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Kojima was fuckin cooking with the plots of the Metal Gear games. Like they're all post 9/11 so its not like he's a psychic but playing MGS2 in 2024 is just like "oh yeah that's just life now"
Him releasing Death Stranding before the covid outbreaks is still one of the wildest things in retrospect lmao
Kojima has the real lathe
Which is actually fantastic because I want fragile’s robo glove scarf
Everybody's gonna get into tactical marionettes and guitar battles now and wearing a V for Vendetta mask over Joker makeup
Honestly that would be less on the nose than meme reality and we’d get cool guitar battles
MGS2 was developed pre-9/11, but you can tell that Kojima was really just putting current events and sentiment into the writing. He's definitely not some kind of prophet, but you do have to give him credit for tackling the subject matter for a video game.
whether or not you like his games, you gotta admit that Kojima is one of the guys with the craziest, most unique ideas in the industry... I don't think there's anybody else that comes even close when you're talking about triple-A games
biggest fucking asterisk in the world
oh absolutely, lots of intensely creative indie game devs out there... it's just that nobody else has the clout and goodwill needed to get the money to make something as ambitious, high profile and patently fucking weird as Death Stranding, or even the MGS games when you think about it, except for Kojima lol
MGS2 released post 9/11, but it was definitely a pre 9/11 product. The entire end of the game had to be reworked because of 9/11 lol.
Metal Gear Solid released well before 9/11 so I'm not sure why that's included.
I don't like MGS4 very much but the infomercials and commercials that play in the beginning pretty much depicted what life would be like today, endless war.