Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater

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Originally Posted by NARMAK

Yeah, i remember reading about how Konami lost their patience with how long Kojima had taken and the goodwill from the sales of Ground Zeroes began to dry.

Ultimately i think Kojima has talent, but he's an individual who takes too long. I would actually argue he's like Kaz from Polyphony in that respect and takes the mick in developing the games. We never got an entire Gran Turismo mainline entry for PS4 till practically the very last burn of the life cycles. With Kojima, i feel he also seems to lack a certain sense of timescale adherence.

Kojima left Konami and went independent. Then released an entirely new IP in roughly three years. That is insane in regards to game development for a brand new IP. So no MGS V was not in anyway a fault of Kojima. Konami was constantly back-seating his development forcing him to make changes and cut things at a moment notice. Game development is not easy and the longer a game takes the better. The game is a masterpiece for what was released. If Konami let him finish the game it would have been even more-so. THE MGS franchise is nothing without Kojima.

For clarity sake. Horizon Zero Dawn took six years to develop. MGS 5 took roughly the same amount of time given they re-did the entire engine for the game.