Hideo Kojima

product was not worth the near 15 year wait. On the other side of the spectrum is Metal Gear. When Hideo Kojima first started working on Metal Gear the intent was to make a generic military action game. However, due to huge limitations on the computer the game was being programmed on, he realized the game had to take a different direction. The MSX2 could only handle a few sprites at a time or the framerate would drop and sprites would flicker making the game unplayable. He had to find a way to create a compelling game without using very many sprites. This forced him to think outside the box and create something new that would eventually change the face of gaming. First Kojima designed a combat game without shooting. However, he quickly realized this wouldn’t ultimately lead to an enjoyable game. As it turns out, taking the combat out of combat games doesn’t generally make for good gameplay. Then he made the game all about escape and running away. In his own words though, that was “totally uncool”. It just didn’t feel heroic to always be running away from enemies rather than fighting them. Taking inspiration from James Bond and other spy movies, he ultimately reached a final idea, a game about infiltration where the goal was avoiding enemies rather than confronting them. And thus the first ever stealth game was born. Instead of a probably forgettable action game Hideo Kojima created a beloved franchise and inspired an entire genre. Although the list of games positively…

Thesis Statement: In the novel The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien shows that man has the ability to decide between good and evil, contrasting Golding who views that all man is innately evil. This difference is portrayed through the characters Ralph and Frodo, Roger and Sauron, and Piggy and Gandalf. I. Golding uses the character Ralph to show that man struggles between choosing good versus evil and chooses evil, compared to Tolkien’s novel where Frodo has to make the choice for good and ultimately…

Metal Gear Survive replaces stealth with survival in what is the first Metal Gear game without the involvement of director Hideo Kojima. Although Survive is the first entry in the Metal Gear series without Kojima’s influence, it isn’t the first spin-off. Released only five years ago on the PS3, XBox 360 and PC; Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance took the Metal Gear series in a completely different direction. Replacing stealth with hack and slash action mayhem, surprisingly, Rising worked. The…

As a medium, Video Games give us the opportunity to explore new and exciting worlds and live out childhood fantasies of heroism and adventure. However, many of us don’t know anything about the development of these experiences and the amazing people behind these amazing games. When one looks at video game development in japan, one thing that always stands out is the quirky director who is generally the public face of the project. Individuals such as Hideo Kojima (the creator of the Metal Gear),…

is the matter of ethics. A child may feel betrayed after a parent tells them that they were designed even before they were born. Anyone could imagine being put in that posititon, they could feel that if they didn’t turn out the way they did, their parents wouldn’t love them. Also a person could put themself in the parents position. If I were a parent I would like to see what my child would actually look like without scientific tampering. Germline engineering raises many problems involving ethics…

The ninth entry in the Metal Gear saga Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, sees stealth, sneaking, and strategic gameplay replaced by lightning quick, hack and slash, blade swinging action mayhem. And the best thing about this new style of Metal Gear is that it works. It works very well. The Metal Gear franchise now in its 26th year, starting way back in 1987 with the self-titled Metal Gear for the MSX2. Hideo Kojima’s stealth action-adventure franchise has amassed an impressive $45 million in sales…

argue over paintings, and their interpretations. Not everyone’s mind thinks the same way, so of course we wouldn’t interpret things in the same way. View point in many topics, especially one such as the arts is also based on your environment and how a person has learned to respond to their environment. Someone who grows up in a rich home has a different perspective of the world than someone who grew up poor. This leads to many different variations of emotions and specific interpretations, that…