What happened?

What happened?

Same thing that happened to most japanese devs. Could no longer compete with the west so they gave up.

Yakuza and gambling

head up the ass syndrome

Metal Gear Solid happened

Trst

I--we gave her a light. She took the short way down.

Underrated.

Higher ups are a bunch of assholes.

You glorious bastard you

this

Is it just me or do most of these guys look like fucking crime bosses

'ey I'm Ross O'Hanley you gonna buy our games or I'm gonna break your fucking legs.

senior "management"

anyone who blames kojima for konami's downfall is fucking daft, the way they treated that man should be criminal.

Contra > Gradius/Parodius > Goemon > Castlevania > Rocket Knight > Silent Hill > Metal Gear/MGS > Suikoden

Cum at me niggas.

This guy looks like "the bad corporate guy from every 90s movie ever"

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Those are all different types of games and it's kinda unfair to compare them, plus personal taste varies a bunch.

Konami works with the Yakuza its already out there. Thier Pachinko division is on of their main money makers

I liked Zone of The Enders.

Look, maybe Kojima isn't perfect, but at the end of the day, I'll root for someone that thanks his fans over and over again over a fuckwit company that treats it's IPs like they're fucking trash.

Anyone who sides with Konami over Kojima is either bitter, bandwagoning, or doesn't know the first thing about Kojima.

Support the guy that cares about his customers people. Christ.

>replying to yourself
>westaboo

No TMNT beat 'em ups anymore.

Getting rid of the bacon strips logo was the beginning of the end.

That and fucking over the good talent.

turtles in time is the best game konami ever made

come at me niggers

His farewell clip was somewhat heart wrenchingly sad. Sorta surprised he didn't broke down crying.

No matter whether you prefer east or west, it's an objective fact that from a financial standpoint Japan just can't compete on a large scale in the modern game industry. Budgets have become too big and tastes have changed too much.

It was a pretty good game. Personally I like narrative games so I prefer SH and MGS but you're entitled to like Turtles In Time more.

If they're anything like the Capcom management, most of them came from the financial sector. Which would more or less make them crime bosses.

Rocket Knight Adventures and Contra Hard Corps exists, so you're wrong.

>There will never be another Radical Rescue

Do budgets really NEED to be so big? Maybe if they hired people with talent and passion they could produce great works without just throwing money at every fucking problem.

Also, maybe if every fucking game wasn't open world...

I honestly think it's better to blame poor management rather than the market as a whole.

I guess we will see what happens with Kojima Productions, it's going to be a strictly Japanese studio and it's going up against AAA development. Granted, it's getting a check from Sony this time, but, it will be interesting to see if Kojima can run a better ship than Konami in the future.

>not Violent Storm

Get a load of THIS nigger.

The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day...

Konami fucked it up by completely misunderstanding the balance between art and business.

Video Games, like movies, have to be a hybrid between artistic and marketable, and the market lately has been trying to squeeze every last penny out of it's customers, making each game's marketing budget larger and larger, and artistic budget smaller and smaller.

Look at destiny, former employees confirmed that the game was originally designed to ship complete, and they were TOLD to rip content out to sell as DLC.

What happened? The management don't care about video games. That's what happened.

Kojima has demonstrated on many occasions he cares about video games. I look forward to what his studio does, even after he's gone.

Except the fact that Kojimbo burned through the budget on stupid shit + hiring Keith and Joost.
they could fucking include some substance-style vr missions goddamnit, instead we got THE SAME MISSIONS with reskinned enemies at the end BRAVO you chink hack

All hail

>Do budgets really NEED to be so big?
if you want to compete with the big boys you gotta have a big boy marketing budget
the shareholders made a good decision in limiting Konami in order to protect what little bottom line they still had left

Failure to adapt to a changing industry, they just said fuck it.