What the fuck happened with Kojima and Konami during MGS5?

Why was he fired?

He was using MGS money to work on P.T

being a theater kid faggot

Right on the money.

google ai slop will give you a qrd on why with cited articles

9/11 commentary and planning to connect all of konami's major IPs into a singular continuity.

He insisted on doing the Big Boss mocap for the cut sex with Quiet scene even though it was a breech of contract, Konami had to settle it out of court. It could have ended way uglier legally speaking.

Probably overplayed his "give big budget or I quit" card and the execs got tired of his shit.

He's the George Lucas of vidya, but with no regard for actually making a finished product in reasonable amount of time.

who's the Jar Jar Binks of metal gear?

He was taking too long to make MGSV while his rival was drowning Konami in money with the mobile games. Telling him to fuck off was a no brainer, like Microsoft telling Bungie to fuck off.

sunny

This guy gets it.

Money Laundering.

He went over budget so much that Konami was hemorrhaging so much money they had to cut him loose and release the game unfinished. Most of that money was spent so that Kojimbo could hang out with c- list celebrities. That's why Konami avoided the gaming industry for so long.

Now, it seems like history is about to repeat itself with Sony. The budget for DS at least $100 million. where do you think all that money went? 2018 God of War was $80 Million, but at least that was an actual game.

Use funds to enhance your game and actually make the gameplay interesting and the story make sense

or

Use the bare minumum amount of funds to make a bare bones walking simulator with an incoherent story so that you can use the rest of the money to hang out with c-list celebrities and create a photo mode so you can goon to said celebrities

He's a pretentious asshole obsessed with his own genius.

japan has weird business practices. he probably was spending too much money on licensed music and 3D scans of quiet's feet. some old 'boss' decided to fire him and focus on the mobile gaming market, but also decided to fuck with him by sabotaging MGS5. boomers over there like to bully other employees

now konami is flopping out of the mobile game market after the chinese took over and are returning to AAA development and making metal gear solid games again.

Y.. You just don't get what DS was all about, okay?

That's why Konami avoided the gaming industry for so long.

what retarded fiction have you conjured up? he immediately went back into it with his next game being 4 years after TPP. that's a very normal release window, if not a pretty short dev time, under regular circumstances. kojima started a new studio, constantly switched offices early on, was building a new team, and started with a new engine that his team was unfamiliar with. 4 years for all of that is insanely fast.

Konami wanted scans of joost's soles for their next pachinko game but kojimbo said no

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ᴬ ᴴᶦᵈᵉᵒ ᴷᵒʲᶦᵐᵃ ᴾʳᵒᵈᵘᶜᵗᶦᵒn is the best game in the series

Raiden

Kojima is a fucking budget blackhole and Konami wasnt really that big so I guess the leash was too tight on him and he quit (kick out) also Kojimas games never sold well so it was suicide to keep him around, now Sony and Microsoft can afford his bullshit but Im pretty sure its not worth the time and money

George is cooler though
Kojima is a retard

The asian girl is pregnant? seriously whats his fucking problem is he really THAT fucking weird?

george lucas is a lot of fucking things but cool is not one of them

Bro... your reading comprehension???

he body scanned a pregnant woman?

Using M

The budget for DS at least $100 million

source: my mind can't handle reality otherwise

youtube.com/watch?v=TqxZXFJteCI
I enjoyed this

pregnancy is weird

troon moment

They are both retards who were let out without their tard wranglers, but at least George didn't fuck up badly enough to force his tard wrangler to step in and release half a movie to try and recoup the damage.

Using MGSV money, a game everyone loved and wanted to be completed, to work on PT, a game whose demo everyone loved and wanted to be completed.
What the fuck Konami? They should be lucky he even chose them. We need to bring patronage back, and place the creation of art over just profits.

Nta but It's literally the first Google result retard.

Star Wars is shit.

First result is the gay google AI saying either 100 million or maybe 8 million followed by reddit speculation posts.

Let me ask chatgpt guys

right... good old pregnancy, as if hes not going to do something fucking weird with her and the baby right? like the fucking ghost fetus in the first one or god knows what now for the second one. Kojima fanboys are just as bad as him. Hey guys! lets think the pregnant woman was just a random choice by kojima!

Indiana Jones trilogy mogs anything Kojima has made

Quality research and data standards expected of Anon Babble

I feel like Kojima redeemed himself with Death Stranding after all the weird retardation that was Quiet

Update: Estimated to be over 80 million

So what agency props up this industry plant?

hollywood for some reason

You say 100 million he says 8 million. Truth? Probably somewhere in the middle

you mean steven spielberg's gay racial revenge fantasy against the white man

guy who wanted to make films somehow ends up in video games

ends up creating some of the best gameplay systems of all time

fills up his games with cutscenes nonetheless

desperately wants to be a director

What gives? Is there some right hand man who's been with him from the beginning who is the idea's guy for the gameplay?

Dropping PT and announcing SH a year before MGSV finished development (and then releasing MGSV unfinished) was probably a big part of it

>ends up creating some of the best gameplay systems of all time

such as?

he must redeem himself for being heterosexual once, by making a gay game

typical kojima fan

Gamers all rushed to Kojima's side but the reality was more complicated.

Konami was losing assloads of money

properties weren't selling anymore

the games people argued that they wanted had stopped selling well years before

MGSV was over budget by an assload

Whole new engine just for one game that was a money pit

Kojima kept making radical changes all the way up to the last moment (example. He cut an assload of Sutherland's lines and rearranged them because he watched Mad Max Fury Road and liked Max's portrayal).

Gamers see this and go "le art for art sakes" after Kojima just blew loads of money on shit he replaces anyways because hollywood actors are expensive

He was generally undelivering on promises, failing to meet deadlines, and clashing with higher ups (big no no in Japanese work culture)

He was also using the budget on P.T. and generally using both projects to just fulfill his Hollywood dream that would culminate in Death Stranding

he brought the dirty laundry out in the open

Konami, rightly, fires the guy and pivots into a profitable business (If you check Konami's finance history this actually saved them and allowed them enough money to pivot back into low cost gaming projects years later).

TDLR: Kojima was fired because he was managing MGSV like it was his own money on the line instead of Konami's

If you talk shit about Quiet again, you're gonna get beat up

my bad, i need new glasses. read konami as kojima. your premise is still flawed. they stayed away from console gaming because kojima was a fuckup? no, they stayed away because their other business ventures were more profitable and slot machines and card games were a low investment way of making boatloads of money compared to an entire market that was doing poorly. konami is just a smart company, they moved away from the industry for a bit while everyone else started to crash and burn. now, they cautiously dip their toes back in while everyone else is floundering, knowing that their products don't even have to be that amazing to stand above the rest of the trash being produced by big studios.

anyways, pretty much the only bit of real investigative journalism on this topic that has been done by anyone was superbunnyhop, and even that is not super credible. basically a rumour by someone claiming to work at konami said that the president had personal beef with kojima.

