#hideo kojima name

[limbobilbo]

“I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards”

-Hideo ‘creator of characters fatman, heartman and revolver ocelot’ Kojima

[overcastedsays]

for the other half of this chaos caused by my clone, I got:

Ego Drawer

Serrated Choking and Dying

THE Choking and Dying

Capricorn Porcellio Laevis

and finally, Cowboy Greatest

I highly suggest doing this with friends, the more the better.

HAPPY NATIONAL NAME YOURSELF DAY!

This is a holiday that has its roots deep in the past and far flung affects waiting to be discovered in the future, so what better way to celebrate than making a name based off one’s self? Kojima, that’s what! Instead of naming yourself by what you want, as I a trans idiot have already done (thereby making this holiday sort of a mute point), I decided to hell with it and remembered an unraveled from years past.

Introducing BDG’s Kojima Name Generator!

Here we can make our names based off the person that knows us best; Hideo Kojima!

I learned many things about myself this year, such as my names (and also the fact that I’m apparently a clone of @overcastedsays ) , so without any further ado here’s what I got;

EGO Teacher

[Explicit name for male genitalia] Chocking and dying

Mini Daschund

Cancer Porcellio Laevis

The Choking and dying

And finally,

Cowboy writing

Till next year fellow tumblr residents

(Also here’s the OG video)

[chiralcrystallization]

i think we all know who is the REAL main character in DS2 ...🐾

when Tarkitty said "mew!" ..i felt that..

[benthesoldiersjeanshorts]

[otaasune]

Watching any cult classic film as an MGS fan is a case of pointing at the screen and going "Kojima used that for Metal Gear Solid too!?"

[burnadicarwoz]

Finding a hard way to put into words how something as simple as Sam bridges backwards baseball cap in death stranding 2 conveys a level of down time and humour that not only makes hideo kojima games unique but is also the key thing that can cause any video game indie or AAA to feel drab and liveless without it

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Something I've been considering recently: the big storytelling difference between Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro.

There's an obvious reason I've been thinking about this, I feel: both these guys are, on the surface, exceedingly similar. They're both well-known Japanese video game creators*, they're both known for their eccentricities, they both tell stories that run the razor-thin line between 'Violence is corrupting and immoral' and 'Okay, but that bit of violence was pretty sick, right?' really well, as well as throwing in some really funny 'Hey, what the fuck did I just watch?' energy, hell they even both had a game in their series directed by Platinum Games, I don't especially think this is an overreach, here.

But they are different creators, and I've been thinking about their differences (specifically in storytelling - obviously one makes Action-RPGs and one makes Stealth Games and Baby Postman Simulators) as I play MGS3 and Nier Replicant, and I think I've come down to this: it's in how they condemn violence, and especially war.

Kojima bases all of his stories in reality - a heightened reality, perhaps, but there's a reason multiple MGS games end with long lists of dates and events, Kojima's made-up ones slipped in-between the actual history. Kojima bases his critiques on things that are real and tangible - MGS3 itself, more than any bee-wielding supervillain or photosynthetic sniper, is about the Cold War, and it's no accident that the Boss' speech at the end isn't about the Philosophers, or Volgin, or Metal Gear (METAL GEAR?) it's about soldiers, their fates and their traumas. Kojima lives in the world of... not exactly reality, but allegory-through-reality, and it makes his games pretty explicit in their messaging - which in my mind is a good thing, because it means that people who fundamentally misunderstand MGS aren't just wrong, they're obviously wrong - show me an MGS fan who thinks they're pro-America and pro-military, and I'll show you someone who did not pay attention to MGS.

Yoko Taro, on the other hand, is entirely a creature of allegory. Yoko himself has said in interviews that he tells stories primarily as a way to get people to feel something, and all other things like connections to the other games or even internal consistency comes as a secondary concern (as someone who's tried multiple times to tie everything Drakenier related together - that's believable.) As an inevitable result of this, his stories aren't really 1:1 parallels to history or the modern day, they're very general conflicts that speak to a wide range of topics.

Put it this way: in MGS4, Kojima describes in great detail a situation that is the natural endpoint of the geo-political situation (especially re: America) during most of the early 21st Century, especially The War on Terror - instead of war being a means of obtaining resources to generate income for big corporations, now war is the means of income, and all the inherent flaws of American late-stage capitalism have been applied to it - to the point that soldiers have to pay extra to use someone else's gun. It's a heightened, at times absurd version of reality, but it focuses on specific issues and flaws with the subject matter - The War on Terror, and through them highlights issues with our current world - hell, Kojima may have predicted some of the issue we currently face with capitalism.

