I\'m with Blade (and Ashford - as I think MGS stinks). Kojima is extremely overrated, when a lot of top creative minds are either under-rated or just overlooked, take your pick.
Now I am not saying Kojima stinks, how could I when he did create games like Snatcher? I am saying Kojima\'s fruits (MGS & MGS2) have been highly overrated and in doin\' so, he was over-rated.
Kojima has openly spoken out about how he wanted to be a film director but apparently couldn\'t be for whatever reason. So, instead of making games , he focuses on making interactive movies. Sure, the gameplay that includes is usually good, but the overall product, at least 75% is nothing more than cut scenes and terribly written stories.
Now we see Kojima has risen to Vice President (I think that is his new status) at Konami and we also see what happened when he got all the negative feedback of MGS2. He went and rehashed it a couple times and after that, he plans on rehashing MGS. He has simply ran out of idea\'s. Why else would he include Snake in a skateboarding game? Why else would he try to come up with 40 different versions of MGS2 and 40 different ways to market it? And if you are asking why I am bothering even saying it is important that he has ran out of idea\'s..Well, for one reason. The great creative minds in this industry (Miyamoto, Suzuki, Molyneux and etc) keep coming up with great games and great new idea\'s. Most of all, their games focus on one thing..gameplay and that my friend, is the test of a true creative developer. Sadly, I just don\'t think Kojima falls into that catergory.