TGS 2005: No more Metal Gear for Kojima?

  • By Staff, GameSpot
  • Posted Sep 17, 2005 4:02 pm PT

Director reveals his plans to leave series after MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots; series illustrator also exiting.

TOKYO--Director Hideo Kojima is retiring from the Metal Gear series...again. During an event at Konami's booth at the Tokyo Game Show today, the series' founder has once more announced his plans to explore other projects after the completion of the latest entry in the Metal Gear Solid series--in this case, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. He expressed similar sentiments following the completion of Metal Gear Solid 3, only to return.

"This fourth [Metal Gear Solid] is going to be the final one for me and Shinkawa," stated Kojima, revealing that the series' art designer, Youji Shinkawa, will be exiting with him. "There are other things that [we] want to create."

While Kojima may be ready to move on, the Metal Gear series has been the seasoned Konami director's life's work--so far. "I originally wanted to make movies and novels, but I just couldn't do it," revealed Kojima, who began development of the original Metal Gear for the MSX in 1987. "I was really hyped up about making Metal Gear, since it was going to be a game about war."

If there ever is a Kojima-free Metal Gear Solid 5, it won't be the first Metal Gear made without him. Kojima revealed that he originally didn't have any plans to create Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. However, he felt he had to after seeing the low quality of Snake's Revenge, an NES sequel he had no involvement in. "I decided to make the real sequel to Metal Gear," said Kojima, looking back to his early years in Konami.

Coincidentally, it was Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake that inspired Shinkawa to join Konami and to work under Kojima. And in 1998, Kojima's staff of 20 released Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation, which launched the multimillion-unit-selling franchsie.

5 Comments

  • ZeRoIV

    Posted Jul 7, 2009 10:22 pm PT

    I must Say I Love MGS all of them n if the MGS 4 is the last then thats Good Snake should rest easy =) Thank You for this Great Series The Best Series

  • Fireboy78

    Posted Jul 28, 2008 4:33 pm PT

    I am sure MGS4 will be last series, Snake is too old man. Do you think Snake can enter other series of war while he's 100 year old? But I hope he will make other one series. Kojima, plz make just ONE more series!

  • ZedFragg

    Posted Jun 10, 2008 8:32 am PT

    Big fan of the MG/MGS series, but I'm so glad this is the last one...Hopefully it'll end on a high note rather than be dragged out like most other game series...

    Well done Kojima, can't wait for something new after this last dose of Metal.

  • zayn_shah

    Posted Jul 7, 2007 3:28 am PT

    Mr. Kojima please dont retire from MGS series because You r the BEST & Im 1 o ur MGS fans. This is my fav. Axtion game of all, I believe that the other staff can make MGS 5 good, but I dont think they' ll do it "perfect" WITHOUT URS HELP; Im also very pleased that ur creating a movie of this....................................Thank You Your MGS fan Zayn

  • clam-a-to

    Posted Feb 3, 2006 5:39 pm PT

    Hideo Kojima is a genius, I'm a little bit sad that MGS4 will be the last MGS game, and if Konami wants to continue the story, it will not be the same, Why? Because kojima won't be there, they will just ruin the whole series without him, I really sad a bout this, F*ck...

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