Hideo Kojima - I Will Continue with Metal Gear Solid

Im I alone in thinking he's more of a genius then George Lucas?

Hark

I wouldnt call either of them genius, Lucas stole most of his material from Westerns and mixed it with his imagination of SCI FI where as Hideo Kojima pretty much stole the MGS idea from escape from New York with Kurt Russel, watch the film and play the PSONE MGS and you pretty much have it there.

hmmm not sure this site is 100% true as i am sure this will be the last mgs well for the ps3 anyway but i think that he psp may get 1 more spin off

George Lucas a genius, give us a break, have you seen the latest Indiana Jones movie?

He's only ever made one film.

Haritori, use words carefully. I think the word you are looking for is an homage. or Kojima was influenced by EFNY etc. Nothing wrong with that.

When you start wording things wrong, using words like stolen or copied (especially in this dumb copyright infringement era), it does the work we enjoy an injustice.

As for Kojima continuing the series, I can't say I'm surprised we'll get more. The series is without a doubt Konami's biggest cash cow, next to Pro Evo and Silent Hill, and it seems Konami refuses to give its other games IP as much attention. A real big shame, because I'd still like to see Policenauts and Snatcher grace my DS or PSP, before I die.

On a bigger scale, Konami needs to develop new IP, something cronic. Its not funny anymore, but they are being left in the dust. Silent Hill is an exhausted but good series (you can only visit that dumb town, so many times), Pro Evo is great but still kinda looks like PS1 game to me. Time Hollow does look good though.

Target Terror on Wii?? Konami don't have a clue at all, and that's a big shame.

More MGS? I wouldn't say no to it, though.

agreed but he blatantly stole the opening credits!!!! and i very much doubt my misuse of wording would invoke some sort of law suit against konami or indeed stop people enjoying any part of the game, i feel its a great game with massive influence from EFNY including a pretty much near reconstruiction of the opening credits.

simpleton.

I suppose Akira Kurosawa is chopped liver then?

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Sure The Castle explains the Death Star element, but you still have Arthurian legends, WWII dogfights, Flash Gordon and a small amount of Beowulf in Star Wars IV-VI. Probably more than that, but I didn't sleep last night so I'm a bit slow today.

TBH, Lucas is a genius, just not a film making one. He took a load of basic elements, fused them together and created a film that spawned a series that re-defined a genre. Sorta like Miyamoto did for games with SMB.

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errr, Fortress is how I always seen it translated...

Yeah, I was gonna mention Flash Gordon and some other stuff but I left it short and punchy...also, the Death Star isn't the only element Lucas got from Kurosawa...my intent certainly wasn't to insinuate that Akira Kurosawa was the sole influence on Lucas' work.

Lucas is/was a student of comparative mythology, so aside from asking him, its hard to nail down exactly what influences were affecting him, since he was looking for cross-cultural, universal archetypes. Certainly he didnt't merely plunder the plotlines of Westerns...if anything the Westerns were cribbing from the same sheets Lucas was.

Westerns, like Sci-fi, as a genre, is a catchall that includes a myriad of different stories which would find themselves in other genres were it not for details of setting.

Again stole is the wrong word to use, an homage would be better used here. George Lucas used very similar shots in the creation of Star Wars: A New Hope, to some of Kurosawa's work. He didn't steal, he reshot the scene, in his own image. That's an homage, surely.