Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-58.172.124.48-20141005022154/@comment-25600718-20141102021732

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

SolidBiscuit wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

95.44.242.7 wrote: On a broader point, wouldn't it be great if someone released lots of trailers and images before a game came out that had nothing at all to do with the actual game? Even going so far as changing the genre? Don't you find the industry and the way it works tiresome? Always the same s***e with every game. A wee surprise would be good. They kind of did that with MGS2, and that proved to be a disaster. Supposedly it was post modern art. But we were all plebians and couldn't appreciate it.

Kojima later retconned that excuse, when explaining that Raiden happened because Kojima got a letter from a female fan stating that she wanted to play as a bishounen in the next game. That only explains why Raiden himself was created, not the marketing, so it's not really retconned. The marketing wasn't part of some post moderism either, it was simply because Kojima had a fair idea the game would sell less copies if the main character was announced before the gmae was released.

The plot was created around the character, and when it failed, Kojima just blamed everybody for being stupid.