Konami Sucks

[@clovergambit3051]

Hearing that Castlevania fans got NFTS over a new game as a celebration hurts to see, and I'm not even a fan of the franchise. That has to be the biggest middle finger to fans who've loved that IP for years.

[@BknMoonStudios]

And as the video mentioned, it is most likely going to happen again for Metal Gear's anniversary. Not getting any announcements could be considered a victory at this point.

[@ieuanhunt552]

At least the Netflix show kicks ass. Seriously if the only good thing about it was the Berzerk reference with Striga daywalker armour it would be worth it. Now that I think about it Konami has a much better track record with tv shows than they do with games.

[@bigpoo1335]

My reaction was exact the same

[@thesuperdoge2476]

I thought NFTs was short for something...damn i feel bad for the fans

[@superadambomb5834]

If metal gear ends up getting nfts I am going to try my best to screen shot them all in spite.

[@ZERARCHIVE2023]

As a child, Konami was a dream developper. As an adult, Konami is a nightmare dev.

[@vinnyandlin8510]

I remember them most for the Goemon games on the N64

[@vullord666]

Were they ever devs? I thought they were publishers.

[@norrainevillabroza7007]

It always was a nightmare dev with ridiculously impossible unfair and infuriating games

[@orangeslash1667]

@@vullord666 The problem with Konami is that with the exception of Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders, Silent Hill, and Bomber man R, they ether struggle to make 3d games or they can't translate their games well in 3d. They tried to bring Castlevania and Contra into 3d, they mostly got bad reception. Which is a problem because 2d games are too difficult to sell well. Lords of Shadow is the best selling Castlevania game but it's not as great as the 2d games. Hard Corps was great, yet no one talks about it???? Why Because it's a modern 2d game and Konami believes that 2d games are too niche. So it feels like Konami has to give up if the games aren't selling well.

[@nemisous83]

​@@orangeslash1667 not only that but video game development is a huge gamble. Mobile gaming isn't flashy but it pays the bills. But now Konami is bringing back some of their IP's likely as a side project which isn't a bad business move. However the executives at Konami have shifted a lot since 2015 so there is a lot of possibilities going forward. However Kojima is just gonna continue making cinematic film games with contrived plots for the rest of his days.

[@elitef40]

It's like watching your favorite friend taking drugs and slowly fade away.

[@-Scrapper-]

that's infinity war edit- especially if YOU'RE the one taking the drugs

[@chickenfeet8321]

more like watching youre friend slowly morph into a slot machine

[@HordikaNate3821]

That's a lot of game companies my friend

[@elitef40]

@@chickenfeet8321 dude even a slot machine can give you money and make you happy. Konami on the other hand, takes your money and doesn't give you anything in return😂

[@elitef40]

@@HordikaNate3821 and sadly, it's ruining the entire game industry.

[@AVClarke]

Their treatment of Kojima and his staff was bizarre. It's like they were doing everything possible to make him quit.

[@swarthybullxxx]

Konami is a family run company, and they were afraid he would use his popularity to leverage a take over among investors.

[@Saixjacket]

I don’t think anybody should be defending Kojima right now, considering anything he’s made with his own group of developers is just as convoluted and confusing and esoteric as any other Kojima product. Dude should have split way sooner, he was just getting the easy money after mgs3

[@doclouis4236]

@@Saixjacket There are a lot of detractors of Kojima because of the very fact that his games are popular and sometimes strange, but you would have to be an ignorant asshole to suggest that he didn't attempt to make some amazing games, even if you personally don't like them, especially under the circumstances he was under. The guy made a name for himself and he's definitely earned himself some haters. Love 'em or him, he's still created stuff that you would never imagine of making. And I can already guess which KZbinr you were watching that has a hate boner for Kojima, constantly mentioning him anytime so spitefully like he was some ex lover or something, lol.

[@Saixjacket]

@@doclouis4236 I don’t watch any KZbinrs who complain about Kojima, I’ve just been playing games for 25 years. He should have gone off to do his own thing after mgs3.

[@doclouis4236]

@@Saixjacket Well, he didn't. He still made some good-ish games after MGS3. Zone of the Enders, Boktai, etc. I guess making more MGS games after MGS3 and all the way until the success of MGSV, made him recognized enough to be able to finally create his own studio and get backing from Sony to make a Playstation exclusive game. So it did eventually happen. The way your phrasing it makes no sense, tho.

[@sauceman4225]

Why is he talking about a pachinko company?

[@Kekinger09]

This was a stab in my heart :(

[@AnimatedTerror]

Ha Ha Ha

[@lylelylecrocodile2538]

@@AnimatedTerror your comment has a translate to English button below your comment and it says "he has" three times

[@sarcastic_fish25]

@@lylelylecrocodile2538 Kinda creepy tbh

[@badatmathhh]

@@sarcastic_fish25 he has

[@alexander1989x]

"Hello? EA Games? Yeah, you've got competition."

[@flynntaggart7216]

EA is fucking worse than konami

[@Peachsfaithful]

@@flynntaggart7216 No they aren't lol. A company that releases garbage and microtransactions is bad, sure, but a company that mistreats and stalks their employees is awful. I hate EA too, but you seem like you're only doing it because of the bandwagon.

[@flynntaggart7216]

@Scarlet Dani i have never heard of knomai stalking and sexually assaulting their employees until now but you have changed my mind microtransactions is not good but stalking and sexually assaulting is just unacceptable thank for sharing the info about it

[@teehundeart]

@@flynntaggart7216 EA games are trash but apparently they are actually a pretty decent employer... for a video game company at least

[@VisualdelightPro]

Koei is way worse than Konami

[@john_michael97]

I think it’s really interesting to compare Konami’s path to Capcom’s. They were in very similar places 10 years ago, and now have drastically different reputations due to differing decisions.

