If you're in the video game biz or simply read the media a lot, chances are you recognize the name Hideo Kojima as the brain behind the Metal Gear series. Well as it turns out, that isn't what he wants. After MGS 4, Kojima handed off Metal Gear Rising to Platinum Games and got to work on MGS: Ground Zeroes, further solidifying his rep as "the Metal Gear guy."

"I'm often misinterpreted," Kojima said. "I've always said that I wanted to work on original properties, but Metal Gear offers plenty of benefits.

"The Fox Engine, for example, took a lot of time and money [to create]. We were only able to develop it because it was intended for the next Metal Gear. 

"In the next game, I'm introducing concepts intended for entirely new intellectual properties using the Metal Gear brand."

Kojima has directed 16 Metal Gear games and has served as a producer on many he didn't direct.

"I'll admit that I hope my future endeavours are thought of as 'works by Hideo Kojima' rather than 'from the creator of Metal Gear,' he also said.

"I haven't really shown the world what else I might be capable of yet. This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do."

[Via EGM]

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