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Bluerock wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: He certainly did harbor such ill will with the NES version, even when some of the changes were for pragmatic reasons. He actually breached Japanese politeness to make clear his hatred for that game twice. And quite frankly, when he goes out of his way to erase anything not made by him and treat them as non-existent even when they actually TRY to keep continuity unlike him, that's essentially the same thing.

And I'm not even thinking extremist fundamentalism, I'm thinking more along the lines of how, say, Commander Red treats even those who fail to dodge his cat ("The last person to walk through that door lost an eye. Needless to say, he's no longer with us."), or how Ernst Blofeld does things with his henchmen. I also thought the NES version was "crappy." I'm not going to kill the developers because I didn't like it. What an unhealthy line of thinking.

Kojima didn't erase anything, he just didn't acknowledge things he hadn't written himself. That doesn't mean he "hated" the games, or that they didn't "happen," he just felt they didn't fit in with his story. So don't twist the facts because of your personal disagreement over his creative direction. It's very unprofessional.

Blofeld and Commander Red? This isn't even worth a response. Ah, yeah, actually, he DID hate the games he didn't make, or have you forgotten that each one of the entries that weren't made by him, he had Miller acting as if he never heard of it (and this is DESPITE the Jamais Vu mission featuring references to Rising, INCLUDING, I should add, playing as Raiden himself), not to mention the fact that he didn't even include them in the Legacy Collection or claiming only his games are what mattered, even when he had absolutely no problem including the DGN for MGS1 and MGS2 despite their clearly not being made by him (and don't give me the whole "it's to have people follow the storyline if it's too hard for them" excuse he gave. 1. People have access to the internet to follow the storyline anyways, so that shouldn't matter in either way, and 2., if he was true to his word about it only including games HE made, he wouldn't have included them in the first place specifically BECAUSE they weren't made by him, regardless of whether it makes people follow the story [and besides, the DGN for MGS2 doesn't even follow the story of MGS2 at all, so if anything it's feeding the fans a spoonful of lies].)? I'm not twisting anything, I'm citing EXACTLY what he has stated and demonstrated in his actions and words.

Him simply not making the games is NOT an excuse to treat them like dirt and encouraging people to ignore them. The guy who made the Mega Man franchise never made Mega Man X6, and in fact, it was largely made without his permission. Did he end up disowning it and treating it like crap? No. He not only counted it as canon nonetheless, but he even went as far as to modify his Mega Man Zero concept specifically to take into account X6. That's a man who actually DOES have respect even to those who make games without his input, something Kojima isn't despite his claims to being that.

I may not have much liking to the NES version myself, but guess what, at least I won't insult the people who made the game and ruthlessly destroy their work, UNLIKE Kojima. And I certainly won't deny their being canon or tell people to ignore them if they at least fit into the chronology.