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Konami Ruins Christmas

Posted on Wednesday, August 10 @ 14:31:07 Eastern by Heath_Hindman


Remember that Christmas you finally got home from two years of living abroad and went to a big party, then seconds after cracking a joke at uncle Greg's expense you loudly inquired, "Where is the ol' G-man, anyway!"? And everyone got really quiet and awkward, because your aunt Julia divorced Greg a year ago and no one told you? Yeah that was weird.

Now Konami is the one makin' it weird. In an interview with 4Gamer, Konami rants and raves about its upcoming PSP RPG Frontier Gate. "Wowee wow", the guys say in so many words. "Whoopee"! Then the topic moves to that is actually far more important to, you know, like basically all JRPG fans: what of Suikoden? With Final Fantasy apparently down for the count, something like a new Suikoden could be just what the JRPG doctor ordered. But that's when Konami revealed that the Suikoden team hasn't even been working together for years. That band was broken up years ago.

Suikoden Tierkreis, handheld Suikoden spinoff, hit the NIntendo DS to so-so reception in 2008, but the last time a numbered entry was released in the series was some five years ago with Suikoden V on PS2. From the sounds of this overdue revelation, fans need to look elsewhere to get their turn-based RPG fixes. A new game coming about would require either assembling an all new team, or pulling the old guard back together. The latter would of course require all other projects which now have former Suikodenites on board to be finished up. Either way, it looks like Suikoden fans are up the creek without a potion on this one.

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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
    Fuck Konami.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
    How succinct of you. I agree though, why do publishers abandon some of their most beloved franchises in favor of... well... ****.
  • Rinnon
    Rinnon

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
    Well, nothing else really summed up my feelings quite as accurately and efficiently as those two words.
  • MrrClean
    MrrClean

    Joined: Aug 2010
    Posted: Aug 11th, 2011 at 7:21 am
    For the same reason the Metallica shouldnt have made the "Death Magnetic" album... just cause you were awesome at first doesn't mean your awesome for always. Sometimes its just better to quit while you're on top, rather than keep pushing out progressively worse **** (Final Fantasy anyone?)
  • Rinnon
    Rinnon

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 11th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
    You have a point MrrClean, but now we'll never know. I mean, yeah they weren't still as good as 1 and 2, but they weren't to the point that I was ready to cast off the series. I liked III and V. So, 1 in 5 games not being great is pretty good odds to me. Sure, they might have just spiraled down hill, but if they had continued being the level of quality they were at with V I would have been satisfied.
  • EpicPeon
    EpicPeon

    Joined: Apr 2009
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
    I try to search for Suikoden VI info each year at some point, thanks for killing my dreams Konami. At least put Suikoden II on PSN.
  • TheMindlessType
    TheMindlessType

    Joined: Sep 2009
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
    Okay, I'm confused. Does literally *everyone* put stars in their posts instead of curse words or was Rinnon's rage against Konami so great that it lept through the lines of the internet, into game revolution's web server and momentarily break the censorship system so that one lone "Fuck" got through so the world would know how big a travesty this is?
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
    Something about capitalizing the first letter.... I'm thinking the comment filters are either going to get revamped or wiped.
  • TheMindlessType
    TheMindlessType

    Joined: Sep 2009
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
    ...nope, mine got through. I guess everyone just loves them damned stars. Still, I like to believe the rage thing.
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
    I don't use no Fucking stars.
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
    I don't use no Fucking stars.
  • Tyrranis
    Tyrranis

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 11th, 2011 at 1:02 am
    Urge to boycott, rising...
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Aug 11th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
    I just thought it seemed more polite to not post the actual curse words but leave enough so youd understand what the word is Im using. So, yeah, I guess, **** that **** then.

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