You could say it's training or background, blah, blah, blah.

But I say it comes down to two things.

1. Hard Work (Practicing, Editing, Rewriting, getting feedback, more rewriting)

2. Taste (What they read or watch)

What an obvious list. So the 4 games they want Kojima to work on are the only other four series he's been involved with. How clever and provacative. I bet no one saw those four coming. Maybe they could have gotten the list to five if they mentioned his first gaming abortion, Lost Warld.

Are you saying Kojima wants down what ever he wants in the scripts?

I never got into boktai - I always thought it was a capcom thing since their was a refference to it in Megaman Battle Network 4. Wierd.

No, I'm saying he watches a lot of anime and Star Wars.

Kojima is working on a new IP from what I heard.  Unforunately for the people who don't like the idea of him writing the story, he is writing the story.  He is an artist first, a video game designer second.

He should trying to think up a storyline himself without any of those influences unless they are merely being used for reference in the cutscenes.  The writing in anime pales in comparison to  the most acclaimed novels.

Who is Hideo Kojima?

It doesn't really matter to me what Kojima's woking on. I'm sure he'll put his heart into it. I just couldn't help but point out how useless that list was. It was a randomly ordered listing of the other four series he's been involved with. If Kojima had worked on 16 series, this article would have gone up to 16 to accomodate them all. It would be like if I made an article to name the greatest games of all time on the Nintendo 64 and then put in no particular order, every game ever created for the console. What's the point?

You'rs kidding me, right?  He is the video game designer who created the Metal Gear Solid series.  How do you not know about him?  He is very famous among gamers?