Metal Gear Creator Kojima Says Bigger Budgets Can Stifle Creativity

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PC always has no chance with kojima ,and no one knows why!

Although PC gives him freedom to do what he cannot do on consoles

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i have 2TB ready for your game

lool :(

Is this an open world game? wow, MGS has never been open world before. And i dont understand why, with the claimed 'big budget' you cant even release a pc version

Makes sense. It is a balancing act really. If you don't have enough of a budget you can't attract enough talent to do advanced things with technology or creativity, or if you do have the talent you probably don't have enough of it to finish the project in a reasonable amount of time. Look at some of the mod teams out there. They have some great ideas and a lot of talent from people who love what they're doing so much that they do it for free or for donations. However, many of their projects take years and years and years.

I would really like to see companies invest more in attracting creative talent. I'm talking about great writers, gameplay, level and world designers. I'm not saying there isn't already a lot of investment in these areas, but IMO the most important aspects of a game are gameplay, story and art/world design/direction. If any of those three are terrible (story has more leeway with multiplayer and can be compensated for with awesome gameplay) then I don't care if the game is open world with 1,000 square miles of game world, 500 hours of gameplay, and life-like graphics.

Makes sense. The more money that someone invests in you, the bigger the risk they're taking and therefore the more control they'd be wanting to take.

This is why we need indie games more than ever... Big companies wouldn't want to risk too much money on a untested idea.. Guarantee if No Mans Sky is a hit we'll see a heck of a lot more AAA companies make games of a similar ilk

Biggger budgets with also bigger ambitions, yep, I've seen that happening a lot.

Never played an MGS game but I've seen that technology has been compensating for lackluster story telling, gameplay, and level design for over 15 years. In the late '90s every series went "3D". In the '00s many series went "sandbox". Now it's "procedural". Next it will be "VR". Mix in a steady progression of impressive graphical enhancements and and consumers see a mirage of added value with each iteration despite playing the same characters and recycled stories.

A developer can push the tech and make lots of money but if a series is getting stale sooner or later technical progress is going to have a lull and expose it. There is no substitute for creativity. It is the one thing that is truly independent of time and progress. Deus Ex, Fallout, Morrowind, System Shock, are not cutting edge tech yet people keep going back to play them. Why? GOG has made a business of selling obsolete games. How is that?

Again, not talking about MGS. Not trying to pick a fight. Just making a general observation.

Smaller budgets force people to think outside the box when a problem presents, and you need to deal with it cheaply. Larger budgets mean devs have to cater to as many people as possible in order to make it profitable.

Booooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Release this along with the previous metal gear games for the pc!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yeah creativity to robe ppl, for 10 min game that cost 30$ INNOVATION!!!

Much like your games Kojima, this doesn't make any sense.

Look up the name Dan Pink, I think you'll find some answers that relate to what Kojima is talking about.

Nah... keep right on torturing the crap out of white people in your games Mr. Kojima. Screw the corporate pigs. Now that you have Jack Bower on the payroll I suggest you go full Bower on those S.O.B's.

bigger budget means higher costs, so you will need to reach to a wider audience which make you dump down your game (Thief 4) , this is why there is so much homogeneity in AAA titles making them feel too similar to each other.

It's a matter of integrity. Look at what CDPR does. They say it, DRM is useless, we're not going to waste resources on it. They don't hold back and they are fair with their consumers.

They try and make the game that they would like to play, that's what dictates the direction everything goes, but when big greedy suits take over, their vision is no longer led by artistic ambition but by revenue and that's when everything usually turns to shit and understandably so. Stakes are raised, so does pressure. You have to try and sell your game by hyping but not over doing it, and then journalists and the crazy fanbases xD mostly can contribute to that hype. One can lose control and focus on what actually matters... I'm just going to make the game I want to play.

This is why so many great games are born out of mods, a lot of them free. Artists just went: "No one is making that game, I want to play a game like that, whyyy is nobody doing it. Well I guess we'll just have to do it. (Ex: Skywind)"

Gaming community is intense, the crazy bandwaggon and fanboyism can go both ways. People can be incredibly supportive, look again at CDPR, the ominous support they get is awesome. Steam also gets a lot of love and let's be honest here, steam is great. And then people can be divas and lash back if we get screwed with some bs DLC, useless forced software Uplay that only punishes the people who actually buy the games, and being crappy ports on top of that. Blizzard had a nearly flawless record before D3 lol, (again greed: adding shit like RMAH just because WoW monthly subs weren't enough), that game was a wasteland until recently they made the changes that the community wanted, and the game is a lot better.

Point isI think it's easy to get confused in that industry. But you gotta manage to find a way to balance it out, and having the intention of selling a 40$ game that isn't worth that is a bit weird, you know, feels like you're trying to **** me here! Things like The Elder Scrolls Online. That game is not worth all that $. You have to pay extra to unlock full content + the regular monthly subscription and you have to set up your subscription with your credit card # before even trying the free month that comes with the game, a game that is clearly riding on the franchise name...? There you go again! Trying to **** me! People don't like that.

In conclusion: Don't be a dick, be honest about your work and keep that ego in check. People will support MGS if it's good. That bandwagon is large enough.

Indie games are sometimes eye candy, but very boring compared to well made triple A games. Truth.

So is THAT why you released a $30 demo, and the story makes NO sense?

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GTA V on PC is like me being a milllionaire, never in this lifetime.

Emulate it my hermit friends hehe xDDDD!!

Games have been culture.

With shrinking AAA revenue and larger AAA development costs, corporates are forcing sequeling and strangling creativity -- taking chances isn't something giant corporations with shareholders usually feel comfortable with. They want the safest return on their investment.

What's happening now is that some of the "rockstars" of game design who have their own fans are now looking at leaving the corporate system and leveraging their "rockstar" status to head indie projects where there's more freedom and chances can be taken. This could be bad for the giant AAA titles, but great for gaming overall. This was probably the reason Ken Levine dissolved Irrational.

Kojima certainly saw great monies developing MGSV, but the amount of that investment couldn't easily be recouped by MSGV's $60 alone... so we got the prelude demo stripped form the main game and sold separately, MGS:GZ.

and people realize the ugly downside to ever prettier graphics.

After E3 I'm still excited for this game the most