Judging by how overhyped the first Fable was and how many promises it failed to deliver on, I'd wait before I insisted this was already in the game.

As for the article, it's par for the course, considering that Kojima is batshit crazy. I'm surprised he hasn't attended a press event wearing nothing but socks, a print of a Dali painting and a live rabbit tied to his body somewhere.

Really, the man is nuts.

now i know you are just a hater and i doubt you even played MGS4 (on anything else except easy difficulties). Your opinions are so subjective and downright wrong that they are not even worth reading.

MGS4's AI is extremelly complex and unforgiving on hard mode. Their awareness is like nothing ever seen in the industry. They don't just shoot at you or stay behind cover or flanc you like in the rest of 99% of the games out there, games that are said to have good AI (lol). The characters in MGS4 are on a battlefield and they act as such. They fight you and most importantly they fight each other. You can actually create context on this battlefield by taking sides and basically shaping the AI to suit your needs, context that is carried throughout the entire level/game.

This is how deep the level of awareness of MGS4's AI goes. It works and it is revolutionary, simple as that.

What I said was from a Playthrough from X360 uk mag. They confirmed those things last month, on top of that a full proper weather system which I posted about before.

Oh.

In that case, Kojima is even more crazy because he's dismissing features that are already possible as impossible.

Growing foliage is actually nothing more than an algorithm wrapped in a data table. It's the same as when Animal Crossing loads your town when you start the game and, based upon the amount of elapsed time, it grows weeds and makes changes accordingly. The same load is happening when you load the area the foliage is in.

LOL. You betcha.

I played the game on Solid Snake difficulty and rolled through the last half of the game. Even the bosses were ridiculously easy (especially Crying Wolf or whatever her name was).

When AI has you on the ground and then proceeds to run away, leaving you in a completely prone position, it is not smart. I could list bundles of games with AI far more intelligent than what was offered in MGS4. Even some of my friends (who are extremely casual gamers) were laughing their asses off at the retarded things the AI would do in-game.

Everyone I know who has played >20 shooters in their life and then MGS4 thinks the AI was cork-on-the-fork stupid.

 Every person lives in denial more or less, but you my friend, take the cake easily.

Funny, I give examples of stupid AI in the game (I could keep going if you like), and you just say I'm in denial.

Maybe the enemy AI flanked you, it never did me. Then again, I never stayed still long enough for them to get a bead on me; there was no reason. Taking out up to 5-6 guys at a time wasn't a big problem. On the other hand, you could still cap a soldier and watch his friend stare at his body for a good 3-4 seconds while you reloaded and took aim at that poor bastard's head from a distance. Or, if spotted, you could simply run back a few yards and take cover, waiting for the AI to blindly chase you into a fire trap. Yeah, that's brilliant stuff right there. Stuff that I've seen in shooters for years. Hell, I never even saw the enemy factor in numerical advantage/disadvantage like they do in Halo 3. They'll just keep coming, dumb as stumps, ready to eat more of my nearly endless supply of ammunition rounds thanks to the game-breaking Drebin Points system. Need more ammo? No problem, you only have 250k credits... and it only takes ~1500 credits to resupply every gun you own.

When I play a game on level 3 out of 4 difficulty level, I expect some sort of challenge... MGS4 didn't provide that, at least not in the second half of the game when I was basically John Rambo walking through enemies like they were cardboard cutouts.

He's right, this console gen is a joke. I haven't experienced any real new ideas or interactivity or FUN outside of Nintendo. The graphics race must END before progress can be made.

I don't see the big deal about MGS4's AI -- MGS2 for its time was sooooo impressive. MGS4 was just an extention of the old ones -- same shit really.

Pot meet kettle, its pitch black innit?

lol, yeah the AI in mgs4 was anything but revolutionary. I could shoot somebody with a tranquilizer dart, they'd act surprised, then stand there for a second before passing out, then his buddy acts confused, looks around then acts like nothing happened. Same stupid enemies that have been in every MGS game.

Kojima is extremely full of himself. He hasn't done anything useful for gaming since the original metal gear on MSX, and yet people including himself hail him as a gaming god. Making games into Cinema? That got big with FF7, not MGS. FF7 made FMV cut scenes for "cinematic effect" huge, Kojima just built on it. There have been an abundance of story heavy games, the xenogears and saga series has plenty of 40 minute scenes of just talking. He just got halfway decent voice actors.

Games like Half life, Fall out, and now Mass effect, and COD4 they are games that did or are doing important things as far as making a cinematic experience. Half life made you part of the cinema, unlike games that relied on taking control out of your hands in order to show you a scene, you lived the scene. It never took control away from you right down to the ending. COD4 built on that to create an incredibly cinematic tense thrill ride of a game where you lived the entire movie. Fall Out and Mass effect gave you a tremendous amount of control over your character, not just stats but personality and how he would interact with the world and how the world would respond. Fall out created a world where you could be a rude jerk off with a heart of gold, or a porn star drug addict hated by all. You can choose what you will say to people, and how your character is perceived and reacted to by others in the game. Interactive cinema. truly important and revolutionary (or evolutionary for the modern games) works that have greatly influenced and propelled the medium.

What did Kojima do? He said "memes" in a videogame and millions swooned. Which by the way, Richard Dawkins who the word "meme" originates with, I'm pretty sure is a more important influential thinker of the past half century. Kojima doesn't even come up with his own philosophy or ideas, he just rips it off of actual thinkers and then presents it extremely poorly in a videogame he wishes was a movie.