What is going on at Konami?

Fun fact: Bomberman R is sold out everywhere because its only party game competition is 1 2 Switch and even normalfags aren't dumb enough to buy a tech demo. Now Konami's formerly silent social media is back talking about all the silent hill, suikoden and metal gear games, retweeting fan art and desperately trying to be active and down with the kids while trying to remind everyone that they have games out while their pachishit is dying and they just made their most profitable release this year on a home console.

a year of tantrums only to come crawling back and they lost the metal gear, silent hill, castlevania and suikoden devs. yeesh.

Its honestly great to watch them backtrack after the MGSV Kojima debacle, Metal Gear Survive, and the entire year of pachinkoshit. I genuinely thought Konami would double down harder but apparently not anymore, and apparently Bomberman R is decent from what I hear if lacking in content.

I just wonder whats gonna happen to Konami from here on out, they'll have to start entirely at the bottom now.

small indie scope games. expect rereleases of all the old castlevanias on consoles and steam, hudson ips on the Switch for more bomberdosh and metal gear online 4 as just a bad souls clone in the metal gear universe.
i expect nothing better from them.

I had a lot of fun with bomberman R, it's a great return to form. After that abysmal xbox live game I pretty much lost hope in the series but the new game is surprisingly pleasant. I still think bomberman 64 is my favorite, if only because of the music.

fuck it I'll spill the beans.
There was supposed to be an ARG that KojiPro LA put together with some of the guys from roosterteeth.
this ARG would culminate with the release of several FOB Missions that were "event based"
there was going to be an event facing XOF remnants where platforms could sink, another where you had to get the nuke off ZEKE, and a final event at Camp Omega that would reintroduce guard dogs(there were probably more events planned but these were the only ones that were APPARENTLY completed)
ultimately, Konami scrapped the idea because it "didn't make sense" to have the normal FOB grind deviate from the formula - less money I guess
the ARG was culled in its early stages and KojiPro LA buried the entire thing

how do I know this? CAD buddy of mine did the GDC art for KojiPro LA and he was going to do art for the ARG, specifically posters of a vector-art rendition of skullface on top of ZEKE that were going to be spread around LA and NY

It's all in the papers about what horrible people they are to work for. I imagine they will eventually go out of business. They got rid of all their best people and they're not going to get any new people in now everyone knows how badly they treat employees.

Ah so that's where Chapter 3 was supposed to go gameplay-wise Nuclear Disarmament, this ARG FOB stuff along with Camp Omega and fucking Zeke type shit, and mission 51. I can't say that people would be incredibly satisfied with this but it's better than whatever the fuck it was we got.

Wow this just makes me even angrier, why do these things happen Holla Forums? God damn everything about MGSV just makes me angry this was supposed to be the best MG game out there and instead I just feel blueballed.

.>What is going on at Konami?

Pic related

Kojimu's like George Lucas. If you want him to work his magic then you need to keep him on a very short leash. Left to his own devices he ruins everything.

Sounds like a complete company reorganization or take over is possible in their future (Basically, the same occurrences that Sega and SNK went through). So, don't expect a Konami to scrape back to their former glory until 5-12 years from now.

I was under the impression Konami's gaming division was a small division that was simply losing them money, so they axed it.

Have a read through this if you want to be even more mad. imgur.com/r/NeverBeGameOver/NbIbL

It aint called The Phantom Pain for nothing.

It was for the longest time. Konami outsourced everything like idiots, and eventually ruining the legacy of franchises. Console games eventually stopped pulling their weight and mobile gaymen got popular at the time, that was until MGSV sold gangbusters.

You mean to say they cancelled a kart racing section of MGSV?

That, and Chapters 3-5.

Looks like it didn't survive

...

That's not hard to achieve when every asset is being reused from MGSV.

...

I feel so fuckin bad right now

holy fuck the first part about the jeep ride makes so much sense. that scene was defiantly changed after it had been recorded

Remind me again how and why is Konami is full of shit?
Off-Topic: Does anybody have a webm of vid related?

Suikoden V was released in 2006.

It has been over a decade.

...

...

Don't be, those are just excuses. They were ultimately over-ambitious.

Thanks

...

Do you get paid with DLC?

What matters is if the guy was telling the thruth or just talking shit/larping as a Konami employee.

Kojima is a hack, that much I can tell.

Why would you show me something like this, this link makes it seem like MGSV was meant to be the most radical game of all time.

Why am I even still here Holla Forums just to suffer, what is the point of it all, why even bother with this hobby if games can get butchered this badly by corporate fuckery. Maybe someday Kojima can get the rights back but until even then…

Well, at least we can sort of achieve the "actual events occurring in the open world" with Infinite Heaven.

UItimately that's where I feel like Kojima really dropped the ball. Why the fuck aren't the skulls a random encounter or something during free-roam? That's like bare minimum.

He even fucked up their scripted encounters. They're clearly supposed to come as a surprise during the missions but it's completely ruined by the retarded opening credits.

This nearrative is just part of the real ARG.

Kojima's firing and farewell party was similar theatre, it's a cover-up.

All those 9/11 references in MGSV didn't just not mean anything.

I'm a developer and I know a lot about the MGSV ARG, ask me anything and I will tell you secrets.

There sure were a lot of metallic… gears hanging from trees in RE7, huh guys,

Holy fucking shit, that would have gotten my ass years ago.

