@R2C25: You're probably right in terms of influence. I'd say Call of Duty really shaped modern day FPS games. I'd say World of Warcraft really shaped modern day MMO's (someone needs to go in and shake that baby up cuz it's getting stale). I'd say open world games have been shaped to a large degree by the Elder Scrolls series (very unfortunately imo, because these games are very dull ... Witcher took the best of them and made an actual game around it and it was great). GTA is really a lone player in the modern day open world genre and it's pretty damn good at it (don't really play GTA but they're quality games)...can't wait for RDR2.
Kojima hasn't really shaped any genre in any way but in terms of stealth games MGS is the clear cut winner, although you can't really call it just a "stealth" game. It's more of the stealth slash narrative style that made it successful. Whether the story is good or otherwise is irrelevant, it was well told and it lived on that limb alone (except for MGSV tbh when it came to story). No one's matched Kojima in creating this much intrigue and wrapping it up in a stealth action game yet.
@Evenglare: Inside expertise is always an eye opener. Tell everyone how many games you've worked on in the past and how long they usually take, please.
Do you imagine Kojima and Co. lounging around for 6 months of the year drinking coffee and eating cookies talking about hentai? If a quality game takes 4 years to make, it's because it takes 4 years to make. Otherwise you get diluted crap like CoD or Assassin's Creed or any Ubisoft game on a yearly cycle really. I'll take 4 years.
@Saayko: Oh yah man! Snake in MGSV was a super lame, like, spy, like wth man! he can't skip around like a pony what a lame spy man! jeez man! like crazy! oh my god man! I'm going to die like.
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