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KojiPro expunge continues - Logo erased from Silent Hills website
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Top dollar from Sony, maybe? Or absolute creative freedom?
JuanLatino
Member
The hate inside me is getting bigger and bigger everyday. Damm you KONAMI
Im scared for Kojimas Future...Plz dont end up like Sakaguchi working on Mobile Games
Im scared for Kojimas Future...Plz dont end up like Sakaguchi working on Mobile Games
ChimpanzeeThat
Member
Did Kojima insult someone's mother or something?
I really don't get any of this.
I really don't get any of this.
Doctor Ironic
Member
Nobody knows what happened. That's what makes this so scary. Just one day, Kojima wasn't on the staff list anymore, all his public appearances had been canceled, and his name was removed from all the promotional materials.
The only thing we have to go off of is a gamespot.com article citing "insider sources" saying he's on as a contractor, which basically means that he's getting the boot as soon as MGSV is out the door.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Why not just make something completely new in collaboration with Sony if he is going to go that route? I'm sure he has ideas. I'm hoping he stays involved Sith Silent Hills though.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
1. Kickstart it under a new name.
2. FOXEngine?
3. If Norman Reedus is out, make the game in First-Person like the PT demo
4. ?
5. Profit
PM me check Kojima pls. pls.
2. FOXEngine?
3. If Norman Reedus is out, make the game in First-Person like the PT demo
4. ?
5. Profit
PM me check Kojima pls. pls.
TemplaerDude
Member
The whole story on this is gonna be book worthy for sure.
Elysium-777
Member
I'm really hoping Del Toro eventually gets his game made. Now that Kojima is out, a highly doubt there are many people left at Konami that can realize Del Toro's vision.
Jawmuncher
Member
By far the biggest question. Really curious if they want to continue that project without him.
No thanks
Naughty_Doge
Member
This really hurts.
ginger ninja
Banned
Here I was hoping* that we would find out this was all about Koji fuckin with us on April Fools :/
FinalStageBoss
Banned
It's silent hill, of course it had to fall apart. I had such high hopes after playing PT. Bummer.
Naked Lunch
Member
Silent Hill is dead. The series is cursed almost as bad as the Panzer Dragoon series. Almost...
I dont think it will happen. They wouldnt just remove the logo. They would of taken down the whole website if the game was dead.
Stilton Disco
Member
A bit of me wants to remain optimistic. To think that it can still be just as good, maybe even better, without Kojima.
Then I remember it's Konami.
Silent Hills, if it still happens, is going to be shit.
Then I remember it's Konami.
Silent Hills, if it still happens, is going to be shit.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
It still has plenty of opportunity to get a proper death. Konami will probably push it out regardless of quality though. Hasn't stopped them with previous Silent Hill games.
No one knows.
I'd understand that Konami wants to make more metal gear, and kojima just doesn't feel like it, but how Konami is erasing any sign of Kojipro, and the fact they announced they are hiring for a new MGS, a day after the story breaks, and PP isn't even out yet feels like they are just quickly setting everything on fire.
Anyways
Please be excited for MgS: Metal Gear Solid coming 2016.
D
Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
You can't be optimistic about the company that thought it would be nice to change the Silent Hill team from 1-3 because they thought it would be better.
Or the company who is essentially kicking out their most prominent director, for reasons unknown though.
JigglesBunny
Banned
Karma is a brooding, unforgiving bitch Konami.
Kojima will be avenged.
Not konami, Kojima and his team.
family_guy
Member
Probably wanted to annualize Metal Gear and Kojima had enough.
Haunted
Member
Kojima did something to piss off Sakamoto, gets himself and his team fired and his name removed from development teams and projects.
The End.
BLUElightCory
Member
What are the odds that this whole thing is just another Kojima troll on the gaming community?
I know, I know.
I know, I know.
Watch them announce a shift to mobile and social while also pumping out seemingly endless revisions of Beatmania in arcades.
Krappadizzle
Member
Thanks.
