"Silent Hills will continue development with or without Kojima"

[theprof00]

generic-user-1 said:

theprof00 said:

Dr.Vita said:
Why is Konami doing this...

They're not. Like I predicted, this is Kojima's decision, and likely because they are censoring him and trying to tell him how to make games. That's why he himself asked for his name to be taken off.

well, so they ARE doing it...  why are they censorshipping him?

Konami censored a particularly violent scene from the Japanese version of peacewalker which lead to this comment:

"There's tolerance for fantasy games, but for games where you show war or real violence between people, you apparently can't complain about anything. With this, it seems impossible to communicate something through games."

Kojima sees himself as an artist, he wants what he wants and you can't blame him. There are tons of movies with rape scenes and violent gory deaths. They weren't done for spectacle, they were done to move the audience. Sure there are some times when it's used for shock value, but there are others in which it is done artistically. Kojima is in the latter category.