i dunno man, he's just a guy making games. i heard about the silly Kojima fest at the video game conference today but i decided against reading anything about it cos i just knew it would be nothing but bad vibes. i also didn't follow the Gamescom news today, so i probably missed out on alot more. the Kojima salt can be toxic and overflowing, beware.



people are really weird about celebrity. they are weird about fame. it changes how people treat you. truth is, most famous people, all famous people, are just people, just like you or me. for some reason people feel entitled to thrash and curse celebs, to act out the public Crucifixion rituals we pretend we are past to dehumanize them and make demands of them. there is a real person at the center of that, yet they are ignored for this meta person created largely by the media & meme-makers.



personally, i think it's fine to feel however you want to feel about whoever. try to give people the benefit of the doubt. i would say to consider whether you feel this way about a person or about something else. from the OP it sounds like you may simply be disillusioned with the industry rather than a man whose latest work you have yet to experience.



as far as the idolization, there is nothing more self congratulatory than industry events. building up icons and knocking them down is what the media is based on, and industries love their personalities, their famous people as marketable brands. this event was always going to be that, a hyping of his brand, for he is a massively popular talent, and to be upset that it is what it was always going to be, i dunno, maybe just ignore it? i don't sit and watch every Grammy awards either, cos i know those are bullshit. they are industry events, there for promotion, there for hype. they have little to do with artists aside from pimping them out.



Kojima gets dragged out there regardless of whether he feels deserving of all this acclaim or not. do not mistake all the idolization for what he wants. he just wants to make games. it is game promoters, journalists, message board warriors, etc. all the bullshit surrounding the actual artists, that is responsible for the bullshit 99% of the time. it is also entirely out of their hands. Kojima is not deciding the schedule for this conference, someone else is.