JigglesBunny
Banned
Krauser Kat
Member
If this is the direction konami wants to take. Good for them. AAA make them small change compared their other sectors. The only problem, like with gamergate, pissing off gamers leads to outlandish responses and hateful remarks to said company (see this thread and previous thread).
Kojima is talented and can find a job else where and start a new baby project.
Kojima is talented and can find a job else where and start a new baby project.
Fancy Clown
Member
God fucking damn it. I can't express how excited I was for this game.
Haunted
Member
I will say that we don't know what he did to piss the upper echelon off.
ran over sakamoto's dog
didn't want to annualise MGS
demanded more creative freedom and control
didn't want to make another MGS
slept with sakamoto's wife
etc etc
Appollowexx
Member
Kojima always had a good working relationship with Sony so I wonder if they may be open to giving him his own studio at Japan Studios and allowing him creative freedom as well as obviously funding future projects. Sony are known for risk taking. I'd like to see him continue making console games rather than go the mobile route or kick-starter small projects.
Haunted
Member
And Ueda goes to Konami instead!
It must be seriously depressing to work at "KojiPro" right now. Wonder how will that impact the last stretch of MGSV's development.
Yeah its strange he has stopped tweeting suddenly =(
Triggerhappytel
Member
Well, they've fucked Castlevania, they've fucked PES, they're in the process of fucking Metal Gear, and next up is Silent Hills. Honestly, they don't really have anything else worth much unless they're prepared to invest big time to modernise and build up an existing brand like they briefly did with Lords of Shadow.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
They probably put him under a media blackout and have him sign a NDA on the details of his removal within the company.
CloudyTuba
Member
As far as the "official" info we have, this is all a simple reorganization and consolidation of the Konami brand. There's no official indication that this means Kojima would no longer be working on Silent Hills, only that KojimaProductions has been disbanded and absorbed by Konami proper. In theory, the same main players could be working under the Konami main banner as subcontractors rather than in a permanent studio.
But that's the official story. Clearly Konami has been dodging questions and the rumors about Kojima leaving seem true at this point. That plus the total communication lockdown...yeah the official story is bullshit to some degree. Just how much we don't know.
Maybe Kojima is even leaving because his division got absorbed and he is not cool with that. We know how much he likes to plaster his name all over everything (several times). The removal of KojiPro is possibly the cause rather than the effect. Konami decided to consolidate and Kojima decided to leave in response. (A decision probably made easier by the fact that they want him to make Metal Gear forever)
When it comes to silent Hills, no Kojima, no purchase. That's my bottom line.
I hope Kojima really can continue to work with Konami as an independant contractor as the official story indicates. That would actually be beneficial to him. That way he could accept jobs at his discretion. No longer as a permanent employee, he could turn down Metal Gear all he wants but work on games that he wants to. Like Silent Hills. Once each contract is up he's free again.
But that's the official story. Clearly Konami has been dodging questions and the rumors about Kojima leaving seem true at this point. That plus the total communication lockdown...yeah the official story is bullshit to some degree. Just how much we don't know.
Maybe Kojima is even leaving because his division got absorbed and he is not cool with that. We know how much he likes to plaster his name all over everything (several times). The removal of KojiPro is possibly the cause rather than the effect. Konami decided to consolidate and Kojima decided to leave in response. (A decision probably made easier by the fact that they want him to make Metal Gear forever)
When it comes to silent Hills, no Kojima, no purchase. That's my bottom line.
I hope Kojima really can continue to work with Konami as an independant contractor as the official story indicates. That would actually be beneficial to him. That way he could accept jobs at his discretion. No longer as a permanent employee, he could turn down Metal Gear all he wants but work on games that he wants to. Like Silent Hills. Once each contract is up he's free again.
Hellshingu
Member
It hurts. I think it is just time I finally let go and accept it.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
It wouldn't matter...IIRC the reason ZOE never got a sequel was because Kojima simply didn't want to make one so him having the license wouldn't change that.
Graphics Horse
Member
Wasn't just him https://twitter.com/Ken1555
Something to back up the contractor story was Ken (see link^) Kojipro producer had his linkedin page changed to say contractor too, I think it's been deleted since.