It’s Half A Year On And I’m Still Hurting: Hideo Kojima, The Eurogamer Expo, And Me

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30:28 GMT

Source: www.thesixthaxis.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
With tickets nearly sold out for this year’s Eurogamer Expo in London, and new details about Metal Gear Solid V out in the wild, I was recently reminded of a rather upsetting event that occurred to me during the 2012 Expo. I’ve withheld from writing about it for a while, as I wanted to give myself breathing room to absorb, reflect, and compose my thoughts properly, but I figured an eight month respite would probably be enough. I should say straight from the off that this isn’t a traumatic story in the traditional sense. There are no “triggers” here, unless you’re a fan of Metal Gear. Here’s the setup: I was to watch the presentation of Ground Zeroes at Eurogamer Expo, on a lovely big screen, surrounded by lots of fans, and I’d be in the same room as the mythical Hideo Kojima. I didn’t meet him face-to-face of course, he was probably far too busy for an interview with little old me; Konami never acknowledged my request for one anyway. But I worship at the altar of Kojima, and I had it in my head that I was going to see this man, in the flesh, before the games industry killed me through a heady combination of caffeine toxicity and stress. A light amount of “don’t you know who I am” posturing combined with three years of a BA in Acting to get me into the queue that had for some time now been “completely full”, as the nice lady chaperoning gamers noted. I was fast tracked to near the front, and I could see the tallest games journo in ...