Hideo Kojima left Konami and the Metal Gear sequence he created 9 years in the past, however for the individual now producing the franchise it will be a “dream” to have the legendary developer again within the fold.
As reported by VGC, Konami’s Metal Gear sequence producer Noriaki Okamura mentioned on a current livestream revealed to YouTube that, personally talking, he’d love to work with Kojima once more on Metal Gear.
“However 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 mentioned. “If that would occur, that may be the dream.
“However individuals have moved on to new issues and new commitments, and that’s simply our present actuality. We are able to’t simply take it without any consideration that everybody would work with us once more, or let ourselves be fully depending on them.”
In fact, 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 Stable 5 in September 2015. Kojima went on to take his studio, Kojima Productions, into new mental property territory with the discharge of Loss of life Stranding, and is now engaged on a sequel amongst a variety of different initiatives. There’s even a Loss of life Stranding film within the works.
Maybe aware of that, Okamura mentioned it was up to Konami’s in-house Metal Gear crew to do a good job with new entries within the sequence, together with the upcoming Metal Gear Stable 3 remake, which was the main target of the livestream.
Metal Gear Stable Δ: Snake Eater, because it’s identified, is claimed to be a trustworthy remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Stable 3, a lot in order that Konami is not even planning on recording new voice strains for it. Regardless of that, the Delta image within the identify of the remake is supposed to spotlight “‘change’ or ‘distinction’ with out altering construction,” Konami beforehand defined.
In the meantime, Okamura confirmed Kojima and the unique employees will probably be credited within the Unreal Engine 5-powered remake, as they had been in final 12 months’s Metal Gear Stable: Grasp Assortment Vol. 1.
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