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Konami Rep Says 'I Hope We Earn You Back'
- Thread starter DeathSparks
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
real talk: is konami's us social media manager actually privy to anything the company is doing?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Please be MGS3. Just remake older titles and remaster them very respectably to current consoles. You don't need Kojima to know how to translate a game.
Humans are working on it, right? MGS3 will be fine.
Humans are working on it, right? MGS3 will be fine.
There is no flying fucking way in hell they could interest us in a new Silent Hill after cancelling the one that had Kojima, Reedus, Del Toro and Junji Ito involved.
Anything attempted after that will be about as appealing as Worker and Parasite:
https://youtu.be/z2_dhUv_CrI
Anything attempted after that will be about as appealing as Worker and Parasite:
https://youtu.be/z2_dhUv_CrI
Basically and it wont make me hate them less as a company.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
I'd be surprised if they made any more videogames, tbh.
LiquidSolid
Member
Ha! Good luck with that.
You want a relatively easy start though? Put all your good PS2 games up as PS2 Classics on the PS4. That means Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Suikoden III, Suikoden V, Shadow of Memories and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner.
You want a relatively easy start though? Put all your good PS2 games up as PS2 Classics on the PS4. That means Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Suikoden III, Suikoden V, Shadow of Memories and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner.
ieptbarakat
Member
Make that fox engine mgs3 remake a reality, give us the legacy collection + MGS4 on Steam, and continue to support MGSV/MGO3. Then I'll be okay with you again, Konami.
UnluckyKate
Member
Good fucking luck
Teslacrashed
Neo Member
I"m in a bit of a minority, the only Konami games I was in love with were the Suikoden games.
If they made a Suikoden VI based off of 1/2/5, then I'd buy it, but many of us Suiko fans have long given up hope of seeing a sequel, so I"m not too excited.
If they made a Suikoden VI based off of 1/2/5, then I'd buy it, but many of us Suiko fans have long given up hope of seeing a sequel, so I"m not too excited.
SolidSnakex
Member
zerokoolpsx
Member
Konami burned so many bridges, mistreated Kojima and shunned its fans. All the damage is done. Screw you Konami.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I would...go back if they remade Snake Eater.
Just sayin' it. Grass is greener and all that.
I don't think they can win back respect now, unless they actually pull down all the pachinko stuff and publically appologise, and even then.. ha ha.
If they are making a Metal Gear game... I think the only one that makes sense for them to do is MGR2 (Please! And I'm not saying this only because I want it really bad personally!)
Don't think Kojima's involvement is so necessary here, as it seemed PG did change the game quite a bit, most of their decisions seemingly being for the better.
If they are making a Metal Gear game... I think the only one that makes sense for them to do is MGR2 (Please! And I'm not saying this only because I want it really bad personally!)
Don't think Kojima's involvement is so necessary here, as it seemed PG did change the game quite a bit, most of their decisions seemingly being for the better.
It was the talent that brought me to their games. Team Silent, Igarashi, Kojima. Those dudes bail out because Konami is a proven bad place to work. And now guys want Konami to resurrect these artists' work as shambling undead mounds? For what? I know folks are thirsty for Metal Gear, but it's out there. 20-odd years of it.
Besides, anyone remember the sequel to The Birth of Man, painted by Jeff Bertolucci? I don't.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Maybe the social media manager job is the new basement for old directors.
disappeared
Banned
haha that's an awesome illustration
"Ben" is actually Hiroyuki Owaku. This narrative is his next great masterpiece after Silent Hill 2.
Tizoc
Member
They announce Konami Classics for release on Steam ala SEGA Genesis Collection. Legal way to perserve their games from the 80s and 90s along with allowing for gameplay mods etc.
Well, he is talking about a 30th Anniversary celebration, so there should be something. This, and you need to consider the insane amount of work for the pachinko, those cutscenes are pretty much a 1:1 reproduction of MGS3 cutscenes. Ok, in Japan pachinko are common, they did a similar thing with Castlevania etc, but it seems too much work this time for a pachinko only.
BetterWorldz
Member
Anyway, it would take a lot of great years to wash off the taint. But if they did care at all about their fans' opinion, why would they let these PR disasters pile up in the first place?
Crazy Diamond
Member
Most of the Konami US people I've interacted with in the past year have been very friendly and have attempted to fan the flames of the company's falling out with Kojima as best they can. However, that does not seem to be indicative of the company itself, to your point.
RealityCheque
Banned
ARE YOU MAKING ANY GAMES!?
NO??
OK then ask me again when you are.
But before we even think about "us" again I'm gonna need a promise of MGS 1-4 (1080/60) on steam. Otherwise, I think we should just see other people.
Also: fuck Konami.
NO??
OK then ask me again when you are.
But before we even think about "us" again I'm gonna need a promise of MGS 1-4 (1080/60) on steam. Otherwise, I think we should just see other people.
Also: fuck Konami.
They've already said they're releasing annual
PES is literally their only announced console product, though.
EDIT: Um...how do you do strikethrough on this site?
malboroking
Banned
What is the point when we have the HD remake that is perfectly fine?
JehutyRunner
Banned
They can remake MGS3 with the Fox Engine if they wish. Great. But I still don't think it'd be enough. And I say that as someone who adores MGS3 to the moon and back as my former favourite game (still my second favourite to this day, mind).
If they want some semblance of a chance to get back in the good books, a public apology for treating people like Kojima + the senior KP figures (wasn't just Koj, remember), Iga and the other folks at the company who were treated like shit. And it'd have to come from the top and not on a PR level.
So they'd have to start there. And then we can talk about forgiving and being back in people's good graces. It'd be a long process, but by doing that, it'd be a start.
...I doubt it, though...
Unless they do this. In which case, ALL IS FORGIVEN!
If they want some semblance of a chance to get back in the good books, a public apology for treating people like Kojima + the senior KP figures (wasn't just Koj, remember), Iga and the other folks at the company who were treated like shit. And it'd have to come from the top and not on a PR level.
So they'd have to start there. And then we can talk about forgiving and being back in people's good graces. It'd be a long process, but by doing that, it'd be a start.
...I doubt it, though...
Unless they do this. In which case, ALL IS FORGIVEN!
RealityCheque
Banned
This physically hurts me.
ramoisdead
Member
Knowing Konami, they will ask Denis Dyack to port The Twin Snakes to the NX.
DeathSparks
Member
That would be a start, they're not stopping Suikoden revival so I could see a classics collection happen the same way Atari did with the Atari Vault.
And even if they fell on their swords to make an apology, all the talent is still gone. It'd have to be a rebuilding period unlike any you've ever seen for a video game company. That would take so much energy... when they could just sit back and let the gambling money roll in.