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Mr. Sterling.......you have no idea how much I waited for this Jimquisition episode. I started panicking during the day, yesterday when we hadn't received any articles from you. Daymares that you were ill or something.
Until I checked your twitter and saw some 4 hour tweet >.<
Time to go get entertained with this JQ.
Until I checked your twitter and saw some 4 hour tweet >.<
Time to go get entertained with this JQ.
I was going to buy the Silent Hill HD collection, too. I haven't gone through the any games in the series, and was hoping it'd be a good starting point. I did see a used copy of SH2 at GameStop the other day though...
Ironic how Gaijin and Konami put out another game called Birds of Steel almost the same exact day as Blades of Time and most people, including Silver Jim here, don't even know it exists! And it's a really good game too IMO
Yeah, Konami's a bit of a crap shoot.
I also kinda feel capcoms had their head in their ass lately.
Which pains me to say because they are generally my favorite developers, but with the way they've been handling dlc and certain other things, they've been making me a bit mad.
But dragons dogma looks awesome!
I also kinda feel capcoms had their head in their ass lately.
Which pains me to say because they are generally my favorite developers, but with the way they've been handling dlc and certain other things, they've been making me a bit mad.
But dragons dogma looks awesome!
Clearly the heads of Konami have tried to apply the infamous Konami Code in their own business model, expecting to skip over all the leg work and jump straight to the profits.
You actually missed several things.
1) Neverdead
2) Tried to make Metal Gear Rising without Kojima and ended up having to outsource the game to Platinum Games.
3) The pre-order bonus for Book of Memories on Amazon was a $5 credit towards only Silent Hill HD or Silent Hill Downpour. The pre-order bonus for Silent Hill Downpour was a $10 credit for Silent Hill HD or SH BoM. The pre-order bonus for SH HD was a $5 credit towards only SH DP or SH BoM.
This means that it was actually impossible to purchase all 3 games and get the pre-order bonuses. Furthermore, if you felt like getting just two, it actually incentivized NOT buying it on day 1, because the only way to even use the credit for SH: BoM was to have skipped buying the earlier releases when they came out. What ... ?
4) Transfarring: To even use this branded feature you have to buy the exact same HD collection twice on Vita and PS3. As far as I can tell, there's no plan for a bundled version at a reduced cost, which is the only way to even use it.
5) No Silent Hill 4, or Silent Hill 1 in the HD collection. No original voices until fans demanded it. No MGS 1 in the HD collection for Metal Gear.
1) Neverdead
2) Tried to make Metal Gear Rising without Kojima and ended up having to outsource the game to Platinum Games.
3) The pre-order bonus for Book of Memories on Amazon was a $5 credit towards only Silent Hill HD or Silent Hill Downpour. The pre-order bonus for Silent Hill Downpour was a $10 credit for Silent Hill HD or SH BoM. The pre-order bonus for SH HD was a $5 credit towards only SH DP or SH BoM.
This means that it was actually impossible to purchase all 3 games and get the pre-order bonuses. Furthermore, if you felt like getting just two, it actually incentivized NOT buying it on day 1, because the only way to even use the credit for SH: BoM was to have skipped buying the earlier releases when they came out. What ... ?
4) Transfarring: To even use this branded feature you have to buy the exact same HD collection twice on Vita and PS3. As far as I can tell, there's no plan for a bundled version at a reduced cost, which is the only way to even use it.
5) No Silent Hill 4, or Silent Hill 1 in the HD collection. No original voices until fans demanded it. No MGS 1 in the HD collection for Metal Gear.
Jim, despite some reviews I disagree with (opinions are like assholes, after all), you still routinely turn out fantastic commentaries on the seedy underbelly of the game industry. Your criticism of Konami is spot-on, and I personally think their shitty practices began back when they released the next-gen version of one of my favorite franchises: Dance Dance Revolution. The music got worse, the game was stripped of characters, and there were less modes in each entry, with the latest one ("Dance Dance Revolution" for the PS3) being a barebones piece of shit with barely any music in it. Each entry has strayed further and further away from what made me fall in love with the series in the first place, to the point where I can't even play the old ones without thinking about what a smoldering, horrific wreck the franchise has become.
Now that mentality is spreading to the other major series, such as Silent Hill. While I personally now consider Downpour to one of my favorite survival horror games ever created, as well as a game which possesses one of the best narratives I've ever experienced in any medium, that was more of Vatra being a good developer than Konami doing jackshit. The way they're misusing the license with "Book of Memories" and the way they're trashing a legacy with the "HD Collection" are both terrible. The original Team Silent weeps at what Konami has done to their baby, especially considering the bumbling "company" is probably not smart enough to keep Vatra and Daniel Licht on board for the next entry. They're probably going to turn it into some shitty "Condemned" rip-off or something. If it can be done wrong, rest assured, Konami will do it.
Fuck you, Konami, and thank my athiest god for Jim Sterling.
