You might not know this but... Hideo Kojima made The Phantom Pain

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

Nuvendil said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Reactionary hate to the Kojima hype, when this is Kojima's Modus Operandi. Especially when Konami tried to discredit him. How anyone could blame Kojima over Konami is appalling. I typically never scapegoat, but nearly everything wrong with the game was Konami, except for the usual Kojima fare.

Or people are calling Kojima out for being an ass.  Because just cause Konami's an ass doesn't mean Kojima wasn't being an ass as well.  People can 100% fairly call them out for their own assery.

 

And let's not go romanticizing Kojima, like this is a battle between a righteous martyr and an evil corporation.  I don't like Konami at all, but I'm not going to give Kojima a free ride on some flaws in the game.  Especially those tied to things like characterization as Kojima's hardly the world's greatest writer.  

I'm not giving Kojima a free ride, but I think its pretty obvious what is and isn't his fault, simply compare MSGV to his previous work.

If you hated the gameplay, the story, the characters, yeah thats obviously Kojima.

If you hated the drastic drop in quality and originality between chapter 1 and 2, the missing or unfinished parts, maybe that had something to do with the publisher? 

And regardless of what happeened between Kojima and Konami, Konami's overt actions regarding MGSV were pretty heinous.

I mean since when was it developers and not publishers who rush out unfinished games to make as much money as possible. Especially, not a developer was going to be axed soon, P.T gave a clear heads up, its not like he would get much of that money if any at all.