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Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Air
Cost
People
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'Metal Gear Solid' is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Actions
Execute
Gear
Mission
Solid
Metal
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In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Centre
Criticise
Always Where World
In The Past
Sought
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There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Games
Ask
Alien
Fight
Graphics
Happening
Question
Zombies
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War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.
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War
Battle
Fighting
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Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Science
Abuse
Advancement
Beneficial
Engineering
Genetic Engineering
Used
Bad
Itself
Too
Genetic
Result
Wisely
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When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Men
Fire
Heart
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I believe that this cooperation between Nokia and Konami will form the perfect match to share the vast potential of mobile entertainment content with users all around the world.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Cooperation
Mobile
Users
Believe I Believe World
Vast
Match
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My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Identity
Memories
Past
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I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Imagine
Ahead
Escalator
Observe
Pass
Ride
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Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still the same, and that's not what they should be doing.
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Games
Taking
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I can see how everything relates to everything else when I think that nothing is merely coincidental. If everything that happens is inevitable, then the world is connected and whole.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Inevitable
Thinking
World
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My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.
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Caught
Prisoner
Concept
Escape
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Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.
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Bangs
Digital
Today
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I don't like necessarily that people think 'Metal Gear' defines me. I love 'Metal Gear,' don't get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Creator
Love Work Me
Gear
Metal
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Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe.
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Europe
Games
Titles
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I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Games
Missing
Pain
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What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Creating
Games
Player
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With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Duration
Exhausting
Intensity
Seriousness
Sustain
Uninteresting
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Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity.
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Ideas
Passion
Views
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Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel - wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Able
Play
Want
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If 'Castlevania' wasn't created next to me, and Capcom didn't release 'Ghouls n' Goblins,' then maybe there wouldn't be any 'Metal Gear,' and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Action
Genre
Horror
Release
Gear
Metal
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It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.
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Movement
Nice
World
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I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.
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Movie
Movies
Different
Economic
Factors
Political
Try
Aware
Interested
Cultural
Watch
Learned
Themes
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I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' for Nintendo GameCube.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Nintendo
Snakes
Mr
Twin
Gamers
Gear
Introduce
Solid
Metal
Tremendously
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People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.
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Long
Nice
People
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In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.
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Typical
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When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Japan
Memories
Similar
Video Games
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What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time.
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Cameras
Caves
Lost
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Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'
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Arena
Degrees
Give Me
Hints
Instruction
Throwing
Direction
Japanese
Provide
Service
Supposed
They Say
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In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Dangerous
Driven
Fall
Japan
Lost
Stories
Drive
Side
Channels
Either
Gate
Main
Numerous
Numerous Times
Outside
Roads
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We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Confusion
Effort
Moving
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I believe that even today we can only tell a simple story without really interfering with gameplay. But in the future, I think it will almost be a requirement of all storytellers when they create games, how they can tell a more complex story without conflicting with the gameplay.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Games
Complex
Conflicting
Interfering
Requirement
Storytellers
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I always say this will be my last Metal Gear, but the games in the series that I've personally designed and produced-Metal Gear on MSX, MG2, MGS1, 2, 3, 4, Peace Walker and now MGSV-are what constitute a single Metal Gear Saga. With MGSV, I'm finally closing the loop on that saga.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Games
Gears
Lasts
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As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Games
Might
Natural
Process
Surround
Game
Create
Far
Game Mind Me
Natural Process
Reflect
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There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Technology
Artistic
Dedicated
Games
Museums
Perspective
Synthesis
Aspects
Collaborative
Endeavors
Perceived
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We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Dream
Moving
Past
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Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Fix
Time Look Game
New Game
Objectively
Tries
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We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Autumn
Spring
Summer
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