First Twin Peaks and now this. 2015 has been a horrible year to be a horror/suspense fan.
hold the fucking phone, twin peaks is cancelled?
First Twin Peaks and now this. 2015 has been a horrible year to be a horror/suspense fan.
hold the fucking phone, twin peaks is cancelled
We already know from the past that Kojima and Konami has friction and that's due to him being forced to work on MGS while at the same time cancelling his other works (ZOE3).
They unceremoniously fired him and have begun scrubbing away his legacy and placed a gag order on him.
Everyone who was even still in the know, like Donna Burke, all have came out with statements to support Kojima. Not a single one would say "It's not what you think guys! Kojima is at fault!"
It feels like they're just sitting on a money pile, though. People love their classic IPs and I'm confident they could make good money reviving them properly. Handing them off to random team across the globe lacking the experience in such games just doesn't work. The strength was in the design, not the brand itself. That's why they lost big on so many attempts at bringing these games back.In the case of MGS it's something that's still relevant and making them money. Give it a couple of titles down the line and it'll be a done deal.
Do you know what an actor is? Did you even play P.T.?
What a completely ridiculous post. Actors can have range, you know.
Wait what?!?!? This can't be true! That is even worse newsWell, Lynch left because Showtime weren't going to give a big enough budget to produce the show at the quality he wanted it to be at.
Well, Lynch left because Showtime weren't going to give a big enough budget to produce the show at the quality he wanted it to be at.
Have you two missed the whole "modern gaming" thing? The only point of having him in the game was to put Daryl Dixon on the cover, have him killing things in the trailers to attract the Walking Dead audience and just in general have him out promoting the game.
Range? Come on, be serious now. Millions of actors have range and they wouldn't cost a fraction of what this guy costs to represent in the game.
this is such a shame...
People like drama and tend to fixate on some imaginary emotional fallout/conspiracy between Konami and Kojima as the reason for all the ongoings at Konami, when the reality in business is usually far simpler and money driven; they don't give a fuck about investing in big budget games any more.
This seems pretty unlikely.
Konami was incredibly happy with the response to P.T. There were internal talks about making P.T. its own thing, separate from Silent Hill.
Whatever happened with this game and Silent Hills probably has little to nothing to do with Konami Ebezeering over P.T. while Kojima is the trodden-upon Tiny Tim. It was probably simply that they no longer had a director for it, Silent Hill isn't exactly a hot property that can just go to any team because that strategy produced major bombs in the past, and their continued path into leaving retail game development.
I keep mentioning it and it keeps being ignored, but Konami had a number of major producer departures in the last few months. The producers behind Love Plus, which was a money-maker for Konami, left really abruptly about a week before this Kojima stuff broke. They're almost certainly restructuring out of games, so any conspiracy theory of what's happening here that is solely about Kojima and Konami is likely way off base.
So, I'm guessing there are some business side guys that wanted to get Kojima out of the way and Konami games in the future are going to be paint by numbers garbage including future Metal Gear games.
Good job.
make me think that will Konami shut down MGSV multiplayer server soon since these server cost them a lot of money?
It's like they are trying so hard to get people to hate them that this can't be real. How can one company be so out of touch with literally everything
Because that worked so well with Walking Dead Survival Instinct. They probably made billions!
Wait what?!?!? This can't be true! That is even worse news
Aww come on man this can't be real. Didn't know that !
The fuck is going on right now. :'(
But you can do something about it right....right!!?
Please...
what? no not me
but you guys can
what? no not me
but you guys can
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Sigh...
You are done to me Konami. I will only buy MGSV for Kojima and team's sake but after that I Am Done.
https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/584855237946552320
Showtime did issue a statement after he announced that to say that they were going to try to do what they can to get him back on board.
UPDATE 27/04/2015: Konami has sent us over a brief Q&A on the likely Silent Hills cancellation.
In it the Japanese company says it will continue to develop the Silent Hill series, but it fails to deny Silent Hills, specifically, has been cancelled.
There's also reference to an image of Norman Reedus which supposedly disappeared from the official Silent Hills website. But as far as we can tell the image of the actor is still up. Perhaps it will be removed later today.
Here's the Q&A, for what it's worth:
Why has the image of Norman Reedus disappeared from the official website?
This is because our contract period with him has expired.
Why is "P.T." no longer available on Playstation Network?
Because the distribution period has expired.
What will happen with regard to "SILENT HILL"?
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. will continue to develop the "SILENT HILL" series.
What will happen with regard to "P.T."?
P.T. was purely created to be a playable teaser for "SILENT HILL."
What do you mean by "playable teaser"?
The playable teaser was a trial edition of "SILENT HILLS" intended to give players an idea of the game concept.
Norman Reedus had a contract that expired years before the game was set for release?Why has the image of Norman Reedus disappeared from the official website?
This is because our contract period with him has expired.
Norman Reedus had a contract that expired years before the game was set for release?
Are they even trying?
I think it's just PR speak for 'we terminated his contract', just like how the vague 'the distribution period has expired' answer also dodges the question.Perhaps they did a shorter contract for the teaser, with an option to sign him for the full game if there is enough market interest?
The attempts to disassociate Kojima's name from MGS were suspicious enough that I think some of the conspiracy thinking was natural.People like drama and tend to fixate on some imaginary emotional fallout/conspiracy between Konami and Kojima as the reason for all the ongoings at Konami, when the reality in business is usually far simpler and money driven; they don't give a fuck about investing in big budget games any more.
We probably will never know, but I want to know what the fuck went wrong with Kojima and Konami. Seriously.
We probably will never know, but I want to know what the fuck went wrong with Kojima and Konami. Seriously.
Why has the image of Norman Reedus disappeared from the official website?
This is because our contract period with him has expired.
Why is "P.T." no longer available on Playstation Network?
Because the distribution period has expired.
Honestly, I don't really care at this point. I'll never be buying another Konami product again, even if that means not playing MGSV. This entire debacle has been sickening and knowing the undoubtedly petty, absurd reasoning for it would only make it worse for me.
We probably will never know, but I want to know what the fuck went wrong with Kojima and Konami. Seriously.