Jimquisition: Konami
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Wow, I just found out Downpour was released a few days ago from a meme, and I just attributed that to my lack of connection to the game's industry now, but seeing others who had no clue has me really taken back.
But I'm still aware that Capcom releases games and I have one or two of them in my collection and I could name several Capcom Franchises. The last Konami release I recognized was Metal Gear Solid 4. So there is clearly something wrong in their PR-department and in their development teams.Daystar Clarion said:
And that is really a shame because in my youth (the good old SNES days) a lot of memorable and fun games were released by this company (Konami that is).
Birds of Steel recently came out, almost no marketing behind it, and the game is fucking awesome (although it is kind of a niched market).
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Its not that. They refuse to release games in the states despite threats of english patch and piracy. Canning games just because they're not fighters or involve zombies. Supporting SOPA and being proud of it. DRM on PSN excusive games. They're worse than Konami or Ubisoft in my opinion.Scyla said:
My big FU konami moment happend when I saw what you had to do to get the special edition 3ds. When I hear about the release of a snakeskine 3ds to be released with the snake eater 3d I had a week long erection only to have it go limp when I found out the many hoop you would have to jump thought to buy it.
If you did not hear what you would have had to do to be elejeble to get one was, one regeuster with konami, two sign up for a list drawing, three have your name be drawn at said drawing, four pay then FULL PRICE for the system PLUS GAME sold separately....... And then it was only going to be released in Japan anyway....... FUCK YOU KONAMI
If you did not hear what you would have had to do to be elejeble to get one was, one regeuster with konami, two sign up for a list drawing, three have your name be drawn at said drawing, four pay then FULL PRICE for the system PLUS GAME sold separately....... And then it was only going to be released in Japan anyway....... FUCK YOU KONAMI
Is the Castlevania series dead or are they going to continue the series on the 3DS? I haven't bought a Konami game since that multiplayer one on XBLA. It's fun if you like grinding and get with a friendly group of folks.
I don't know what's up with Konami and Capcom. Back in the day I thought they were great. Nowadays, not so much.
I don't know what's up with Konami and Capcom. Back in the day I thought they were great. Nowadays, not so much.
I think Konami's problems started years and years ago, consider the inexplicable decision to hand Silent Hill over to a bunch of third party devs (if there is a reason that someone knows of that Konami disbanded Team Silent, someone please enlighten me. I've never had any fucking clue why this happened to a seemingly critical and commercially successful franchise). The results have been uneven at best. The best thing to come out of the post team-silent Silent Hills was probably Shattered Memories, and it's fundamentally broken. I love that game, I really do, let me reiterate, single best thing to come out of non team-silent Silent Hill, and a huge aspect of that game is straight up balls.
Don't even get me started on Castlevania. After the tremendous amount of goodwill Konami received for Symphony what do they do? they stick the A list series in the handheld ghetto while giving us a bunch of half assed major console games. First I get why they're on handhelds, that's cool. Money and cost risk and blah blah, but the fact that every post Symphony 2d Castlevania has been gravedigging assets from it is sad. WOULD IT KILL YOU TO DO SOME NEW PIXEL ART KONAMI?!? Not to mention the fact that there's been very little (good) innovation since Symphony. They're almost all Symphony clones, and when they're not well they might want to be (you know I must say I enjoyed some of those games, Dawn of Sorrow was pretty great, but if you had to pick a Castlevania game to live on a desert island with you, would anybody honestly pick a post-Symphony game? Honestly? Doesn't that say something about the direction this franchise is going in?).
And that latest major console Castlevania wasn't too bad. Not what I want out the franchise but not too bad.
Don't even get me started on Castlevania. After the tremendous amount of goodwill Konami received for Symphony what do they do? they stick the A list series in the handheld ghetto while giving us a bunch of half assed major console games. First I get why they're on handhelds, that's cool. Money and cost risk and blah blah, but the fact that every post Symphony 2d Castlevania has been gravedigging assets from it is sad. WOULD IT KILL YOU TO DO SOME NEW PIXEL ART KONAMI?!? Not to mention the fact that there's been very little (good) innovation since Symphony. They're almost all Symphony clones, and when they're not well they might want to be (you know I must say I enjoyed some of those games, Dawn of Sorrow was pretty great, but if you had to pick a Castlevania game to live on a desert island with you, would anybody honestly pick a post-Symphony game? Honestly? Doesn't that say something about the direction this franchise is going in?).
And that latest major console Castlevania wasn't too bad. Not what I want out the franchise but not too bad.
I don't see a full crash, but I do see a lot of the publishers and developers going out of business. Activision and EA will survive on CoD and Sports titles alone. Valve will survive simply because they seem to know what they're doing. Bethesda seems to know what they're doing too.Scrustle said:
As for the rest of the developers and publishers, things are looking worse and worse. I've already completed my 2012 wish list for games. I don't see anything new listed as coming out that I want to play. Is that a bad sign for me, or a bad sign for devs and publishers?
The depressing part was the Silent Hill HD collection was supposed to be out months ago. 5 extra months to get it right and they still screwed up 11 year old games.
This would be a decent excuse for their failures, beyond this though what they are doing is pretty inexcusable.Griffolion said:
Holy crap! I completely forgot about Konami still existing. And good lord, how can they make soo many bad decisions and still be in business? I'm honestly baffled by all this.
Its a damn shame because I actually wanted to finally try out MGS for the first time only to have the same issue Jim had. It was released at the most horrid time and no store even had it.
Its a damn shame because I actually wanted to finally try out MGS for the first time only to have the same issue Jim had. It was released at the most horrid time and no store even had it.
This reminds me that I've been meaning to buy the original Silent Hill 2. Just dusted off my old PS2, and I think I'll get a few new[footnote]in the sense that I don't have them[/footnote] games for it. Maybe Second Sight? I heard that one was pretty good.