[@ahmedelged4894]

Capcom is one hell of a company that I'm thankful it exists.

[@DankNemes]

Capcom is 1000x times better than Konami because they make actual games and not only shitty ports and mobile games.

[@BknMoonStudios]

@@DankNemes Nowadays? Yes. But never forget the embarrassing shitshow that was late 2000s Crapcom. Megaman fans still have PTSD to this day. And Fighting Game Fans are still living in the dark days. (Praying SF6 is good. 🙏)

[@badatmathhh]

@@BknMoonStudios I can’t speak much about mega man but fighting game fans have had it good for years now. SF4 almost singlehandedly resurrected the fighting game genre, and despite SFV’s dookie launch, its been able to (for the most part) pick itself back up. Fighting games are more popular than ever nowadays

[@john_michael97]

@@DankNemes that’s my point, Capcom has Recovered from where they were ten years ago, Konami has not. They were in similar places and have taken drastically different trajectories since.

[@strider_hiryu850]

Kojima being unshackled from Konami, and unshackled from his previous works, is actually probably the best thing for him. we got Death Stranding out of it. who knows what he'll make next... after he finishes adding content to D.S.

[@channel45853]

Yeah, but Kojima already seemed like he was moving on with Silent Hills. But Death Stranding does seem more Kojima-like.

[@strider_hiryu850]

@@channel45853 i agree. maybe after the split, Kojima realized he liked working with Norman, but couldn't (legally) finish Silent Hills. so he started working on Kojima Productions, and Death Stranding. maybe. i don't know. i don't live in Kojima's head

[@sloomy5847]

holy shit, i had no idea konami was THAT bad, what the actual fuck, from what is shown here it's almost like a fucking prison

[@adamdenardis5438]

They turned Castlevania into a sexy pachinko machine.

[@feister2869]

@@adamdenardis5438 what the hell man. I seriously don’t want that for metal gear’s anniversary.

[@thomasedwardharrison2879]

Konami makes EA look like Jesus

[@ultimelol5907]

@@thomasedwardharrison2879 😂😂😂😂lmao

[@thomasedwardharrison2879]

@@ultimelol5907 Konami at the very least is honest and makes actual slot machines than slot machines disguised as games

[@hallowedrequiem8300]

They went out of their way to stop ex-employees from getting new jobs as well. They're a disgusting company in terms of how they treat their staff and ex-staff.

[@FluffalKyurem]

Something I wish was brought up when discussing Konami is Yu-Gi-Oh! They use the banlist as a way to push product instead of getting rid of problem cards and encouraging a healthy format. They don't reprint cards that really need it and when they actually do it's a high rarity card to get people to buy more booster packs or boxes.

[@adamdenardis5438]

That's tied to anime and manga too. Those cards are from those originally.

[@sharktos3218]

They do reprint cards if they need them. I know it sounds stupid but You can't reprint any card in any set. They mostly have themes and putting some weird as earth pyro fusion monster into a wind synchro set won't happen.

[@ttyt4078]

Also Master Duel is unfinished, it needs quite a bit of work to make just a little bit better

[@MsMiDC]

While I do agree to a certain extent, Reprints and banning problem cards these days are waaaay better than back in the day. Reprinting cards back in the day was almost a miracle. Or instead of banning Dragon Rulers after a format, they stayed relevant after so many hits.

[@Ghsbr]

At least they seem to start to understand that more reprints=more sales, just look at the Albaz structure deck, that thing was awesome. Or GFTP2 which reprinted aluber relatively early

[@maxinecaulfield310]

Fun fact: Konami has been making more and more money since all this has happened, and see this as absolute win. I think we should appreciate how special the games we have from them truly were.

[@WingMaster562]

It's like EA, no heart, no love, yet it's winning.

[@luliu4572]

@@WingMaster562 I would argue that they're in a better position because the gaming community has the ability to crucify EA. And that's because they makes AAA games. Konami jumped industries and don't need/want us as their target audience. We might as well be the drunk guy who's complaining that we had our hearts broken at a bar the same day the ex girlfriend is getting married to a more successful, taller, attractive guy.

[@WingMaster562]

@@luliu4572 woah. That example went very specific, almost like it's first hand experience. You arlight there dude?

[@snekbitesboop9643]

@@WingMaster562 nah, that's not specific, specific would be having your heart broken in the cinema down the street at 8:14 PM by a beautiful British latina woman named Charlene, because she would rather marry a Doctor named Anthony Segal Rivera that has stable income and a Ford 2026, and also a pony named Toilet Sparkles. Not that THAT is true either, but you know, it's still specific.

[@luliu4572]

@@WingMaster562 I was describing Tom and Jerry: Blue Cat Blues. Where Tom did that exact thing I just described.

[@leoultimaupgraded9914]

I genuinely hope Konami sell’s most of their IP’s, atleast the IP’s that deserve better, I’m looking at you Zone of the Enders

[@superadambomb5834]

I just want them to sell off metal gear so that I can finally have a metal gear rising 2.

[@IlovetheBMW]

I still wait the day the Castlevania IP gets sold, since Yu-Gi-Oh is the current cash cow of Konami.

[@zydronthegatelord4056]

@@superadambomb5834 An old man can dream

[@thomasjess5029]

Jim Stephanie Sterling did a video laughing at Square Enix's dumbass decision to sell off some of there IP's like Lara Croft and Deus Ex in exchange for crypto currency lmao. And honestly, those titles are better off. Now if we can only trick Konami into selling their IP's for worthless shit...

