Hideo Kojima left Konami and the Steel Gear sequence he created 9 years in the past, however for the individual now producing the franchise it could be a “dream” to have the legendary developer again within the fold.
As reported by VGC, Konami’s Steel Gear sequence producer Noriaki Okamura stated on a latest livestream printed to YouTube that, personally talking, he’d like to work with Kojima once more on Steel Gear.
“However simply talking for myself, personally, I’d like nothing higher than to work with Mr. Kojima and the remainder of the crew once more,” Okamura stated. “If that might occur, that might be the dream.
“However individuals have moved on to new issues and new commitments, and that’s simply our present actuality. We are able to’t simply take it with no consideration that everybody would work with us once more, or let ourselves be utterly depending on them.”
In fact, it appears extraordinarily unlikely that Hideo Kojima will work on Steel Gear once more after his high-profile exit from Konami amid the launch of Steel Gear Strong 5 in September 2015. Kojima went on to take his studio, Kojima Productions, into new mental property territory with the discharge of Loss of life Stranding, and is now engaged on a sequel amongst a variety of different tasks. There’s even a Loss of life Stranding film within the works.
Maybe aware of that, Okamura stated it was as much as Konami’s in-house Steel Gear crew to do a very good job with new entries within the sequence, together with the upcoming Steel Gear Strong 3 remake, which was the main focus of the livestream.
Steel Gear Strong Δ: Snake Eater, because it’s recognized, is claimed to be a trustworthy remake of 2004’s Steel Gear Strong 3, a lot in order that Konami is not even planning on recording new voice strains for it. Regardless of that, the Delta image within the title of the remake is supposed to spotlight “‘change’ or ‘distinction’ with out altering construction,” Konami beforehand defined.
In the meantime, Okamura confirmed Kojima and the unique employees will likely be credited within the Unreal Engine 5-powered remake, as they had been in final 12 months’s Steel Gear Strong: Grasp Assortment Vol. 1.
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