YouTube Overrides Konami: Konami Shuts Down a Video About Kojima/Konami, and YouTube Reinstates The
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[QUOTE=Helix Snake;47724441]I REALLY hope Kojima gets picked up by another high profile company, it would break my heart to see him have to start asking for money on kickstarter to make games with a mediocre dev team and no publisher.[/QUOTE]
This seems like a blessing in disguise, really. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all have the opportunity to hand Kojima a blank check right now, and people love the guy so much that no matter what number he writes on the check, whatever he makes with it will make back the money and then some.
Kojima hasn't been shy about letting us know that he doesn't want to do Metal Gear anymore, and that Konami has basically been forcing him to make it year after year. Now that Konami cut Kojima loose and has burned any and all interest fans might have in Metal Gear, whatever Kojima decides to do next will be met with overwhelming support. In a fucked up way everyone wins except for Konami.
The only reason this really fucking set me off is P.T.
I was looking forward to P.T. witha fucking passion man. That game was fucking [I]brilliant[/I] and man would I have loved to have seen where it went. But nope, Konami decides to go full Ea/Ubisoft and shoves their fist into everyone's assholes because fuck you MOBILE GAMES SLOT MACHINES MONEY MMM
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And fucking kudos for that totally out-of-left-field YouTube clutch save, jesus christ. That was an insane move
While this is cool, I can't help but feel a little peeved that they use "fair use" here and removed many other videos where people defended them with "fair use".
[QUOTE=Maximo13;47734724]Well, I really have no interest in getting a PS3, but I pretty much know roughly most of the lore anyways due to my love for reading up on wikis.[/QUOTE]
I was going to do a live twitch stream of the Metal Gear series as a whole from start to finish ( i was even going to include the SNES games aswell ) and because i've played each game that much i'd answer questions and explain the story as i went through or anything people don't understand, still debating doing it.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;47734316]Actually wait no the war economy was a massive fuck up on their part that the "Patriots" never wanted or planned for when JD/GW suddenly decided to go off on its own and turn mass produced soldiers into a commodity.
It went against what Zero set out to do in the first place and it actually led to their downfall iirc. Like the irony was that his system figured the best way to continue his organization and continue building funds was through perpetual war, but that basically followed what Big Boss set out to do instead of Zero's vision and whatever [I]he[/I] though the Boss wanted of the world. Or something.
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and that's great writing[/QUOTE]
To be fair BB didn't want perpetual war, he just saw it as an inevitability and wanted to give soldiers a place where they weren't just tools for whoever was in power at the time. At least not at the time where he set out to create Outer Heaven.
[QUOTE=Maximo13;47734724]Well, I really have no interest in getting a PS3, but I pretty much know roughly most of the lore anyways due to my love for reading up on wikis.[/QUOTE]
Just watch a standard playthrough of it. You'll probably get all of the details you need. Its nice to at least SEE once, if not playthrough it yourself.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;47736000]To be fair BB didn't want perpetual war, he just saw it as an inevitability and wanted to give soldiers a place where they weren't just tools for whoever was in power at the time. At least not at the time where he set out to create Outer Heaven.[/QUOTE]
While the killings of resistance members in South Africa and the kidnapping of scientists and people, particularly Madnar, and the development of Metal Gear to protect themselves from the Patriots, which happened earlier in Peace Walker and will inevitably happen again in MGS5, really put Outer Heaven in a major moral gray area, series context made it out to be a whole lot less 'bad guy evil' than the initial two Metal Gear games made them. Hell, arguably his first death at the hands of Solid Snake just made things worse and Big Boss more insane.
Now it's this weird position where all of the actual evil shit has Big Boss sandwiched between his cynical yet heroic MGS3-PW self, his sorrowful and atoning [sp]MGS4[/sp] self and this batshit persona inbetween the gigantic gap that varies wildly between being depicted as a war-monger who only cares about raising children into new soldiers, an ambiguous gray that cares for his men and little else in the world, or a hero as seen by the world.