>he brought the dirty laundry out in the open

Your mistaken here. Both Konami and Kojima were rather civil to each other publicly.
Most "bad feelings" shit traces ultimately to Geoff being a fag and stirring shit when he shouldn't for muh game awards ratings.

Konami's willingness to rush out his games and giving small budgets for what is supposed to be guaranteed profit. Kojima haters won't tell you this but most of Kojima productions left to work with him and yet he's the bad guy to them.

Based

makes games the way he wants without compromising on costs

actually based if you ask me

It is based which is why he's better working independently which would also force him to be cautious with money

makes you wonder where he got all that money for DS1 and now DS2 along with all the other projects he's been teasing

makes games the way he wants without compromising

unless it will get him in contact with C tier hollywood celebrities, then he'll do anything you ask

Sony

like what?

like uhm... you know... butt stuff...

makes games the way he wants without compromising on costs

And we ended up with a fucking walking simulator. Bravo kojimbo!

Had nothing to do with money, all those journofags were all clickbaiting with zero effidence to pack it up and of course you braindead normie cattle believed them. The real reason was konami forced them to make the game also for ps3/x360 which was almost impossible and KJP was close to collapsing, on top of that konami forced them to keep removing scenes cause they were afraid of the shitstorm. When talking about war children some news outlet was literally using MGSV footage as reference, this is when konami got cold feet. There is a reason the waterboarding scene or venom running over burned corpses was all removed in the final game.

This dude made a walking simulator with 1 hour cutscenes

A good game no matter how much you seethe

Shit covered with gold foil would still be shit, thats what DS is.

"a fucking walking simulator" that's getting a sequel in 3 months :')

even have to be that amazing to stand above the rest of the trash being produced by big studios.

Who do they have left? They chased away the likes of Kojima and Igarashi. They have no idea how to properly continue their games beyond remakeshit

See
:P

seethe harder, faggottroon

Shit analogy

Not surprising, kojima haters are always dumb

Couldn't stop using the MGS5 budget for foods

Farewell big giant weiner

His standards are too high. MGSV was a money hole. Development was too slow.

He got sick of making MGS games after 4 but Konami needed the IP to continue

It is generally a winning idea to let the goose that lays the golden eggs to do whatever it wants and feeds it whatever it wants, because not to do so means no golden eggs anymor. And some blown up ego's wanted to test this "law" and ended up with a broken nose and an empty basket for golden eggs.

Oh my god look at those numbaas!! 20 fucking million retard fags bought a walking simulator how I'm gonna cope!
Cry more snoytroon

kojima is a hack that relies on celebrities because he has no original characters

bought

Read the *

YOU are a no-brainer retard~kun

The same no-brainer as the musik studio guy that didn't want to sign the Beatles.

goypass

Lmao its an entirely new form of scam. Bait retards into playing their slop by launching expensive trailers.

a bare bones walking simulator

Absolute aids-brain take...

Samefag more retard~kun

He's the George Lucas of vidya

Indeed he is, he got a couple of things great, then shat on everything since then.

Troon more schizo kojimbo

a game everyone loved

Holy fuck, are you legitimately delusional?

snoy

the game is on PC and Xbox you can stop coping now

Kojima fans make shit like Hunt Down the Freeman

Goes to show what he inspires.

Kojiumbo earned executive seat from MGS success

He abused his status to funnel all the Konami profit to his team

He gets to make whatever game he wants with unlimited funding, while forcing new talents to work on gacha slop to make money for him

Kojima notices disgruntled employees and others executives trying to boot him off from his dictatorship

Kojima stages a coup to fully take over Konami, traveling around the world to make connections with foreign investors, as nobody liked him internally

Konami notices this plot and stops him from attending game awards, which was a huge chance for him to speedrun making connections

Due to Konami intervention Kojima's plan fails and gets booted, this "bridging connection" experience gave him an idea to make Death Stranding

Konami had to slave away making slop for few years to get back on its feet, but now no-name directors are allowed to make games and explore new projects

sauce: my dad works at nintendo

Michelangelo's standards are too high and he takes too long so we decided to spray paint the chapel instead!"

And you think that's a good thing, dumbass nigger faggot...

He was Vice President and didn’t tell the President what he was doing with the money he was blowing. The power got to his head and it cost him.

Bingo

Right on the money

Bullseye

Why are these phrases always said in response to the dumbest fucking comments you'll ever read online? Are they just terms only dementia ridden boomers use or what?

didn’t tell the President what he was doing with the money

The power got to his head and it cost him.

source?

METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN made $77,369,296.00 in gross revenue since its release. Out of this, the developer had an estimated net revenue of $22,823,942.32.

An "unfinished mess" btw.

"Oh man we can't pay catering for staff it's so expensive, let alone the extra stuff for the talent that pays everyones salaray and skyrocketed our stocks!

Omg why are doing so badly now and people hate us and we still have shill our retarded narrative on faggotchan ;__;

Whatever cosmic event led to us getting a 3D scanned Elle Fanning model rip has my respect and blessing
Thank you Konami

Who the fuck cares...
He basically made Konami and it's easy to spot by recognizing the shitheap it is now.

Fox engine primarily. He has huge power in Konami without being the CEO and ran up massive development costs on building the fox engine. The upper management wanted there to be caps on how much development would cost but kojima breached them constantly. He acted like Konami was his personal bank account and eventually the CEO couldn't afford it anymore and kojima was pushed out.

One can literally tell in which degenerate's stream chats you kids live. You sad little creature kys.

The real story is as simple as this:

Konami's overall console games market was suffering (in particular, Silent Hill had died off hard and years of work resulted in them just losing money on THREE games)

during this time, one of the execs in the mobile games division got a lot of sway

Kojima was the only VP against this shift away from console games

there may or may not have been mistreatment of staff on MGSV due to Konami higher ups

this results in Kojima leaving

That's about it.
This is also not what happened. There's no real indication that PT cost much at all to make since its unique assets amount to a couple of still images, some basic models that probably were recycled from other games, and a fetus, and as far as we know Norman Reedus appeared in the demo as a favor.
Before anyone even mentions supposed MGSV budget bloating, its confirmed budget was industry standard. $80 million was the normal AAA development cost of the time, and that's in fact far cheaper than one would expect given how KojiPro also developed an inhouse engine for the game, rather than using UE3/4 like most other studios at the time.

