Domo aligato Mr. Hideo

[McChicken]

Poor little guy seems to have lost his mind...

If you allow me to express the three hardware platforms in a funny example, PS3 would be like a dinner that you only have once a year or twice a year on your anniversary etc.

Xbox 360 will still be a special dinner so you might go there two or three times a month on the weekend or Revolution is the kind of great dinner that you have everyday at your home. What I want to emphasize is that all three are dinners meaning that they have a salad, they have a soup and maybe have a dessert but they are a little differently, maybe other dinners have two salads or two appetizers or maybe extra coffee on top of that. The point is that they are all individualistic dinners. So if they are all dinners, like a steak dinner, the choice is up to the users and the game designers at the same time.

Source : Boomtown / Kotaku

[Savage Cabbage]

You just can't argue with that sort of wisdom. Hideo-san is like, such an uber gee-ni-ousssss, don't you think? Like.

I for my part enjoy a breaded mushroom in garlic creme as a starter. The salad is best served with buffalo cheese....Or horse.

[Roderick]

I can't follow a word he said. It MUST be genius!

[lailoken]

judging by the video he put out earlier I think the guy is lost... a lost genious... also he doesn't even go into desserts! what's up with that! THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE DINNER

EDIT: Oh and what about breakfast and elevensies and brunch and lunch and tea?

[MrHoatzin]

I think he was going for that Mark Twainism: "The works of great writers are like wine, mine are like water. But everybody drinks water," and then lost his way in the middle of the metaphor.

[lailoken]

yeah or that great one from Douglas Adams about the evolution of men... and dinners... unfortunately I find myself unable to quote from memory here... but that Mark Twain one is really nice

[Dingo Chavez]

Cool! I get to use my deciphering skill to make sense of this.

Okay, here we go:

...PS3 would be like a dinner that you only have once a year or twice a year on your anniversary etc.

Dingo's interpretation: The "PS3" (as he calls it) has a bommerang for a controller, as most of us established in its thread. So what he's actually saying is: I us a bommerang to hunt my dinners once or twice a year or on an anniversary. Just like MGS3 except with a bommerang and less frequently.

Xbox 360 will still be a special dinner so you might go there two or three times a month on the weekend...

Dingo's interpretation: X means: Xtreme. 360 means: same as before (you already know that, but still). Interpretation: I will make a 360 in my restaurant choice, as such, I will frequent the same restaurant, it's an Xtreme restaurant that also has an underground cellar, I think it's interesting that it has an underground cellar. (But it's still no Chris Remo http://www.idlethumbs.net/display.php?id=170, nope, nothing is as Xtreme as Chris Remo, but that's not related to this.)

Revolution is the kind of great dinner that you have everyday at your home.

Dingo's interpretation: Hideo Kojima has a vast knowledge of military tactics, politics, and social relations with the world. As a result he's probably in a position to start a Japanese revolution and will become its ruler. (He also means: Nintendo's Revolution is going to be great.)

So what does all this nonsense means?

Hideo Kojima will start an Xtreme revolution with bommerangs. He will start as a speaker in an undeground cellar, later he will win the people's heart, equip them with bommerangs, and start a revolution, becoming Japan's emperor and prime minister. He's one ambitious fellow. He will be considered to be a genius emperor/prime minister with a lot of cut scenes, chessy dialogue, and conspiracies.

Oddly enough, the world won't know of his contributions to Japan, for such is the life of a Snake.

And there you have it.

[netmonkey]

Did you see that MGS4 Trailer? The thing I don't like about MGS is that it has the potential to be a serious game with a great storyline and it's disgraced with childish lines and just random nonsense. Some of the things that I've seen remind me of 14 year olds trying to make monkey island or space quest references in their serious indepenedent adventure games (and that of course includes me, but I wasn't a professional game designer 8 years ago nor now.) leading to a mixed bag of trash.

[Dingo Chavez]

I don't think the MGS4 movie was a trailer, it's just another commercial claiming Kojima's superiority over his co-workers. That's really what I hate about the guy, he has an outstanding team that is over shadowed by his ubiquitous name and rarely get the credit for their hard work.

I agree with you, netmonkey, I also mentioned the same thing various times (I think). The dialogue is just sad, the characters are laughable at times, and it tries too hard to be a chessy B-Hollywood-movie. It's a fun game, it's a shame they almost ruin it with those things.

[MrHoatzin]

Did you see that MGS4 Trailer? The thing I don't like about MGS is that it has the potential to be a serious game with a great storyline and it's disgraced with childish lines and just random nonsense. Some of the things that I've seen remind me of 14 year olds trying to make monkey island or space quest references in their serious indepenedent adventure games (and that of course includes me, but I wasn't a professional game designer 8 years ago nor now.) leading to a mixed bag of trash.

Oh, man! Oh, MAN! I stood in front of that video for ten minutes dumbfounded! It was so awful! Why did it have a canned laugh track?! What was it all about?! Why does Snake still walk like he crapped his pants?! WHy, oh, why?!