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E3 2009: Fanboys Rage Against Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Editor's note: I had to laugh at this. I can just picture all these keyboard-samurai, white-knuckled with outrage. Must be tough to live your life according to some arbitrary man-boy Bushido. -Demian



Who needs to write a real post about Metal Gear when you can just highlight comments from around the globe?

I think a multi-platform Metal Gear is an excellent idea [Demian: I think Metal Gear Solid: Rising may actually be a 360 exclusive, or perhaps timed exclusive]. But apparently some people disagree. Here's what they think in response to the latest episode of the Kojima Productions Report podcast.

I particularly like the "XBOX360 is a dead console!!!". Oh, and the guy that wrote a poem. Word.

UPDATE: See below.

 

1 / SOLD BY MICROSOFT $$$ / June 2, 2009 3:59 AM

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4 / andrew_63 / June 2, 2009 4:06 AM

i´m very disapointed becouse betray us ur fans from the begining, and now our most preciated exclusive n u give it to the xbox 360...... men whitout honor ..men whitout word


5 / LAME / June 2, 2009 4:11 AM

KOJIMA BETRAYED ALL THE FANS FOR THE F*** $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ HONOR HAS NO PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


8 / Kojima EX-FAN / June 2, 2009 4:22 AM

MGS on 360 !!

Kojima you make a big error VERY BIG ERROR I DISLIKE MGS NOW.

360 IS DEAD CONSOLE !!!!


32 / Disappointed Fan / June 2, 2009 5:15 AM

Thank you guys for selling out to Microsoft! Thanks so much for now making the once great hardware pushing game, into a title limited by inferior hardware. Blu-Ray wasn't big enough? So you guys go to DVD9. Kojima's presentation on Raising the bar on stealth gaming? The bar was dropped. Thanks so much for going for money, and forgetting about innovation and super high quality. MGS4 was a masterpiece in terms of technical achievement, storytelling, and the swan song for Solid Snake. And now, MGS on the 360, is a complete 180 on that concept. Thanks so much Kojima Productions! Thanks so much. Way to go guys. Keep pushing yourselves. Next time, let's just make MGS5 a 360 exclusive! Because you need "DVD" type hardware and not "Theatre type" hardware.


71 / YourSoul / June 2, 2009 8:32 AM

i hope it was worth selling your soul like all other devs this generation kojima, for the money huh? you lost all respect i ever had for your creativity, i cannot wait to see what watered down version of dream looks like

its shame i thought you and Tetsuya Nomura were last true devs that had some honour, i guess in this day and age there is no such thing when it comes to the dollar signs


111 / blablabla / June 2, 2009 1:24 PM

serve u right ps3 owners!!!hahahah.when MGS 4 was announced for PS3, we, the 360 owner kinda disappointed with the decisioni'm a big MGS fan, and i 've been following MGS since MGS until MG3..time to move on kojima..Good Job, for no neglecting us, the 360 owner..
To ps3 owner, dont u just think, only the PS deserved the MGS series, but also us.
I dont mind if MGS goes multiplat as long as we, the gamers or can i call it, the fans of MGS enjoy this superb game together.

THANK U AND THANKS AGAIN KOJIMA FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY to play MGS on 360.


135 / Words cannot express how upset I am / June 2, 2009 2:36 PM

Therefore... I have turned to song. Hideo Kojima, this is for you.

So many words for the broken heart....
Its hard to see in a crimson love
So hard to breathe
Walk with me, and maybe

Show me the meaning of being lonely
Is this the feeling I need to walk with???
Tell me why, I can't be there where you are
Theres something missing in my heart!!!

There's no where to run, I have no place to go
Surrender my heart, boooody and soul
How can it be you're asking me to play a game that'd never beeeeee?????

UPDATE: But it doesn't end there. I feel compelled to bring you a few more comments from the latest episode of the podcast. Comments 12 and 40 are excellent.And 267, where a fan reveals his homosexual love for Hideo Kojima (not that there's anything wrong with that).

4 / YOUTHINK YOU CAN SHUT OUR MOUTHS WITH A STUPID PSP GAME? / June 3, 2009 5:17 AM

"IT'S THE NEXT REAL GAME OF THE FRANCHISE" @SONY CONFERENCE. FALSE WORDS TO BLIND PS FANS. YOU LOST YOUR HONOR. GIVE THEM MGS4!!!


12 / ANTZNINE / June 3, 2009 5:39 AM

I HAVE EVERY MGS GAME SO I DONT KNOW IF U CAN TELL I AM A BIG MGS FAN! BUT MAN DID U GUS DISAPOINT ME RIDEN SUCKS HIGH HEALS IN MGS 4 REALLY GAY. YOU SHOULD OF MADE A PSP GAME OF THAT LOSER & MADE A COUNSOLE GAME OF BIG BOSS. REALLY DROPED THE BALL KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS REALLY!