Karma's a fucking bitch.

Fuck Kike-nami

Reading those imgur posts just makes me more disappointed in the beta-style release we finally got at the end. What could have been.

It's a beautiful swansong for the PS3. Those graphics are unreal on the PS3 and 360.

we'll never get the MGS5 that was promised to us.

(Dubs)

Just when I was having a good day

Doesn't even sound that great,
But its better than what we got

Wasn't Bomberman R only published by Konami? I thought a different studio made it under their supervision, hence the usage of Unity

Did people manage to disable all of the nukes in game? I remember they said something would happen but i never saw what.

No one is playing the Xbone version, Playstation got pretty close and PC is just completely fucked due to people cheating to give themselves like hundreds of nukes.

So no, it's just a cutscene that you can lookup on youtube anyway.

Closest platform was actually the 360, but yeah it won't happen.
Pc is the only one still active and theres FOBs that you can't invade because their level is too high and they will make your game crash

Wow that's surprising; there are seriously FOBs that you can't invade without having your game crash? Seriously, god damn I thought it was because there was like something on the order of 10,000 nukes left on PC to deal with.

I decided to check on the game. I found some really high level base where the guy put really shitty defenses. I literally used the fulton on every soldier and supply and then i ran out of fultons while i was fultoning shit like the guns in the base. Didn't even get spotted, just had some dudes alert CP.

wew

And there was a Chapter 5 planned after that, although that was likely mostly where most of the post-game stuff was going to fit in.

Also Ground Zeroes was planned to be part of the base game and really was simply released as an overpriced demo as people had guessed.

I'm going to suppose the fobs you can't invade because their level is too high are that way because the people cheated.

Shouldn't happen normally. Also the nuke search is absolutely broken, and making nukes is really easy.

It's just fucked.

The nuke minigame isn't real you fucking retards. It's part of the ARG. You can never win. The numbers are made up.

Apparently SNK did.

Whatever I guess.

I couldn't really give a shit about Konami's game series.
Castlevania is dead, MGS is done, Silent Hill is fucked, the rest of the shit I really don't care about.
But you know what really pisses me off?
You know what really gets my blood boiling?

The fact that Konami canned Pro Yakyuu Spirits (the greatest baseball series alive) in order to focus on a shitty cartoon baseball game with no focus on actual teams.
The got the exclusive license for NPB and are essentially holding it for ransom, not only this but also the World Baseball Classic is under an exclusivity agreement so nobody can make a game on it because of Konami.
Well, maybe I shouldn't be too harsh, they did reboot the series to be a f2p mobile game, so if I want to play it I have to play it on my phone.
Thanks Konami, you not only lost every single dollar I will ever give your company but also lost every single other person who liked your company.
Fuck Konami.

Give it a rest, Jim.

I don't want to believe any of that is real

Reminder that Kojima spent massive amounts of money on the game and wasn't even halfway finished, if the insider/leaks are true. Then he started working on another project anyway.

Konami were right to do what they did at the time, at least as far as putting their foot down on Kojima's bullshit.

The game wasn't unfinished, that's part of the ARG.

It's likely that the game's development was partitioned like THE TAPES FUCKING TELL YOU, and that developer believes the version of reality he was given.

MGSV is clearly a finished game that was deliberately made to look unfinished.

if Metal Gear Survive dies on release i'll have enough smug in my system to power my apartment

you forgot one more piece of absolute suffering

...

Konami is taking a dive to hide their real activities.

holy shit check konami europes twitter. They are going full sanic twitter and going 'come to our ebig stream to win a switch bomberoonies! xD'

its happened hasnt it? pachislot has died and nobody noticed.

Heh

pachislot is dying because (correct me if i'm wrong) japan is going to make regular gambling legal again over there

pachinko was just a roundabout way to gamble

Nigga, Konami has had slot machines in Las Vegas for the last 50 years. If someone is bound to benefit from this occurence it's them.

Casinos are legal now goyim, the yakuza grey market has been gutted.

It's an act.

"Kojima" is best friends with "dorito pope", konami know they meme.

The pope goes to sleep weeping that Koji-chan will never look at him like he does Mads

konami's situation will eventually be a best seller.
I can't wait for everything to blow up in their face.

How certain are you that Mads Mikkelsen and Geoff Keighley are different people? How much would you be willing to bet, user?

PSA: konami is doing marketing and research here, this exact same thread was made before, just without the bomberman question, don't feed this threads.

D-dont be silly user, just because we have never seen them in the same room together….

...

They took it away, it was ours.

Welcome to Nu/v/

Cant we just talk about how much we hate videogames and talk about each others shit taste?

...

Are you being ironic?

Yes, good job.

Konami is screwing up with Yugioh too, considering thier newest mechanic is a cash grab to force people to buy new cards or their old decks wont work.

Japan is reacting poorly, since Konami is begging them to give it a chance.

Its not ironic. I hate the industry. And I hate the games. And the people who play them. Fuck video games. Fuck people. Fuck everything.

never said i didn't like it.

oh you, trying to blend in, so cute.

Lots of sexual rage, the lot in life for us.

...

Links is not as bad as people think and the pendulum balance was needed now some pendulum zone effects are as good or better than straight spells. The extra deck had to be slowed down somehow.

It has nothing to do with Links, and everything to do with the Extra Deck restriction.