• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    22·
    2 months ago

    “Fuck Konami, because Konami is the worst”

    At least we have Kojima Productions instead, now. Loved a lot of what was in Death Stranding. Truly different from a lot of other games. Kind of like Journey, but without actually seeing any other players.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      2 months ago

      At least we have Kojima Productions

      100%. I’d do horrible things to get Team Silent back together and in their own studio.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    “So many IPs to kill. But you know what would be even better?”

    “What?”

    “Buying Hudson and killing off their IPs too!” evil laughter

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
    161·
    2 months ago

    Konami has been in the casino business for about as long as it’s been in the video gaming industry.

      • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Exactly. They aren’t big enough to do both separately?

        It makes me think of Bethesda. I don’t understand why, but they act like they can only make one game at a time. So like if they’re busy making a Fallout game, then they can’t possibly begin on an Elder Scrolls game.

        They act like some tiny studio and they don’t have the resources to have multiple studios working on multiple things concurrently. So their games will take forever to be released. And even then, the games will be buggy as hell.

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Unfortunately they’re always chasing the next thing. I think they didn’t have faith that the video game industry would stay strong and instead believed people would focus on playing mobile games. The reality is there’s room for both kinds of players, but Konami knows people will always gamble. To be fair, they’re still making games, but not really pushing the envelope or leading anymore.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldOP
      28·
      2 months ago

      Konami is a pachinko company first now. Most of their best IP have been left to languish and when releases do come, they’re awful and tonally completely different from what made their predecessors amazing.

        • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          You see Konami slot machines all over Vegas… and a big Konami building as you go down the runway after landing too… (but none if this is particularly new)

    • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Ehhhhh, are you sure? There’s also EA, and Ubisoft, and Activision lately. Probably plenty of others. TenCent?

      Difficult to say who’s the worst.