from this translated source: https://junkerhq.net/MGS2gameplan.pdf
Kojima was fuckin cooking with the plots of the Metal Gear games. Like they’re all post 9/11 so its not like he’s a psychic but playing MGS2 in 2024 is just like “oh yeah that’s just life now”
whether or not you like his games, you gotta admit that Kojima is one of the guys with the craziest, most unique ideas in the industry… I don’t think there’s anybody else that comes even close when you’re talking about triple-A games
when you’re talking about triple-A games
biggest fucking asterisk in the world
oh absolutely, lots of intensely creative indie game devs out there… it’s just that nobody else has the clout and goodwill needed to get the money to make something as ambitious, high profile and patently fucking weird as Death Stranding, or even the MGS games when you think about it, except for Kojima lol
Him releasing Death Stranding before the covid outbreaks is still one of the wildest things in retrospect lmao
This whole doc is super cool and also funny as fuck.
My favorite bit is right at the beginning:
Title
Metal Gear Solid III
Written as MGSIII for short. The three Roman numerals symbolize the three tallest skyscrapers in Manhattan, the setting for the game.
Instead of proceeding on to MGS2, as one might expect, we are making MGS3. The question in peoples’ minds, ‘Why is it 3 and not 2?’ will have a big impact.
Konami did not let my man breathe. That would have been amazing though if they called it 3 in all the marketing without explaining why. He probably had a kooky idea to make a sequel to a game that never got made, or mess with the idea of sequels in general. MGS2 is already like that. It subverts the player’s expectations by suddenly introducing Raiden, and purposefully reiterates the plot beats of the first game.
“I don’t hate the people, just the government”
The intention is not to defame any race, state or ethnicity,
come on that’s not based in any way. that’s just liberal “this wonderful country has been corrupted by sinister forces” bullshit. “festering discharge” and “intangible entity” my ass. All the evil the United States have brought upon this world is by design and on purpose and if you call yourself a commie you should know at least as much. There’s no magical good version underneath US and there never has been.
All the evil the United States have brought upon this world is by design and on purpose
This is the way I took “…the country’s political structure has created.”
I didn’t read it as Kojima saying the evil of America is a new phenomena, but rather as something that’s always been building up because of the systems in place.
