Metal Gear franchise creator Kojima said at the E3 Media and Business Summit in July that the hotly anticipate PlayStation 3 title Metal Gear Solid 4 would be the last Metal Gear game that he is directly involved with.
But in a recent phone interview with Next Gen, Konami Digital Entertainment's new marketing VP Anthony Crouts said otherwise.
"I'm sure he's never going to let go of Metal Gear Solid-trust me. [Snake's] a big character, so as a franchise I think he'll always hold it near and dear to his heart.
"In one capacity or another, he will always be involved in the Metal Gear franchise."
This wouldn't be the first time that Kojima has said any one Metal Gear game would be his last. The celebrated developer most recently said the same thing about 2004's Metal Gear Solid 3.
The future of Metal Gear's famed protagonist Solid Snake is also in question, as trailers depict a character on the emotional and physical brink.
Snakes an old man for god sakes in MGS4. He looks lame and has totally lost his gritty coolness. Why not just let the man go out in style with one final game rather than continue to milk the franchaise? At least take a decent break from the series in order to reinvent it and in that time create a new series or revist the ZOE universe...
I wish Kojima would stop making all these claims about the last MGS game. Its only hype to raise anticipation on part of the buying public, usual marketing stuff.
Anyway, he best be careful because this MGS series needs some reinvention. I was totally unimpressed with the recent gameplay movies, didnt seem like much of a leap and the game to me still seems sterile. The character animation is stiff and the environments are mostly lifeless from what I've seen. Its got some nice touches but nothing amazing...
My advice is go and spend some of that Sony payoff money and come again with something fresh. I'm not a hater, I own a PS3 and an Xbox360 plus a whole batch of older consoles so I just love gaming....but for me the MGS series need an injection of something, I know its stealth but do the evironments have to be stealth and boring as well?
Saw it coming. He said MGS2 was his last, and well.... he'll keep making them. It's probably Konami's biggest franchise, they won't just let it go, and he won't let them take control of it because it's his baby.
as much as i am looking forward to MGS4,i would very much like it to be the last one,i think it has run its course now,and i am very interested in what Kojima would/will do next
off topic but since it's already been brought up... regarding ZOE the 2nd runner. i never knew the release date for it so when i found out a while later i decided to go buy it. only i couldn't find it anywhere... checked as many shops as i could, checked online and nothing i'm sure it hadn't been out that long... anybody know why retailers stopped selling? did it not sell well or something?
I really hope this is true... Never before has a gamee been more a case of "the Emporors new clothes than MGS" stupid movie wannabe with interactive porn page turning...
Im surprised you dont have to press 4 different buttons whilst rotating the right analog to scratch his bottom...
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i'm sure it hadn't been out that long... anybody know why retailers stopped selling? did it not sell well or something?