Now that mentality is spreading to the other major series, such as Silent Hill. While I personally now consider Downpour to one of my favorite survival horror games ever created, as well as a game which possesses one of the best narratives I've ever experienced in any medium, that was more of Vatra being a good developer than Konami doing jackshit. The way they're misusing the license with "Book of Memories" and the way they're trashing a legacy with the "HD Collection" are both terrible. The original Team Silent weeps at what Konami has done to their baby, especially considering the bumbling "company" is probably not smart enough to keep Vatra and Daniel Licht on board for the next entry. They're probably going to turn it into some shitty "Condemned" rip-off or something. If it can be done wrong, rest assured, Konami will do it.
Fuck you, Konami, and thank my athiest god for Jim Sterling.
Hey, I'm in that video! God I hate what they've done to with the Silent Hill HD Collection, Fuck Konami indeed.
Konami you fuckers, WHY AREN'T YOU MAKING CASTLEVANIA?! I just realized I haven't played a decent Castlevania game in ages
it looks more like konami is not a publisher at all just an developer/investor with quite a big size. I wouldn't be surprised if there was not even a marketing department or just one guy running it while the rest is just developers making games and releasing them when they are done without any further attention this is indeed quite bad and quite funnily most publishers do the exact opposite focusing to much on marketing and forcing game developers to make games that are not necessarily the best they can be as long as they make the most profit they can make.This to is a bad strategy but at least its better than total anarchy like with konami
In Konami's defense though, Downpour is pretty good. Metal Gear Rising looks awesome so far. And Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is one of the best action games of this generation. I'm still excited for Kojima stuff as well. I don't follow soccer, but I think they have a decent game on that (do they?). Also they have Love Plus, which is a pretty huge deal in Japan.
It's not all terrible, but they need a major wake up call so that they can fix their fuck ups and continue to put out stuff I enjoy.
It's not all terrible, but they need a major wake up call so that they can fix their fuck ups and continue to put out stuff I enjoy.
And yet they're still making increasing amounts of money, have popular franchises and everybody did hear about Downpour's delay.
Maybe they do know what they're doing.
Maybe they do know what they're doing.
"These franchises are disappearing into obscurity"
That's what scares me most. There was a time where even my non gamer friends knew exactly what Silent Hill, MGS, Solid Snake, and Pyramid Head were. Now....not so much.
That's what scares me most. There was a time where even my non gamer friends knew exactly what Silent Hill, MGS, Solid Snake, and Pyramid Head were. Now....not so much.
Metal gear solid HD wasn't hard to find for me, it was all over the place at launch. Maybe your area just didn't care to stock for it quick enough.
The sky is still blue, the sun still rises, and silent hill games still get bought. Konami has hardly done any advertising for anything, this isn't new, but their games still get decent sales. It just what they do.
Apparently its now doomsday for them because you think they fail at publishing and didn't respond to your request for an interview about their vita game?
Don't quit your day job.
The sky is still blue, the sun still rises, and silent hill games still get bought. Konami has hardly done any advertising for anything, this isn't new, but their games still get decent sales. It just what they do.
Apparently its now doomsday for them because you think they fail at publishing and didn't respond to your request for an interview about their vita game?
Don't quit your day job.
Fuck Konami in the taint. They destroyed my only chance of ever getting to experience Silent Hill 2 for the first time. My only hope now is for it to get a release on the PS2 Classics section of PSN, and let's face it, there's next to no hope of that happening.
Namco/Bandai is in the same boat. Put out Enslaved with no adverts. Crapped out Majin. Fucked up with Ridge Racer Vita by including 3 tracks and 5 cars. Didn't know Ridge Racer: Unbounded would release yesterday, then they announced it was out.
I have a few bold predictions, either Capcom or Square Enix will buy Konami and enslave the company as one of their minions before they have drawn their last breath, Grasshopper Manufacture will rise and become one of the most formidable force in Japan.
Wow I didn't really know it was that bad. What do you want to be they get bought by another company like EA or Activision in the near future. It would kind of suck though because I'm pretty sure Kojima wouldn't have an unlimited budget and total creative freedom anymore. That might not be such a bad thing seeing as his cutscenes are twice as long as they need to be most of the time.
This weirdness makes more sense once you learn that all their revenue growth has been coming from social gaming and such. All their old/traditional game IPs have been stagnant or bleeding them in the red.
Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if Konami was just trying to literally kill off their old console side of the business so they could focus exclusively on the social gaming side of their business since that's what is bringing in the money for them.
Of course it can also be fucktarded business practices (nobody should forget that Keiji Inafune said a few years back that the Japanese game industry was done for, and now we're seeing it really begin to accelerate).
Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if Konami was just trying to literally kill off their old console side of the business so they could focus exclusively on the social gaming side of their business since that's what is bringing in the money for them.
Of course it can also be fucktarded business practices (nobody should forget that Keiji Inafune said a few years back that the Japanese game industry was done for, and now we're seeing it really begin to accelerate).
