Kojima Was Locked in a Separate Room for Final Six Months of MGS5 Development

[SuperNova]

badgenome said:

SuperNova said:

Uh....not sure how much I trust Keighley on this one. Not that I have any desire to defend konami or anything, but Keighley was rock hard for Kojima during the game awards. Hell, he was positively gushing.

Going off him, talking about Kojima like a war Hero that was prevented from bringing the cure to cancer and end of world hunger to society by forces of evil, I think this might be a tad exaggerated.

I can buy it if only because there have been stories about how Konami basically acts like North Korea re: its employees for years now.

Yeah, what they are reported to have done to many of their employees is repulsing. And I do think they might have forced him away from his team and put him on a diffrent floor. It's the 'locked room' thing that I think might be a bit of an overdramatisation on Keighleys part.

Wouldn't that be all kinds of illegal, not to speak of the implications in case of a fire or something? I believe that konami are shitheads who would force their highly skilled an speciallized staff into toilet-cleaning positions when displeased with them, but committing actual crime by holding someone as high profile as Kojima literally hostage? I think their lawyers would step in for their own protection.

DonFerrari said:

SuperNova said:

Uh....not sure how much I trust Keighley on this one. Not that I have any desire to defend konami or anything, but Keighley was rock hard for Kojima during the game awards. Hell, he was positively gushing.

Going off him, talking about Kojima like a war Hero that was prevented from bringing the cure to cancer and end of world hunger to society by forces of evil, I think this might be a tad exaggerated.

Haven't Kojima done all of it through MGS story?

Haha well played, sir!