Really, the entire scenario is baffling on Konami's part. They knew MGSV would make back its budget and generate a large profit, because it did that within a week of release.
They had been struggling with Silent Hill for a decade by the time of PT as well. Silent Hill had lost favor in Japan with SH2, and in the west by Homecoming, with 2012 being the most dismal year in franchise history. Kojima literally revitalized a brand that had been dying/dead for years using recycled assets.
I don't even think his SH would be good, I think he would've made a terrible SH game, but Konami leadership were on fucking crack for throwing that out.

Mgs5 would never make back its development costs because fox engine development is not included and was massive even compared to the game.

WQe would've a complete MSV and PT but he had to completely drop everything and pull a complete new IP out of his ass while building a studio...

look at year to year profit chart of Konami

you can see the giant crater of that Kojima caused and the instant profit gain every year after he is gone

Comedy gold.

That sounds more like the soulless megacorp bullshit one can believe.

BEHOLD
The ultimate lifeform to absorb money and produce garbage.

Jim Tranny Sterling also was a massive shitstirrer and had big influence back then. He never once aknowledged any of the numerous games Konami released to success since then but always makes sure to cover some rare drama.
Hearing him try not to cry during the Death Flopping review because he gassed up Kojimbo so much over the years was so funny.

but with no regard for actually making a finished product in reasonable amount of time.

What retarded sentiment is this.
Kojima did the following in his time at Konami.

Metal Gear (1987)

Snatcher (1988)

Metal Gear 2 (1990)

Policenauts (1994, after contributing on two other games)

Metal Gear Solid (1998, his first fully 3D title)

Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001, after producing 3 other games)

Metal Gear Solid 3 (2004, after producing 4 other games)

Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence + MGO (2005)

Metal Gear Solid 4 + MGO2 (2008, after being a staff member on a dozen other games)

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010)

P.T. (2014, in his spare time)

Metal Gear Solid V (2015, all while working on the next Fox Engine, tard wrangling KojiPro who failed to make their independent console title, and acting as a producer on several other games)

The longest gap between games he directly worked on at Konami was five years, and that was while said game was having an entire engine made for it.
The gap between DS1 and DS2 is gonna be one year longer, but he's already announced another project in a middle-late stage of development.

Death Stranding is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions and originally published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

He is mentally ill but his retard fan base keep memeing him to Snoy. It's morbius tier fiasco of gaming industry.

2018 God of War was $80 Million, but at least that was an actual game.

Bait

blaaaaaa 22 billion profit...

It's so fucking funny how everyone pretends like he was slaving away in the basement, legs locked to chains with just water and bread.
When he was the fucking Vice President of the company and used all the money he stole from all the other projcts to go on dinnerdates with shitty hollywood actors.

Yeah man, the game that made back its budget in less than a week, and went on to be Konami's best selling console title of all time, couldn't pay off engine dev costs.
Even ignoring that absurdity, Fox Engine pays for itself. The idea was that it would be used in other Konami games, meaning they don't need to pay licensing costs on UE, which they did. Konami unfortunately stopped making games, so it only got used in an MGSV reskin and PES.

Youtube journalists hire this man immediately

It's so fucking funny how everyone pretends like he was slaving away in the basement, legs locked to chains with just water and bread.

Maybe that is why Konami removed the waterboarding scene from mgs5 since he wuz revealing too much to his blowers?

What the deal with him putting credits fellating himself after each mission and side-mission in MGSV?

stop releasing games, just focus on gambling machines and ongoing phone products

raw profit increases because there are no costs

Because MGSV is a TV show. That's the idea.
It's a TV serial that gets cancelled before it finishes a four-cour run.

Konami was the biggest 3rd party publisher on Switch before Monster Hunter Rise.
Sorry you are too racist to even aknowledge japanese games made by a japanese company fora japanese audience.

Oh man, what games did they release

Super Bomberman R (low-cost title)

Arcade Collection (port)

Castlevania Collection (port)

Contra Collection (port)

Contra Rogue Corps (low-cost title (that sucked ass))

Japan only baseball game (low-cost title)

Yu-Gi-Oh Link Evolution (low-cost title AND YGO so it's just free money)

The rest of the shit they published is just this.
Low-cost sports titles, ports, or phone game tier shit.
The most expensive thing they released was probably the latest iteration on Girl's Side.

Kojima was never fired. You believed second hand sources and journalists reporting rumors as facts. Silent Hills and the real MGS5 are still coming.

Nah this is a bullshit story. Kojima was the president of the gaming division of Konami for 10 years. He sold off major Konami IPs to the west to have more money for his own project. He fired most of Konamis talent including the Castlevania, Silent Hill and Contra devs.

Not to mention he barred anyone from making games that's not related to his work, and even if they were allowed to touch MGS spin-off, Kojima would either push them aside and take-over the production, or completely disregard the work as a trash that's not DIRECTED BY HIDEO KOJIMA.
It'd be stupid to assume that he didn't have that kind of power when he was literally the VP of Konami. Retards love him for pushing out MGS, but he probably did that at a cost of killing hundreds of new talents.

Reminder that Kojima is petty child. He de-canonized Portable Ops to replace it with a soap opera.

What's it like for you, being a schizophrenic? Seems like your life must be horrifying.

Where's the Abandoned, you lying nigger?
What a nothing burger that was

He needed more money to fully realize his vision. The game is clearly unfinished, especially in the story department. There’s a lot of gameplay, sure, but the narrative falls apart halfway through. Kojima also pushed for more big-name Hollywood actors besides Kiefer Sutherland, which didn’t sit well with Konami. That’s when the relationship really started to sour.

The final straw was Silent Hills. That project was his last big middle finger to Konami. He brought in Norman Reedus as the lead, fully aware the company would never approve it, even though PT was a massive success. Konami just didn’t care. They weren’t interested in ambitious projects anymore.

They probably threw him a bone by offering something stupid like Metal Gear Zombie Edition. He refused. And then they "fired" him. Or rather, in that typical Japanese corporate fashion, they sidelined him, stripped his authority, and made his position untenable. They didn’t fire him with a public spectacle, they just made it impossible for him to stay.

At the time, Konami was raking in absurd amounts of money from pachinko machines. The return on investment was huge compared to the razor-thin profits of AAA games. From their point of view, Kojima's creativity was no longer valuable. It was just a financial risk they weren’t willing to take.

game given for free multiple times on epic store, people begins it gets bored and unistall lmao

it was still successful enough that sony greenlit a sequel you goddamn retard LMAO

PT is unironically the only bad game kojima made, it's shit and incredibly over-rated

still don't disprove those numbers are incredibly inflated

as a horror fan and silent hill 1 fan I absolutely agree.

faggot, it was just a small teaser for what's to come and it became one of the best horror experiences ever made, even today indie fags still copy its formular. Wanna know why Kojima horror games are so good? because he's actually really afraid and can barely watch a horror movie, that’s why he can project his fear so well into those games, other horror game devs feel nothing while making those games, that's why OD will be an absolute masterpiece.

