Jimquisition: Konami
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- There's something very messed up going down at Konami. Nobody knows for sure what it is, but the results are there for all to see. You might not have realized quite how bad Konami's behavior has been over the past year, but when you see the evidence in one spot, it paints a damning picture.
Konami's an absolute mess, and somebody needs to tell them before they drive their entire business into the ground.
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ABOUT JIMQUISITION
A show in which a fat British man who wears sunglasses indoors rants angrily about the injustices of mankind, interspersed with MS Paint doodles of videogame characters doing terrible things.
"I don't think you guys realise, but there's something seriously wrong with Konami"
Ahhhh, the early days................
Gredddfe And the fucktards didn't even bother fixing themselves.
Jim! I come from 3 years in the future to tell you that YOU WERE RIGHT! OH GOD YOU WERE RIGHT JIM WHY COULDN'T WE HAVE LISTENED TO YOU!?
「S」
Don't worry, Jim forgives you.
It is worse 3 months later Jim, they made all their games into pachinko and slot machines. Looking back, I can't believe how innocent and naive we all really were. Oh God, and now they are asking for player input.
「S」 i hope Konami loses Yu-gi-oh IP.
「S」 i hope Konami loses Yu-gi-oh IP.
+MercenaryX21 There was once a time when I used to respect Konami. Don't get me wrong. I think a lot of the employees are both legends and troopers for staying in that shithole for so long. The higher ups however are DISGUSTING. I can't even say it anymore. Fuck Konami.
You called it 3 fucking years ago, Jim.
Nick Bailey Thank God for Jim Fucking Sterling!
James Gabriel Ronquillo It's Jim Fucking Sterling Son.
It's the holy prophet Jim fucking sterling son.
Hey, there's a God-given comma in there in the shape of a shrimp! We thank God for Jim Fucking Sterling, son!
~~ And he did say #fuckonami, and so said we all #fuckonomi in grateful response, and so shall it be, and so it was, though we betimes wept at the fate of the fallen. ~~
appropriate display picture.
Meanwhile Kojima is basically carrying an entire company.
not anymore it looks like
oooooo
the beginning of a legendary meme... #FucKonami
+slendy9600 After getting P.T Silent Hills canceled, replacing it with a fucking _pachinko_ machine and fucking with Kojima, they deserve all the hate they get.
And the worst part is unlike other companies like say, Capcom, Konami is fully aware of their actions and their consequences. But they do them anyway because they don't care.
Put Konami in the toilet and then HIT THE LEVER!!
2 and a half years later Komani is still fucking up everything. Jim was right and they blacklisted him.
3 years later, still relevant
***** More than ever, I'd say.
***** Well, ya know, konami is konami.
SIX years later, STILL relevant.
@@Mernom 2019 and this video is still golden.
Man when you are right, you are RIGHT.
"A day one patch for a game a decade old"...lmao!
At least those games didn't take out parts of the game that were popular. Why the fuck would they take out the fog?!?!?
***** What do you mean by taking out the multiplayer, I could have sworn I saw people playing it online? I forgot about the resident evil dialogue change though, that did suck. I guess The Silent Hill Collection was just a precursor to all the shitty hd remakes
***** No MCC's single player did not work. During one of the many updates, all my progress got restarted to the beginning and I couldn't select any of the fucking missions I was on. I was halfway through Halo CE and Halo 2 on legendary and had started on Halo 3.
So not only was the miltiplayer a clusterfuck of epic proportions but eh single player was constructed, by what I would assume, was a bunch of no talent ass-clowns. I want to be excited for Halo 5 but I'm about ready to shove my boot up 343's ass.
***** Did REmake HD mess with the voice-acting?
***** There is, I have it for GameCube.
And besides, the original REmake didn't even have the originals.
Essentially, this is how the games script was supposed to go down if not for bad actors and a bad translation. Then again, some people like the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z.
R.I.P. KONAMI -1969 - 2000 .
*R.I.P. KONAMI -1969 - 2010
Fixed
dmfreak Maybe if Konami was an undead zombie who got shot in the head ten years later.
You'd have thought this video was released last year. Not 4 years ago. WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED!!!!