[@leifmochi5082]

@@zydronthegatelord4056 :(

[@DistributionMackerel]

Something that isn't mentioned, usually, in relation to Kojima and his troubles at Konami, is that not every title Kojima had his fingers in were financial bangers. More often than not, they would be critically panned and only become cult hits later in their life cycle a la MGS2, and some games only even got made in the first place from Kojima using his executive weight to ensure their development, such as Zone of the Enders and its sequel, despite their startlingly poor sales figures. He made several enemies on the board, especially compared to the project lead for the dragon mobile game who not only was bringing his highly profitable product to the table, but also ingratiating himself to the CEO.

[@iternal4823]

konami was a fucking icon. it made many great games and series that set the scene for future generations. sadly, it fell to the ways of shitty business practices that ea, activision, and more have used. its a shame theres only like 4 decent game companies nowadays when back then there were a ton

[@hullukana214]

Bro hundreds, propably thousands of decent game companies exist. Way more than back in the day. People seem to forget that indie games exist even though many of them are very high quality and have awesome devs.

[@sk2galway]

Hello Iternal

[@iternal4823]

@@sk2galway hello galway

[@hizo6537]

what four companies

[@jabelaize1490]

@@hullukana214 Pretty sure he's talking about AAA studios and big companies exclusively

[@GURKENGOTT]

Glad to hear Konami isn't only fucking up their card game, but also everything else.

[@lovingthepastpresentandfuture]

Hey it hasn’t been that bad lately. We’ve gotten good reprints and a banlist that actually shifted the meta

[@GURKENGOTT]

I wrote that a couple of hours before the banlist dropped lmao

[@lovingthepastpresentandfuture]

Lol that’s some funny timing

[@Theoneandonly508]

@@lovingthepastpresentandfuture then we have splights, *sigh*

[@orangeslash1667]

@@GURKENGOTT The problem with Konami is that with the exception of Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders, Silent Hill, and Bomber man R, they ether struggle to make 3d games or they can't translate their games well in 3d. They tried to bring Castlevania and Contra into 3d, they mostly got bad reception. Which is a problem because 2d games are too difficult to sell well. Lords of Shadow is the best selling Castlevania game but it's not as great as the 2d games. Hard Corps was great, yet no one talks about it???? Why Because it's a modern 2d game and Konami believes that 2d games are too niche. So it feels like Konami has to give up if the games aren't selling well.

[@G0rg81]

It sounds like typical Japanese companies not caring about other markets by directing resources to pachinko (primarily a Japanese market) and other easy methods like mobile games (which are also hugely successful in japan)

[@freedustin]

Sounds like typical American business bait n switch tactics.

[@freedustin]

@@chicken29843 your pink is showing. scams have nothing to do with capitalism and are present even in communist places. And no...no other video game maker has decided "You know what? Our billion dollar franchises should be restricted to 18+ gambling." No, not one other video game company has done that without it being their mission from the start.

[@Burger19985]

@@chicken29843 not like socialism would be any better sadly its the reality of human nature

[@immortal_shrooms6757]

@@Burger19985 humans just suck in general sometimes

[@sewerwater12]

@immortal_shrooms fr, wish’s we could return to being lizards some times

[@debarro8894]

I completely agree they should sell Metal Gear to a company that cares, but I don't think it would be Kojima. As much as he loves MGS, he's tried putting it behind him multiple times, he wanted to stop working on it after MGS4, but he got dragged back into it. But really, who could match Kojima's style and ambition? MGS has alot of his quirks and DNA built directly Into it, so itd be hard to find a worthy successor.

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

Koonami should just sell the Metal Gear franchise to Platinum Studios; Koonami should sell the Yu-Gi-Oh! and Castlevania franchise to Nintendo, and Koonami should sell the Silent Hill franchise to the manga author/creator Junji Ito.

[@AmelpsXett]

@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr why platinum games? MGR was a mess and the plot was made by KJP writers. PG doesnt even want to work on mgs stuff again

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

@@AmelpsXett , Astral Chain, Bayonetta franchise, and Nier Automa/ Nier Replicant outsold the entirety of the Devil May Cry franchise, Metal Gear franchise, and the Castlevania franchise, and this games are still hugely successful to this day, and they’re still universally praised even to this day, so yes Koonami should just hand over the Metal Gear franchise to Platinum games; Koonami should hand over the franchise of Yu-Gi-Oh! to Nintendo because then we’d have the entire anime and manga franchise from Season 0 to current series completely uncensored the card game not being completely broken and impossible to understand; all of the Castlevania games including the Wii/Wii U exclusive games can be ported to the Nintendo Switch completely uncensored, and Silent Hill should just be handed over to the manga author/manga creator Junji Ito.

[@AmelpsXett]

@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr that doesn't mean they can do metal gear games (and want to).

[@jefurihartono1630]

@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr lol. Konami which atm is at its peak profit and revenue should sell their IP... no wonder u dont do business

[@timmyjimmy7413]

As a Castlevania fan who really loved the old-style action platformers. I agree with this statement. I believe this needs to be talked about more. Konami had some of the most interesting IPs and legendary games. but threw it all away, it almost seems like an outside source is sabotaging them from inside out. you really summarized this well, keep up the good work.

[@aedancroy4219]

Dude I was hoping for a Castlevania symphony of the night but dear god I was wrong.

[@Canalbiruta]

the richter in your profile pic says much of how you must have felt with the announcement of the nft thing for castlevania 35th anniversary

[@mechanomics2649]

Yeah, I've been playing the games for almost that entire 35 years. Seeing yet another dev (the others being Square-Enix and to a lesser extent Rockstar)I've grown up with throw everything away is a real gut punch. That's to say nothing of the way they treat their employees. Of course, at the end of the day they're ultimately a business, but it's still hard not to feel that kind of attachment.