Literally what's wrong with low-cost AA titles that's targeted towards Japanese audience instead of going global AAAA that's targeted towards jewish investors?
Also you failed to mention Momotaro Dentetsu, Suikoden, Edens Zero, Tokimeki Memorial, Silent Hill f, also mostly low-cost titles, but I fail to see a problem.
They are still supporting arcades with Bomber Girl, Beatmania, and Pop'n music, instead of allowing it to get replaced by Dave & Buster's slop.
On top of that they hold Japanese indie events like IGC to allow new talents to emerge.
It's also strange how these "good projects" by no-name dev teams are starting to emerge after Kojima left, and all the sports slops you mentioned are from the time Konami needed money because certain someone was hogging all the money.

not at all, it says players and not units sold... retard

Lol.
Kojima only became VP in 2011.
Konami dissolved KCET in 2005/06, which was the end of Japanese developed SH.
The last Iga Castlevania game was Ecclesia in 2008.
The last halfway decent Contra game, Contra 4, was 2007, and the IP had already long since played host to bad games before then.

SH leads all felt they were done with the franchise by SH2-4.
The director of 1 left immediately after launch.
The director of 2 left KCET after it failed in Japan, and left Konami when he realized he didn't like making mass appeal video games.
The key staff of 3 all eventually left long before Kojima became VP.

Igarashi left Konami in 2014, but his resentment goes back a decade- in particular, he did want to develop a seventh gen console title. Unfortunately, that wasn't cockblocked by Kojima but by Konami, as that occurred in 2008.

As for Contra, the key staff that made those games good left Konami or died long before Kojima became VP.

The point being made is that OF COURSE profits increase when you aren't actually spending money dumbass.

By the way, I did mention Tokimeki Memorial, but I guess you're a poser and/or EOP if you didn't recognize it in my earlier list. Your little list of games I "failed to mention" all also fall under my categorizations on Konami Switch titles- with the exception of SHf which isn't a Switch title.

it was just a small teaser for what's to come and it became one of the best horror experiences ever made

bro, that's the definition of overrated and PT did nothing original, layers of fear used same tricks and it also was nothing special. only aspect of PT that was somewhat cool is puzzle design where kojima expected bunch of ppl online to come together to figure out the solution but he didn't expect ppl would crack it immediately. personally I am not a fan of such design but I can see why it got so much praise among zoomers and terminally online trannies.

Layers of fear came out after PT and used it as main source of inspiration, dingus.

They made him impossible to stay not because of "muh Japanese corporate dystopia head-cannon" he got booted off in a semi-coup fashion because he was VC of Konami
Why do people see Kojima as some kind of innocent low-end employee when he was literally a top executive of Pachiko machine mogul Konami
He is just as guilty of allowing that thing to happen, and he most likely 100% supported that slop money making machine as only thing he's interested was funding his expensive ego

fuck, I made a mistake there, sorry

just to add one more thing, this loop design is nothing original. the first game I remember playing which had it was super mario bros, 8-4 castle

PT is genuinely a top 10 horror game of all time and unironically better than every Silent Hill.

The last halfway decent Contra game, Contra 4, was 2007, and the IP had already long since played host to bad games before then.

operation galuga is new and is good, what are you taliking about

kek love this bastard
miss you Norm

Also in general, god I wish we could go back to that period between 2011-2014 when MGS 5 and Ground Zeroes was at peak hype, with the trailers and FOX Engine looking absolutely gorgeous. The way that whole thing played out is such a tragedy.

spending less money = less profit

spending more money = more profit

Spending less money doesn't equate to instant win in capitalism retard, Kojima was just shit at his job
We wouldn't be seeing expensive slop like GoW , Last of Us, or Assassin's Creed if spending ridiculous amount of big development cost was some kind of noble action that doesn't bring profit, but brings great art

it's ok to have shit taste or being media illiterate don't worry

Nah dude, it really is. SH2 doesn't hold a candle to it lol

TPP made back it's development costs almost immediately. It was massively successful in a way that all that slop you referenced after could only dream of.

yeah right repeat corridor gimmick non game is better than complete game with full top tier story, great art direction and actual gameplay LMAO

ground zeroes is another name for the twin towers

the game takes place almost entirely in guantanamo bay

the final shot of mother base is two towers blowing up

half of the followup game takes place in afghanistan

slop

made less money

So which is it?
Also read other posts retard, "development cost of TPP" doesn't include development cost of Fox Engine, which was definitely WAY more expensive than TPP development cost

It's good if you don't get Contra, Tomm.

It is when Konami was just coasting on phone games and gambling.

nonsensical, freudian "le deep" story with garbage metaphors and symbolism

gameplay consists of just running around like a tank and avoiding dying

art looks like it was done by an amateur

You're a fucking idiot.

Sony also greenlit concord.
And Marathon.

it's literally a remake of an old contra game i think you're mistaking it with rougue corps

you won the hyperbole award of the year with this post, greetings anon

I thought he blows the budget mostly on the engine? Making new engine from scratch ain't cheap but i have to admit it's great engine and give UE solid competition

That business practice started when Kojima was funneling all of the development cost towards him, and he was the vice president of Konami

Konami wanted to make pachinko machines and phone games instead of AAA video games. They rushed out an unfinished MGS5 and did just that. Kojima was a AAA video game guy that suddenly found himself in a pachinko company, so they parted ways.

Why was he fired?

because he thought he was a God that could go away by spending all Konami money however he wanted or Konami would just die without him.

people will say Kojima was at fault (partially true) but heres what transpired

Kojima went extremely overbudget with MGS, constantly reassuring shareholders MGSV would make back its money

he kept wasting time and making last minute changes

Konami was trying to get out of AAA gaming because pachinko was blowing up in Japan at that time and decacdes of mismanaging franchises has finally caught up to them

both of these problems really clashed

Kojima gets booted because Konami said enough is enough

MGSV releases and makes back its entire production budget on pre orders alone

Konami still gets out of videogames and becomes a full time gambling company

fast forward 7 years

Pachinko market collapses due to government regulations

Konami desperately wants to get back into videogames but they have to keep up face because they will never hire Kojima again

now are coasting off the games he used to make

People are on stupid juice here, why would Kojima refuse pachinko or sport slop or whatever money making machine they have when he's obsessed with hiring expensive hollywood celebrities?
For all we know he could've been the one who pushed that shit just so could be in the "AAA" goyslop industry, suck Kojima's dick all you want but all of his games are made from Pachinko blood money.

