Time has proven Konami ironically right

Kojima is a good producer and quality manager when on a tight leash, but left to his own devices, he starts going full retard.
He was being tard-wrangled hard at Konami; he worked as part of a team, and his obsession with movies added that extra flavor to the games. But now that he has full control over the production, all he does is make barren movie games with gameplay as an afterthought, vicariously living out his movie director inferiority complex. He has also gone full woke, crawling at holyjew celebs' feet for a shadow of a chance to direct a movie.

If Konami made a new MGS game with a new director, it would actually have a chance of being good. But a remake is gonna be shit regardless, especially considering that the japs are now aiming for western sensibilities in their games.

BIG

Not reading all that nigger.
Death Stranding proved once again that Kojima was always right, and is indeed the sort of skilled old-school dev that this modern industry needs.
Just watch and cry when DS2 wins the GOTY. Again.

Death Stranding was good. It's just not everyone's cup of tea. People didn't understand it, or they did understand it, but just didn't like the core gameplay. I've seen dozens of people who bounced off of it at release go back to it years later and finally see the point.

shitty movie walking simulator

caring about some meaningless award

why are brainlets like this, chat?

Shit Standing

"gameplay"

I wonder who's behind this post

It's Euro Truck Simulator 2, but on foot. It's perfectly fine to not like that. But it doesn't mean it's objectively bad.

>shitty movie walking simulator

That's what Kojima made at Konami.
Hell, he made literal movies in his earliest days at Konami, like Snatcher and Policenauts.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has stealth loading zones that stop you in your tracks?
damn both games are bad then

What do you mean "stealth loading zones?" There are big set pieces which are slow to navigate on foot. But that's the challenge, and what motivates you to optimize. They're not hiding any loading like crevice sections in other games. You can set up ziplines to bypass them and there's no problem.

wins the goty, again

what does he mean by this

old skool dev

he's not the dev you retard, his team are
they're the ones that had to put up with his "visions" and work their ass off trying to code and program shit, the actual artists, visual and musician/composers are the ones that worked hard. he just points his fingers and yell at prople and show them powerpoint flowcharts and his self-indulgent ideas, but actual coders are the ones that had to squeeze their brains out doing the actual desigining at code levels and they go back and forth with the visual artists check on things and then they all go to the fucking actual graphics programmer working on API level trying to get thing working and looking right

Well at the end of the day Konami paid for a game but Kojima wanted a fucking interactive movie so yeah he needs his leash

yeah

People didn't understand it

There it is, the perfect way to discard an argument

Only problem I have is ds2 is literally the same shit with whacky hazardous weather biomes and it's global instead of just America. I love ds1 but that shit is a vehicle to watch a game story, not a great game. I'll hope they make the A to B aspect less dogshit because I feel like I'm playing GTA RP as a post man.

BASED! OP is a fucking faggot.

Yeah they proved themselves right by letting him form his own studio and produce what could be considered his magnum opus. Depending on how DS2 turns out. They completely lost out on the chance to actually publish a banger and revive one of their dead franchises with silent hills.

I hate this hack.

WIG

close AAA production

kill the engine R&D of it took a huge part of MGS5 budget

kill MGR2

kill Silent Hills

kill MGS3 Remake

just to come back after 10 years and start from scratch, but on UE5 by sweatshop contractors

Metal gear was way cooler than death stranding though

That's because you were likely only experiencing conscious thought after it already became a decade(s) old established franchise.

Average dumb filtered zoomer.

dumb zoomer

I think they are both right. Koijima's games are simply too big and too much of a risk for Konami. Game made money. Was modestly profitable. Sony's guidance called it a "below expectations".

Konami can't take a concord sized hit to the budget the way sony can.,

What exactly do you mean? Are you saying people didnt like it when it came out? Was it as disliked as Death Stranding for its time?

Are you saying people didnt like it when it came out?

Technically yeah, since everyone had a form of Metal Gear 1 and 2 available for a decade before MGS1 released (though Americanbros didn't get the real ones).
But also, the height of Metal Gear's popularity was 2007-2015.

The reason some really dumb people hate Kojima now is because DS was a lot of zoomie's first Kojima game but what they don't know is Death Stranding wasn't really the game he wanted to make, there was so much and I mean SO MUCH more to this game's development that all those people who don't do their research will never find out, so now they think Kojima lost his touch, he was always a hack bla bla but now that he had more time, his studio fully established, staff hired, his team is way more familiar now with the new engine they had to learn from the ground up, what Kojima has done with DS2 will blow everyone away and will shut these stupid as fuck haters up for good. Journos got to play the game for 4 full days up to 30 hours and they all and I mean ALL were extremely positive, even people who hated DS1 absolutely loved DS2 and can't wait to start all over again cause they weren't allowed to keep the save file. This alone should tell you how good this game really is. Also, the sheer confidence Kojima has in letting them play for 30 hours in a preview event has NEVER been done before in this industry. This game will be an absolute masterpiece and will go down in history as one of the best games ever made.

Imagine making a stealth game, a genre about maintaining situational awareness and giving you a camera where you can't see what's 5 feet ahead of you.

If you think thats bad game design then wait till you equip the tranquilizer

Driving a truck and growing your business are their own reward, you don't need 10 hours of the most insane yet utterly boring drivel injected into your brain to make that experience meaningful.

You're driving on mostly level roads, and not even getting to explore much in those games. With Death Stranding, you have to plan for and around all kinds of navigation challenges.

I'm not reading

Checks out

shieeeet

it's an hero, newfag

Snek?

Death Stranding was good.

It was everything wrong with modern video games.
From the massive open world with nothing on it, the floppy loose controls, the gameplay that was barely interactive and had zero challenge or fail states, the nonsensical writing, the atrocious UI design, the rampant cronyism and product placement, the shitty licensed music with record label advertisements on the screen, the really bad face scanning that immediately made it look dated, the ubisoft structure "go to the point on the map and do the thing then do it again 4000 times" etc

If you die in a BT Zone, that entire section of the map gets scooped out and you have to find another way around. If you kill an enemy and let the body rot, that area turns into a BT Zone. If you let an enemy be taken by a BT you get a game over.

Death Stranding is more loved than Metal Gear Solid Master Collection