[@TheManBehindTheSlaughter6669]

@qiq007 It's probably for the best castlevania stopped having games being made, I would rather an IP end on a semi-good note rather than have them be bled absolutely dry for mediocre/shitty games for the next ten years

[@CelestialHunter-]

It’s a sad day knowing that humanity can’t pay tribute to Dracula anymore

[@CosPlaywright]

"I can guarantee you'll find a DDR machine" Shows Pump it Up gameplay

[@ShiningEternity]

Ironically Konami sued Pump it Up and lost 2 out of 3 times. The only reason they won was over a patent over the hardware used (think Atari vs Sega) which was settled out of court.

[@mattieice4785]

Grass is green, Konami sucks, gravity is always in effect, and we are always getting older. These are the constants that we accept in our daily lives…

[@HordikaNate3821]

Like most people my age I'm 19

[@beanseater6786]

But gravity isn’t always in effect and grass isn’t always green EDIT: just realized gravity is always in effect, just sometimes not noticeable

[@thedictationofallah]

Konami's console game PES does not suck

[@Anthracite_coal]

@@beanseater6786 I think in physics there is one number that represents the gravitational effect of the rest of universe on you, it's a tiny number though

[@student69741]

Rain falls, wind blows, the strong preys upon the weak.... Everything is as it should be ..

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

You know, I want to say the recent beginning-of-the-end for NFTs will prevent Konami from pulling that nonsense with Metal Gear but, hey, they made Metal Gear Survive. They're probably just going to do it anyway, let it fail, and use it as another excuse to shelf the franchise.

[@superben5102]

I've heard about Konami mistreating their employees before, but this is the first time hearing about Konami mistreating Kojima. The fact that Konami mistreated one of their biggest staff members is really messed up. But I'm more upset that Konami won't remaster Frogger: He's Back. (Okay, that one was kind of a joke.)

[@TheAbsol7448]

I knew they mistreated him, but I didn't know how bad it was.

[@mordercainear9573]

Perfect example of when a game company is run by old business farts and not the people who actually work on the product

[@varietygaming33]

From what I hear there might be a remake of MGS1 and MGS3 that are going to be made by two different developers. Might be true but who knows, they're just rumors?🤷‍♂️

[@SoulGuitarMetal]

Nothing is more disrespectful to a creator than to dissociate his name from his invention!

[@willwunsche6940]

Dude they mistreated him so bad he left taking a bunch of devs with him making his own AAA studio

[@STANNco]

it's so frustrating what has happened. Moreso the fact they literally treat their employees like dirt, i don't know how japanese work culture works, but stuff like that just shouldn't be legal

[@kramcherryp197]

From what I heard Japan has a (unfortunately) pretty toxic work culture

[@volbla]

I wanna say one big part of japanese work culture (or japanese culture in general) is to not speak out of line. Your superior is your superior in every way, and it's unacceptable to disrespect them. So when shitty people end up in positions of power, they can get away with doing a lot of shitty things. That's how you end up with a glut of employees who commit suicide instead of challenging their work environment.

[@kyotanaka920]

@@volbla Its part of Japanese culture as a whole, not just the work culture. Sega's Judgement Lost (a Yakuza spinoff following a detective) tackles this specific problem when it came to bullying in High School. It is far more complex than just shitty people getting into position of power. Japan also suffers from spineless citizens being taught to "conform to the norm" no matter what happens. Ignore when someone is in trouble, be it from bullying in class to actual train molestations. This entire mindset in general is why Japan has a high suicide rate, the workforce is just a tip of the iceberg to that problem. This all happens because people that makes themselves stand out rather than standing in line is often seen the more problematic figure, and standing up to bullies is the best way to stand out. Some more dumber examples of this in action is again, in schools. Let's say you happen to be mixed and have brown hair because of it... You would be in violation of the numerous standard dress codes the school enforce for dying your hair. Nevermind that brown is your natural hair color, if you don't dye that shit to black to match every other students in school, you'll be in trouble for dying your hair. The schools are not very flexible with their rules, and even if they are they aren't willing to bend on this particular issue because in their minds: They are not the one causing problems. You are, for having the gulls to be born with brown hair and not black like everyone else. Granted this issue is pretty minor in the grand scheme of all of this, but petty issues like this should make it obvious how bad this problem really is.

[@sirapple589]

@@kyotanaka920 Japan as a whole seems to follow the wording of something rather than the spirit. Like your hair colour example, the wording of the rule is “No hair colours other than this” but the spirit is “No hair colours beyond natural colouring”. It’s an interesting mindset for a nation to have.

[@DistributionMackerel]

@@sirapple589 The instance Kyo brings up is based off of an actual incident in Japan where a schoolgirl was expelled because she wouldn't dye her hair black; her natural color being brown. She was accused of dying her hair brown, which was in violation of the school's dress code, and the teachers who purportedly examined her roots insist that she was lying (even though this clearly wasn't the case). It's pretty much exactly what Kyo described - it didn't matter that the teachers were too prideful to admit that they were wrong, what mattered is that a teenage student spoke out against her teachers. She sued the school over it, even, and despite the overwhelming evidence in her favor, she still largely lost the case as the judge sided with the school in every regard except for her expulsion, and that was only because the school did not go through any channels for the expulsion in the first place.

[@aketsuuu]

Taking this time to remind everyone how they estranged and disbanded Team Silent as well in favour of western developers... even though Team Silent clearly had the success, considering the state of Silent Hill today.

[@compatriot852]

I don't understand why Konami didn't just sell or license their games if they didn't want to develop anymore. For years, these games have pretty much been left in purgatory

[@isaiahsimmons5776]

theyre japanese

[@gamingmoyai3950]

Because they’d rather make gambling machines with their IP names all over them.