I bet there are industry elites out there who would grease their anuses for penetration if it meant they could own the rights to the Silent Hill franchise; all the ground work is done for the series do well and better, but needs competent and passionate people to handle it. Maybe Vatra could try to go in w/ someone and buy it off Konami so we can get some consistently good Silent Hill games, not one every 9 years.
I don't remember the MGS HD Collection being hard to find here in the UK; Amazon stocked it just fine and it occupied two shelves in the PS3 section of my local GAME. Konami Europe probably isn't as stupid as its siblings, either; the collection released with pretty much no competition of note in Europe.
Apart from that, yeah, Konami have really gone off the rails lately, especially with Silent Hill. It's a shame, because they have some brilliant stuff under their control but they're just shitting all over it. Good show, Jim.
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Apart from that, yeah, Konami have really gone off the rails lately, especially with Silent Hill. It's a shame, because they have some brilliant stuff under their control but they're just shitting all over it. Good show, Jim.
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I've looked back at the big games that have come out since 2006 or so, and the only Konami games to appear are their Soccer and new Metal Gear Solid games. Silent Hill is an obscure franchise, Castlevania is MIA, YuGiOh is irrelevant, Contra and Gradius have faded away, DDR has been replaced by modern dance games, and their only notable new franchise this past decade is Deca Sports, which is already dead.
If it weren't for Metal Gear and Fifa's lack of dominance, Konami would be dead.
If it weren't for Metal Gear and Fifa's lack of dominance, Konami would be dead.
Outsourcing Metal Gear Rising to Platinum is one of the few inspired decisions Konami have made in the past 12 months
Konami's quality has always been spotty. They have some great franchises but they put out a lot of turds too. I find the downfall of Capcom lately to be a way worse issue.
You know I still love Konami but yeah that press conference was terrible and yeah they could do some restructuring on the marketing side of things. Another new Suikoden would be awesome, but then again I might be the only one playing it. But since that is Konami's new business strategy I am looking forward to playing Suikoden very soon, maybe by fall, or maybe in the summer who knows.
Calling it like it is Mr. Sterling, as usual....good thing I have Silent Hill 2 and 3 on my PS2 at least, lol.
After Zone of the Enders I will feel better but this has been completely right!
I hope they get their act together!
I hope they get their act together!
MGS HD Collection was easy to find. It was available in all the stores here in Mexico in day one. And so was the Limited Edition, which is the one I got.
Just going to let y'all know, The HD collection seems fine on the 360. Especially if you've never played the originals. I've been playing it and not understanding the hate it's getting at all.
Lord.. the guys on that Dance Masters clip sounded like the Swedish Chef cracked out on Meth.
As for the MGS HD thing, the release date part.. No one seems to care how they sell these HD rereleases, its not exclusive to Konami at all.
Thanks for bringing up the stuff I've said about all these Silent Hill games coming out in a single month. Thats a huge problem in itself.. THEN the HD collection being shit tops it off.. They really should have made them digital, split them up, and made them $15 each. Even if they were still shit, even separately, they'd still have made.. for lack of a better phase "Phat Bank" (been watching too much Breaking Bad recently, its starting to show).
As for Book of Memories: No amount of pushbacks is going to change the game from being exactly what Silent Hill fans don't want -a co-op, top down, shooter. Unless they're completely remaking the game from the floor up in a month or so's time, they're not going to win over fans on this one, specially when with a game for the currently niche Vita market. This is a bad place to have tried to pick up the ball, that would have been better done with the HD collection.
Konami's really has dropped the ball though, there's no doubt about that. I had said in another comment here today that they're back catalog is strong, but the fact remains that they can't really even live off of that long list of great games if they can't bother to sell it properly... Because, like Jim said in the video, its simply existing right now and nothing more.
As for the MGS HD thing, the release date part.. No one seems to care how they sell these HD rereleases, its not exclusive to Konami at all.
Thanks for bringing up the stuff I've said about all these Silent Hill games coming out in a single month. Thats a huge problem in itself.. THEN the HD collection being shit tops it off.. They really should have made them digital, split them up, and made them $15 each. Even if they were still shit, even separately, they'd still have made.. for lack of a better phase "Phat Bank" (been watching too much Breaking Bad recently, its starting to show).
As for Book of Memories: No amount of pushbacks is going to change the game from being exactly what Silent Hill fans don't want -a co-op, top down, shooter. Unless they're completely remaking the game from the floor up in a month or so's time, they're not going to win over fans on this one, specially when with a game for the currently niche Vita market. This is a bad place to have tried to pick up the ball, that would have been better done with the HD collection.
Konami's really has dropped the ball though, there's no doubt about that. I had said in another comment here today that they're back catalog is strong, but the fact remains that they can't really even live off of that long list of great games if they can't bother to sell it properly... Because, like Jim said in the video, its simply existing right now and nothing more.
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