Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls, with Hideo Kojima

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

“It has nothing to do with me. Metal Gear is espionage with political fiction. There’s no reason that zombies would show up. This is how I see it.”

Hideo Kojima – he of the photosynthetic sniper girl, boss made of bees and suicidal sentient mech – is all about realism, you know

“It was consistent with Dracula’s set of abilities in the literature. Dracula has always been able to transform into a creature of the night. So we did it. Clearly, we were wrong.”

Lords Of Shadow 2 creative director Enric Alvarez on those awful rat-stealth bits

“I understand some of the criticisms Sean Murray is getting… It wasn’t a great strategy, because he didn’t have a PR person helping him.”

Shuhei Yoshida reminds us that if you really need to fib, get the professionals in

“There are a lot of caveats they’re giving customers right now around 4K… There are a lot of asterisks in their marketing. I know that 4.2 teraflops is not enough to do true 4K.”

Funny how power matters now Scorpio’s on the horizon, isn’t it, Xbox’s Albert Penello?