[@furukawakoyomi8413]

They still trying to milk it.

[@tencraziest5697]

Cauwe if they can't make money off of em nobody can

[@HuhJuhWuh]

As a Yu-Gi-Oh player i've always had beef with konami

[@joaovitorbarianimeirelesmo5686]

I stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh almost exclusively due to the unhealthy state of the game, to the point that even trying to come back as a casual player was still impossible to me. The entire game snowballed in powercreep and unnecessary complexity.

[@alivasconcellos5405]

@@joaovitorbarianimeirelesmo5686 sadly Konami still thinks this direction is healthy for the game and community 😔

[@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253]

The only thing the author of the video is wrong about is that “Konami was cool”. Konami never was cool. Never. It just happened to employ some really cool people. All of whom obviously tried to flee it as fast as they could once they made a name making games for them.

[@adamdenardis5438]

I lost weight playing DDR. I was obsessed back in high school.

[@snowytheott]

“Walk into any large arcade today, and I guarantee you’ll find a DDR machine!” *footage of someone playing Pump It Up* bruh

[@skully3242]

The sad thing is they probably won’t even consider what they’re doing is wrong. Too busy trying to get into the NFT and Pachenko shit.

[@dantevic]

Trying? Have seen their reports? Pachenko makes them made money. It was even making them more money than when their games were selling great.

[@skully3242]

@@dantevic I blame the losers who actually buy in to that shit.

[@goonerOZZ]

Yeah they had record revenue report again

[@orangeslash1667]

@@dantevic Sadly Sega is also uses Pachinko Machines since they were bought by Sammy in 2004. Which explains why Sega haven't been the same since.

[@Bubbagaming90000]

@@orangeslash1667 sounds like a country issue

[@Cane-Aubright]

I want to add that in Konami's rhythm games around 2013-15, musicians who worked in-house at Konami also had their names scrubbed from songs to be replaced with a generic "BEMANI Sound Team". Every musician who worked with Konami beyond playable songs had their name changed to this. It's a miracle this change was later reverted but the fact that this made it to the public eye says everything

[@AviaKun]

Nintendo should just buy Castlevania from Konami, it’s practically a Nintendo franchise and Nintendo will put more care into the IP

[@TheAbsol7448]

I hope they'd honor multiplat releases and even release future games on PC. I'd love to see Nintendo collaborate with FromSoftware to make a Souls-like Castlevania.

[@isaiahsimmons5776]

how to die

[@Burger19985]

@@TheAbsol7448 with how controlling nintendo is? no way in hell

[@vvaportarts]

Let Sony have silent hill and metal gear bring back kojima and everyone is happy

[@isaiahsimmons5776]

i mean i bet it already is sorta split between them in licenses. also nintendo be the worst pick ever, they would alienate entire market. guess much like konami but extremer in a way. i think sony could be a good pick, but its sony. when i first read it, i thought it said sega. idk what hell sega had to do it but that would pretty good too. just any other company that is not nintendo. i mean they will be treated better then konami with them currently, but theyll be ousted.

[@Slithering-Pyro]

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[@PolygonDonut]

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[@ericschuster2680]

The worst companies you can imagine funding, producing and publishing the best sword-fight-action games you have ever played: Konami: MGR Activision: Sekiro Ubisoft: For Honor

[@Comkill117]

Capcom’s still doing decently for now… Although they’ve had their dark age in the 2010s.

[@s4nsk_]

@@Comkill117 early 2010s, they started doing fine after RE7 and released absolute bangers like DMC5 and RE8

[@marekbazmek6413]

@@s4nsk_ Yep, definetly, I think when they made RE7 they saw people liked old style of their games so they stick with it. And Re Engine is freaking great, games runs really smootly on PC.

[@then00brathalos]

@@Comkill117 I guess Capcom's drop during that time is flipping from the PS to nintendo for the new MH games (tri, tri ult and onwards until XX). But then they realized what they had done wrong and dropped World/Iceborne on the PS4 and PC

[@comanovidiu291]

Konami was in its prime in the late 80s and early 90s and made so many great games to never forget. But as time goes on most game companies fall off, as other comments have stated it was just like EA and Activision with terrible business practices.

[@rolan5948]

I disagree, there prime was during the PS1 and ps2 era, silent hill 2, metal gear solid, Castlevania symphony of the knight, Suikoden to name a few. Some companies cant even make one masterpiece or make one revolutionary game in their entire existence

[@josephsigala6631]

Is konami at this point the most evil game company that not from American why because like Activision blizzard EA and Konami all of these game company where some of the most iconic and revolution the game industry only for all three companies to become the most hated and worst company to work for As for konami fate there two way For the future One end up like Activision Blizzard To be bought by someone anyone to save it from it self Or end up like EA to be nothing but a former shell of it gory and have nothing but endless negative controversy after controversy to the point that no one has any respect for it ever

[@legendp2011]

from, this it sounds like konami are far worse than EA

[@unknownuser494]

Ds and gba vanias is also great metroidvania which were released in before 2010. Even some western silent hill games are also great.

[@Mirage1209]

The only good thing they have done is the tmnt cowabunga collection

[@ForTheOmnissiah]

3:10 puts it pretty well. Company makes a bad game for a great franchise, and their conclusion is "people don't like this franchise anymore". No, you made a *bad game* and people didn't like it because it was a *bad game* . That's it. You need to make good games. And when people REALLY like a franchise, the games you make seriously need to perform.

[@adamdenardis5438]

Whoever owns Konami now is more focused on gambling than video games and they are actively or were actively trying to get rid of them.