Jim, I want to give you a phone.
Because you fucking called it.
Thank God for you.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A
"Cheat Enabled - All is Lost"
I think the konami building has become a mini silent hill, and all the devs have gone mad
konami and capcom are battling to see who can lose more fans
SCURGE Konami kinda doesn't have many franchises these days does it?
SCURGE Konami will probably win. Capcom somehow makes enjoyable games even when trying their hardest to make them bad.
Lifeless9619 I'm afraid you were proven wrong. Konami shrunk into nothingness recently thanks to its moronic CEO.
Makron5 Thats what the comment was about. Scurge mentioned Konami and Capcom "Battling to see who can lose more fans" and i said that konami will win that contest.
Capcom listens to their fans now, Konami on the other hand....
Yeah he loves a lot of devs but he says the best way to show you love something is to point out the flaws and that's why he's always so critical. If you watch some of the pannels at the escapist expo he explains it in one of them when he was asked that exact question.
Its now 2015, and Konami is officially crashing and burning, they just removed their stock listings from the New York stock exchange.
That is not a good sign.
DecoyBlackMage Good. The sooner they crash and burn, the sooner Silent Hill can be handed off to a publisher that actually knows what the fuck they're doing!
bboythekidstudios From software would be interesting, they know how to do horror.
YES!
Konami's 2010 e3 presser made me legitimately sad. Some of those guys on stage were clearly trying really hard but people made fun of them instead of making fun of the company itself.
you cannot recover from "here's a giant enemy crab"
Oh, a silent hill fuckup?
Well, say hello to a fucking Pachinko machine!
*#FucKonami*
Rest in peace, Silent Hill.
Somebody pick up that phone, been ringing for three fucking years.
Someone has been playing too much Hotline Miami.
"[Konami]'s goodwill with fans is at an all-time low"...
...Oh Lord, Jim, how wrong you were in thinking that THAT was the all-time low, back in late 2012.
Jim, that was just the canary in the mine, and the miners didn't give two shits.
I don't know what's funnier:
The relevance of this video or the retention rate on this video.
Konami isn't evil like EA or Activision, they are just stupid
Oh, my sweet summer child...
*stupidly evil
At least they didn't fire kojima yet...
Oh wait
2012: "how can a company have such little respect for one of its biggest franchises"
*metal gear solid sweats nervously*
Oh Jim. Oh Konami. Oh Jim. Oh Konami. Back when this video was made, things hadn't even STARTED yet.
So who else came here after watching So Let's Talk About Mods Being Sold On Steam (The Jimquisition)?
I still can't figure out why Konami banned him for this. Besides them being touched in the head, of course.
I can't wait for his video over Konami's most recent debacle.
It's funny how blind I was to this back in 2012. Even as someone who, at the time, never really looked into press releases or E3 and all that PR politics, it's funny how I was still blind to this. I knew Silent Hill HD collection was a shitshow, me and my mum had to search around for Metal Gear Solid HD collection and the only reason I knew Konami had published No More Heroes; Heroes' Paradise was because of an off-hand tangent during a let's play (Although I suppose it wasn't a problem exclusive to Konami on that one).
Yet I wondered why people were talking ill of Konami. I thought they were doing alright, with Silent Hill getting 2 decent major releases back-to-back, Castlevania getting a leg up thanks to Harmony of Despair and Lords of Shadows and I was satisfied with the MGS collection and Heroes' Paradise. I guess you could call me dense or naive, but it's fun to look back and laugh at such innocent times.
so wounder how many more views is this getting cause of the new post he said that this got him black listed from Konami
Boomken76 I'm definitely one of them now, haha.
If this video was remade today it would be at least an hour long.
Hideo Kojima and Yu-Gi-Oh are the only things keeping Konami afloat.
Shinbu1128 And then there was one...
Shinbu1128 Don't forget their apparent love of gambling machines at large!
why does Jim have footage of an Asian Adam Sandler?
Here it is... the beginning of the end of an once beloved and respected big name developer/publisher.
Konami only survives thanks to Metal Gear... that's a fact.