In Nier Automata, however, Yoko doesn't present an exaggeration of a real-world conflict to portray it's flaws and its hopelessness. Instead, he constructs an entirely hopeless war, a war that is literally pointless on every side, and explores how people react to that. As opposed to Kojima's slight exaggeration of the War on Terror, by the end of Automata Yoko has presented a proxy war fought on behalf of two races that died off millennia ago, between two groups that are, at their core, exactly the same, made from the same components, fought on one side because of a poorly worded instruction from their creators that necessitates eternal total war as a basic fact of their evolutionary cycle but also inevitably results in their evolutions being violently purged because any form of passivity is betrayal, and on the other as a grand Machiavellian scheme to kill off their own troops, thereby concealing the deaths of their creators – a scheme, it’s worth noting, conceived of by an android that no longer remembers conceiving it, because his own scheme necessitates his constant assassination by the person he cares about the most to prevent him from discovering his own plan. Kojima's wars in MGS4 are absurd and pointless for us because we know what the results of the War on Terror were, Yoko's war in Automata is kinda like an onion - every layer you peel back on it, you discover a new way that it's pointless, and every time you do, you're crying a little bit more.

So, wrapping this up before people realise I just used the ultimate cliche of poorly-worded food metaphors, if you were to ask me what the big difference between Yoko Taro and Hideo Kojima was... well, I'd still go with the gameplay genres, but I'd also say that it's a slight, but really interesting, difference in how they go about their metaphors. As for which is better... neither, obviously. They're both really talented creators, this is just a style thing. You seriously expect me to choose between a series that includes 'a man pretended to be possessed by the ghost of his crush's son because he grafted his arm onto him and everyone bought it' and a series that includes 'at some point the Earth stopped spinning. This has never been explained in any of the games'? What are you, a cop?

*albeit if Yoko ever heard someone compare him to Kojima he'd probably simultaneously die of embarrassment and make a joke about being a younger, hotter Kojima.

[imadhatt3r]

Given how much Kojima respects George Miler, do you think that this means that his DS2 character will be in more or less homoerotic scenes

[lavenderkyn]

Saul Goodman could be a Kojima character to me if you even care.

[elfpylon]

I WONDER IF HE LIKES CHILDREN OF BODOM OMGGGGGGGGGG

[breezeinmonochromenight]

Tbh when I saw white-haired Sam I thought its timefall effect. Then I rewatch the trailer and wait, Fragile's skin not wrinkly? Or is she a different character?

It’s Kojima lol. It could literally be explained away in one or two lines of throwaway dialogue or it could be some of the wildest bullshit you’ve ever heard and integral to the plot. You never know with him.

[honkytonk-hangman]

First group of friends I had post highschool were all pretty differently staged nerds, but we’d all kinda been left together from an older group of friends that sucked.

One of the more nerdy guys we both really loved metal gear solid. The other in the group were the sort of friends who will absolutely listen to you rant and will always become invested— but invested because of ur love not their own. Anyway idk remember why but we all went on a weekend cabin trip and you know, we called the event Metal Gear: So Many Winery.

No one really got the joke — like it was objective not that funt and not at all funny if ur not into metal gear as a concept? But it caught on like crazy, it was just what we called our social outings it was barely a joke anymore lol

So, my favourite and most cherish memory of this thing, was when we decided to actually sit down and play Snake Eater on our mates Ps2. And then we thought like, wow it’s happening at last, we should get formal. So… we did, and we COMMITTED

We ended up having corsages, asking each other to be our dates (there were five of us and two were siblings so I took them as the responsible bisexual present) and we took pictures together in the house we hosted at, their parents did a full shoot for us, and then we all shuffled into the back of the house in our full prom suits and dresses, and we played Snake Eater start to finish.

I haven’t spoken to that group for about ten years, but i think I will try and get everyone together once again, old pics below,

Metal Gear Prom you were everything

Pics!⬇️

My friends and I used to do this thing where we'd dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.

We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.

We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.

We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, "toga! Toga! Toga!" at us.

We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.

[chiralcrystallization]

[tamamita]

Oh I get it now. He's called Hideo Kojima because his parents named him that

[cynicaesura]

Had a dream that Hideo Kojima changed his Twitter bio to add "she/he" pronouns

[maxtrickey]

Atomicus Bombman

Boom Hardsplosion

Niam Ura²³⁵

Bangula Fissionè

Oppenheimer would have been a better movie if all the famous physicists were introduced like Hideo Kojima characters with their names on screen