[@varietygaming33]

They might have a gambling problem

[@Dj.D25]

Konami still makes some arcade games, which you can find at Round 1. Though they are mostly Bemani games, which is not to everyone's taste in the U.S. The Bemani games are sadly the only Konami games I play and look forward to now.

[@orangeslash1667]

@@varietygaming33 Sad fact: Sega also uses Pachinko machines. SNK use to have pachinko, but eventually it stoped working.

[@shaww8721]

This is one of your best videos. Your energy is really good and your pacing has really improved. Great video, Stryxo.

[@nekotrash6664]

Love the pump it up gameplay when mentioning ddr lol

[@ScizorM]

And the usage of a PIU song as the background music for a bit lmao

[@fireryfists]

"Why spend time and money making good video games when you can just print shiny cardboard?" - Konami on Yu-Gu-Oh (probably)

[@Saixjacket]

Hey, it’s shiny cardboard that ages better than almost all games. Especially these days!

[@uraveragewiteguy]

@@Saixjacket nah

[@Saixjacket]

@@uraveragewiteguy no, I’m serious lol. My yugioh collection is way over performing the stock market and crypto right now, I’m not complaining about reality over here.

[@uraveragewiteguy]

@@Saixjacket I only said nah cuz I'm not too into yu gi o

[@ivangonzalezlopez2779]

@@Saixjacket Not everyone's into Yu-Gi-Oh

[@Bro3256]

I'm still upset that Konami bought out Hudson Soft mainly cause Konami hardly does anything period lol

[@goblingoo8061]

I feel like the one word to describe Konami’s legacy is revolutionary. How they’ve fell from grace.

[@luliu4572]

They didn't really fall from grace. They just abandoned their legacy in one industry to move to another one. They still make money from the gambling industry, and they rake in dough with Yu-Gi-Oh cards. They made a relationship with us one day, and then abandoned us for another. It's terrible what they do to their employees. but they're doing it in their country. One where this kind of abuse is culturally acceptable.

[@orangeslash1667]

@@luliu4572 The problem with Konami is that with the exception of Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders, Silent Hill, and Bomber man R, they ether struggle to make 3d games or they can't translate their games well in 3d. They tried to bring Castlevania and Contra into 3d, they mostly got bad reception. Which is a problem because 2d games are too difficult to sell well. Lords of Shadow is the best selling Castlevania game but it's not as great as the 2d games. Hard Corps was great, yet no one talks about it???? Why Because it's a modern 2d game and Konami believes that 2d games are too niche. So it feels like Konami has to give up if the games aren't selling well.

[@classdpersonnel115]

I’m just gonna wake up and it’s gonna be 2001 and everything is going to be ok

[@AJPMUSIC_OFFICIAL]

Some bad things happened in 2001...

[@TheAbsol7448]

@@AJPMUSIC_OFFICIAL Yeah... 2000, then.

[@aedancroy4219]

I was a huge Konami fan when I was younger, my two favorite franchises at the time and still are Metal Gear and Castlevania. I grew up with these game and it just saddens me that I will never be able to see these games come back to life for newer audiences. I even Pre-Ordered Metal Gear: Survive.

[@krugerofcause9048]

Every time I see the Konami logo, I feel physical pain.

[@windowsxpnt2347]

don't forget the fact that europe doesn't exist to these people when it comes to bemani games that aren't ddr, and even then the ddr games we do get nowadays are always delayed in release (we got ddr a20+ a month before ddr a3 was announced) and are stuck offline.

[@Dj.D25]

True, I feel bad for European Bemani fans. Thanks to Round 1 growing in the U.S., it's much easier and convenient to play some of the latest Bemani games compared to the 2000s, where finding Bemani games other than DDR at arcades was kind of tricky depending where you live. It would be nice if Europe had a Round 1 equivalent. Are arcades even popular in Europe still?

[@windowsxpnt2347]

@@Dj.D25 i mean there is a european round 1 (but all the cabs are offline and its in russia). however over here in the uk, arcades are kinda popular, but arcades over here generally tend to have one of those 100 in 1 arcade cabs, a bunch of oversized mobile games and if your lucky, some form of ddr cab. at least it isn't as bad as the pump it up situation in the uk (i have only ever found like 3 in the wild and they were all at an arcade in london)

[@waltuh11121]

"Konami sucks" Me, who has been waiting for a Silent Hill game for 10 years: "really? Wow! I didn't know that!"

[@Saixjacket]

Silent hill fans gotta let it go lmao. Just let that franchise RIP, it keeps getting worse.

[@riewo]

>talks about DDR >shows footage of Pump It Up I play Konami's rhythm games (IIDX) and their direction baffles me especially with how greedy they are for their PC ports of Sound Voltex, IIDX and DDR. Not to mention how hesitant they were to give America access to their EAmusement system beyond DDR (We just got it when Heroic Verse came out) yet, all the extra content for Paseli is locked still so No Blaster Gate or Premium Start if you play SDVX or even the gacha generator.

[@Dj.D25]

I play some of their Bemani games too. I didn't know that about IIDX, at least songs that required E-Amuse eventually get playable for everyone. I love playing Drummania, but for some strange reason here in the U.S, you can't access Extra/Encore stage songs. You can't play long songs either. No way to play Deluxe mode (requires Paseli) to unlock songs you may have missed out on from past events in older games. Certain events to unlock some songs don't appear to be allowed either. At least some recent events let you unlock former Encore stage songs along with other former event songs, which is nice, for those who missed out on getting them.

[@ryderbaddie2589]

AND THE FACT THERES NO DAMM WAY TO PLAY BEATSTREAM ANYMORE, THERE ISNT EVEN A SINGLE OFFLINE VERSION OF THE GAME ITSELF..

