RIP VG247

vg247.com/2016/08/24/metal-gear-survive-isnt-metal-gear-solid/

VG247 has always sucked.

"Journalism"

this journalist got some balls hahah

>even same author

Kek.

>RIP VG247
They've been dead for many, many years.

Just stop looking at mainstream media. They are all horrible.

Oh no someone isn't acting irrationally over an upcoming game Journalism is dead!

>le kojima spent $100 million making a shit game he never finished and did nothing wrong
>le konami fault
>le konami wate wagon

go back to kotaku faggot

When did gaming journalists cease to be gamers? Was it recently, that failed journalism grads realised they could jump into gaming jobs and write trash and nobody would hold them to any standards? Or perhaps it was always like this and I just didn't see it before.
Either way, fuck these corprorate marketers and whiny bitches. I might have to start my own fucking gaming site.

Don't you understand that if I don't get indignant over a game I will never play my life loses all meaning?

Do it faggot

He's definitely not in konami's pocket, though. Definitely.

Biggest indication is the gameplay videos they post from cons and demos where they can't actually play the game. See Doom and Gears 4 demos.

They are trying to prove to their parents that writing about videogames is a real career

Why is defending this game seen as ultimate sin? They have ordered non-kojima MG games before and it wasn't an issue. People just judged the game for what it was. Now you have emotional faggotry as the driving force behind how people view this game. Stop being a follower, you dumb niggers.

Very few games "journalists" have journalism degrees. At Kotaku Stephen Tortilla was the only one.
Mostly they're communication, gender studies and other useless degree majors.
They only do this because they're good at creating click-bait and has a 100K studentloan.

The only that ces to mond is Acid and the handhelds in terms of non Kojima stuff, if Konami wanted to make a zombie game did they really need to slap MG on to help sales? Or could they not be bothered trying to create a new IP?

Have you ever considered that a popular opinion can prevail without "lol le leaders and followers"?

Anybody else not really care about MGS story and just hyped for more MGSV gameplay?

Sure Konami is an out of touch nip company but Kojima seems like an obtuse douche too.

This.

The Kojidrones need to wake up.

>more MGSV gameplay
Except that's not what we're getting.

...

dont really need to read the article but anyone going apeshit over metal gear survive is a retarded manchild/ bandwagoner

MGR wasnt metal gear solid either, neither was shit like ac!d

I remember reading CVG and Games Master (in the UK) in the '90s and early 2000s and all the journalists were sweaty nerds with long hair. The reviews were always excellent, though, and there was a real sense of passion for the hobby.

I'm not entirely sure when, exactly, games journalism became the go-to for failed journalism graduates, but I think it's something to do with the fact that gaming is a more mainstream hobby now so they just say to themselves "Hey, I enjoy playing Fifa and I put 10 whole hours into Skyrim, I could write about this shit!"

This all over. I've lost count of the number of videos I've seen of these losers flailing around, barely able to control their character. Yet we're expected to listen to their opinions on what's good and what isn't? Nope.

Also, whenever I see one of these idiots commentating on their gameplay, why the fuck do they always have to stand still every time they start to talk? Is it that difficult to play a game and talk at the same time?

>no pastbin
Shit OP.

>if Konami wanted to make a zombie game did they really need to slap MG on to help sales?

Game was already in production by Kojima. Konami is simply finishing his game.

Can you try writing sentences like a normal human being for once?

AC!D, Twin Snakes, Portable Ops which featured an online mode better than any mp Kojima has touched, Ghost whatever the fuck on Gameboy.

There's no reason to believe this game won't be average at best. The descent from Kojima not being physically at Konima is downright retarded.

>Metal Gear finally becomes a game
>prople hate it

>be faggot games journalist
>all my friends from university got real journalism jobs
>they all laugh at me for being a children's toy reviewer
>desperately try to big up my self-importance by inserting force political agendas into my writing
>profit from clickbait, and get to look my mother in the eye when I come home for Christmas

Putting the words "games" and "journalism" together was a mistake.

> journalism degrees

What are those about anyway.
Today journalism is about copy pasted fun facts and disguised political opinion / advertising.

Is it not going to be a 3rd person shooter built on the Fox Engine?

Faulty comparison: MGR:R wasn't developed in-house at Konami as the next MG game while the series was at a major crossroads with massive fan uncertainty and distate for the publisher.

Kinda. I love the fox engine, so I want more.

