Hideo Kojima was told "games don't need stories" early in his career, so he read 300 books while making a single game to prove them wrong

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“But I saw [their] potential.

I pushed back against everyone’s opposition …

There was no artistry.

There was also no real story.

So we wanted to be the ones to give it a story.”

They told me, ‘Games don’t need stories, Kojima.'"