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our picks for the top ten konami tales
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at the many times that konami
was a well-regarded video game company
has stumbled miserably over the last few
years
let the facepalms begin just be
smoked-fish number ten six days in
fallujah remember six days of insanity
there are six days of chaos for me the
six days of war this is not the first
time that a video game has revolved
around controversial themes however not
many companies would immediately cancel
said projects the second any backlash
occurred developer atomic games was hard
at work producing what they felt to be a
highly realistic military shooter to
contrast all of the more action-oriented
series on the market
turning the bloody fight into a video
game has ignited a firestorm of
controversy since the game was based on
a real conflict many members of the
press and war veterans slammed the game
for being disrespectful while we can
understand this reaction from the public
we cannot really excuse konami for
instantly backing out of the project the
second the controversy kicked in leaving
atomic games with no support whatsoever
not cool dudes
number nine doing zero promotion four
blades of time that hasn’t been a single
sowed was returned from Dragon past for
a very very right about now you might be
asking what the heck is blades of time
yeah exactly
to sum it up blades of time is a
hack-and-slash adventure game and a
spiritual successor to the game ex
blades released a few years earlier the
final product itself was a decent entry
into the genre but it unfortunately
struggled sales-wise due to a severe
lack of proper promotional material
being released to the gaming community
sure not every game has to have a
buttload of trailers for it but here’s
the real kicker konami only officially
announced the game a whole three days
after it came out
ouch fail fail fail
number eight Pro Evolution Soccer 2016
PC port you feel a sense of occasion
here classic oh one of world football’s
great occasions boarding games
occasionally leads to speed bumps in the
transition process sure but we are
willing to accept little imperfections
in comparison to the colossal train
wreck that was p/es 2016 the pc port the
pc version had a beautiful presentation
with terrible character models textures
animations and well just about
everything you see on screen looks like
barf what makes this horrendous PC port
all the more baffling is that it’s
running on the Fox game engine sound
familiar it’s the same game engine used
to power the graphically stunning Metal
Gear Solid 5 if the Fox engine could
handle the massive terrain and chaotic
action of that title it can surely
handle a few soccer balls right you had
one job Konami number seven silent
hill’s months of madness where do you
suppose if any imagine being a huge
Silent Hill fan during March 2012 Konami
announced their plans to release three
Silent Hill titles over the span of a
month now imagine being that same Silent
Hill fan when all that exciting news
fell on its face Silent Hill downpour
was a clunky boring addition to the
franchise Silent Hill book of Memories
was um we’re not even sure what the hell
they were thinking with this one
but the biggest flap in the face was the
Silent Hill HD collection as it somehow
butchered the original versions of the
games with awkward new voice acting and
ugly looking picture resolution combine
that with book of memories delayed
release causing it to miss the event
entirely and it was a month of madness
alright but just not the way they
intended
[Music]
number six III 2010 press conference so
I see these riffles are strings so
that’s where I saw my hands a cigarette
yeah yeah Konami’s III 2010 press
conference is so hilariously awkward
that we can’t even find the right words
to summarize it so let’s just hit B for
lack of better words highlights shall we
how creepy was that you just staring at
the other guy what the hell was up with
that goofy wrestler slapping routine not
to mention the numerous technical
difficulties and whatever the hell was
going on in 99 to developers tax Fugees
mind when he was promoting his own game
that’d be okay
we should honestly get a drinking game
going for this press conference every
time something stupid happens take a
swig of your drink actually forget it
that’s probably kind of dangerous number
five censoring YouTube personalities
I’ll be shameful if Konami understood
shining gaming is a very social medium
with many players around the world and
joins the ability to freely express
their enjoyment and concerns with the
industry as a whole
Konami doesn’t share these feelings
whenever anybody talks smack about one
of their games or the company in general
Konami immediately jumps into action and
shuts them down completely censoring
their freedom of speech two very
prominent examples of this happening
were when gaming journalist Jim sterling
and YouTube personality super bunny hop
were both plans for criticizing the
company for their many missteps over the
years wait a minute
we’re a YouTube channel is this gonna
happen to us not funny
number four cancelling Silent Hill
one of the biggest slaps in the base in
recent memory this was a blunder of
massive proportions silent hill’s looks
like an excellent return to for birth
series that let’s be frank konami was
doing nothing with it also had
impressive talent coming together to
bring it to life including norman reedus
guillermo del toro and industry legend
hideo kojima due to conflict with Kojima
