Development issues

Did the story of what exactly happened to this game during development ever come out?

Someone post that image of Kojima smoking weed and Konami's building on fire.

The story is (according to KojimaPro themselves) complete. The only thing up for debate is mission 51, but it's not like MGS hasn't always had cliffhangers.

i want to beleive

This seems legit to me and this is exactly what I'm talking about. The game is obviously far from complete like they quickly cobbled together a semi-coherent game from whatever was left over after a massive cutback.

It really hit me when that metal-gear huey builds turned out to be unusuable by the player.

Why exactly did konami choose to fire kojima?

because he spent 6 years and nearly half a billion dollars on a game engine.
Kojima is a hack, a very expensive hack.
Also, this was around the time when konami wanted to drop out of console games, so they tried their hardest to force the game out the door and then did the japanese thing where you make an employee uncomfortable with his shitty job so he quits on his own instead of firing him.

kojima spent the budget and time on useless things

It was 80 million and that's not much compared to some other AAA games like GTAV which had 100+ million budget not including marketing which was meh even as a final product.Though it's true Kojima was doing retarded shit and Konami didn't expect the game to sell this well so they kicked him.

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>still no pacifier in her mouth
what's the use

someone on Sup Forums with a terrible fetish? I'm shocked!!!

Gotchu senpai

This.

Aside from trying to get some kind of confession from Kojima, we'll never know how the game deviates from his vision for it. I doubt it's as severely unfinished as people want to believe to continue their fantasies, though.

heres kojima snorting coke off some strange apparatus

it still hurts

>Aside from trying to get some kind of confession from Kojima, we'll never know how the game deviates from his vision for it. I doubt it's as severely unfinished as people want to believe to continue their fantasies, though.
I think from a a gameplay point of view the game is clearly unfinished.

But in terms of canon and story? Nah, everything they couldn't put in a cutscene or mission they put in a tape.

Best thing, that fire at Konami was real, and Kojima probably started it, that weed smoking faggot

The basic gameplay yes, but it's likely that the metal gear that you build in mother base was originally meant to be playable. Maybe even sahelanthropus using the Boss AI pod.

They can't let you pilot a proper metal gear in mgs4 and blueball everyone in 5.

He gets a pass for this

Someone should get on it and put a documentary together one day

Whatever agreement the relevant people signed will expire eventually and they'll be able to talk about it.

Can't wait for that day. This game had the most fascinatingly troubled development cycle

These contracts don't expire.

at least he can do what he wants with his next game

Basically Kojima gave himself waaay too much dominion at Konami and didn't mind budget constraints. They kind of just released the game as it and let him go.

IMO kojima got lucky with metal gear. James bond+rambo was a winning combination and he's already killed any enthusiasm I had for his future work with that pregnant dudes bullshit.

No way someone would bullshit this. It's pretty fuckin detailed.

GTAV literally sold twenty times more