Because in a industry dominated by yearly rehashed ideas like CoD or AC or Battlefield, Kojima spends time and resources creating new, novel ideas and taking the artistic medium (yes, games are art despite what capital G Gamers want to say) to new and exciting and interesting places.
Because in a industry dominated by yearly rehashed ideas like CoD or AC or Battlefield, Kojima spends time and resources creating new, novel ideas and taking the artistic medium (yes, games are art despite what capital G Gamers want to say) to new and exciting and interesting places.
Outside japan Sam Lake comes to mind too.
Yeah, I added a few western names too (I’m a bit biased to Japanese devs, growing up on JRPGs and whatnot).
But there’s tons of people over here that get name recognition too, for sure.