*****
Not really a property but... God eater 2 was pretty successful, and actually good. It had a lot of reused assets but combat was significanlty improved. Japan only for now though...
what about Yu Gi Oh?
They still have other games, and teir Pachinko's. Computer Games is quite literaly no longer their priority.
Um...Konami showed how fucking off their rockers they are ever since giving the Silent Hill IP to developers that have no idea how to make a horror game. Which is every single developer that has worked on a Silent Hill game outside of Team Silent.
I'm actually kinda happy now that Kojima and Konami are separate entities now. Perhaps now we will see something interesting from the only creative force that company once had.
Ugh, Konami... I know it's not a mayor or even important series of games, but finding out that they cut out a *ton* of the content from the western release of Yu-Gi-Oh!: World Duel Carnival for the 3DS made me really pissed. You don't take away half of the content from a game and then proceed to charge *full fucking price*.
you do if your Konami.
also ground zeros
***** Ah yes, the full price of a game on a game demo, joy to the world......
Because Konami is Konami, and Konami is the worst...
And this was the video that got Jim Sterling blacklisted by Konami? No wonder he rips on Konami any chance he gets.
This seems relevant again. The rumor I heard was after the tiff between Kojima and the CEO got to a head, Konami decided to go at it's digital entertainment division with a hatchet and pursue gambling machines.
With Konami removing itself from the NYSE, this is more proof that the one and only Jim Fucking Sterling, Son is the prophet we all deserve to praise...
This seems very common in all the companies I used to love as a kid.
ntall123 Isn't it though? It's sad watching your childhood beloved companies basically burst into flames or become greedy corps and money grubbing bastards. I kind of just want all the games I used to love to stop being made or re-released and die in peace.
No one talking about Konami shooting themselves in the foot by removing Hideo Kojima from Konami after Metal Gear Solid V - Phantom Pain is released because of apparent 'power struggles'?
Watching this in 2016 after the whole debacle last year. Jim Sterling is a prophet! He foretold of the shitstorm between Kojima and Konami. Thank you, Mr. Sterling. #FucKonami
"Thank Big Boss for me." :)
Another great video.... need to go to bed but I cant stop watching these damn videos ha ha
Dustin Barlow Snap ! ;-D
Now Konami's name is reportedly off of MGS5. Jim is clearly from the future.
1:20 - 1:34 Oh, God! That was painful to hear.
Or painful to not hear.
Lords of Shadow was like a knife in the heart to me. They took one of the most iconic sidescrollers ever made, and turned it into a God of War clone with aspects of Uncharted..... Now that I think about it, that was the point Konami started going down hill.
Best of luck to Kojima on his future, hopefully him and Del toro can team up again in the near future. Also Hopefully Silent Hill finds a good home once the ashes of the company has cooled.
My God... It only gets worse Jim from 2012
kinda sad Jim didn't mention Suikoden, but i think what hes said was basically what we are all thinking, but more focused.
Me and Jim don't have much in common other then games, but damn does he know what hes talking about game wise.
The surprising bit is that that madness month could have worked if they had a narrative that crisis crossed all three games, made them a third the regular length, ensured that it wouldn't be going up against any other blockbusters, and adjusted the price accordingly so that it would equal a single purchase rather than three, then just maybe
+bane dragon That would've been kind of pointless though... Green day releasing three albums in a short time didn't rescue their career either.
And it was only downhill from here...
how does the old saying go? the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Oh snap!
Jim Sterling is from the Escapist?!
No, the Jimquisition started at Destructoid, before getting to The Escapist before going solo
@@Bedinsis
Oh. A long history.
kojima is leaving, RIP konami...
When the devs say "Oh just get Silent Hill 2 and 3 on the PS2" my response is "You can't play those on a PS3, so many people who are not adult gamers (and even recently adult gamers) wont ever be able to get the non-s**t versions and will be turned off the franchise forever, wondering what teh big deal is when fans say it used to be awesome, because they'll think it ALWAYS was this bad.
Out of curiosity: I checked the video's stats. There's a noticeable peak somewhere in the middle between the release date and today (ca. end of 2013/beginning of 2014) What happened back then?
What would had Jim said on this one if he had seen the pachinkonization of Silent Hill?
and today Konami has only got worse
PES 2014 release shows this still holds true.
