Konami, known for its popular console
franchises like Metal Gear and Silent Hill, now earns more than four times as much on mobile than it does on console with titles such as Yu - Gi - Oh!
Magnus Games is thrilled to announce its collaboration with legendary composers Shota Nakama, founder of the Video Game Orchestra and best known for his work on Final Fantasy XV, Falk Au Yeong, a veteran whose portfolio includes audio work on film and anime as well as video games, and Yoshitaka Suzuki, who has contributed to several epic
franchises like Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy.
Magnus Games is thrilled to announce its collaboration with legendary composers Shota Nakama, founder of the Video Game Orchestra and best known for his work on Final Fantasy XV, Falk Au Yeong, a veteran whose portfolio includes audio work on film and anime as well as video games, and Yoshitaka Suzuki, who has contributed to several epic
franchises like Metal Gear Solid and Final...
Not exact matches
While future
Metal Gear titles would improve on or refine Subsistence's intricate collection of systems, no other game in the
franchise has combined design brilliance with raw human emotion
like MGS 3.
These quotes right here can tell us that
Metal Gear Survive will be nothing
like the popular
Metal Gear Solid
franchise.
Core
franchises like Silent Hill, Castlevania and
Metal Gear Solid were turned into Pachinko machines.
Like many of SNK's
franchises, the
Metal Slug series has, over the years, accrued a zealously loyal fan base.
It's worked well for Sony with many of their core
franchises like Sly Cooper, God of War, and
Metal Gear Solid.
Ideally I would
like to step out from the
Metal Gear
franchise as a producer and dedicate myself to other games.
A bonus mission in
Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes feels
like a prediction that Konami would erase series creator Hideo Kojima from the
franchise he created long before that speculation became...
Their position as a respected publisher of amazing
franchises like Castlevania,
Metal Gear and Silent Hill was ruined.
The prevailing feedback about the Beta seems to be split into two camps: people who
like the gameplay but don't believe the game should be associated with the
Metal Gear
franchise, and people who downright hate it (who may have never played the game or given it a chance).
The revised website has been updated with a background hosting some images of a few rather familiar video game
franchises, with the
likes of Mass Effect, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet,
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, God of War, and Uncharted peeking out from the background.
And, just in case we find ourselves in a similar position next week, it's worth remembering that Sony USA boss man Kaz Hirai said it would be fascinating to see how the
likes of GTA,
Metal Gear and Gran Turismo,
franchises reborn on the PlayStation 2, evolved on the PS3, while Square Enix said Final Fantasy would be coming to PS3 and president Yoichi Wada said the company was not remaking Final Fantasy VII, despite showing a tech demo.
Hideo Kojima, the man responsible for the hugely successful
Metal Gear games, has stated that he would
like to step away from the
franchise and focus on other projects but so far he hasn't found...
Kojima's history with Konami and the
Metal Gear
franchise is storied and his removal from the company is strange but I'd
like to pause for a moment as we Read more about Is It Possible Hideo Kojima is Just Fucking With Us?
Whether the ambition is increased
like the move
Metal Gear made from linear to open - world, or dialed back
like Lara Croft and Agent 47's mobile escapades, I love to see fresh takes on established
franchises and characters.
The cover system is generally utilized in shooter games
like the Mass Effect, Uncharted, and
Metal Gear Solid
franchises to help players avoid gunfire.
The
Metal Gear Solid
franchise set the standard for what a cinematic video game could be
like.
I know he's been doing some other projects since he was left out of the
Metal Gear
franchise, but Bloodstained really feels
like the game kind of project for him.
We'd all
like to offer our love and respect to the team at id software for bringing this
franchise back in such a
metal way.
Whether someone is a fan of squad shooters
like Gears of War, stealth / action titles
like Metal Gear, or games in the Ghost Recon
franchise itself, they'll likely find something to
like about Ghost Recon Future Soldier that'll keep them coming back for more.
At the same time we realize there's a whole set of big
franchises that we never had on our platform, things
like Final Fantasy;
Metal Gear was a great example of that.
Those wondering what the
Metal Gear
franchise looks
like without creator Hideo Kojima at the helm can get their first glimpse today at
Metal Gear Survive.
Video games have been silently entering the realm of board games for more than a decade: With the
likes of Pokemon Monopoly, Risk:
Metal Gear Solid Edition and the future Mega Man board game, the board game universe can add another video game
franchise into the expanding roster, with Risk: Plants VS Zombies Collector's Edition.
He also indicates that key
franchises,
like Metal Gear Solid, may also be pushed into the mobile space.
The list of new titles hitting the market these days reads
like a who's who of major video game
franchises, with sequels to Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mortal Kombat,
Metal Gear Solid and Metroid Prime all arriving within days or weeks of one another.
Some
franchises see this happen,
like Metal Gear and Final Fantasy, but those are larger - than - life names — definitely the exception and not the rule.
I
like how Konami's response is essentially, «If you want the full story go and buy the entire series» when Mission 51 just provided closure to characters and, if you watch it, essentially explains the plot of the
Metal Gear Solid
franchise.
I have long viewed myself as some kind of champion of video games as a medium, apotheosizing the artistic merits of beloved and formative games
like Metal Gear Solid or Earthbound, but my utter disinterest in completing BioShock — or even attempting to play the other games in the
franchise — has revealed the harsh truth.
And as soon as Sony and friends start trotting out the big guns
like Gran Turismo HD (let's not forget the system will play home to
Metal Gear Solid 4, Resident Evil 5, Tekken 6 and other record - breaking
franchises), the number one console manufacturer may start creaming the competition just on depth and quality of selection alone.
Both programs have given away everything from new indie games to older blockbusters from
franchises like Assassin's Creed and
Metal Gear Solid.