Pachinko market collapses due to government regulations

that is bullshit, Konami stopped doing pachinko because certain someone wasn't bleeding the company dry

Konami stopped doing Pachinko 7 years after the fact that Kojima left just as regulations tightened

because of KoJima

The best is yet to come.

It seems like he loved to goon to the idea of being a movie director while he was making games.
It's a repetitive jank where you have to grind for eternity to get the weapon you actually want.

watches an old hollywood movie

makes a game based around that

"OMG YOU'RE A HECKIN GENIUS SO ORIGINAL!"

I will never understand why people dicksuck him so much. What is it with Japs and having all these celebrity devs that takes ALL the credits for a game while western companies treat it more as an effort?

hold triggers to not fall over

youtube.com/watch?v=9k7DrIWcrdI
he couldn't stop plagiarizing so they had to let him go

Don't know, don't care. Just glad Kojima made the most rapeable male character in video games ever.

the real mastermind behind mgs was fukushima, kojima just took all the credits

falls over anyway

"lost & never found" starts playing in the background

Pachinko market collapses due to government regulations

wasn't this because of rona-chan and lockdowns?

By the end of 2019 (pre-COVID), Japan had 9,639 pachinko parlors, down from a peak of 17,000 in 1990.

In 2020, a Tokyo Shōkō Research survey reported 12 pachinko parlor bankruptcies from January to May, double the previous year’s rate, with three directly linked to COVID. They predicted over 30 bankruptcies for the year, the highest since 2014.

By 2022, 640 parlors had closed, and over 7,500 were struggling.

In May 2025, Konami announced a split, creating Konami Arcade Games to handle arcade games and leaving Konami Amusement to focus on pachinko and pachislot. This move suggests they’re doubling down on pachinko’s potential, not abandoning it, despite the industry’s struggles. They’re aiming for “flexible, responsive management” to adapt to market changes, which could imply they see a path forward post-COVID.

Wow, what the fuck. You learn something new.

Because he is a retard that wasted unspeakable amounts of budget just to have an empty open world to show for it that made the game objectively worse.

How was this kojima's fault? lol he wasn't the composer

Retard alert, he only helped with a few optional codec lines, main story was all written by kojima

thesnakesoup.org/editorial-articles/curious-case-tomokazu-fukushima/

lol I hate zoomers so much it's unbelievable

that was debunkered long time ago, update your priors retardo-kun

ERM YES CHUDDIE YOU MUST KNOW ABSOLUTELY EVERY SINGLE MICRODETAIL AND HAVE SEEN EVERY SINGLE VIDEO AND INTERVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT VIDEO OF A GAME TO BE AN ACTUAL FAN

You are a nigger. Okay?

no source

ok zoomtard

Exactly, otherwise don't talk about shit you have absolutely no idea about, faggot

mgs went to shit the moment fukushima left

I don't need any more proofs

Name, link and list every single development video, guide, interview, article and magazine ever made for all of MGS as an entirety, or you're not a real fan.
You got 10 minutes.

The only thing that went to shit was the fact that we got less interesting codec calls
thesnakesoup.org/editorial-articles/curious-case-tomokazu-fukushima/

“We want the game to be good”

“You don’t understand!! This character has diabetes and a chihuahua with a mole on its cheek. This won’t ever be the case!!!!”

“Goodbye”

This guy basically made Kojima's games COHERENT and not rambling nonsense. Without him Kojima looks like an out of touch maniac-retard.

but with no regard for actually making a finished product in reasonable amount of time.

the average modern AAA game takes over 8 years to make
kojima released over 10 games in the 8 year period before mgs5
not to mention mgs5 was profitable from day 1 since it came out
it didnt need cope like "players"

Every gamer's waifu in 2015

In 2025, no one remembers her but her less than 10k viewers on her failed let's play channel

How the FUCK do you fall off so hard?

WHY CAN NO ONE MAKE A DAMN STEALTH GAME ANYMORE

Why are there only 2-3 good stealth games out there? And only one like MGSV, open world stealth?

Oh shit my bad, you're retarded

anon, mgs4 was so fucking bad it was like a different guy made it and we know for sure that it was kojima behind it, 100%. in fact mgs4 was so incredibly stupid kojima was afraid to even put any story in mgs 5 and the shit that was there like vocal cord parasites was extremely bad. death stranding was ok but I would bet my balls some hollywood guy wrote it for him. peace walker is somewhat a puzzle I admit, it was the only game post mgs3 fukusima would write in terms of writing quality.

Hitman WoA mogs MGSV in literally every way
It's the best stealth experience to date

Kojima was forced to make MGS4, he got death threats you goddamn piece of shit zoomer. He wanted to move on a long loooong time ago but fans wouldn't let him. This is what happens when you cage a creative mastermind like Kojima

She looks like the old version of the young versions actress in The Substance.

Time's up! You couldn't even list ONE thing? What a fake fan, you dumb little retard. :(

Wait 5-6 years for Physint and let Kojimbo once again save this god forsaken shithole of an industry because no one outside him and his team got any talent left

Kojima literally replaced her with that exact actress in DS

lole

I'm not your puppet zoom zoom, look it up yourself

why does Anon Babble still like this guy? his new games are meh. literally fedex simulator, yikes

Kojima wasn't held at gun point to make MGS4 or a shitty game. "Death threats" what a fucking joke lol. That nigga could've stepped away and it would've been fine.

makes a claim for basis of being a real fan

can't back it up when it's challenged

Yikes. Sounds like a poser to me. You should quit while you're ahead, you've never played any of these games anyway.

filtered by kojikino

bro he tried to create successor but failed, multiple times (after mgs2, mgs3, then he was later pulled in to work on mgrr but had to find different studio lmao). mgs4 wasn't a project he was interested in true, but his other projects like zoe and zoe2 weren't very successful so konami would have been stupid to give him money to work on "passion projects" afterwards, mgs4 was also expensive as fuck with sony backing it up as huge ps3 system seller/exclusive, everything about mgs4 design screams that it was expensive overproduced trash, especially cutscenes. and I don't buy it that he didn't enjoy every fucking moment he spent while making this absolute kusoge.

I played them all on launch, I'm a bit older than your faggy zoomtroon ass, unlike you I know wtf i'm talking about

But George Lucas actually made a few good things while kojima just steals credit from other people and plagiarizes

I haven't read the thread but is anyone else excited for Metal Gear Delta? It's the only game I'm looking forward to playing in a long time.

fag

metagearsolid.org/reports_mgs4_kojimaVSmgs4.html

LOL imagine lying this fucking hard, you're pathetic nigga

I know that anon. He is older than you and has better taste

I'm dead serious, believe me or not couldn't care less

Holy shit for real? AHAHAAH that's meta kino.

