Konami is Konami, and Konami is the worst. This was first argued years ago and it’s only gotten more true. So true, in fact, that Konami barely qualifies as a game publisher anymore. It makes casino toys and dabbles in gaming.
Really, Konami should just go far, far away and let Capcom take over. Capcom should have Silent Hill, Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid, and Frogger. It would do better with them, and it already has experience making the kind of games that Konami’s long-neglected library would thrive as.
Give Silent Hill to the team that revitalized Resident Evil. Give Castlevania to the Devil May Cry developers. Capcom should have all Konami’s stuff.
Launches an “anti-corporate screed” as he uses a massive corporation (patreon) to crowdfund his monthly income. Could he be any more of a hypocrite? Yes, of course he could.
When is jim gonna release the CD of all his works, With such classics like “Its time to shit on bethesda”
I’d honestly be interested to see where Capcom would take Yu-Gi-Oh!.
Oh yeah, Konami owns Yu-Gi-Oh!. That’s a thing.
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner remains one of my favorite games of all time. I’ve always wanted a third sequel to it, although considering what Konami puts out these days I kind of don’t want it to suffer the indignity. I’d love to see one created by a competent developer though.
Imagine working your ass off on a game only to see THAT press release.
Capcom would be a natural at handling Konami’s Suikoden series, since they’re already doing a fantastic job of ignoring their own PS1 RPG legacy, namely Breath of Fire. Haha.
Sorry about being a bitter fuck.
Didn’t Jim do the “hoarding IPs” thing some years ago when talking about how Metal Arms never got a sequel?
Admit it, Jim, you just recorded your dance routine at the beginning, in your free time and wanted to show off this magnificent dance, and made the entire episode afterwards to justify it.
I just think it’s hilarious that due to Corona Virus, how no one is playing pachinko machines and record numbers are playing video games.
Capcom has more than enough of their own abandoned properties to deal with.
I’m trying to imagine what a decent company could do with Suikoden.
Oh, God I miss Suikoden.
I remember fondly when Konami could do no wrong in the NES/SNES era
“We’ll make America GREAT AGAIN!”
-Senator Armstrong, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (February 2013)
I’ve been saying the same for years now. Capcom should make Konami an offer on the, Silent Hill series. They would knock it out of the ballpark if they were able to remake the first few Silent Hills, plus they would have a monopoly on horror in gaming.
“Lootboxes are gambling!” Yes. They are indeed. Now that I think about it, why hasn’t the traditional gambling industry complained about unfair enforcement? Why should they be required to follow gambling regulations while online games can offer it to children and don’t have to disclose odds and don’t have to pay an extra percentage of their gambling profits and so on?
Also, are porn magazines still a thing? Are those still printed? Do people still go to a physical location, purchase them, and bring them home? Or subscribe to have them delivered monthly? With paper?
Jim’s hat needs a corset so he can squeeze his gigantic brain into it.
“Why did my brain go for puppies barfing porn mags?”
That’s just the human condition, Jim. Brains just like farting inane ideas and it’s our job to ignore them, like flies ignoring the corpses of withered rats while the fat ones can still give nutrit… ion… …
… so yeah, that’s just the human condition, Jim.
Larkin Love and Gianna Michaels…truly a man of culture, Jim.