The biggest red flags to these gaming sites is that dyed hair, women who claim to play video game, shoehorned homosexuality and the attempt at writing prose in each and every article.

Reviews should be objective, factual and to the point. So many of these ducking reviews are shifty attempts at short stories, with injected parts of their mundane life's at an attempt to appear deep and interesting.

I fucking hate it

damn all these little bitches upset about one article, can't handle opinions can you little bitches?

Maybe if you aren't such a complete arrogant retard you could have just google that shit instead of revealing how much of a childish ignorant faggot you are.

>MGR:R wasn't developed in-house at Konami as the next MG game

they arent treating survive as the "next mg game" either

>massive fan uncertainty and distate for the publisher.

nobody cares about what neckbeards think, im eagerly awaiting for a KONAMI only MG just to see how much kojimas retarded shit exactly is holding the series back

meanwhile kojimas one attempt to prove the disaster that is TPP wasnt his fault is with death stranding

He's right though, nobody is saying "OH EM GEE FUCKING SURVIVE MAN GOTYAY." but that the hate is blown way out of proportion,

It's a fucking spin-off standalone co-op survival game, sure you might say "That's not what I want out of my Metal Gear" same as people did with Rising, and that's perfectly fine; but the vitriol here is retarded. It's typical hate bandwagon garbage that people who really don't give a fuck join in on because they want to be apart of something.

Source?

>game Journalism is dead!

Game journalism was never alive. It was stillborn. What we're seeing now is just the result of years and years of rot and festering.

Reviews are literally your opinion of. Your opinion is not objective. I agree with you about including irrelevant political bullshit, but reviews cannot be objective.

BRAIN EATER

Damn you are mad, are you a journalist?
Someone why a blog get more view than you?

Reviews should state what the product does and doesn't do. It should state what it excels at and it fails at. It should always be an objective investigation of the product to state whether the consumer should or should not spend money on said product.

Every single other review on a product is objective. Why not video games? If the reviewer doesn't like the gwnre, type of game, developer, etc. Then they should be reviewing the game as they hold a bias.

not him but you do sound retarded

>konami isnt the bad guy

boy i wonder who paid for that headline?

why can't they just make an episode 51 dlc and shut everyone up?
Everyone who owns the game would buy it, they are obviously dealing with mgsv assets for mgsurvive, the dubbing for the cutscenes was already done. What the fuck is stopping them?

Anyone who isn't retarded knows survival games suck, so either MGS fans developed a brain while I wasn't looking or they're mad about NOT MUH KOJIMA when Kojipro did all the good things on their games anyway.

But with videos games, like movies etc it's about what the person likes in a game. If the game does a certain mechanic well, but the reviewer does not like that mechanic, does it then fail?

>If the reviewer doesn't like the genre, type of game, developer, etc. Then they shouldn't be reviewing the game as they hold a bias

Isn't the reverse then true? Getting somebody to review a game who classically likes a game/dev etc risks bias too.

>I might have to start my own fucking gaming site.
Please fucking dont. You'll be as biased and idiotic as the rest.

A person who likes the game will be better at finding the games flaws. I like racing games and play lots of them. I know the difference between Sims and arcade racers. I can form objective opinions on each type of game, point out what works in arcade or sin games respectively and what does not.

I won't write a review saying f1 isn't fun because you can't pull ebrake and drift around the corners at 300 mph to link combos and gain boost

"Survival" can mean a lot of things you dense fuck.

>why can't they just make an episode 51 dlc and shut everyone up?
>Everyone who owns the game would buy it, they are obviously dealing with mgsv assets for mgsurvive, the dubbing for the cutscenes was already done. What the fuck is stopping them?

Mission 51 would fix jack fucking shit.

Oh great you get to fight Sahelanthropus another time, and watch cutscenes you've already seen on youtube. Mission 51 would be a waste of time and really fix none of MGSV's issues, it's less important than people make it out to be. We all know what happen to Liquid and Mantis in the end, and Sally is a piece of shit that'll ultimately become completely useless as Mantis gets older and weaker.

>going against the grain in the current year that it is
Gamers had a golden age. It's over now. Opinionated people will influence the weak of mind against everything. There will never be a time where you will walk into a game shop and find a gem. Soon all we will have is QTEs and games about lesbians. RIP games.

what happens if it's fun

like not even nu-fun but just fun

fox engine is great and they could do a lot with it

Contrary to what the video game board on Sup Forums believes, most people were not bothered by the idea of some imaginary third chapter not being in the game.

