After Konami pushed him out during the development of Metal Gear Solid 5, Kojima started his own production studio and has slowly been teasing trailers for his next game, Death Stranding, starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, and Guillermo del Toro. But when he worked on the Metal Gear Solid series, he was often reigned in by higher-ups at Konami. In other words, Kojima is the reigning mad genius of video games. (Cooler heads successfully argued that there needed to be some other way to beat him, though you can still just not play the game for a week and come back and find that The End has died.)
In Metal Gear Solid 3, there’s a deadly but very elderly sniper called The End - and in Kojima’s original vision, the only way to win was to wait one or two weeks in real time until he passed away from old age. In Metal Gear Solid, a boss with psychic powers would read the memory card on your PS1 and mock you for other games you had played, and the only way to defeat his mind-reading abilities was to switch which port you plugged your controller into. The same can’t be said for all the other titles, but here’s what we’re most looking forward to this year nevertheless.ĭirector Hideo Kojima has a long history of wild ideas. It shows up again here, and we’re pretty sure it’ll hit shelves this time around. There’s a 100 percent chance some of the games below will get delayed - after all, we put Red Dead Redemption 2 on our 2017 Most Anticipated list. So it’s gonna be tough for 2018 to live up to all that.īut the new year still promises some extremely intriguing releases, including a new title from Grand Theft Auto publisher Rockstar and complete moonshots like the PS4’s “make your own game as you go” title Dreams. You could easily spend 2018 just getting through the backlog of what you missed in 2017 and still only being playing really, really high-quality stuff.
There was at least one game released ( Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) that will live on “Greatest Games of All Time” lists for a long time to come, and plenty more that will hold their top spots on Metacritic for the foreseeable future. 2017 was an annus mirabilis for video games.