concerning the project the company
scrapped everything causing this spooky
gaming franchise to become silent once
more salt in the wound Konami removed PT
from the PS Store permanently which was
the only thing that fame still had as a
taste of what could have been yeah cue
to number three unethical working
conditions what’s worse than treating
the entire gaming public outside of
their company like crap
well treating everyone who works inside
of their company like crap the there
have been numerous stories making the
rounds over the years of the near
torturous experience that it is to work
at Konami it reportedly feels kind of
like a dictatorship with unfair
regulations and cruel harassment from
the higher-ups of the company the
harshness and strict policy within
Konami is so bad that after koji
Igarashi latest castlevania for the
Nintendo DS failed
sales wise he was forced down from the
position of game producer to a desk job
as punishment because that company has a
way of bullying their employees not to
give out too much information to say the
least
number two letting go of Hideo Kojima
remember all that drama we mentioned
about Kojima and Konami concerning
silent hill’s well it really doesn’t
stop there during much of the production
of Metal Gear Solid 5 Konami made things
extremely difficult for Kojima
constantly butting heads with his
creative vision for the game despite his
best efforts to ensure the game’s
quality a large portion of its content
had to be cut causing he able to be
understandably frustrated
what really blew Kojima fuse and
eventually led to him leaving the
company altogether was when Konami made
the petty move of denying him access to
the 2015 game awards show Kojima is an
amazing talent in the field and it was a
big mistake to push him away analysis
complete
if you think that things can’t get any
worse we’ll reveal our biggest konami
fail after a few honorable mentions
[Music]
[Music]
number one turning their franchises into
pachinko machines let’s recount the
plethora of big gaming franchises that
Konami has amassed over its many years
in the industry they have the rights to
em Silent Hill Castlevania contra and
Metal Gear so instead of releasing
proper full-fledged experiences of those
stories what have they decided to do
take the likeness of said franchises and
slap them on to pachinko machines to
make a quick profit off the gambling
scene Wow not only is this disrespectful
to their products and exposes them for
being kind of friggin greedy it shows a
level of complete ignorance towards what
their fans actually want and gamers
think EA and Ubisoft are bad
come on Assassin’s Creed unity pre-order
now for the explosive chemical
revolution mission do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
watchmojo.com and still be counting down
our picks for the top ten konami tales
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at the many times that konami
was a well-regarded video game company
has stumbled miserably over the last few
years
let the facepalms begin just be
smoked-fish number ten six days in
fallujah remember six days of insanity
there are six days of chaos for me the
six days of war this is not the first
time that a video game has revolved
around controversial themes however not
many companies would immediately cancel
said projects the second any backlash
occurred developer atomic games was hard
at work producing what they felt to be a
highly realistic military shooter to
contrast all of the more action-oriented
series on the market
turning the bloody fight into a video
game has ignited a firestorm of
controversy since the game was based on
a real conflict many members of the
press and war veterans slammed the game
for being disrespectful while we can
understand this reaction from the public
we cannot really excuse konami for
instantly backing out of the project the
second the controversy kicked in leaving
atomic games with no support whatsoever
not cool dudes
number nine doing zero promotion four
blades of time that hasn’t been a single
sowed was returned from Dragon past for
a very very right about now you might be
asking what the heck is blades of time
yeah exactly
to sum it up blades of time is a
hack-and-slash adventure game and a
spiritual successor to the game ex
blades released a few years earlier the
final product itself was a decent entry
into the genre but it unfortunately
struggled sales-wise due to a severe
lack of proper promotional material
being released to the gaming community
sure not every game has to have a
buttload of trailers for it but here’s
the real kicker konami only officially
announced the game a whole three days
after it came out
ouch fail fail fail
number eight Pro Evolution Soccer 2016
PC port you feel a sense of occasion
here classic oh one of world football’s
great occasions boarding games
occasionally leads to speed bumps in the
transition process sure but we are
willing to accept little imperfections
in comparison to the colossal train
wreck that was p/es 2016 the pc port the
pc version had a beautiful presentation
with terrible character models textures
animations and well just about
everything you see on screen looks like
barf what makes this horrendous PC port
all the more baffling is that it’s
running on the Fox game engine sound
familiar it’s the same game engine used
to power the graphically stunning Metal
Gear Solid 5 if the Fox engine could
handle the massive terrain and chaotic
action of that title it can surely
handle a few soccer balls right you had
one job Konami number seven silent