And I think half of this is intentional, judging by the whole sub-plot of BB being declassified to be made a hero out of by the Patriots in MGS4 to mirror player opinions, while the other half is just pure clusterfuck caused by so many games over the years and changing plotlines and circumstances ad finitum.
More heavy handed tactics, their PR guy must be flipping his shit right now since they've gone from beloved game developer to train wreck in a month
imagine becoming a worse company than capcom virtually overnight
Konami has always been very very shit.
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Okay, I mispoke, not "always", but they have been for a long time.
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;47738212]imagine becoming a worse company than capcom virtually overnight[/QUOTE]
Capcom is at least trying to redeem themselves now.
Konami's just intentionally trying to dig themselves into a hole. Capcom was just misguided.
[QUOTE=Sableye;47738138]More heavy handed tactics, their PR guy must be flipping his shit right now since they've gone from beloved game developer to train wreck in a month[/QUOTE]
What PR guy :v:
[QUOTE=Sableye;47738138]More heavy handed tactics, their PR guy must be flipping his shit right now since they've gone from beloved game developer to train wreck in a month[/QUOTE]
Kojima was the closest thing Konami had to a PR guy.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;47723918]Seriously, why don't companies have at least one person who knows of the Streisand effect?[/QUOTE]
The answer to this question is so mindblowingly simple, are you ready?
The vast majority of companies don't issue takedown notices on critical youtube videos, exactly because they're aware of the futility deriving from the Streisand effect. There isn't a single documented example, as far as I can see, of Ubisoft, EA or Valve ever issuing a takedown notice on content like this.
[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;47739324]The answer to this question is so mindblowingly simple, are you ready?
The vast majority of companies don't issue takedown notices on critical youtube videos, exactly because they're aware of the futility deriving from the Streisand effect. There isn't a single documented example, as far as I can see, of Ubisoft, EA or Valve ever issuing a takedown notice on content like this.[/QUOTE]
Valve did censor comments excessively during the Skyrim paid mod farce.
Which just made it all worse.
They reversed pretty much all of it after they realized how much of a fuckup that whole thing was.
Konami CEO -
guys it's a new quarter, what should we do to increase profits?
Konami businessman -
so there's this guy who works for us, who is really the only reason people like us at all
Konami CEO -
ah, you want us to fund his latest project and give him absolute creative freedom?
Konami businessman -
... actually I was thinking we have him sign an NDA, fire him, and then pretend he never existed
Konami CEO -
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[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;47738485]Capcom is at least trying to redeem themselves now.
Konami's just intentionally trying to dig themselves into a hole. Capcom was just misguided.[/QUOTE]
yea I have been giving capcOm crap for RE:6 but I just finsh chapter one of rE:r2 and so far so good.
People make it out that Konami are a bunch of idiots for these recent actions, but sadly it makes perfect sense- regular console games cost a few million nowadays, especially big ones like Kojima's . Hell, it's rumored that P.T. was the catalyst for his unemployment, as Del Toro and Norman Reedus cost much more than Konami ever wanted from the project (with Kojima usually being let alone to his own devices, this probably wasn't found out until too late). On the flipside, we have mobile games, which can be made in a quarter of the cost, half of the time, and make twice as much (in theory). And if that were to fail, why would they care? The other 75% of their profits come from nondigital sources, so it wouldn't affect them as much as people think. It's terrible from a PR and consumer perspective, but from a business perspective it makes perfect sense.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;47740198]yea I have been giving capcOm crap for RE:6 but I just finsh chapter one of rE:r2 and so far so good.[/QUOTE]
For some reason it's cheesy and predictable now but games that actually try to take a more gradual pace in the series seem to do well, like the first half of Leon's chapter in RE6, while everything else more action-oriented that isn't RE4 or Mercenaries/Raid (which is an extra optional mode in the first place) gets a whole lot of shit. I guess the Michael Bay approach just doesn't work for the franchise unless it's RE4.
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