119 Quotes by Hideo Kojima

I believe the game should really feel what the players are feeling and change according to that.

My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.

My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.'

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.

When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'

Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still the same, and that's not what they should be doing.