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Xxain on 20 August 2015
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fatslob-:O said:
Xxain said:

Huh? That was a terrible comparison. Sakaguchi has not been attached to Final Fantasy for ages and it still continues to be successful. That is the complete opposite to the Silent Hills series which has gone downhill since 3? That is why Kojima's name being attached to project gained it so much hype. Its Kojima, he cant fail. It IS about the person. How many times has Kojima tried to leave MGS in the hands of younger staff to be brought back due to his" TEAM's" lack of confidence. It happened with BOTH Peace Walker and Rising. Unlike FF that has continued to see successful under different directors. MGS or Silent has not. So not directing SH was more than likely a main reason for cancellation. Then Money, huge budget to Kojima? Fine, hes proven. Huge budget to new unproven director tasked with finishing someone elses project barely off ground? No way.

 
You can be disappointed in KONAMI, thats fine. Marking this survey up, issued by Video games sector, to just gambling product (nothing to do with this sector) or mobile destined when survey says otherwise is willingful ignorance. 

He was attached up to Final Fantasy XII but that's not the point. My point was one lone person does not make all the difference ...

Hype on the internet doesn't translate to the real world so Kojima's name been attached to a project doesn't mean much in the end ...

It really isn't about one person. Kojima ALONE did not make the series. There are MANY contributors to the franchise and you need to acknowledge that. If Kojima were truly that valuable then Konami would see it your way but the fact that they are aggressively dissociating from him speaks volumes ... 

The survey won't mean much to them compared to consumer response and if MGSV bombs then this survey will have ended up as a useless excercise for them ... 

BTW Silent Hill has been going downwards since the first one according Vgchartz but even then Silent Hill Downpour was able to muster up a total of 750K according to this site ... 

The last Final Fantasy Sakaguchi "truly" worked on was FF9. He was one of the writers. He took on more a business role after and Kitase filled in his spot.

They do see it my way, which is why they haven't washed theirs hands of him fully and wont untill the game is gold. They could have flat out released him on the spot but they prolonged it untill after MGS V is finised :) The dissociation is out of spite over fallout not failure to see value. They gave Kojima his own studio, his own tagline, his own engine. You dont do that for a average joe . Im not talking the series, but Silent Hills. Kojima's name being attached to the project was important. It was the selling point. It was reassurance.

  Im not talking about sales but reception from community