Hideo Kojima wants to keep making games after he dies

The video game industry is composed of all kinds of developers, and some shine with their own light not only for their work but also for their charisma and the fact that they bring proposals to the industry that tend to stand out from the norm. One of them is Hideo Kojima, the man behind works such as Snatcher, Metal Gear Solid, and Death Stranding, among others. It is not unusual to see him say things that draw attention, and the last one has caused a surprise to everyone: continue making games after you die? Why not?

In an interview with IGN, he was asked about the possibility of paving the way at Kojima Productions for the next 50 or 100 years, something to which the Japanese has answered as only he knows how: "That's a good question. I've never really thought about that. I'll keep leading so long as I'm around, and all that matters to me is that our roots when it comes to creation are kept intact. But you know, I'll probably become an AI and stick around. You need to be stimulated in lots of different ways if you want to keep creating new things, so I imagine I'll keep collaborating with others and taking in new things even if I'm an AI."

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Kojima's extravagances

We all know that the creative genius enjoys going beyond logic and offers players new and surprising ideas. Without going any further, some of his decisions have managed to transcend and remain in everyone's memory, such as the battle against Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid, in which the boss was able to read our minds thanks to a system that detected the save files on our memory card.

Something similar, more peculiar if possible, is a certain combat in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, in which the enemy is of advanced age and, if we save the game and wait a few days, it is possible to find that he has died of natural causes. Years ago, Kojima commented that this is one of his favorite moments of all the video games he has designed.

And in his next project with Microsoft, it seems that we can expect things like that, since according to what he has stated, it seems that some companies "think that I was mad" when presenting his ideas to them. He doesn't name those companies, but he makes it clear that Redmon didn't, hence his decision to work with them. We still don't know what he has in his hands, but we are sure that he will not leave anyone indifferent.

Source | IGN