'I Play Kojima's Latest Game Then I Return to Fallout 4': Ghost in the Shell Director Mamoru Oshii Says He's Racked Up 10,000 Hours While Avoiding the Main Quest

Mamoru Oshii, the manager of legendary anime movie Ghost successful the Shell, has said that he's played Fallout 4 for 10,000 hours portion avoiding its main quest.

In a Japanese video interrogation to people the 30th day of Ghost successful the Shell, Oshii chatted astir his emotion of games — and specifically Fallout 4.

"Looking astatine Steam, my playtime (in Fallout 4) is astir 8,000 hours but earlier that I played it connected PlayStation, truthful I deliberation altogether I've enactment successful astir 10,000 hours," explained Oshii, the manager down anime cyberpunk movie Ghost successful the Shell and its sequel Ghost successful the Shell 2: Innocence, successful remarks translated by IGN. "I'm inactive playing now," helium added.

Ghost successful the Shell manager Mamoru Oshii. Image credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

So what is the entreaty of Fallout 4 to Mamoru Oshii? The 74-year-old called it a "game that seems to person been made for my ain desires," and described however helium wanders the ruins of the post-apocalyptic satellite carrying a firearm and accompanied by the game's canine companion, Dogmeat.

Outside of Fallout 4, Oshi explains that he's besides a large Hideo Kojima instrumentality and plays each caller crippled from the Metal Gear Solid creator — helium precocious finished playing Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, successful which helium really appears arsenic an NPC known arsenic The Pizza Chef.

But for astir a decade, Oshi said helium had followed a rhythm wherever helium breaks disconnected from playing Fallout 4 to play Kojima's caller crippled upon release, completes it, and then... returns backmost to Fallout 4 erstwhile more. "There are nary different games I privation to play," Oshii simply said.

"I erstwhile tried PUBG and racked up 250 hours," helium casually noted, but said that helium didn't truly similar online multiplayer games oregon first-person shooters that necessitate speedy reflexes. "They're not for me," helium noted. (He does callback taking a commemorative screenshot aft getting a Chicken Dinner successful PUBG, but lone once.) "After each is said and done, I similar playing games connected my own," helium said.

"Fallout 4 is conscionable right," helium continued. "Although it's an enactment game, arsenic radical who play it volition cognize — it has the VATS system." Fallout's slo-mo aiming strategy allows adjacent radical who are nary bully astatine aiming to onshore shots, helium suggested. "If the crippled didn't person this, I astir apt couldn't play it."

Mamoru Oshii antecedently revealed successful large item to Automaton that helium has a alternatively eccentric mode of playing Fallout 4 - that helium doesn't state with immoderate factions, and has ignored the main storyline successful favour of spending hours connected broadside quests and raids with Dogmeat arsenic his sole companion. His playstyle seems to beryllium that of a community-minded lone wolf, stripping each the cogwheel disconnected raiders and gunners.

"It's a win-win," helium noted, "I get to bask the pleasance of stripping scumbags bare portion besides contributing to the section community’s welfare." He's said that helium is peculiarly hostile towards Brotherhood of Steel members (who helium likens to Nazis) and ever sneak kills full units (at 1 point, helium amassed truthful galore Brotherhood of Steel Power Armors that helium utilized them to physique a moat). Back erstwhile helium played connected console, Oshii seemingly gathered truthful overmuch loot astatine his basal that his PS4 struggled to tally the game.

"Around 4 years ago, I ran retired of things to bash (in Fallout 4)," Oshii explained. "So I installed mods." However, the Angel's Egg manager noted that Fallout 4's caller mentation (i.e. the 2025 Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition update) rendered his mods unusable. Upon launching Fallout 4 aft the update, Oshii says that alternatively of his customized character, "some random bald feline wearing a suit abruptly appeared, and it took a batch of effort to get the crippled backmost to normal. I privation they'd halt changing things without asking."

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Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.