{"id":19203,"date":"2025-06-19T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/were-all-connected-but-its-not-the-connection-i-imagined-hideo-kojima-on-death-stranding-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:37:58","slug":"were-all-connected-but-its-not-the-connection-i-imagined-hideo-kojima-on-death-stranding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/were-all-connected-but-its-not-the-connection-i-imagined-hideo-kojima-on-death-stranding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re all connected \u2013 but it\u2019s not the connection I imagined\u2019: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to space<\/p>\n

Hideo Kojima \u2013 the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as \u201c2019\u2019s most interesting blockbuster\u201d<\/a> \u2013 is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. \u201cGeorge [Miller] is my sensei, my God,\u201d he proclaims gleefully.<\/p>\n

Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima \u201calmost my brother\u201d; the Australian even lent his appearance to a major character in Kojima\u2019s latest game, Death Stranding 2.<\/p>\n

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\nThe legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to space
\nHideo Kojima \u2013 the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as \u201c2019\u2019s most interesting blockbuster\u201d \u2013 is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. \u201cGeorge [Miller] is my sensei, my God,\u201d he proclaims gleefully.
\nKojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima \u201calmost my brother\u201d; the Australian even lent his appearance to a major character in Kojima\u2019s latest game, Death Stranding 2. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to space Hideo Kojima \u2013 the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, …<\/p>\n

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