hill’s months of madness where do you
suppose if any imagine being a huge
Silent Hill fan during March 2012 Konami
announced their plans to release three
Silent Hill titles over the span of a
month now imagine being that same Silent
Hill fan when all that exciting news
fell on its face Silent Hill downpour
was a clunky boring addition to the
franchise Silent Hill book of Memories
was um we’re not even sure what the hell
they were thinking with this one
but the biggest flap in the face was the
Silent Hill HD collection as it somehow
butchered the original versions of the
games with awkward new voice acting and
ugly looking picture resolution combine
that with book of memories delayed
release causing it to miss the event
entirely and it was a month of madness
alright but just not the way they
intended
[Music]
number six III 2010 press conference so
I see these riffles are strings so
that’s where I saw my hands a cigarette
yeah yeah Konami’s III 2010 press
conference is so hilariously awkward
that we can’t even find the right words
to summarize it so let’s just hit B for
lack of better words highlights shall we
how creepy was that you just staring at
the other guy what the hell was up with
that goofy wrestler slapping routine not
to mention the numerous technical
difficulties and whatever the hell was
going on in 99 to developers tax Fugees
mind when he was promoting his own game
that’d be okay
we should honestly get a drinking game
going for this press conference every
time something stupid happens take a
swig of your drink actually forget it
that’s probably kind of dangerous number
five censoring YouTube personalities
I’ll be shameful if Konami understood
shining gaming is a very social medium
with many players around the world and
joins the ability to freely express
their enjoyment and concerns with the
industry as a whole
Konami doesn’t share these feelings
whenever anybody talks smack about one
of their games or the company in general
Konami immediately jumps into action and
shuts them down completely censoring
their freedom of speech two very
prominent examples of this happening
were when gaming journalist Jim sterling
and YouTube personality super bunny hop
were both plans for criticizing the
company for their many missteps over the
years wait a minute
we’re a YouTube channel is this gonna
happen to us not funny
number four cancelling Silent Hill
one of the biggest slaps in the base in
recent memory this was a blunder of
massive proportions silent hill’s looks
like an excellent return to for birth
series that let’s be frank konami was
doing nothing with it also had
impressive talent coming together to
bring it to life including norman reedus
guillermo del toro and industry legend
hideo kojima due to conflict with Kojima
concerning the project the company
scrapped everything causing this spooky
gaming franchise to become silent once
more salt in the wound Konami removed PT
from the PS Store permanently which was
the only thing that fame still had as a
taste of what could have been yeah cue
to number three unethical working
conditions what’s worse than treating
the entire gaming public outside of
their company like crap
well treating everyone who works inside
of their company like crap the there
have been numerous stories making the
rounds over the years of the near
torturous experience that it is to work
at Konami it reportedly feels kind of
like a dictatorship with unfair
regulations and cruel harassment from
the higher-ups of the company the
harshness and strict policy within
Konami is so bad that after koji
Igarashi latest castlevania for the
Nintendo DS failed
sales wise he was forced down from the
position of game producer to a desk job
as punishment because that company has a
way of bullying their employees not to
give out too much information to say the
least
number two letting go of Hideo Kojima
remember all that drama we mentioned
about Kojima and Konami concerning
silent hill’s well it really doesn’t
stop there during much of the production
of Metal Gear Solid 5 Konami made things
extremely difficult for Kojima
constantly butting heads with his
creative vision for the game despite his
best efforts to ensure the game’s
quality a large portion of its content
had to be cut causing he able to be
understandably frustrated
what really blew Kojima fuse and
eventually led to him leaving the
company altogether was when Konami made
the petty move of denying him access to
the 2015 game awards show Kojima is an
amazing talent in the field and it was a
big mistake to push him away analysis
complete
if you think that things can’t get any
worse we’ll reveal our biggest konami
fail after a few honorable mentions
[Music]
[Music]
number one turning their franchises into
pachinko machines let’s recount the
plethora of big gaming franchises that
Konami has amassed over its many years
in the industry they have the rights to
em Silent Hill Castlevania contra and
Metal Gear so instead of releasing
proper full-fledged experiences of those
stories what have they decided to do
take the likeness of said franchises and
slap them on to pachinko machines to
make a quick profit off the gambling
scene Wow not only is this disrespectful
to their products and exposes them for
being kind of friggin greedy it shows a
level of complete ignorance towards what
their fans actually want and gamers
think EA and Ubisoft are bad
come on Assassin’s Creed unity pre-order
now for the explosive chemical
revolution mission do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
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