Legendary film director and producer Guillermo del Toro has said he'll never again work on a video game, going so far as to label himself "the albatross of video games."
"I joined THQ, and THQ goes broke. I join Kojima, and Kojima leaves Konami," he told Shacknews. "I have decided, in order not to destroy anyone else’s life, I have decided I will never again get involved in video games. Otherwise, I’ll join someone and his house will explode, or something."
Not long ago, del Toro was signed on with Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima to work on Silent Hills, the next proper entry in Konami's beloved horror franchise. Sadly, Kojima's relationship with Konami has since gone south, and the project was scrapped. Let's also not forget about his other project at THQ, dubbed Insane. Yeah, I don't think you need me to tell you what happened there after THQ fell apart.
When asked to elaborate on Konami's canceled horror game and his project at THQ, del Toro added: "I was in an apprenticeship. I learned a lot from Kojima-san, of course, and I learned a lot from my experience at THQ. I did. It changed the way I see narrative. We put two years of work in THQ. It was insane. We mapped it out, we did the viable, we did the outlines, we did the screenplay. We did a bunch of stuff. I know some of the tricks, or the stuff that I wanted to learn, I learned.
"Then I went to the side of Kojima-san, because he’s a master, and I can gladly say that we are friends and I love his work and I will continue learning from him as a friend. But I am not… if I join another video game, World War III will start."
While it's unfortunate to see such a creative mind withdraw from the gaming industry, it's hard to find fault in his decision. I mean, can you really blame the guy? Every project he's attempted to get off the ground has crumbled beneath his feet! It's just tragic that we'll never get Silent Hills. P.T. was such an amazingly disturbing experience.
