Hideo Kojima Will Be Inducted Into Gaming Hall of Fame

He deserves it. Metal Gear is my favorite gaming franchise of all time.

metal gear movie made by hideo kojima and guillermo del toro. :o

so that means... it's... happening?

Good; Kojima got majorly screwed over by Konami when they banned him from showing up to claim any Awards for MGSV.

I'm not even a die hard fan of the Souls games (I like them very much but not as much as other people worship them), but I really feel like Hidetaka Miyazaki absolutely deserves an award like this. A true visionary. Although he's only worked on one particular thing and we've yet to see what else he can create. I'm very excited to know that though. Not even because I'm excited to play it (well of course I am), but the degree at which a human brain can come up with new concepts, and channel their ideas through a whole team of developer, and create something revolutionary and astonishing... That takes real talent and gravitas. I respect that.

This man has been making games for about as long as I've been alive (a while lol) and is largely responsible for the entire stealth genre. He became a rockstar after the 1st MGS and, just like any one of us would have done, used his reputation to hire killer teams around him from then on out. People on here calling him overrated clearly aren't looking at his entire body of work. This is well deserved #fuckkonami

hey! are they also giving awards to all his team mates and co-workers at konami/kojima productions? how about one to snake plissken, you know because if it wasn't for him big boss wouldn't look like he does today, how about an award to that classical russian composer? kojima took one of his peices and used it as the metal gear main theme, well until they were found out kojima took it "whoopsies what coincidence" anyways.... ouchies another example of how succesful people can become after stealing ideas/concepts/using people.... well this is the world we live in

And then Konami comes and says: Nah Kojima you can't do that!

@retron57: more like Hall of Shit

I know i'm going to get a lot of hate for saying this, but i find this man incredibly overrated

#fuckkonami

Awesome cant wait to see the game that kojima is making for the ps4

Well deserved

This guy recieves way too much attention for the crap he made.

This is awesome

Not a big fan of Metal Gear as I only played 3 of them (there is still time lol). I did enjoy the Boktai games a lot though. Not sure how much involvement he had in the making of Boktai? I think he deserves to be inducted and congrats to him.

Wonder what Konami will try to do to screw him out of this one.

So I guess anyone who writes overly convoluted stories gets awards now?

I thought the idea of being a writer was to be GOOD at it? Most of the dialogue in previous games was coma inducing and was about 45 minutes longer than it had any need to be.

If you went to see a movie and they just went into six hours of back story that added nothing to the actual movie it would be panned.

I guess games don't need decent writing though?

Grats! and he deserves it

Congratulations Kojima San. You are the true Big Boss. Eat shit and die Konami.

This is good news, glad he's getting an awards and let's see now how Konami will try to **** it up but we all know they can't.

Hideo Kojima, the father of stealth games, deserves it more than some naysayers may realize. He may not always create the best narrative, but his approach to design and gameplay mechanics have been profoundly game-changing for this industry. Kojima brought us the first mainstream stealth game via Metal Gear in 1987, only to perfect it years later with Metal Gear Solid, one of the first 3D stealth titles alongside Tenchu. Any game with stealth mechanics -- be it a large part of the game or not -- like Assassin's Creed, Hitman, Shadows of Mordor, Uncharted 2 and 3, Dishonored, Batman Arkham series, The Last of Us, Splinter Cell, etc. employ many of MGS's mechanics and AI design philosophy. Whether you like the series or not, to deny the immense influence of Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid, and Kojima would be myopic.

Why does Kojima always look constipated? or he is really about to cry?

About time if you ask me. As far as I'm concerned Kojima is the Hiyao Miyazaki, or Kubrick of video games. His stories might be deeply flawed, even stupid on many occasions, but I have never seen a developer experiment so heavily with story and gameplay elements before or since that has done so well with it's audience and others. The amount of detail is something very few other developers manage to pull off too with all the secrets, hidden dialog, collectables, and Easter eggs.

No amount of ZeroPunctuation fanboys parroting Yahtzee will ever change that.

P.s, I love Yahtzee and ZP.