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Hideo Kojima says he was once working on a project thematically similar to The Boys - "a buddy cop duo facing off against legendary heroes"
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This would be a cool concept honestly.
He loves a lot of pop-culture media so I wonder if he stopped watching it because he didn't like it, which is what it usually sounds like when he stops watching a show, or if it's because there was too much of bleed over of inspiration.
He loves a lot of pop-culture media so I wonder if he stopped watching it because he didn't like it, which is what it usually sounds like when he stops watching a show, or if it's because there was too much of bleed over of inspiration.
Better yet:
What if Slayven was Superman and became evil?!
Fat4All would be BatDogMan. A Dog who dresses up as a man who dresses up as a bat!
I will fucking kill people for some media that's legit about just Superman being a good proper Superman. Especially video games since WB can't figure that shit out.
I say this as someone that is really looking forward to MCU Squadron Supreme.
Yeah, that's certainly not an enticing part of that idea. I guess reading the follow-up tweets of him saying that it would be a worldview opposite of what we are used to or something like that really has a lot of "ashamed of your words and deeds" vibes to it.
wow, a story about how superheroes are morally gray and there's dark humor? i've never heard of that before.
anyway, time to check the newspaper and see how mondale's poll numbers are faring
True but only highlights my point tbh. For every thing that's legit "here's Superman at his best" there's 10 more "BUT WHAT IF SUPERMAN WAS ACTUALLY THE BAD GUY" stuff. It's exhausting after a while.
So I guess I should say MORE media, lol.
Not original story promise, but with Kojima, he could probably come up with unique gameplay experience to go along with it. I'd definitely give it a try if he ever come back to this idea
I'm surprised there isn't a Powers adapta- *remembers the Playstation show*
... Fuck
he already did
Is that the handsome izombie dude?
And yeah I kinda still wanna see creatives spin out their "ideas from back then".
The thing is, Metal Gear Solid already feel like fairly grounded human character Snake/Big Boss facing off against superhuman being with powers, which is what a lot of mgs bosses are.
Normal human vs superheroes premise sounds like a mgs boss rush type of games, which is cool because Kojima can male some really cool boss battle
they be flirting with each other all the time on twitter
Rahul is gonna end up in the next kojima game for sure
Oh nice! haha, the flirting sounds nice, but I'd def love to see this!
I think Kojima should stop watching movies and series and squeeze his brain and imgination much more rather than just ruminating what is already offered in the other media. He just relied a lot on that since his debuts so he could not even avoid such dilemma even if did not want to.
Kojima has a tendency of whenever something is trending he goes on to mention "I thought of something like this first but decided not to do it" lol
When Keanu was revealed to be in Cyberpunk and the internet went nuts he did the same "I was going to cast Keanu but decided not to"
Dude is a brilliant game designer but its really funny to see his twitter antics
When Keanu was revealed to be in Cyberpunk and the internet went nuts he did the same "I was going to cast Keanu but decided not to"
Dude is a brilliant game designer but its really funny to see his twitter antics
Yeah.
Also it would have been worse, if even all that similar.
But the gameplay mechanics would have been very good.
Nobody creates anything in a vacuum. While you may run the risk of being derivative, learning from what others have done—and what you do or don't like about their work—is a key part of the creative process. It seems strange to criticize Kojima for this specifically when he's known for making completely off-the-wall stories like Death Stranding that, to me, don't seem especially derivative. For what it's worth, I'm not a particularly big fan of his and I've only played a couple of Kojima's games, but the solution to any creative process probably isn't "stop watching television."
It'd probably be closer to the juvenile antics and tone of the comic than the biting satire of the show.
Eh inspiration is a frequent thing with creators, there's nothing wrong with citing what initially drove certain ideas on a particular project. I think Kojima has done enough to show us he takes said inspiration and makes his own thing vs something more obvious homage.
Not that Kojima is anywhere in the same league but most of Kubrick's films were adaptations of novels he then reworked to suit his vision. I don't think those suffered from being based on something pre-existing.
I'll admit "superhero but bad" isn't the most interesting thing to tackle these days, but I think Kojima would have put enough of his own style in there to make it something worthwhile.
If there's anything I'd like to see him go down the rabbit hole on re: inspiration from an existing piece its Twin Peaks: The Return, which he's cited as being something that really affected him when first watching it. The more surreal/abstract horror Kojima mines the better.
Oh, man, loving The Boys and would've loved Kojima's take on similar subject
But that's exactly what he did if I'm reading the tweets right. He was about to start a project he was ruminating on for some time and then watched The Boys and then dropped the project due to similarities.
But that's exactly what he did if I'm reading the tweets right. He was about to start a project he was ruminating on for some time and then watched The Boys and then dropped the project due to similarities.
