Thanks to Pluto Games, we got this wonderful chance of Greeting San Hideo Kojima in Dubai on 17th of January, on occasion of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Press Meet.
Something about San Kojima
San Hideo Kojima is Vice-President of Konami and Director of Kojima Production. He is known for his Great work such as Zone of Enders, Castlevania, and Best Franchise of all time! ‘Metal Gear’…He came to Dubai, United Arab Emirates for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance which was organized and Hosted by Pluto Games for the Press.
First of All we would like to welcome you to Dubai!
Question: How did Metal Gear concept come in shape?
Reply: There has been offer from the company ‘okay please make a war game like a Rambo kind of game!’ But I didn’t want to make a game like just shooting each other but something that did not involve shooting each other but a type of Sneak in – Stealth Genre game that was the Beginning.
Because Hardware was MSX which was 25 to 26 Years ago this did not allow us technologically to have people everywhere shooting each other which needs a lot of authentic detailing such as Bullets. In those times, it was almost impossible to have more than two enemies at a time. Just because Technology was not advanced so it could not happen.
So I thought of such Environment in War game that does not require shooting anyone.
Question: What would you like to Advise Young Developers of Middle-East?
Reply: The First thing is that I see in Middle-East, Technology and Cultures from all over the World are Collected. So, it should be easier for you to launch things towards outside with courage. In order to make our kind of mainstream games it’s really costly, Big Budget. Just like a Hollywood Movie.
However, Indie Game Development does not require Big Budget and are easier to Develop which requires two or three friends or so.. And yet people all over the world are watching which could create Great Opportunity there!
Question: Do you have Plans for PC Gaming and do you have plans for Cross-Platform Integration? Will all the Phones and Computers will be able to play on same Level/Mission together?
Reply: The PC, when there are no Boundaries between Consoles and PCs, which is PC based right?! Like Smartphones or Tablet-PCs, which are all mainly based on PCs.
Yes, it will be similar to Cloud Computing. So far, to go further with this we had to get approval from each Console.
We Thank San Kojima and Konami for their time and Wish him best of luck for his Upcoming titles! And Thanks to Pluto Games for the Support and Great-Organized Event.
Interviewer: Ali Mahmoud – GR Middle East Regional Manager
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