25 / BIG BOSS / June 3, 2009 6:59 AM

BIG BOSS ON XBOX LOOL


40 / mimicry / June 3, 2009 9:00 AM

Hideo Ocelot kojima is his name, i feel like sending some slander toward Xbox right about now,but I must hold back.Im still going to get an Xbox console next year prior to the release of MGR.Tradition must go on heres another one for the female MGS fans out there-Raiden was created for you!!!

PS:After all the hate mail kojipro has received I hope all you fans out there give a heart felt apology.


45 / Old-Edu / June 3, 2009 10:57 AM

for god sake
PSP SUCKS!!


194 / Josef / June 2, 2009 4:37 PM

OMG WHY HIDEO .. NO WAY MGS ON XBOX 360 I GUESS NO MORE MGS FOR ME ... PLZ TELL ME U GANA MAKE IT ON PS3 TO ..... I DONT HAVE X BOX AND I WONT .

195 / bawb / June 2, 2009 4:39 PM

WHY DID YOU SELL US OUT KOJIMA!!!!!!! YOU TRAITOR! YOU DISHONOR THE PS3


267 / Joelnes / June 2, 2009 8:42 PM

Dr Mr Kojima

I love you i would actually turn gay for you <3

and I love how you finally made it multi-platform


280 / FrAn! / June 2, 2009 9:18 PM

HIDEO KOJIMA is DEAD
Hideo...HIDEO...HIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

continue EXIT


304 / PS3 version will suck because of X360 / June 2, 2009 10:23 PM

MULTIPLATFORM GAMES SUCK. PROFIT INSTEAD OF QUALITY. LAME


384 / ps3 sucks / June 3, 2009 1:19 AM

yay for 360.


395 / SolidSnake / June 3, 2009 1:41 AM

Oooh the horror the horror, why kojima, whi ddi you betray us, your loyal PS family gamers, we all should have a sepukku now