The important thing to remember is, since the break Konami sends glowing gooks here to besmirch his name.

2018 God of War was $80 Million, but at least that was an actual game.

I know the other anon. He is 100% telling the truth.

He spent 7 years on a game without coming close to finishing it

samefagging won't help you here lil zoomie

Most of this thread is people making shit up that's easily refutable, it's bizarre.

copy paste someone else's work

"i-it's just an homage bro"

This faggot is REALLY obsessed with hating on SH2, holy shit. Reminds me of hipsters back then shitting on the game for not being Silent Hill enough because it wasn't about the cult. And honestly, Japs not liking a game is usually a sign that a game has a good story, they're utterly illiterate when it comes to making or understanding compelling stories.

Errm Ackshually it's a tribute not plagiarism

i-it's an homage if you just rip off the exact placement of everything and recreate it entirely a-and just swap out words! Totally!

The average Kojima cocksucker's line of thinking. Why don't you get on your knees for your rice ojisan and blow his 3 inch sushi? It's not gay bro. Just an homage of appreciation.

Oh you're retarded, carry on.

Nobody asked how the police responded to seeing you sperg out in public after someone called them on your ass.

it's just an homage bro!

I managed to find it with wayback machine, enjoy

web.archive.org/web/20130419071830/http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=430

like I said time and time again, zoomers shouldn't be allowed to be on the internet. These vile creatures know absolutely nothing but think they do, you fucking pathetic smartass

kojima didn't have anything to do with the cover art bro

no one cared back then, you wouldn't know this cause you were still in your ugly dad's balls

its ok if you get away with it

but i thought it was just an homage bro?

death stranding 2 will be kino

Instead of making chapter 3, he blew the game’s budget pretending to be a hollywood celebrity. When Konami found out, they fired his ass.

they did not rike it

I'd say you're grasping at straws, but you'd probably have to ask Grok what that means too.

Kojima made one bad game. Unkie George made a trilogy of disgraceful prequels, followed by an fugly animated film for 8-year-olds and under, which spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series targeting same audience and cementing Star Wars in the public mind as low-effort trash for undiscerning children and no one else.

Tell people you like MGS4 and they might think you have poor taste. Tell them you like the prequels or Clone Wars, and they'll assume you're mentally deficient.

m-muh grok

i can do this all day

And it'll be an homage every time.

No one knows. No one even knows *if* he was fired or if he just walked away

The more people try to convince me that MGSV was unfinished the less I believe them

Remember this? kek such a slimey dishonest piece of shit company. I rather trust and believe Kojima than these scummy bastards.

He was using large parts of the budget to either hire expensive hollywood actors he wanted to network with or buying licensed songs that he liked. Konami was angry at the budget balooning up on what seemed like just kojima indulging in westaboo role play.

princess beach is in another caste... holy. FUCK!!!~!!!#

Kill yourself.

Keep yourself alive.

He spent amerifat tier AAA money on a japanese game, when usually their top tier stuff is probably not scraping more than a few tens of millions

2018 God of War

actual game

copy pasting isn't an homage, retard.

keep yourself safe

kys nigga

Konami were getting cold feet about gaming. Lets say they put in a billion, they'd 1.1 billion back. Whereas their hotels, gyms and pachinko would give many more billions back. Japanese government was also gearing up for a vote on gambling laws and Konami saw how much potential money was on the table so put the cart before the horse. Combine that with Kojima spending loads of money on MGS5 and not delivering in time. Konami made him rush it out but not before putting out GZ first as a stand alone thing. Kojima was also working PT/Silent Hills and supposedly siphoning funds from MGS5 to that.

it's the hair anon.

GROK IS THIS AN HOMMAGE??

Kojima was trying to keep it a video game company with high standards and konima was completely soulless and only cared about line goes up.

Why do you think so many devs of his team went with kojima even after working with him for over 30+ years when he left konami? konami was the culprit otherwise everyone would have stayed at konami.

Ohhh... you disrespectful...
I am... kojima... I am... creatividad...
I invent... camera...

clashing with higher ups (big no no in Japanese work culture)

This is probably the biggest reason. Higher ups lost face and felt diminished and their pride couldn’t take it.

Was he?
Or didn't he leave because he had enough of Konami's bullshit?

contra

No one gives a single fuck about contra.

The entire series of silent hill before the remake didn’t even sell as much as re5 alone. Silent hill was never popular or successful.

Why was he fired?

just the same sad story of rotten old japanese men hating each other because they're developing dementia and refuse to step down until they drop dead

Blind faith without facts to back you up is the very definition of a real fan dummy.

Holy shit what a hack Kojima is

Konami is the biggest piece of shit company ever

konami isn't just mgs, it stands behind some of the best games and franchises of all time like contra, castlevania, PES, silent hill, suikoden... symphony of the night being one of the most influential and beloved games ever.

shit

shit

shit

shit

and

shit

so beloved

Even then they could have just licensed out the engine.
Fox engine looked good and is super optimized.
Unless it was a nightmare to work with it could give UE a run for its money.

And only one like MGSV, open world stealth?

And look at the audacity of cunts talking about Konami relying on reboots. Konami is still trying to clean the kojimbo mess even after 10 years.

your taste is shit my nigga

Big Boss

No one cares about your favorite slop shit series, konami is the worsr because they treat their employees like literally slaves and zoo animals with strict surveillance and other inhuman shit, the way they treated kojima locking him away from his team the last 6 months in the most critical time of development is nothing short of fucking disgusting. This is why konami is the biggest piece of shit company ever.

Look at his cheating face lmao.

Every single Castlevania and Silent Hill game was good in spite of Konami, not because of them. Literal genre-defining games that required devs to spend 7 days a week at work to complete because Konami was so thoroughly dogshit to the teams.

Kojima composed the music

Bravo, brainlet. He's man enough to face this while it wasn't even his fault, retard.

There's no real indication that PT cost much at all to make

Doesn't matter. Japanese are strict about allocation of time and resources. One of the Pokemon producers almost got fired for adding 1 monster to Pokemon without permission. Imagine how pissed Komani's boss was if someone made a demo without permission.

You know this board is absolutely fucking done when it's reached a state where it'll defend anything that Konami has done just to be contrarian.

