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*wets pants*

It was inevitable: Hideo Kojima has revealed that he has "three concepts already" for Metal Gear Solid 5, despite saying MGS4 was his last game in the series (and MGS3, MGS2...)

However, Kojima told 1UP that - surprise, surprise - he doesn't want to work on any of his MGS5 ideas, and he'd rather leave the next games in the series to his younger staff.

"I would like to just make a new game, and the younger staff can work on the new MGS projects," he said. "For MGS5, it's very difficult to explain right now because we haven't announced anything.

"I have three concepts for MGS5 already. What would be ideal for me with MGS5, though, is that we don't do those. If the team picks one of those concepts, I have to get involved again, which I don't want to do."

Just as he's said for the last ten years, the Solid Snake creator says he'd rather leave the new ideas to the rest of Kojima Production so that he can work on new ideas... possibly bizarre ones, by the sound of it.

"I want to create something new, and it's difficult to explain since no one's seen it before," Kojima explained. "I don't know if it would sell very well. I've been warming this up for a long time, and I keep thinking that I'll try this idea. But ideas always change, so I really don't know what the final outcome will be.

"There are already so many good [MGS5] ideas from the staff, so if we select one of those, that would be really good. At that point I could really rely on them and take the step back to be the producer, which is the ideal situation, I think."

Personally if Kojima walks away from MGS, we'd rather not be disappointed by potential follow-ups from other staff. But if he's at the helm... yeah, go on then - we'll have on more MGS, ta.

So it's another MGS game, possibly without Kojima at the wheel. I honestly wouldn't mind, as long as Kojima gives guidance and oversees the project. Is that too much to ask??

Im very interested in this new project kojima wants to make. What is that about?

Hopefully the rest of the staff can create a MGS that will live up to the legacy Kojima left behind.

ZOMGMGS5DOWANT!

Very this.

I thinkthey sort of need Kojima to feed them into the new story, if he's at the sidelines, then I guess that'll be fine, I just don't want the next Metal Gear to be TOO different, I want my sneaking.

There wasn't exactly much sneaking in MGS4.

Yes there was, Big Boss emblem run was SO fun!

That wasn't a forced part of the game. Don't get me wrong, I loved MGS4. But it wasn't as much as a stealth game as MGS1, 2 and 3.

I'm completely the opposite. I hate the stealth missions and that's mainly why I never got into the other Metal Gear Solid games. This sounds pretty cool though and hopefully it's true.

As long as its more like MGS1 <3

What exactly was Kojima's role in MGS4? I guess I'm just wondering, how hands off could he be while still maintaining HIS vision of it? You know, so he could still work on his new project buy also be overseeing MGS5...

Yea, I get what you're saying, still it's fun to play as a sneaking game obviously and not an FPS like some people do.

He's just paid to stand there and act as inspiration.

He is credited as the "Voice of God" in MGS4.

But seriously, in MGS4 Kojima is credited for: Game Designer, Producer and Director. In MGS3 for: Director. In MGS2 for: Director and Writer. And in MGS1 for: Producer, Director and Writer.

So he's pretty important in the concept process. And just generally overseeing the progress of the game.