After being teased for weeks, GDC 2013 finally brought us the reveal that was bound to happen sooner or later: Metal Gear Solid V. As expected, Hideo Kojima proved that he’s a master at hyping/trolling the gaming community as it was revealed that Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are indeed connected as they’re part of MGS V.
Last night something rare happened in the video game industry: a trailer was released that totally shocked us and left everyone talking for hours. Sometimes it’s to be expected for a reveal of megaton proportions to be made, but receiving what will likely be the most talked about reveal of 2012 when the year is almost over and having it come from the Spike Video Game Awards is ultimately what makes the industry so great; unexpected moments can happen at nearly any time.
When a video game franchise is around for twenty-five years you know it has to be good, especially if it actually evolves over the years as opposed to staying complacent and giving gamers the same thing over and over again. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, the game which put stealth action on the map before it was the cool thing to do.
Putting a lot of stock into Twitter talk is never a good thing, especially when it comes from the master troll that is Hideo Kojima. A few exciting tidbits may be dropped here and there on Twitter or even from the likes of the legendary Kojima, but most of the time it’s just pointless chatter. Today we have something that doesn’t exactly fit in the pointless chatter department but at the same time isn’t an official thing by any stretch. More importantly said Twitter chatter involved two things I don’t think we would’ve ever put together: Hideo Kojima and Silent Hill.
It may have only taken as long as the gap between the Olympic games and the average term of a U.S. President, but the Trophy patch for Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally happening. No, this isn’t yet another troll moment by Hideo Kojima and the other fine folks at Kojima Productions as the MGS4 Trophy patch is indeed a thing that isn’t a grand illusion created by computers who want to put nanomachines in us or some nonsense like that.
Hideo Kojima has revealed something that was kind of obvious to begin with but in addition he also dropped a potentially major tidbit that could be awesome for all the wrong reasons. We know that Kojima is keeping busy doing something as he’s working on the FOX Engine, is overlooking the development of Metal Gear Rising, and is keeping an eye on the recently revealed Enders Project.
At long last Hideo Kojima has given us the goods and something we’ve desperately wanted: a sequel to Zone of the Enders 2. Oh wait a minute, I’m getting a bit ahead of myself as Hideo did indeed reveal a new ZoE game but in the ever present troll that resides within him there are a few catches, the biggest of which is that the new ZoE game isn’t actually a greenlit game.
Hideo Kojima is the type of guy who likes to tease people of impending goodness all the time. When he’s not taking pictures of Spider-Man boxer shorts he recently bought, Kojima is best known for posting a bevy of teases on Twitter that sometimes pan out the way we want them to and sometimes fall short in such a way that Kojima should be the new Troll Face image.
Development may be deep underway on both Project Ogre and the new FOX Engine, but Kojima Productions decided to give us a brief tease of what gamers can expect from the new-fangled engine that will be powering their games. We’ve already seen Hideo Kojima flaunt some early FOX Engine screens both showcasing an actual prototype of a game scenario along with giving us a glimpse at how the engine can replicate real objects i.e. actual actors with near flawless quality.
I may already have too many video game related products as it stands now, but I’ll likely be adding a few more items to my collection in the near future – one of which will be this exquisite Cyborg Ninja figure. Today Hideo Kojima took to his Twitter account to do something somewhat rare: he made a Twitter reveal that wasn’t wrapped in a bundle of secrecy that was also serving as an epic teaser.
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