The story wasn't even well executed in the first two chapters so who gives a fuck?

That works with games which are pure mechanics, but not with games that are "experiences" (ugh). How can you mechanically and objectively evaluate how the latest Assassin's Creed game should be reviewed?

Nichegamer has some decent guys writing for them. Might be worth a look. They have enough presence to get into E3, but tend to avoid the major spotlight which I think is working well for them.

check his twitter

Not when the trailer evokes average survival tripe. And it's not like Konami has a competent team hanging around to do something complex.

>like not even nu-fun but just fun

It's almost guaranteed to be at least decent.

It's MGSV with co-op, and they have confirmed it's not just a horde mode and that stealth is still a big part of the gameplay.

It's true

If it has interiors then it's already a better game.

post yfw MG survive is better than phantom pain

All of the "unfinished" controversy is related to that mission and battle gear.
They could make that mission on a shoestring budget and everyone would buy it even as a 25$ dlc, earn money and clear the game's name before stirring more shit up with mg survive.
I don't know, sounds reasonable to me. They are already working with mgsv assets anyway.

>caring about mgs

Stop being fucking mongs.

Probably be more fun than attacking those handful of memorable outposts in TPP

MGS V WAS SHIT

>Metal Gear Survive is a spin off focusing on MGSV's gameplay, adding co-op to the mix
>MGS fans shouldn't be treating it like the biggest betrayal and want Konami's head on a pike
So where in this article is he wrong? Oh wait that's right if we didn't look at this $20 game as the greatest evil we wouldn't have something new to yell at Konami about.

>All of the "unfinished" controversy is related to that mission and battle gear.
>not the entire second half

what?

>making a game he never finished
hmmmmmmmmm I wonder why :^)

>They could make that mission on a shoestring budget and everyone would buy it even as a 25$ dlc, earn money and clear the game's name before stirring more shit up with mg survive.

People would have been fucking furious if they sold cut content for the game as DLC aswell.

It would have tainted Konami's name even more.

Well I mean when you're about to leave a company the deadline you're assigned becomes pretty rigid.

Instead, Konami is going to remake PP as a pachinko with the real ending.

Im not one of these sheep that think kojima has been making MGS all by himself all these years. The series might even be better off without him as his latest games MGS4 & 5 have been good but massively flawed in certain areas. Metal gear survive is just not the type of game i wanted to see coming next out the mgs franchise after playing the mess that was mgs5. I really couldnt give a flying fuck who makes it desu i just want a good mgs game. Mgs3 with mgs5 gameplay would be great.

Nah, pachinko is dying mate.

>WAAAAH THEY ARE ATTACKING LORD KOJIMA AND US HOMO-LUDENS

You guys are such blind fanboys I fucking swear.

they sold a 10 minute demo for 30 bones

Call me edgelord if you want but this is a mature article for me. I'm tired of the #FUCKONAMI shit and "Kojima is a god" meme. It's just a spin-off, maybe it will be passable, of course it's not gonna be a very good game but you don't need to act like a Kojidrone and shit on Konami everytime they show something.

This.

>KONAMI IS BASED YOU ONLY HATE THEM CAUSE KOJIMA
Let's pretend the past decade of Konami shitting on every single fanbase and developer of theirs didn't happen, sure.

>another "why *insert bad thing* is actually a good thing", article

i feel like there should be a term for them

>if you shit on Konami you are a Kojidrone
I guess i'm also a racist for hating Battlefield 1.

And people shit on everything Konami does on their own because everything they do is pure trash.

Do I need to remind you that every single franchise Konami has had is now dead?

It already looks like a better spinoff than most of the other trash like babel or ac!d. It's uninspired, though. I think that's where a lot of complaints come from too.

No one would mind if it was MGR2, though to be honest I'm glad it's not, MGR wasn't that good and we needed less platinum secondaries. They've become really cancerous lately.

I worked as a trainee journalist at a major video gaem site/magazine for almost a year, because I needed some work experience, and it was probably the easiest job.


Here's how it goes behind the scenes


>Every online article is either a) Copied from another news site, and rewritten in a clickbait style ("Someone discovered something SHOCKING in Uncharted 4") in order to get more page clicks or b) Written by the staff themselves

In case the staff writes the article, we had to make sure NOT TO OFFEND ANYONE. The only time you were allowed to properly voice your negative thoughts is if the downfall of a game was the current trending thing and everyone was bashing on it (Arkham City, No Man's Sky etc.). Aside from that, just stick to the most neutral fucking tone you can manage, even if you know the game/company is a piece of shit.

