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Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes "Treading A Lot of Taboos," Kojima Unsure If It'll Be Released

Posted on Friday, February 22 @ 13:33:54 Eastern by Alex_Osborn


Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima shared a few interesting details about his latest project, Ground Zeroes, which apparently tackles some seriously mature themes.

Speaking to VG247, Mr. Kojima said that because of this, he may not even be allowed to release the game. “I’m going to be treading a lot of taboos, and a lot of mature themes that really are quite risky. Honestly, I’m not even sure if I’ll be able to release the game. Even if I did release the game, maybe it wouldn’t sell because it’s all too much."

Even still, this isn't going to stop him and his team from making a game that delivers on their creative vision. "But as a creator I want to take that risk. As a producer it’s my job to try and sell the game, but I’m approaching this project from the point of view as a creator. I’m prioritizing creativity over sales,” Kojima added.

Hopefully we'll hear more about Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes at E3, if not sometime before then.
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  • Hatecrew
    Hatecrew
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 1:37 pm
    I will go ape **** here at work if I found out this game gets canceled.
    0 3
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 8:53 pm
    I will throw ape *****
    0 1
  • shandog137
    shandog137
    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 1:40 pm
    Kojima and a game that wouldn't sell due to material being too mature. Mr. Hideo, please know that what you release will sell...the fact that you are treading taboos which give you concern over the abilitiy to release the game will only increase the likelyhood of higher sale, kind sir. Please bring it on!

    Contraversy sells...metal gear (by hideo) + controversy = more sales
    0 1
  • xavier_2000_ie
    xavier_2000_ie
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 1:40 pm
    Mature themes? As opposed to killing with guns, knives, cars, bombs, mowing down civilians, picking up hookers, etc etc as in other games. Would love to know what the "seriously mature themes" that this one has
    0 2
  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE
    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 5:49 pm
    Wanton murder and destruction with no consequences isn't exactly a "mature theme" dude.
    0 2
  • damo_rox619
    damo_rox619
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 1:58 pm
    "I'm prioritising creativity over sales". Is Hideo Kojima inferior to other developers in any way at all? I don't think so
    0 0
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 3:30 pm
    Taboos? Like the creepy, incestuous "I only wanted you to see me as a woman" thing he pulled in MGS 2? And wasn't there some...thing going on with Otacon and his step-mother? That guy had some messed up family.

    And, honestly I didn't think Kojima had the maturity to pull off handling the story of a child soldier, but that didn't stop him.
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  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 4:09 pm
    "Hey snake... now that my sister just died right before us, let me tell you of how my father committed suicide because i slept with my step mom! ...too soon?"

    It made it super awkward when you actually found his father in peace walker.
    0 0
  • reiandcoke
    reiandcoke
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 4:05 pm
    Just have a story that makes some goddamn sense and I will be happy.
    1 1
  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 4:08 pm
    What's that? a video game developers actually taking risks?

    *looks outside*

    Why... the pig are flying lower then usual today.
    0 1
  • oblivion437
    oblivion437
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 4:56 pm
    I have a hard time believing Kojima. When it comes out we'll do a checklist of games which did whatever controversial things he's doing first, and whether or not they did them better.
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  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 6:06 pm
    Thank all the whiny politically correct "gamers" out there who let their "high standard morals" effect everything around us. It's people like them that prevent great games from getting released like this.
    0 1
  • MootCoffee
    MootCoffee
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2013 at 12:07 am
    What are you on about? Please explain, because this might be the silliest thing I've read in awhile.

    If the game isn't released, I'm blaming Kojima for being a pansy. But honestly I think he's just hitting the combo multiplier here. Bad press, good press, it's all press.
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  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Feb 25th, 2013 at 11:24 pm
    Gamers who get offended as the content that Kojima is talking about. There are gamers out there like that, also non-gamers when it gets exposed on Fox or mass media. That's what I'm talking about.
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  • SolidSevchinko78
    SolidSevchinko78
    Joined: Jun 2012
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 6:21 pm
    No! Kojima you can't tease that fantastic trailer to us and then unsure if your gonna not release it. Forget the taboos , release the game. Don't back down!!!
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  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000
    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 10:37 pm
    I'm calling this, right now. You'll shoot Chico in the face.
    0 0
  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 11:55 pm
    I say this would be good for the gaming world. Hopefully it can show anti-gaming people (and people like Roger Ebert) that video games are capable of more than excessive blood, gore, and big bouncy boobs. Let it show that video games can actually hit people on a deep emotional level* and telling stories that rival the greatest films and novels.

    *Aside, of course, from some things that only gamers might find moving. For example: incinerating your companion cube and all of the events in the backstory of the Aperture Science labs, and the death of Mordin in ME3. Those ones get me every time.
    0 0
  • oblivion437
    oblivion437
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2013 at 4:13 am
    You're assuming that people dedicated to opposing an entire medium (or calling it trash) are arguing in good faith and that solid evidence contrary to their assumptions and conclusions would give them pause to rethink their position. That's not the case. By definition anyone who says 'all X must go' or 'all X is garbage', whatever the medium, has already settled on the thesis, the standard, and the argument. Any empirical data which they will hear is either obviously in favor of their thesis, is neutral to it but therefore trivial, or it is hostile but with a bit of creative interpretation can be twisted to fit the thesis. It isn't that such a one has a conclusion and is thus inclined to support it as that they want to have that conclusion and are unwilling to reconsider it.
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  • Stickyellowsock
    Stickyellowsock
    Joined: Oct 2009
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2013 at 11:38 am
    Well I'm sure it will be fine since Hideo Kojima is so good at being subtle :P
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  • blake_peterson
    blake_peterson
    Joined: Oct 2011
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2013 at 11:59 am
    The initial trailer has a clearly tortured and out-of-it Chico plugging a walkman into what looks like an infected port carved into his chest, Videodrome or Lynch's Dune's heart-plug style. The Phantom Pain trailer (probably the same game) has a first person perspective of a character (Big Boss?) waking up in a hospital with an amputated forearm replaced by a prosthetic (in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Big Boss' limbs have been replaced following his "death" at the end of the original Metal Gear) and then spends the entire rest of the trailer crawling and stumbling while soldiers summarily execute the other patients.

    I'm a bit unsure where Kojima is going to go for more challenging and mature material. Is he going to make the video game version of Gaspar Noé's French Extreme film, Irreversible? Is the rest of it going to be a staid period drama based on a 19th century Russian novel? Will it all take place in Solid Snake's mind on his delirious deathbed?

    Whatever it is, I'll play it.
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  • JerryW
    JerryW
    Joined: Feb 2013
    Posted: Feb 24th, 2013 at 6:49 pm
    Hope he does not get censored too much. If the FCC tones it back here, maybe it will be possible to get international versions? Kojima might bring some attention to real things that are happening in the world if the game follows the lines of the demo videos we have seem. Hope he pulls it off.
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