Hideo Kojima left Konami and the Metal Gear collection he created 9 years in the past, however for the individual now producing the franchise it could be a “dream” to have the legendary developer again within the fold.
As reported by VGC, Konami’s Metal Gear collection producer Noriaki Okamura stated on a current livestream printed to YouTube that, personally talking, he’d like to work with Kojima once more on Metal Gear.
“But simply talking for myself, personally, I’d like nothing higher than to work with Mr. Kojima and the remainder of the crew once more,” Okamura stated. “If that would occur, that may be the dream.
“But individuals have moved on to new issues and new commitments, and that’s simply our present actuality. We can’t simply take it as a right that everybody would work with us once more, or let ourselves be fully depending on them.”
Of course, it appears extraordinarily unlikely that Hideo Kojima will work on Metal Gear once more after his high-profile exit from Konami amid the launch of Metal Gear Solid 5 in September 2015. Kojima went on to take his studio, Kojima Productions, into new mental property territory with the discharge of Death Stranding, and is now engaged on a sequel amongst numerous different tasks. There’s even a Death Stranding film within the works.
Perhaps aware of that, Okamura stated it was as much as Konami’s in-house Metal Gear crew to do a superb job with new entries within the collection, together with the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, which was the main target of the livestream.
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater, because it’s recognized, is alleged to be a trustworthy remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3, a lot in order that Konami is not even planning on recording new voice strains for it. Despite that, the Delta image within the identify of the remake is supposed to spotlight “‘change’ or ‘distinction’ with out altering construction,” Konami beforehand defined.
Meanwhile, Okamura confirmed Kojima and the unique workers will probably be credited within the Unreal Engine 5-powered remake, as they had been in final yr’s Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1.
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