At least there would be SOME Castlevania and Silent Hill games rather than none
Silent hills was a real heartbreak forsure , but i still think this generation will be the best consolegeneration ever.
Shenmue 3?
Bloodborne?
Persona 5?
Phantom pain (preowned plz)?
Final Fantasy XV?
Bloodstained?
Nightcry aka project scissors aka clock tower?
Street fighter 5?
All things considered…Konami can fuckoff , i don’t want videogames from them.
You say that, but we’d probably just be really sad thinking about how awesome it would’ve been the more we heard.
To use a wrestling example, it’s like when Paul Heyman started explaining what he’d have done if TNA had agreed to his terms and let him take over, and everyone was like “aww man…why couldn’t we have gotten THAT instead?”.
I’m a little more sad about the IPs rather than Konami themselves, Konami can fuck off. I’d like Kojima to find someone who would allow him the same creative freedom as other publishers, Namco? I want to see a successor to P.T, that game looked like it was going to be great.
RIP Konami of old.
I hate to wish ill on all those still employed there, but I do sort of hope they bomb out in their new endeavors and have to sell off their IPs to companies that actually might give a shit about making games featuring them. I mean these negros have been sitting on the Bomberman IP they bought from Hudson Soft for years and have done nothing!
Props to other classic franchises but freaking Bomberman done right could kill on the mobile markets, or as a digital only release with online support, what is wrong with these fools that they don’t see that?
So no more yu gi oh?
LOL at all you guys saying Konami doesn’t care about its fans. I think this has been obvious for a long time now (since it is a publicly traded company), and as a gaming company its first and foremost goal is to make money for people who could care less about “the fans”. Let’s face it, the dynamics of the gaming industry are no longer what they used to be. Yeah, as gamers we want those great big budget games that have evolved with the times, but investors don’t care about that.
To investors it all comes down to making games that generate a ton of cash. If that means making shitty mobile games with short production dates that are nothing but a quick way to kill some time for most people than by all means do so.
Now if you excuse me, I’m going to play some Blades of Steel…
More like yu-hi-oh-no, I’d say.
Are there any stories of a Japanese developer coming to work for a US company and doing well? The only one I can think of is Shinji Mikami and I thought The Evil Within seemed pretty underwhelming.
I don’t think anyone is going to give Kojima 80 million dollars again unfortunately.
Po told y’all that the creative side of the industry goes as Japan goes…
Well, Japan is tapping out, and all we’re gonna be left with is the same old shit with nary a risk being taken… All your old favorite franchises are about to start swan-diving into the Pacific. Konami is just the tip of the huge-ass iceberg I told you was coming for years.
So chew on this…
Nintendo is one of the last Japanese developers that actually takes risks and tries to do new shit.
Yeah, that Nintendo, the one you all shit on constantly for being “kiddy” or whatever, is one of the last few Japanese devs to actually make a new successful IP in the last five years… From Software is the other one. Oh, and Platinum, but those guys are mercs.
Everyone else has just been coasting on name-recognition and sequels to franchises made in the PS2/3 era or older.
This gaming shit as we all know it is about to be a wrap, and your 500 dollar paperweights are about to start feeling the squeeze in the next year or two.
Screw the rules I hate Konami!
Japan hasn’t been the creative side of the industry for at least a decade. Too busy trying to emulate what’s popular in the US because none of their own population gives a shit about consoles anymore. The Japanese suffer from taste cancer just as much as we do. Why do you think Konami wants to focus on mobile so much? And now Nintendo is doing mobile stuff too.
At least im getting SFV from capcom
SquarEnix im getting Dragon quest heroes and Dragon Quest 11
Konami has shit. All I wanted was a new silent hill.
You sound like a politician.
There is so much more nuance than the picture you paint. No one in the west is innovating at all? Okay. From Software innovating? Are you high? Between Armored Core and the Souls series, they make the same games over and over. If sequelitis is a problem (it’s not) then they would be part of it.
I remember when CV: Portrait of Ruin came out. It was the 20th anniversary of CV, I believe, so if you preordered the game, it came with a bunch of cool goodies (best of CV music CDs, official timeline, some other stuff I forgot). It was complete and total service for the fans. Now… we have Konami today. Sad to see how far they’ve fallen.
And this is the face of the man who helped killed the industry…
Instead of saying, “No, I won’t buy your products, EA/Capcom/Ubisoft/etc until you put some effort into your shit again,” he buys whatever DmC-style crap they shit out, and wonders why Kojima is jobless and why the West can’t make a good action game to save their lives.
El Shaddai is a pretty gdlk action game.
Actually, games that were egregiously anti consumer, I did not buy. Roasted all the assholes defending SFxT.
Meanwhile you support Nintendo, who criminally exploits their fanboys. Fanboys like you that don’t see the hypocrisy of what they say.
Pot, don’t worry about kettle. You’re both black, asshole.
Dante, Snake, and Lionel Messi
The fact that you purchased and supported DmC -TWICE- renders any insult you fling at me as inert as your gaming tastes…
Continue, if you wish, but I will no longer sully myself by debating with the likes of you… Any of our more intelligent posters feel free to discourse with me if you feel my assertions about the future of the industry were incorrect.