Hideo Kojima stated that everyone was against him when he decided to go independent following the split with Konami.
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"I'm sure I deserve a lot of criticism, but I don't think my team or companies deserve all the criticism. I could take a lot of that blame myself. But ultimately I need to believe in the mission," he said.
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Turned based Phantasy Star and Shinning Force remain at the top of my list of Sega IPs that need to return. At the very least I'd take a Shining Force collection that has 1,2,3, CD and the Game Gear entries.
I was hesitant to put these two on. I've personally played more PSO than the RPG version. And shame on me, I don't remember much about Shining Force to talk about it properly.
That said, so many Sega licences deserve their place in this list.
A new Phantasy Star in the numbered series would be amazing. Shining Force too. But I’d settle on some collections as that’s probably the best we will get
I don't trust Sega to do a proper comeback. The games will be just remastered and/or monetized to death.
As far as I understand it, Sony game him an engine then helped fund Death Stranding including publishing it, while even letting him keep the rights to the game. Heck the time in between him leaving Konami and starting on Death Stranding were pretty much straight from one into the other, he left Konami fully in July then was working on DS in a new studio by December.
So uh I dunno how accurate this statement comes across.
You have no idea how Konami had to treat this diva-special/delicate little boy. Jezus.... wtf? Feel bad how they treated him? Konami had their own issues, but they had to feed this monster for years and towards the end of that relationship he was taking liberties with Konami's assets that were.... pretty fing lame, althought he may have felt entitled to, being the diva he is.
He basically skimmed off the side to get where he is. So yeah, he was/is kinda opposed, but he also needed to go and fund his own ass/projects. More people were very supportive over him going indie. Me too, and then he did Death Stranding....
Funny, I remember everyone in the industry forming a train on their knees to worship his greatness.
Kojima comes off as having a pretty inflated opinion of himself if this is accurate. He had alot of help in starting his own studio so opposition to your decision to go solo was certainly not unanimous. Being appreciative of the help you get from others is sign of humility.