[@Dj.D25]

I miss the old Konami. When they were an icon. Even though they still make arcade games you can find at your local Round 1 (mainly their Bemani games other than DDR), it's like they don't care about their reputation and other IP's. What also bothers me is how they sometimes pretend they still care about their franchises and legacy. For example, the choices of Konami characters you can play in Super Bomberman R Online. Characters who mostly didn't have a recent game. Other Konami franchises worth mentioning that haven't had a game in so long: Gradius Goemon Twinbee Suikoden Rocket Knight Adventures/Sparkster The only other franchises Konami seems to pretend to care about now is Yu Gi Oh, Pro Evolution Soccer (which is now called E-Football) and Castlevania.

[@nikomiller]

they also currently own Bomberman, one of the most iconic video game characters

[@Dj.D25]

@@nikomiller Yeah, though I feel Bomberman doesn’t fit them. Also I feel the Konami characters in Super Bomberman R Online look out of place.

[@nearoikthadorbadwagon1224]

It sounds like Konami treats, their employees like utter filth. I don’t think even Nintendo would go that far. Yeah they’re money hungry, but I don’t think they would go that far.

[@bdbgh]

P.T is a great loss, I genuinely felt scared playing the demo

[@yunehversomi1458]

It always sucks to hear about how badly big companies and higher ups treat people under their employ. Especially when it’s in a field of your interest like games, sports, movies and animation, etc. Because as a kid you always hope and dream to be doing that someday and than you face the reality of how awful and soul crushing it can be.

[@waifubreaks1572]

I think Square-Enix is the next domino to fall like this.

[@Comkill117]

I remember Koji Igarashi got fed up with not being able to make more 2D Castlevania games anymore because they “don’t appeal to people anymore” (bare in mind this was around 2014 or so when Metroidvania games were starting to really get popular with indie games). He then left to make the Bloodstained series, one of the most successful kickstarters and a game that both sold and reviewed super well (because believe it or not, good games usually are successful). In that time there’s been like 4 Castlevania games, one of which was a 3D God of War style game in 2014, one of which was a mobile game, three of which are collections of older games (which granted are good, but that’s because they were mostly good to begin with), and now NFTs. Truly, Konami knows what it’s doing by not making actual games anymore and having everyone who did make games leave over this fact.

[@typehere6689]

The low budget indie game market place is probably swarming with 2-D titles.

[@im_skrunkly]

that feeling when your favorite youtuber posts

[@shikharmaurya5244]

After reading the comment and then looking at your profile pic feels different.

[@ms.pickledpenaut8363]

gotta love it when konami published pop'n music wii, the only pop'n music game released in the west, it was bad, it had only american pop songs and barley any actual pop'n music songs, the controls were bad, it only had 5-key etc. and they never released another pop'n music game in the west

[@hickknight]

Reminds me of what Bamco did with new Gundam breakers. That was such an insanely bad idea for a game. You have mechs you can customize and fight with. What do we do? Pseudo competitions instead of trashing your opponent's mechs.

[@Cyro_Gen]

I knew Konami was bad, mistreating Hideo Kojima, a legendary hero just like any of the Metal Gear protagonists, but the entire company? Thing is, and funny enough that people say it's like a prison there, Kojima implemented a hidden texture for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, which was a prequel to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain where Konami's logo was used for the prison camp, that says something right there. Konami had amazing games but turned to the money marketing factor, rather than the fans enjoy these games. I fear what the Metal gear anniversary will hold as I am a huge fan of that series.

[@saincx0m9]

the fact that i've been looking at metal gear videos recently makes your video very fitting

[@broisyougobbling]

Well at least those NFT’s are tanking in the stock market now. MGS might be safe

[@natologic]

2:11 "Dance Dance Revolution" *Shows someone playing Pump it Up" -_-

[@thebogarts6191]

Konami sucks "Every 60 seconds a minute passes"

[@zenithstudio6819]

Pachinko machines and nfts, making me wish this company would go bankrupt and sell all the game properties to actual game companies

[@Thouser-yv9xl]

The 47 dislikes are from Konami employees being held at gun point.

[@PapagenoDispo]

the problem with konami is that they operate on the old japanese man mentality, profit over product, and it's a well known fact they never really understood the appeal of video games in the first place. their best IPs were always born from letting their employees do as they please out of passion, not as a job obligation or a quick cash grab. ever since mgs4, they've gotten reaaally complacent with their IPs, but it's not like the senile gamblers on the slots even know wtf MGS or castlevania are.

[@jthen8454]

Konami put in a valiant effort to be considered more disgusting than EA

[@ArekuMizuhara]

As a Dance Dance Revolution and BEMANI fan, it hurt so much to see how Konami managed to ruin almost everything. Their Music games were awesome, but they lost so much of their glory.

[@Puffle573]

2:10 That is Pump It Up, published by *AndaMiro*

[@-Raylight]

You know a company made a *WRONG* decision when they promote someone who gave them more money (mobile games with microtransaction), than the guy who made quality games that made them so beloved. Now they're pachinko company :( Really sucks, especially when we couldn't get another decent MGS or MGR game anymore

[@VLAD-yu6ul]

Post-Kojima Konami Employees Sneaking Out of Konami without getting caught challenge (This is apart of their Metal Gear training)

[@Zylo82]

They have Bloody Roar. Sell the IP to someone that will do something with it. Damn! One of my favorite fighting franchises and its in the hands of Konami.

