If you tuned into last night’s The Game Awards, you got treated to a strange and visually dynamic trailer for Hideo Kojima’s upcoming PC and PlayStation 4 game, Death Stranding. Prior to this reveal, host Geoff Keighley adamantly praised Kojima, and even made a blunt jab at Konami’s treatment of the developer.
A former Hideo Kojima collaborator, Guillermo del Toro, also voiced his dislike of Konami last night, via a pretty flattering Tweet:
“FUCK KONAMI,” del Toro wrote on Twitter. He followed up by clarifying his remark, saying “Konami cancelling SH after PT is one of the most moronic things I’ve ever witnessed.”
If you haven’t been following the epic fallout with Konami, Kojima, and del Toro, you could say the company quietly cancelling the two creator’s Silent Hills project was the final straw that broke the camel’s back. A few months later, Kojima officially left Konami and reformed a new Kojima Productions studio.
The new Death Stranding trailer revealed last night saw Guillermo del Toro as an entirely new character – leading to many speculating how truly involved he is with the game.
Death Stranding is currently in development for PC and PlayStation 4.
Kiryu
December 2, 2016 at 10:36 amMost gamers agree.
Sckarton
December 2, 2016 at 10:37 amAnd fuck kojima too.
Brownninja97 .
December 2, 2016 at 10:41 amno
Master Bating
December 2, 2016 at 10:42 amBased
sanic
December 2, 2016 at 10:43 amWow rude.
Master Bating
December 2, 2016 at 10:43 amhttps://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c2af694ac12000b07ce12f4254a22d40e4e1c3734f3d84494f5b49cda33faa78.jpg
Did you rike it?
goodbyejojo
December 2, 2016 at 10:50 amamen
Loli de 42 Anos - the Return
December 2, 2016 at 10:55 amin other news: water is still wet and pigs are still unable to fly.
Dr. Roswell. W
December 2, 2016 at 11:03 amHe’s only stating what everyone been stating for a year or two or if you are a zone of the enders fan, ten years.
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Dr. Roswell. W
December 2, 2016 at 11:10 amI’ll keep coming.
dogmentation
December 2, 2016 at 11:48 amIndeed, fuck Konami.
Konami has done nothing but run their properties into the ground and foment ill will among their fanbase for years. Which is why we have Igarashi making not-Castlevania outside their control, and Kojima making not-Silent Hill outside their control. They should just give up the pretense of making video games altogether and concentrate on pachi*, which is where their bread is buttered anyway.
bomblord
December 2, 2016 at 12:42 pmI just realized this is the guy we seen in the Death Stranding Trailer holding the baby
Wonderkarp
December 2, 2016 at 1:00 pmI would. I bet he’s a passionate lover
larverto365
December 2, 2016 at 1:01 pmMore like FucKonami
No_Good_Names_Ever
December 2, 2016 at 1:45 pmFuck Konami AND Kojima.
Dewey Defeats Truman
December 2, 2016 at 1:47 pmI’ll never understand Konami’s “scorched earth” policy they had last year. But yeah, fuck em. They’re dead to me.
No_Good_Names_Ever
December 2, 2016 at 1:49 pmOnly person they had left was Kojima and they didn’t want to support something that might end up becoming a ghost without him.
Stilzkin
December 2, 2016 at 2:10 pmTop lad
GameZard
December 2, 2016 at 3:40 pmFuck AAA gaming companies in general.
Mr0303
December 2, 2016 at 3:45 pmAt this point it’s like saying fuck Hitler, but good on him for recognising industry stupidity.
NukeA6
December 2, 2016 at 3:46 pmThis is beating a dead horse at this point but who cares? Fuck Konami.
Nerris
December 2, 2016 at 4:14 pmClose to 10 years of Konami hate here as a Bemani fan.
Slizzl
December 2, 2016 at 4:26 pmSo brave
Uncle Ocelot
December 2, 2016 at 5:18 pmDeath Stranding is looking more like a combination of not-Metal Gear, not-Silent Hill with an extra helping of “what the fuck is even going on?” (like a combination of MG and SH needed anymore) after that last trailer.
bigbear514
December 2, 2016 at 6:01 pmIs this really news? A tweet from GDT saying “Fuck Konomi”. Or is this just so we can keep our circle-jerking some more.
Zhnigo
December 2, 2016 at 8:28 pmIt still hurts.
Niche's Commenting Regulars
December 2, 2016 at 8:43 pmHayakawa thought that it was worth burning the fanbase since the whole unsatiatable critics and fans were become a pain in the ass and they decided to go “Bye Bitches”
Vernify
December 2, 2016 at 10:01 pmI’m in the Z.O.E club. And the hate is still flowing ever so strongly within me. I really wish they would just sell the IP to someone else so we can at least get a new entry in the series.
Alex (ง˘ω˘)ว
December 2, 2016 at 11:26 pmNICE
Maria Maasaa
December 2, 2016 at 11:38 pmOr you’re Jim Sterling
Dawn Blast
December 3, 2016 at 12:16 amTry being a Suikoden Fan…
Guin
December 3, 2016 at 1:17 amWorse, try being a Tokimemo fan.
Ubrokemygrill?
December 3, 2016 at 2:23 amFuck the whole industry. Salt it and wait decades for it to be renewable.
Vcom7418
December 3, 2016 at 2:23 amGamers agree with a movie director bashing a video game company.
Only in 2016, people, only in 2016 do you see this kind of thing happening and make sense.
hachifusa
December 3, 2016 at 4:13 ami want Suikoden 6 so bad.
UUDDLRLR BASTART
December 3, 2016 at 5:02 amMeh, hack filmmaker.
catazxy
December 3, 2016 at 1:20 pmat least now Konami can’t say its just a minority of fans who gives them shit