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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1952 Joined: 9 Apr 2008     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 876 Joined: 4 Jun 2008     | I just lost a lot of respect for Kojima. :( |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 830 Joined: 21 Feb 2008    | Of course he's a fan. Stephanie Meyer is to vampires what Hideo Kojima is to war, politics, history, medicine, science, physics, genetics, the military, government agencies, weapons of mass destruction, war profiteering, pretty much anything related to the United States, and sense. By the way, everyone knows that vampires sparkle in sunlight because of nanomachines and Edward Cullen is only broody because his twin brother got all of the superior dominant genes of their father, while Edward got the flawed recessive genes. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1925 Joined: 20 Jul 2008    | Interesting to see that he took such an interest in the books considering he himself made up a character like Vamp. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2044 Joined: 7 Sep 2008   |
Metal Gear Rex sparkling in the sun that shoots beams of wangst. EDIT:
My God, that was awesome! |
Beat Writer Posts: 210 Joined: 18 Aug 2008 | This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone except those blinded fanboyism. Put Twilight in a sci-fi setting and throw in some pseudo-philosophical techno-babble and you'd basically have a Kojima story.
Man, I was totally going to say something like this, but you beat me to it =) |
Muckraker  Posts: 315 Joined: 4 Jul 2009     |
My feelings exactly. It's clear Hideo thinks of himself like some writing-genius or pop-star, he should fit right in with Stephanie Myers. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 61 Joined: 27 Feb 2009  | Protip: Watch Twilight with Rifftrax commentary. Goes from soul-wrenching terror to gut-wrenching fits of hysterical laughter :D |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 110 Joined: 29 Apr 2009   | HOLY SH*T!!! this is a bad sign! if they've become fans of something that is unbelieveably shit, what hope have we got that others won't follow suit!??? |
On the Record  Posts: 5179 Joined: 13 Dec 2008    |
I don't think we need to worry about that. See, everyone thinks that Hideo Kojima is one of the kings of the gaming industry. And he is. So it's nice to see that someone so important within one of the industries so against Twilight, actually has no problems with it. I like Twilight myself. I'm aware of its faults and yet I still like it. So it's good to see someone like Kojima confessing to a love of something like Twilight as well, especially when you consider that gamers seem to be among the largest groups of people who denounce Twilight and want to murder Stephanie Meyer and Rob Pattinson... Although, as a side note, I can't believe that the News team, the actual staff, had the idea to post a Twilight-related thread in the News Room. Surely the staff would be aware that it's flame bait of the highest magnitude? Any comments on this, staff of Themis Media? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3607 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | Woah, really? Kinda... odd. |
Games Editor  Posts: 4271 Joined: 20 Dec 2005     |
What, and pass up the chance to photoshop Robert Pattinson on top of The Duck? |
On the Record Posts: 5179 Joined: 13 Dec 2008 |
Admittedly, that was pretty funny. I might like the film, but that doesn't mean I'm a big Rob Pattinson fan. I much prefer Ashley Greeme. Alice Cullen FTW ;D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2383 Joined: 5 May 2008   | And this is why we can't have nice things. |
News Room Contributor  Posts: 2410 Joined: 11 Sep 2008     | The best picture. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 146 Joined: 10 Sep 2008   | I never really liked Hideos' games but there's no denying he's a game design genius (or something) but even I have lost some respect for this man. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2310 Joined: 16 Feb 2009  | I must quote The Spoony One from his Final Fantasy VIII review; "These are your man cards, if you even WATCHED this, I'm taking them away." |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1336 Joined: 9 Jan 2009  | I'm curious. How many people who hate the books have actually read them? (I haven't read them and don't plan to, but I won't hate it until I have read them). Bandwagon much? "OH MY GOD, KOJIMA LIKES TWILIGHT! HE SUCKS NOW! I DENOUNCE METAL GEAR FROM MY COLLECTION!" Right? So, Kojima. Vamp is dead for real, right? Don't bring in a sparkly replacement (half tongue-in-cheek). |
Beat Writer Posts: 146 Joined: 10 Sep 2008 |
Just read one and you'll get the idea, I couldn't even read past chapter 3 because the book sucks so bad. I care about the main characters but Bella, good God, she will make you hate the books. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 895 Joined: 14 Apr 2009     | Seeing everyone's head explode over this is so funny. It's funny to see people turn on someone for a simple little thing. He likes a series of books that you don't. Seriously, it's no big deal. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3433 Joined: 16 May 2009    | I would think of all the people in the world, Hideo Kojima could figure out that Twilight is an extremely poorly written fanfiction for some crappy vampire story, but instead, he's a "huge fan?" What? He's created one of the best game series of all time that has an extremely deep and smart story line, yet, he likes this tween bullshit? |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 20 Aug 2009   | He's just judging an art contest, probably got paid huge amounts for it. Then again, I've never played much MGS 4 either. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1726 Joined: 16 Mar 2009  | He always did have a bit of a homo flare. Look at Vamp and Volgan. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 168 Joined: 8 Sep 2008   | Shit. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 143 Joined: 10 Apr 2008   |
Let's just say that I lack the mental flexibility at times to come by true ideas as oppose that what the marketing machines hammered into my mind at the time. Which was not that fun when I first heard about the stories. At all. *shiver* |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 73 Joined: 11 Sep 2009  | I really don't understand how anyone can like those books. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 691 Joined: 17 Dec 2008 | I say this is reason enough to boycott his games. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 412 Joined: 24 Oct 2009 |
damn too late... just had the perfect idea. Oh well. lol |
Paperboy Posts: 33 Joined: 10 Aug 2009   | What's with all the bashing of Kojima just because he likes a book series? That's kinda messed up. |
Muckraker  Posts: 242 Joined: 21 Sep 2009 | You know, the plot for Twilight would fit right into the Metal Gear series it's already confusingly impossible to follow after all. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 938 Joined: 15 Apr 2009   | tea and crumpets *monocle falls out*, the writer of an badly written confusing story enjoys another badly written confusing story, my word. i love how gamers can accept MGS incredibly insane story (and allot of other insane stories from games) but vampires that sparkle? RAAAAAGE!! |
Time Lord  Posts: 10099 Joined: 13 Feb 2008    |
Were that it was only that. Before you get to the entire Venom sperm, spine breaking Caesarian, PotC romance swaps and hissy fits thrown over the movie. Oh, and I loathe MGS as well. Bring on the flames.
The real mind-shattering fear is that most of the readers believe; and either Meyer is a subtle act comparably to Machiavelli; or she BELIEVES as well. |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 25 Oct 2009 | Um... Woah... Um... Never saw that coming... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 417 Joined: 1 Apr 2009   | There by proving that Kojima doesn't know good writing. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1862 Joined: 7 Jul 2008     | Thank goodness he finally killed off |
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I would agree. Except for that second book. That was just plain tedious. The last one made up for it though: she must've been in the opium at that point.
The movie was hilarious.
I can see Kojima being into those books; like his games, they're very (mostly) character driven.