Looks like Kojima Jr. isn't the only one disappointed with Metal Gear Solid. The latest issue of the UK's Edge magazine contains an interview with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, who expresses disappointment with the latest game in the series, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. It isn't so much the gameplay itself as it is the graphics.

"Game-wise, it's pretty close to the original vision: you sneak into the battlefield and can choose whether to do a stealth game or interfere with the battle more directly. But the graphic, side things like motion-blending and the size of the map, totally was not accomplished to my original vision - to my satisfaction."

Now Kojima is a well-known perfectionist, but it is a bit disturbing to see him voice his dissatisfaction with what is supposed to be the masterpiece of the franchise. So where does he lay the blame for not fully realizing his vision?

"When we first showed the game engine at TGS, the staff were really proud and happy. PS3 was a dream machine, y'know, and we were going to work on this and that - and we had so many ideas. But when we actually started developing the game, we realized there were a lot of restrictions and so it turned out how you see it today. The original vision was to go ten steps further, the reality was just one step, which isn't to say we didn't progress."

So there was certainly progress made, but not enough progress...or more specifically, not enough power for progress. Apparently the team overestimated what the PlayStation 3 was capable of.

"I remember saying three years ago that we wanted to create something revolutionary, but in reality we couldn't really do that because of the CPU. We're using the Cell engine to its limit., actually. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing the PS3 machine, it's just that we weren't really aware of what the full-spec PS3 offered - we were creating something we couldn't entirely see."

Well there you have it, straight from the man himself. Metal Gear Solid 4 is not revolutionary. Personally I think the man is being a bit hard on himself, but that's what great minds do.

http://kotaku.com/381412/kojima-disappointed-with-metal-gear-solid-4 

edit: sorry i didnt read it right.

anyways i think kojima is a great developer, but also a madman. maybe its the stress. 

I admire this kind of honesty, but I'm not sure if Konami does.

 

well this is an unexpected turn of events. He should have gone x360 instead =P

i kid i kid xD

No, he said they're using the Cell to its full capacity.

I admire Kojima for this statement..

it shows he is an honest developer..

The graphics look good to me. I don't know what this guy is talking about.

CaptainPrefrences said: wtf? mgs4 isnt going to use the full power of the ps3?

 

Where did you get that? He said that it IS using the full power of PS3, and that's the problem. He's saying the system isn't capable of his original vision--not that it doesn't look better than when they first showed it off.

Well if he was having limitations with the PS3's cpu, I'm not sure this game will ever see a 360 port xD.

Dragon007 said: No, he said they're using the Cell to its full capacity.

Correct, he just implied that the limits of the Cell were much lower than he expected.

I don't know what he means when he describes that the PS3 was a dream machine in the beginning -- either that was his initial perception of it based off of the paper specs, or perhaps he was looking at the PS3's original specification, which included a Cell processor with two cores rather than one, which would have been much more well suited to gaming.

For gaming and general purpose computation, the 360's processor cores are significantly more powerful than the Cell.