/articles/122/1221499p1.html Axem Titanium (talk) 19:18, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

In my last edit message i stated...

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)

My edits that were reverted

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,"

I think we can agree that he founded Kojima in 2005, and refounded it in 2015. He founded it only once, so "founded" doesn't need any modifier. Founding was a one-time event. Adding "originally" implies something, but doesn't let the reader in on the secret. It would be useful to clarify what went on, rather than alluding to it.

2. "while featuring its version of the originally planned ending".

How many planned endings were there? "Originally" doesn't add anything, it just repeats what "planned" tells us.

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."

This is a rambling, confusing sentence. I split it up to make it easier for the reader to follow. I don't understand why this change would be reverted. Also, "well-paying" should be hyphenated.

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)

Update picture

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)

• It either has to be free-use (which is hard to come by, photographers normally like to copyright their work), or permission granted for using such a copyrighted image (which is doable, but as the vast majority of biography infobox cover images are free-use, this seems to be a rarely done thing). Because of this conundrum, images like this rarely get updated, unless the person in question's article is highly visited, like a president or something. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:55, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Attempt to GA

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.

My first pass is going to ensure that everything which presents exists is properly referenced. I'll be removing any incited contentious material and anything that doesn't conform to WP:NPOV, and polishing up the writing. This might be a waste, because things I polish up might be removed at a later stage of the edit, but for now, it helps me to understand what an article's primary issues are. This article is rated at C-class; you can see specifically what that means here. Imaginestigers (talk) 12:57, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

I've rewritten and updated the Hideo Kojima#Early life section. Most of it originated from one source, a magazine, and I couldn't track down a copy of it which wasn't already translated (by an unofficial Metal Gear site). Most of it I was able to find from other, reliable sources, and add a bit more detail. Imaginestigers (talk) 15:15, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

I've rewritten the Early career portion. The decade section headings have to go, so I'll be changing them as I move through the article to reflect the stages of his career. Mostly, I am giving a brief description of the game, describing Kojima's involvement, and the game's critical and commercial performance. It'll get easier to describe the critical reception as I move forward, because finding sources for video game development in the 1980s is difficult. Imaginestigers (talk) 09:42, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

I've finished work on Policenauts and other works. You will note that a section titled Metal Gear Solid has been started, but doesn't quite fit. That section will be my next project, over the next day or two. Given how long Kojima spent on those games (near consecutively), and the significance of them, I feel the mainline series warrants a section of its own. Imaginestigers (talk) 22:21, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Kojima's children

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)