397 / Gabriel Rutherford / June 3, 2009 1:44 AM

Kojima,

You have just spitted in our faces. Metal Gear is not going to be the same

 
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June 01, 2009
This is hilarious stuff.
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June 01, 2009
Ah, the irrationality of fanboys. God bless them and their prepubescent minds. I never understood the idea of hating on something just becuase you wear a green tie and they where a blue one.
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June 01, 2009
*someone ... *wear ... edit button?
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June 01, 2009
I've got to admit I haven't really cared for MGS ever since I played the first Splinter Cell by chance back in high school. In my opinion despite Kojima's signature flair and the success of the brand, Splinter Cell has done more (and seems poised to continue to do so) in the Stealth Action genre then the Metal Gear has in the last decade. Part of it is just a completely different evolution of the story - one is very Japanese, and one is very Western in terms of aesthetic and execution. And the other part is that Sam Fisher still controls a hell of a lot better then Snake did when I went back and tried to play Twin Snakes a few years back. Regardless, I'd like to see where Raiden takes the franchise - I may have missed out on the last couple of games, but I still have fond memories of Kojima's world.
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June 01, 2009
Reading the last comment - the poem - again, I now realize how much help that guy needs.
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June 01, 2009
*then Metal Gear has in the last decade. (LF Proofreader, PST)
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June 01, 2009
They did say 'everything from this point onwards is exclusive to Xbox360', but I highly doubt it's completely exclusive. Most likely timed. Does this mean the Sony fanboy love affair with Kojima is officially over?
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June 01, 2009
I'm actually kind of surprised they didn't announce MGS 4 being ported over onto 360, even if it meant coming on 16 dvds. My first reaction to the announcement was tepid at best, simply because of the bad taste that Raiden left in so many mouths after MGS 2. Of course, he seems to have shed some of his reputation from what I've seen and heard about Guns of the Patriots.
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June 01, 2009
People need to get a life, who cares what consoles they release on. Fanboys need to grow up and smell the coffee beans. They did the same thing with FFXIII. I love all the 'I wont buy it anymore you have betrayed us' like they think that kojima will care. These people need to get out alot more and stop living in a fantasy world. My message to them is 'its a game, grow up'
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June 01, 2009
reminds me of the FFXIII drama last year
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June 01, 2009
Everyone knows what fanboys [i]need[/i] to do, but we all know they won't ;D
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June 02, 2009
The funny thing is that I have been hearing this same type of chatter from people who own and love the 360. This kind of thing constantly reminds me of the tween bickering of their favorite bands selling out and making a music video on MTV. Yes, I'm sure that Kojima Productions will be getting a nice paycheck for bringing the MGS franchise to 360, but did any of these fanboys stop to realize that this also means that more people will get to experience the games that they love so much.
Bm_luke
June 02, 2009
Great fun piece - I had to google some of those, just could not believe that they were real. Did you know that last song is actually an adapted Backstreet Boys song? I sure didn't. Thanks, google, for proving that the single most specific crossover song possible exists!
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June 02, 2009
Wow, just... wow. I sure hope the clear disdain of fanboys keeps them away from this site. Their inane babbling and instant hate makes my brain hurt.
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June 02, 2009
...I really don't understand. Last generation, MGS2 was released on the Xbox, Why is this move so surprising? if you to increase your user base, multi-platform is the way to go. Exclusives? don't expect too many of those.
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June 02, 2009
With the exception of timed exclusives.. we'll see plenty of those.
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June 02, 2009
I wonder if any poetry was written when Metal Gear was ported from the MSX to the NES--and why people continue to act like Metal Gear has [i]ever[/i] been exclusive to a single console.
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June 02, 2009
I'm ashamed that you guys love the same game I do. ~sLs~
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June 02, 2009
Very funny stuff. I love when fanboy rage interrupts the ability to spell or be grammatically correct.
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June 02, 2009
Why can't Sony fanboys buy a 360? And why can't 360 fanboys buy a PS3. Some things in life just can't be explained.
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June 02, 2009
Geez, I never got [i]that[/i] upset when MGS4 (or MGS3) never hit the 360. Don't let any of those fanboys see this but I was hoping the first time I played as Raiden (MGS2) would be my last!
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June 02, 2009
*facepalm* Fanboys need to chill. Of course, I was annoyed when Resident Evil 4 was released on the PS2. Not from any history as before the gamecube generation, the only Nintendo Resident Evil was vastly inferior. The Wii version answered my extra content complaints and now I am happy again. What is happening here is the same crap Microsoft let loose with the Final Fantasy announcement. This time last year, I didn't have a PS3 and wasn't sure I'd ever have one. I might have been the only happy person who favored the PS2 last generation.
New_hair_029
June 02, 2009
I really can't understand all of the fuss over a game starring Raiden. Nothing he did in MGS4 made me think that putting up with him for an entire game would be fun.
June 02, 2009
I'm also stunned that no XBOX360 analog to the Substance/Subsistence versions of last gen's MGS games. I always mistakenly attribute this quote to Gore Vidal: "It is not enough for me to succeed. My enemies must also fail." Some people are just hardwired in strange, primitive ways.
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June 02, 2009
Kojima had hope and believed in Sony and its too bad Sony betrayed him with a shoddy business plan. It's just time for him to move on and it's unfortunate that other people can't do the same.
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June 02, 2009
oh fanboys...fix them all with fire. I will also point out though as I didn't see it mentioned when skimming through the comments, they did clear up that it is not an exclusive. Basically dude said "everything from this point on is only on 360" and then they had kojima come out so everyone assumed that meant it was exclusive and then later dude said "we never said it was exclusive". Personally I hate 3rd party exclusives and would like to see them just go away. Let the first/second party titles help you decide what to get and the 3rd party titles just augment that decision.
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June 02, 2009
People like these guys really scare the hell out of me. I'm talking fear for the future of the human race type scared. It's hard to be a video game enthusiast when to do so means being lumped together with %$#@s like these in the eyes of the general(non gaming at least) public. Maybe if there was some sort of spray...
June 02, 2009
It seems like the song was something that the guy wrote for his high school band, but the other members rejected it. He saw the news on Kotaku, and then he thought "Wait, I have a song on my hard drive thats vaguely related to this! Just add that line there, and... Done! My scathing, yet artsy comment to Kojima! Now it is immortalized forever for people to apperciate!"
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June 02, 2009
This is why devs and publishers don't pay attention to forums and boards. Just too much nonsense to sort through.
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June 02, 2009
I think #135 "Words cannot express" aka the poem piece has got to be a prank. It's just too juicy to be real. But as for the other "fans" who harbor so much hate, I never understood how someone could get so worked up about a game. I would be pissed if someone betrayed my mother, but not if a developer "betrayed" a franchise by producing a game for a healthy piece of hardware.
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June 02, 2009
I hate to update this. I've added a handful of comments below from the comment page of the latest episode of the Kojima Productions Report. It is truly astonishing.
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June 02, 2009
*had - That was meant to be I "had" to update this. D'oh.
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June 02, 2009
I've always wanted to copy/paste fanboy comments into an article, but was unsure how to do it in an appropriate manner without it simply being public shaming. Really, things like this need to happen more often. I hope these commenters find your post and are completely embarrassed.
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June 02, 2009
This is a joke right? Oh wait- my bad, Metal Gear Solid is "serious business."
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June 02, 2009
Oh man, this is too much. Reminds me of all those EGM letter responses mocking fanboys.
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June 03, 2009
Who knew that putting a game on a different system equates to selling your soul and losing your honor?:D
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June 03, 2009
Man jeez. People need to sit back and realize that it's not the end of the world. Good god there are more important things in life to fuss over.
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June 06, 2009
hahahaha! no. 4 killed me. how can you take any of these comments seriously?? hahaha! i literally laughed out loud at how pathetic these people sound. Does anyone remember... The series came out on NINTENDO!!!!! and to get upset like that isn't saying much for you. LOL you people kill me. Thanks for making my life just a little bit better. BTW Im happy its on the 360, since I dont have a PS3 lol. Would like one but not spending 400 bucks on a system, when my 360 does just fine!

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