Care to tell whose fault was this piece of art? Or this one? Or maybe this one? Or maybe deez?

there wasn't just a demo of P.T. they literally had a presentation months later at TGS, no way konami didn't know about that. You're so full of shit, zoomer scum

I'm not defending anyone. I'm just telling you how Japanese businessmen think.

Many fucking Japanese games in the 80s and 90s were strongly inspired by American movies.

Overblown meme. They still include the theme in the HD and master collections. The truth is that konami avoided using the theme in later games since they were afraid of a potential lawsuit

Anyone that thinks this was related to money is retarded, Sony wouldn't allow him to make games if Konami got rid of him due to money concerns. Sony wouldn't let him make Death Stranding 2 and exclusive if it was about how much money he spends

Nothing you say about why Konami canned him makes sense and to back up that up not a single one of you has ever had a single shred of proof why they kicked him out after MGSV

great art comes from great suffering, you subhumans wouldn't understand it

I know you think this is deep and it applies to this conversation, but you're retarded and it doesn't.

t.western tranny dev

No Kojima-san, we cannot extend your deadline for the fifth time in a row and give you another hundred trillion yen in funding.

FAKAAAAAAA YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU GO FAKA YOUSELFFFFFFFFF MOTHELUFUCKELUUUUUU

I like how that applies to literally nothing here, you just couldn't think of a real response.

keep deflecting my arrows, you're already dead

Why are you swearing tho? Anyway, so you accept that you were overreacting to my genuine take on him?

Now, it seems like history is about to repeat itself with Sony.

Oh heavens no, Kojima is gonna bring us another masterpiece we will talk about and praise for the next 10 years. It should be more soulless COD/Fortnite slop.

Fun fact nips are considered master of lean production value.

Oh (you).

Konami asked him to stop wasting money with things like scanning Quiet's soles. He said no.

I cannot believe we've entered the "defending Konami" era.
I guess after twenty years of shitting on every IP they have rights to, it'd make sense new generations wouldn't know just how much they've fucked up.

i thought he resigned, not fired
whats your source? the voices in your head?

conjuring up hypotheticals to get angry at

Anon, your pills?

you

I'm a different anon

The zoomer cattle decided to hate Kojima after they found out he refuses to make normie shooter slop like they're used to. Kojima said over and over again, he wants to create things that aren't in the world yet, he wants to give people something they haven't seen before. He also said he's not interested in selling millions of copies or the mass market and this is why they're mad.

Its sad to see Anon Babble turn hard on Kojima despite directing some of the most beloved vidya of all time. I mean yeah MGSV was a disappointment to many but that doesn't mean he's suddenly a hack.

Pull the stick out of your axe wound and use the rope to neck yourself (in Minecraft (but also in real life)).

Roughly around the same time as Konami tried to shift to pachinko, SNK rather publicly and pointedly announced they were getting out because the market was dying

ride kojima’s nuts or you’re a contrarian

fuck you and that pseud faggot

P.T. revealed to be a Konami Silent Hill project after all the publicity stunts

P.T. almost immediately cancelled

Kojima almost immediately forced to resign

MGSV devs under constant surveillance by execs (???)

literally the only explanation.

Konami was always right. Their business boomed after they got rid of Kojimbo. Western journos depicted Kojima's firing as a weird and unusual punishment when, in truth, it was quite mundane and necessary given Kojima's position as part of Konami's management.

These facts will forever make the Kojidrone seethe.

When exactly did people start to turn against Kojima? After MGS5? After Death Stranding?

johnny. he literally shits his pants. multiple times. in multiple games. and so does his father

He was literally still with the company.

believe Kojima

Kojima never said anything

Anon Babble is just full of retards anon, you probably shouldn't think too hard about the catalyst.

No shit but he left, he isn't buddy buddy with Konami at all so there are two sides now, Konami and Kojima and you can bet your tiny shrimpy balls I will stay on Kojima's side. FUCK KONAMI and anyone who defends this hell hole

Then where is all this imaginary new talent now that he's gone lmao

The biggest Konami game in the works right now is a remake of mgs. That tells you everything you need to know.

Anon Babble is so full of dumbass brown opinionated teens that don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

Reddit is unironically the superior place for discussing videogames and I'm an oldfag

Also, in a dev interview with the delta team they were literally begging Kojima to work with them again lmao, clueless little zoomie retards in here all the fucking time don't know shit. People love to work with Kojima.

He spent the MGSV budget on lunch dates with Dutch models and Konami eventually got sick of it and cut him loose. Kojimbo victimised himself, his buddy Geoff stood by him and the community generally took his side because he markets himself as a genius auteur and they believe him.

Not to mention he barred anyone from making games that's not related to his work,

lolwat
Metal Gear Ghost Babel, the Ac!d subseries, and Portable Ops were made without him.
He allowed a full MGS1 remake to be done without him.
MGS4 was supposed to be done without him until he was pressured to helm it.
Metal Gear Rising was done without him.
He planned to literally give the keys to the franchise away to Keikaku Itoh before the guy died.

People wanted a story about Venom getting revenge on the Patriots and starting Outer Haven. Instead we got mocap of Joosten frolicking in the rain.

People stood by him because he makes good games and Konami has a history of destroying the lives of everyone that works for them. It's not that complicated.

This nigga you replied to is BEYOND stupid. Kojima always wanted his team to make a Metal Gear game but they never could, they always needed him as leader. That's why he always directed MGS games. He would have LOVED to move on from this series a long long time ago

It is truly really bizarre that on Anon Babble every single videogame that comes out gets shit on but at the same time you have these armies of corporate shills defending the companies making the games they hate.

Doesn't make any sense, makes me wonder if corporations have social media teams on the payroll

You never get from Kojima what you want. He always wants to make different things nobody expects, hence the insane MGS2 twist. I bet you Physint won't be the stealth action espionage game people expect from Kojima, it will be completely different and quite a few people will hate it but Kojima is used to that, because he doesn't want to make mass market games, he wants to be different, that's why Physint won't be anything like Metal Gear, it will have some similarities yes but at the same time will be nothing what people expect.

Kojima was taking too fucking long to put MGSV out, such as paying the composer 700 grand to compose tracks for the game only to not use any of them. Then Konami busted down the doors and demanded to see what was done and saw that they were barely starting on Chapter 2. So they demanded that Kojima fuck off, go to a broom closet, record a bunch of the story shit for the game on cassette tapes because it'd be too much money otherwise, and finally put the fucking game out.

Wrong.

He's a pretentious cunt who kept putting artists vision before profits and player enjoyment

One of the Pokemon producers almost got fired for adding 1 monster to Pokemon without permission.

damn it must suck to not understand hyperbole

MGS2 was still a full game and not an open world slop with "I WAS BORN IN A SMALL VILLAGE".

