Kojima Disappointed With Metal Gear Solid 4

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.

Already been posted here yesterday.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=24244

at least this topic doesn't have a misleading title like the other one that says Kojima is dissapointed in MGS4

Well any of the consoles would have been a letdown for him as his goals were just not doable on a console in this generation!

I mean the man is pretty insane to be honest!

Well I didn't think MGS4's graphics were THAT amazing, anyway.

I think it would need 2 Blu-Rays if it was 1080p.

what happened to all the ram freed up by firmware update 2.20?

The graphics were top notch for MGS4 about two years ago, but now not so much.

He sounds like he would be better off making games for Nintendo and pushing the boundaries in innovative and revolution gameplay, Rather than sony making sequels and battling the hardware.

well kojima seems always disappointed with every new hardware,,, he once said almost exactly the same thing just before MGS2 was released!! No console will be enough for the man and his vision