Konami is Hiring For a "New Metal Gear"
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Can we please stop saying Fuck Konami its inflammatory and petulant and at worst childlike (Same with the whole Crapcom fiasco)
Besides didn't people bash on MGS 5 for being boring and repetitive and empty probably because it was essentially the gameplay of Peace Walker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_cSywyuEQw
Besides didn't people bash on MGS 5 for being boring and repetitive and empty probably because it was essentially the gameplay of Peace Walker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_cSywyuEQw
As long as Jim Sterling keeps making video content, (and Konami keeps doing things like this) nobody will get tired of saying "fuckonami" or if they do, he'll still be screaming it as loud as he can to ensure people listen.Adam Locking said:
We had a similar thing happen with Bobby Kotick a few years ago until the PR department of Activision duck-taped his mouth shut, the problem with Konami is, it's a company rather than an individual, so you can't just stop it from "talking".
I have never played a single Metal Gear or Silent Hill game in my life, but even I'm wishing for Konami to implode upon itself. Either the management of this company is deliberately trying to paint themselves as a bunch of sadists, or the management has utterly poor grasp of how to not get consumers to despise their company.
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, SUCK IT KONAMI.
I thought Konami was quitting the console game business? Is this new Metal Gear gonna be on mobile phones or pachinko parlors? If so, I don't think they can expect it to sell at all.
Really and after the BS Konami has pulled who would really consider working forthem a good career move especially in this age of Kickstarter
Only a passing, bumbling, oblivious idiot would take this job. Or someone with no knowledge of Konami's reputation. I'd imagine there are some that exist. We must spread awareness! I can picture the manager, months later, scowling from his toilet at the unfilled job position on the board, as a wild tumbleweed rolls past. Best get learning how to make games and lead projects yourself, silly human!
No, because they went out of their way to earn the ire they've been getting continuously for months now. For years now they've been screwing over both their customers and their employees with terrible business practices and moronic business decisions in a fall from grace so bad people have forgotten about EA's own fall from grace. The joke that their business models is "Fuck Kojima, Fuck Metal Gear, Fuck It, Fuck You" is a reflection of the fact they do everything they can to screw customers out of every last penny they can, then turn around and screw over the people who made them that money in the first place. If they current heads at the company had founded their own publisher instead of taken one over, it never would have gotten off the ground and would have folded within a year. Konami is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with Japanese business culture.Samtemdo8 said:
OT: Why is it being called "New Metal Gear"? I can understand making a new series, but come on, that title is stupid. At least Metal Gear Rising has a ring to it, come on can't think of anything better then "New Metal Gear"? God I hope that's a place-holder for until people who know what they're doing come up with a better name.
I like how they said "we are getting out of the gaming business .... shit, MGSV made a butt load of cash AND won awards but we have gotten rid of the mastermind, then burnt the bridge he left on. What can we do now?"
Sorry but MGS died with 5 and unless Kojima's name is on it, I wont be playing it and I say that as an MGS fanboy (who by the by was bitterly disappointed in 5). Looking forward to his new stuff though, hope it lives up to his past work and I hope sony just throw money at him!
Sorry but MGS died with 5 and unless Kojima's name is on it, I wont be playing it and I say that as an MGS fanboy (who by the by was bitterly disappointed in 5). Looking forward to his new stuff though, hope it lives up to his past work and I hope sony just throw money at him!
How did they fuck "me?" as a customer over with terrible buisness practices?Zontar said:
I bought Silent Hill Downpour and was satisfyed.
I bought the HD collection of Silent Hill on PS3 patched and was satisfyed.
I bought Zone of the Enders HD and that was patched to perfection.
And I still eagerly wish to purchase MGS 5. Because I think the Big Boss games are more interesting than Solid Snake.
I did not mourn that much of Silent Hills cancellation mostly because well I like Silent Hill, but I am a bigger Resident Evil fan and I truly believe that even though the game had Kojima, Del Toro, and that guy from Walking Dead and if it turns out to be good it will still be inferior to the Team Silent games in the eyes of silent hill purists same way as Hardcore RE fans consider Resident Evil 4 and beyond are not true Resident Evil games (The last true RE game was Outbreak File 2)
Konami imo for the longest time has been rather irrelevnt to gaming because everyone looked elsewhere. Why play Metal Gear Solid for the story when you have Mass Effect or TellTale Games? Why play Silent Hill when people have Amnesia? Why play 2D Castlevanias when the Retro Indie gaming scene pretty much gives more options of the same kind of games.
Its no wonder they are going towards more the gambling/mobile scene. And imo in today's gaming market they can barely afford to make big AAA games on the same level of EA, Ubisoft, Activision, and Square Enix. It shows that MGS 5 was the only AAA level game they bothered making for this year.
Well on the flip side, if you came in to direct a new Metal Gear game in the current environment and under the kind of scrutiny this game will undoubtedly suffer, and you manage to make a good and successful game anyway, after that you've established that you can pretty much walk on water.
(...And then you should promptly leave Konami for some place your skills will actually be appreciated and rewarded, but that's another issue.)
(...And then you should promptly leave Konami for some place your skills will actually be appreciated and rewarded, but that's another issue.)
Surprisingly, you're not the only consumer of Konami products. Even more surprisingly, other people who are also Konami consumers were far less satisfied with the state of the games they've been releasing lately.Samtemdo8 said:
I think you'll find that you have a pretty skewed view of the gaming community.
Because neither of those franchises/developers offer the same style of narrative delivery and marriage to gameplay that Metal Gear Solid does. Neither of them put in the same amount of effort toward world-building, despite their best efforts. Neither of them are built with the same wacky sensibilities that allow them to wildly flit between being silly and serious on the drop of a dime.
Because Amnesia is a small, self-contained experiment that focuses almost entirely on atmosphere and puzzles. Silent Hill is that as well, but also has an extra focus on actually being psychological, as it (at least in the older games) examines why characters are where they are, what caused them to arrive in Silent Hill in the first place. Specific thematic elements built around the characters inform what form Silent Hill takes, and it's not just a spooky place because of eldritch horrors.
Because 2D Castlevania games tend to be of far higher quality than their indie equivalents. I'm not even a particular fan of them, but I can't deny that Symphony of the Night is vastly superior to basically anything that's come out since.
Now, if by "for the longest time" you mean "since 2008 or so", when Metal Gear Solid 4 came out, then you're probably correct in your assertions. But other people tend to not view things in such a vacuum, and with companies the past is never forgotten, even if they're so desperately trying to wash it away.
Yeah, I kinda doubt anyone will take the job, considering how bad Konami seems to be treating it's workers. And considering Konami seems to be more interested in pachinko machines nowadays... I'd hate to see how the new Metal Gear turns out.
Once again, #Fuckonami.
Once again, #Fuckonami.