And the worst part

>the topics and games are ALWAYS written by the guy who is a fanboy of said topic/game

Just an example. When I arrived, a guy who was nearly the same age as me (~25 back then) was responsible for everything CoD related, because he was a CoD fanboy. He'd write every news about CoD, every game test about CoD etc. 1 week after I started working, he published the test for Modern Warfare 3, and gave it a fucking 97/100 score. When I saw this in the print, I asked him in front of his colleagues "which parts of the game did you not like?". He went on about a 5 minute rant about various things in the game that he didn't like. Then I just calmly asked "why did you give it a 97 then if the negatives would bring it down to ~70-80?" Dead silence. The main editor, a 40 year old guy even asked him "did you seriously give it a 97?" after this. There is 0 feedback, you can pretty much write what you want.

tldr: Every article is written by a fanboy and/or apologist, hence why the entire video game journalism is a corrupted piece of shit.

It's called having an opinion faggotron. Not that you or the Sup Forums hivemind would know what those are.

No one wanted a spinoff, even less some zombie shit.
How fucking hard was just making more Chapters for MGSV?

>Let's talk about
Stopped reading right there. Only sub 80 IQ normie and roastie retards do this kind of garbage.

because he's irresponsible. if i was konami i would be super pissed too if that jerk off hired kiefer sutherland then cut out all his work because of some movie he just saw. kojima is a hack

it would be if it wasnt a stock headline

Nobody is saying Konami is based, the point is that people shouldn't be "REEEEEEEEEEEE KILL KONAMI FOREVER" over a $20 spin-off game.
The reaction Survive has gotten ultimately makes it seem like Konami would've been better off making pachinko, because nothing they offer you would've made you happy other than "We licked Kojima's feet and sucked his dick in an attempt to bring him back to finish MGSV for you guys!"
It's kind of fucking retarded to be pissed off at Konami for doing what is probably the safest move financially. What if they made something new for the series, new assets, millions poured in as a love letter for the fans? You would've shat on it and called it a betrayal anyway, it'd tank, Konami would've lost money. The only reason Survive most likely exists is because Konami is afraid due to all the hatred people gave it.

If you thought like that you would have been fired too.
Konami cares only about money, they don't give a fuck about the quality of their games, the state they are released in, or their legacy.
MG Survive is proof of that.

Because more chapters actually wouldn't help MGSV. It would still be a bland open world game, just with one more Sahelanthropus fight.

No, i'm saying Konami should fuck off from videogames for killing MGS, for killing Silent Hill, for killing Contra, for killing Castlevania, for killing every single franchise they had.
They are a poison that kills everything it touches, they have nothing to offer since they have shown with MG Survive how creatively bankrupt they are, and we don't need more Metal Gear games.

Stick to pachinko and mobile crap.

>this leap in logic
Stop being a faggot for shock appeal. You know no one is calling Konami based for making what will probably be a shitty game.

What's being addressed is the autism that comes from disliking something because "le witch hunt is on!"

a business caring about money and its investors? wow! konami gave kojima more than enough leeway to make his games. he was probably in the best position of any developer that didn't work at a private company. the fact is that kojima fucked up and was pissing away money based on childlike whims

>How fucking hard was just making more Chapters for MGSV?
>Actors and a bunch of old developers have moved on.
>The head behind the main series is also gone.

Yeah, I'm sure just picking up were Kojima left off would work out great and not come off as jarring at all.

Metal Gear will continue, but Solid should be finished and never touched again, MG needs a fresh start.

Because he thought he was a rockstar; going to iceland, working with del toro, casting that faggot from the walking dead, going to visit holywood directors and shit like this. He thought he could get away with anything, and konami would give him more time/money. Konami got fed up with him and he got kick out.

I loved kojima games since i was 11, 26 now, but the guy clearly fucked up.

>What if they made something new for the series, new assets, millions poured in as a love letter for the fans?

Yeah, instead they took a turd on the ones that bought their games and now they made a game with no audience.
Really smart.

>Kojima fucked up
MGSV made more than twice it's budget in 24 hours.
That's what Konami cares about: numbers.

Konami is getting exactly what they deserve and i'm very glad of it, for the past decade they have done nothing but shit on their costumers.

>Konami cares only about money, they don't give a fuck about the quality of their games, the state they are released in, or their legacy.

It's cute because the way you phrase that makes it sound like you think other publishers do actually care.