Konami forced him to put guns in MGSV when all he wanted was to have Snake deliver packages to people which would have explained everything.

He grew furious.

"Where instead of, for example, cutting corners by lowering foliage resolution, he wants to make sure everything looks as good and polished as possible. She said they paid for her to write 30-40 songs that ended up not being used, and he'd tell her to write another one, then another one, then another one, because he settles for what he likes and has a good mind for what people want to see and what people want to hear."
-Rika Muranaka, composer of the Metal Gear series as well as Ground Zeroes

"It was such a difficult time because [Kojima] was going through a lot last year," Keighley says in the interview. "The fact that he finished that game under those circumstances is just amazing. He was locked in a separate room on a different floor than his development team for the final six months of development. He couldn't even talk to them – he had to talk through someone else. That's how that game was finished."
-Geoff Keighley interviewed on the final days of MGSV's development

Kojima wasted tens of millions of dollars on stupid bullshit because he was salaried and delaying the game didn't hurt him at all.

Kojima was taking too fucking long to put MGSV out,

The release order relevant to MGSV looks like this:

Peace Walker (Last Kojima game) - 2010

Revengeance (Last MG game) - 2012

Ground Zeroes - 2014

The Phantom Pain - 2015

Which isn't that long at all for a game on a brand new engine that was specifically made for said game.
MGS3 to 4 for comparison was a 4 year gap between mainline titles under similar conditions (though 4's engine was a prototype of V's).

and demanded to see what was done and saw that they were barely starting on Chapter 2. So they demanded that Kojima fuck off, go to a broom closet, record a bunch of the story shit for the game on cassette tapes because it'd be too much money otherwise, and finally put the fucking game out.

Not what happened at all.
It's fairly evident that MGSV is a finished game for all intents and purposes and nothing was actually left on the cutting room floor aside from the Eli DLC which was, as stated, DLC (Mission 51).
The story being told through cassette tapes itself is explicitly intended. As for Chapter 2, there's nothing actually indicating anything was cut from that. Nothing stated in developer interviews, nothing datamined despite YEARS of efforts, nothing at all indicating there was anything more than what we got, and scraps of that like mission placeholders would exist even if Konami shut it down before anything was done.

half of big shell go cut

multiple supporting characters and bossfights cut

entire last act reworked and cut down

Read this:

It's pretty funny how MGS2 is a blatantly unfinished game with enough concepts to make an entire other game left on the cutting room table (they called that other game "MGS3"), but MGSV gets saddled with the unfinished game label despite not having anything really of note on the cutting room floor aside from Episode 51, which was planned as DLC.

Kojima was wasting too much money on other projects and celebrities.

spends 5 years creating an engine

Borrows an engine for DS and gets better graphics

but MGSV gets saddled with the unfinished game label despite not having anything really of note on the cutting room floor aside from Episode 51, which was planned as DLC.

lol retard, MGSV: TPP was supposed to be MUUUUUCH BIGGER

The reason it took so long to make MGSV is because konami FORCED them to get the fucking game to work on ps3 and xbox 360 aswell. That's like saying decima needs to work on ps3, konami's demand was fucking absurd and I bet you everything this was the reason for the fallout between kojima and konami, cause he had fucking enough of their bullshit

I don't know how you're supposed to prove me wrong with them just showing the scale of the Afghanistan map.
Are you Caramel by chance?

Kojima will never reach his trve potential because he refuses to let anyone tell him no
Kojima is the reason Death Stranding is a bunch of really cool ideas and sequences, Kojima is the reason none of it has any impact because "structuring a narrative" gets in the way of his autism

he was fired because he was deluded enough to think he could win a power strugle within konami.
kojima is a narcisist high on his farts 24/7 and got slapped the fuck down with an anime gag newspaper weapon

at the back it even teases a snow map, this isn't all afghanistan you mongoloid.

That's called fog retard, the thing that's always around the MGSV logo. It discolours light brown to appear white.
Additionally, nothing indicates a snow themed environment in

datamined assets

dev interviews or pre-release info

external media like the concept art

Konami discovered that he was using all the budget to scan women's feet.

source? i made it the fuck up: the thread

why are anti-kojima schizos like this?

They had a new president that was all in on Pachinko machines at the same time Kojima was bored of making Metal Gear leading to a shitshow with Kojima fucking around until they fired him. He probably did deserve to be fired, but Konami was moving away from Video games so the writing was on the wall for him. Ironically, the pachinko market crashed recently and their now going back to making video games again.

Konami was hellbent on going full mobile games meme and Kojima didn't. That's pretty much it.

this nigga too dumb to google

no wonder you think Kojima is smart

muh pachinko

dumb bullshit fed to sheep like you by western journalists. Konami never stopped making games— it just stopped making AAA games for your faggot american ass

no one has ever been able to back up 95% of the claims in this thread. shit like "he secretly siphoned money from other projects to secretly fund PT!" or "he was wasting company money to have dinners with celebrities!" or "konami forced him to wrap up the project because he was just starting chapter 2!" or a number of other lies. people just make up retarded bullshit about kojima and spew it as fact. "durr just google it, bro!" why don't you back up your retarded claims? i've looked into this and there is no credible source on what actually transpired. all we have is speculation based on konami's shift toward mobile and pachinko. nothing concrete.

He’s too convinced he’s the greatest thing to happen to gaming these days. Happened around MGS4

western media sees this azun dood being worshipped by retards in the west

guess it's time to get him on board

Meanwhile kojimbo:

HOO MY GODDO, IMMA BIG MAANU IN THE WESTO, TIME TO DATU HOLLYWOOD SLUTTU

NOOOO I WANT PROOF THAT "konami forced him to wrap up the project because he was just starting chapter 2!"

lmao why would you need proof of that after playing MGS V? The game is missing its conclusion. The last 10 or so missions are literally recycled missions from earlier in the game, but with extra difficulty modifiers. Why would you need proof of something obvious you can see yourself?

i want proof of the specific claims. the biggest one i see repeated a lot as if it is truth is "PT was secretly made by siphoning funds from other konami projects", with absolutely no backing evidence to the claim and a bunch of evidence existing against that claim. it is just pulling random shit out of your ass to say shit like that. give me something concrete or shut the fuck up, you are muddying the waters when it comes to actually finding out what happened.

The last 10 or so missions are literally recycled missions from earlier in the game, but with extra difficulty modifiers.

literally a case of poor media literacy. the repeat missions are not a case of laziness, they are reinforcing points made within the cassettes.

walking simulator

But that’s just every GoW past the original trilogy.

Atleast GoW has hacking and slashing going on for most of the time, DS on the other hand is glorified lo-fi YouTube stream.