[@haezz4027]

The fucked up thing about it is they wouldn't ever sell those ips even knowing that they aren't going to do anything but make a shitty version of it and then abandon it and leave it to rot because its better off a dead franchise than in the hands of someone else who cares about it and will make money from it

[@evgenkhersonets880]

Konami is my most hated videogame company, because cancelling Silent Hills was the most tragic thing that happened in videogame industry. Yes, Death Stranding wasn't a masterpiece, but it doesn't mean that SH would have been bad

[@mercury2157]

Kojima doesn't want to work on Metal Gear anymore and hasn't for a while, but I can assure that giving him ownership of the IP would still be a good move. It would 100 percent ensure that we get a Metal Gear Rising 2, and if he doesn't work on it, it'll still be him who DECIDES who gets to work on it

[@yayo_youtube]

They also ruined Hudson, which they bought them, and then just leave them in the dust until they use their characters in the worst ways, like using Super Bomberman R Online as a way to promote all the stuff they have (From what I've seen, that's the only franchise from Hudson that they've used since the buyout). I wished Hudson was bought by Nintendo.

[@javidg96]

Back when I played through SuperHot, I couldn't remember that one code you must enter at one point, so I entered the Konami code and it actually worked!

[@duffinthemuffin5792]

You have to wonder how hard can one company fall from grace.

[@tiwitiwi6202]

should've mentioned koji igarashi too who shaped the modern castlevania. he left konami and started his own game Bloodstained

[@danielellis7612]

Konami is literally holding both their employees and their franchises hostage.

[@energiesoler]

I had that theory that the idea for surveillance cameras in Metal Gear itself came from Konami, but I didn't dare post it...

[@ThekidSpot]

As a Yu-gi-oh players I will 100% agree F Konami

[@PMitchell1011Real]

"Konami Suck." (pause) That's all I need to hear Liked + Subbed

[@shawndonq135]

I’m probably the only one who thinks this way, but I think it’s better if you outright abandoned a Uber successful video game franchise than turn it into something god awful like Ubisoft did with far cry. Can you imagine if Atlas made persona 6, released it and it just absolutely sucked? I’d much rather have them leave it at persona 5 if hypothetically all they’re going to do is half ass the next game in the series.

[@NewGabeOrder]

Also, blame it on Konami for not releasing anything for the Wii U, and not putting their Pro Evolution Soccer games to Wii U or Switch. (Other than the PC-based subscription service music games...) There hasn't been any DDR, GitaDora or Bemani home release since the late 2000s. DDR A3 and GitaDora High Voltage are screaming for home releases already, and yet they are locked in the arcades.

[@Dj.D25]

I would love to play those games on console too, especially since there shouldn't be a porting problem now. I think their PC versions of those games are what is considered home release now, but I don't like the idea of having to pay to play them. On the other hand, Bemani games don't seem as popular as they used to be.

[@somethingwitty309]

My opinion on Metal Gear Solid V is thus: Unfinished though it may be, it is one of the greatest games of all time. Had it actually shipped in a completed state as Kojima intended (complete with a fleshed out story with actual cutscenes) then there’s little doubt in my mind it would be the greatest game of all time. (Or at least in the discussion)

[@thesquidthatdid1591]

9:39 "staff assigned" Game Development Unit Leveled Down [Lvl. 1] Janitorial Unit Leveled Up [Lvl. 8] Pachinko Unit Leveled Up [Lvl. 9]

[@KatZEdition]

Someone out there has to have become a millionaire because of gambling in a Konami pachinko machine.. Huge Respect

[@ethan.2594]

“Castlevania dunnuh duh-duh” is the only correct way to refer to the franchise.

[@I_love_bread_and_Hungry_Jacks]

Platinum Games & Kojima's team deservingly should own the most rights to MGRR

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

Platinum Games, Kojima’s team, or Nintendo should own all of Koonami’s assets, but Koonami itself should absolutely go bankrupt, and never make anything ever again ever.

[@typehere6689]

I'd nominate Embracer, but, well, I haven't heard much from them ever since they bought most of Squeenix's IP collection. Probably. Game dev takes time and tends to happen behind closed doors.

[@angelis1123]

that reminded me on how SNK in the 2000 got bought by a pachinko conpany, that literally sabotaged the conpany from the inside by simply destroying every single ip they had.

[@shyminn]

Only thing of konamis I play is Yu-Gi-Oh, never really been into any of their video games

[@Aivottaja]

Konami's state is especially sad to me because no other company has made so many of my favorite games and multiple favorite game series.

[@LightFykki]

I still can't forgive them what they did to one of my favourite RPG series of all time, Suikoden.

[@mysteryoothero]

Castlevania is my second favorite franchise of all time, and reading that the celebration was gonna be that…. I think I will never in my life feel a disappointment and just sheer sadness again as I felt at that moment

[@othosos]

I can;t belive you tricked me into watching 5 mnutes of this video. I don't even know who komami even is

[@pomelo9262]

komami

[@masterxl97]

Konami is probably the most hated Japanese video game company, and yet somehow they’re STILL more intelligently managed than Square Enix.

[@glacioursus]

"No one has talked about how Konami sucks recently" (Laughs in James Stephanie Sterling)

[@xboxclown8922]

I am going to be brutally honest here. If it weren't for a handful of game compilations I already would've cut ties with them. Konami transformed into thieves desperate for money. I do remember the years they made some amazing games. Also how they treated the very man who once saved them from going out of business with the original Metal Gear is very distasteful. They should've treated him like royalty. Instead they treated him like no we want you gone good bye. What's even more upsetting is they're more interested in mobile and casino businesses than video games. By that logic means if they can milk a lot of money out of you, they're going to do it.

[@PGrayOfficial]

Another company falling to the delusion of “money over quality”. Seriously, how can companies be so awful to their workers AND (as a result) their fans?

[@vergilthewolf3619]

Trully astounding ain't it