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Nintentacle on 19 March 2014
Asdrendeluxe said:
Nintentacle said:
That's surprising. At least it isn't as bad as TW101.


Eh i must say no. Wonderful 101 has not the biggest orchester of all time. it was a realy small budget game. But this game was a AAA Game. 

I was saying sales-wise. It's doing better.



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Asdrendeluxe on 19 March 2014
Nintentacle said:
Asdrendeluxe said:
Nintentacle said:
That's surprising. At least it isn't as bad as TW101.


Eh i must say no. Wonderful 101 has not the biggest orchester of all time. it was a realy small budget game. But this game was a AAA Game. 

I was saying sales-wise. It's doing better.


Of course it sales better by a 160 million installbase. But to compare the 2 you must say how much it has cost to develope the game. That is why i say it is a complete fail.



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Mr Puggsly on 20 March 2014

Having actually played and completed Castlevania: LoS 2... I feel the mediocre gameplay and disappointing story is hurting potential sales.



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oniyide on 20 March 2014
Asdrendeluxe said:
gergroy said:
melbye said:
For the first time i really want a publisher dead without it being a joke. Konami has nothing to add to gaming anymore


if konami dying means somebody else ends up with the Suikoden IP who will actually make new suikoden games... then I would be on board for that.  


I believe Kojima is one of the problem.

problem? he seems to be the only guy over there that knows what the hell he is doing



oniyide on 20 March 2014
JustThatGamer said:
Well it's the developers fault, the first game was a critical & commercial success but the comparisons to God of War offended them. So they decided to make it more Zelda this time.... Look at the results, a mediocre mess of a game that's selling like shit on a stick.

I thought C:LoS was a really great game (go buy it!) and the potential for the sequel was through the roof, was so excited for C:LoS2 but was left severely disappointed.

How's the genre going to stay alive until God of War 4 arrives when C:LoS2 flopped, Ninja Gaiden & DmC are tiny franchises now that are on the edge of death and Bayonetta 2 is going to flop.


If anything that will work in GOW favor as it will be one of the few games in the genre that people will want to play. Hell it might be one of the few games in the genre period



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ClaudeLv250 on 20 March 2014
Nintentacle said:
Asdrendeluxe said:
Nintentacle said:
That's surprising. At least it isn't as bad as TW101.


Eh i must say no. Wonderful 101 has not the biggest orchester of all time. it was a realy small budget game. But this game was a AAA Game. 

I was saying sales-wise. It's doing better.


That's not an accomplishment.



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kupomogli on 20 March 2014

This is towards the few people in this thread who state how they read reviews about how bad the game was and they're glad it's failing, etc, etc(and others not on this forum.)  Not towards everyone else.  With how many posts I see talking about how poor of a game Lords of Shadow 2 is, I kind of wonder why it didn't sell more. Oh, that's right. Just some sheep parroting a Metacritic score. Of course.  Although, it's got to be some huge coincidence that all PS3, 360, and PC versions of Lords of Shadow 2 have a higher user score than the original games user scores and there are only 110 less ratings. 847 ratings on Lords of Shadow 2 compared to 957 on the original.  User scores with an average over two points higher than the critics average.

It's a shame that critics slam a good games score destroying any possibility of sales, yet they have no problem throwing large amounts of praise at a garbage game for no reason other than it's well known to be a good franchise. Then at the end of the year, list the game as number one on their top 10 disappointments of 2010.



Walter_Kovacs1986 on 20 March 2014

The only Konami IP I ever cared about was Silent Hill



Asdrendeluxe on 20 March 2014
oniyide said:
Asdrendeluxe said:
gergroy said:
melbye said:
For the first time i really want a publisher dead without it being a joke. Konami has nothing to add to gaming anymore


if konami dying means somebody else ends up with the Suikoden IP who will actually make new suikoden games... then I would be on board for that.  


I believe Kojima is one of the problem.

problem? he seems to be the only guy over there that knows what the hell he is doing


Believe you this? 

He is the Vicepresident of Konami and he is  responsible for a lot of bad decision by Konami.

I say not he is a bad Gamedeveloper god no. But in Managment he is terrible. Hell the entire Konami games SUCKS.



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PullusPardus on 20 March 2014

the game is mediocre, its a shame because it had good potential to be good.
it doesn't matter now since the creator of Symphony of the night left Konami and making a spiritual successor