Konami Sucks 

This was a stab in my heart :(

Ha Ha Ha

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

@@lylelylecrocodile2538 Kinda creepy tbh

@@sarcastic_fish25 he has

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.

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.

My reaction was exact the same

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

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

I remember them most for the Goemon games on the N64

Were they ever devs? I thought they were publishers.

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

@@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.

​@@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.

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

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

@@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 RU-vidr 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.

@@doclouis4236 I don’t watch any RU-vidrs 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.

@@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.

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

more like watching youre friend slowly morph into a slot machine

That's a lot of game companies my friend

@@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😂

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

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

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

@@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. 🙏)

@@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

@@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.

EA is fucking worse than konami

@@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.

@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

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

Koei is way worse than Konami

They turned Castlevania into a sexy pachinko machine.

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

Konami makes EA look like Jesus

@@thomasedwardharrison2879 😂😂😂😂lmao

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

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.

Hello Iternal

@@sk2galway hello galway

what four companies

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

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

@@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.

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

@@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.

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

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

@@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

Sounds like typical American business bait n switch tactics.

@@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.

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

@@Burger19985 humans just suck in general sometimes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Like most people my age I'm 19

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

Konami's console game PES does not suck

@@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

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

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

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

@@superadambomb5834 An old man can dream

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...

@@zydronthegatelord4056 :(

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.

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

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

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?🤷‍♂️

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

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

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

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

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.

@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

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

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

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

Lol that’s some funny timing

@@CatchTheseMechanicalHands then we have splights, *sigh*

@@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.

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.

@@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

@@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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

theyre japanese

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

They still trying to milk it.

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

This quote for me I think is inappropriate for Konami, as it paints Konami as the “victim” and that we aren’t greatful for their previous games. They literally disrespected their franchises and are banking off cheap industries. Bastards they are.

@@feister2869 What do you mean they're the "victim"? They're the only ones that made those terrible decisions that ruined the reputation of their own company, no one else. And so to me, they justifiably deserve all the hate because of what they did despite all the great things that they've done for the fans back in the day.

@@diegoestrada4389 No, he's saying that quote itself paints them in the light as the victims, since that's what the original quote does. He's not saying Konami's the victim.

@@feister2869 well I personally think that in a different universe Konami would milk there franchises and oversaturate it like the way other companies do no matter what Konami does we will hate them

@@Bacon2000. ehhh. I doubt that if kojima were still there.

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

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

Yeah they had record revenue report again

@@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.

@@orangeslash1667 sounds like a country issue

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.

how to die

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

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

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.

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

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

@@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.

@@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

They might have a gambling problem

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.

@@variantgamer9885 Sad fact: Sega also uses Pachinko machines. SNK use to have pachinko, but eventually it stoped working.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

@@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)

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.

@@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.

Some bad things happened in 2001...

@@AJPMUSIC_OFFICIAL Yeah... 2000, then.

pongon

GOOD VIDEO STRYXO!!!!

Hi pelugo n donute

😁💀 😁😁💀 😁😁💀😁💀🔥

pongon

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

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

@@Saixjacket nah

@@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.

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

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

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

@@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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

komami

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.

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.

Trully astounding ain't it