Hmm...now we're in 2016. I didn't know about this vid (found Jim recently...very ashamed to admit it). Jim seemed to have prophetic powers in many of his videos. This must be the beginning of the fabled #FucKonami legend. :D
"It's goodwill with fans is at an all time low." That was in 2012, and it's just getting lower and lower in 2015. And even more screwed Metal Gear (moving forward after the Phantom Pain) and Silent Hill(s). There's no hope left, except for them outwardly giving up entirely and selling their IP's.
Never forget Konami E3 2010.
Don't fuck Konami. RETAKE KONAMI! WE CAN MAKE THEM GREAT AGAIN!
I've been thinking of putting together a kickstarter to buy stock in the company.
Alex Shannon Not a bad plan. And then people need to use that stock to buy more until somebody with an actual BRAIN owns a majority share. Then things might start to get better.
+Sam Geuvenen They wouldn't listen to us anyway. They hadn't listened to Kojima, so why would they listen to us?
Chris Pham If they were to gain, say, a few shareholders with actual integrity, they'd have no choice but to listen.
It should be the other way around. Other people should just buy out Konami. The whole company's shit. Their work ethics is shit. The higher echelon's treatment towards staff, their fans is shit. Everything about them is shit.
yea they do sound like real people to me, also when the new voice actors like troy baker talk in the HD collection he sounds phantom of the opera or sometimes it sounds like he's about to cry when he talks in certain cutscenes. the team silent guy pick the original voice actor for a reason, and remember they pick them over 50 other actors who were auditioning. not just for their voices put faces as well. watch the twin perfect HD collection and you will know what im talking about.
Dammit jim, you prophet.
What new prophecy are u gonna foretold next?
And this would be the first of many, MANY axe-hackings at Konami.
0:54 And there was the first time he said those magical words.
3 years later konami is clinging on to life by the skin of their teeth...
does anyone get the song I'm referencing
Looks like what Jim Sterling said is becoming a reality now. Konami reveals net decrease in financial results.
1:19 Holy shit, it's Bill and Ted's Asian equivalents!
And things got even worse... #FucKonami
Here in 2020 after watching the latest fck Konami Jimquisition
i just want more busou shinkis, konami please.
Wow, the Masahiro Hito killed me, but not out of laughter, but rather pure shame..
bit disappointed Jim didn't mention Suikoden.
You know, they say there is only one difference between madness and brilliance. Success.
And I guess we all know which Konami is
I completely forgot this company existed.
I thank you for your time and consideration and anyone else who had the patience to read this 'conversation' I do not intent to come off as anything other then a grudgingly amire-ing viewer who's a little perturbed to be watching something about something that happened last spring while winter is fast approaching ^.^
If only you had know how bad it would get....
This is from March 2012, so some info might be outdated.
Apparently, Konami forgot that new IP's are basically what built the company. Hell MGS was a new IP once upon a time...
Didn't the remake of SH2 have redone voice overs also? or was that scrapped in the end?
3 things I want from konami:
1. re-release the three gba castlevania game, .
2. Castlevania 99 (classic or metroidvania style, don't care, just make it happen)
3. The silent hill hd collection done right. I've never played any of the silent hill games, and hearing that two of the best entries in the series were being released in hd caught my attention, but given that everyone is talking about how badly konami botched it, I feel like it would be a disservice to the games to play them in such a state.
Come on, that guy at the Dance Master conference wasn't just some guy, he was Naoki fucking Maeda! He composed most of the original music in the DDR series and other Bemani series. Sure he looked silly up there, but he still deserves respect.
Why does Jim make me think of Kim Jon Ill?
+Mitchell Blackburn Circumference.
+AkizaVesper that was an amazing response XD
How could you not find the MGS HD collection? It was available on PSN and the Xbox Marketplace, did people not think to look?
Some people prefer physical media, such as myself.
I don't think the digital versions were available until months later anyway.
Eternal Yoshi Oh I was sure they were made available at the same time, oh well, fair enough.
This isn't even getting into the Suikoden franchise...
Shit Konami. Shit.
The only thing they do with Suikoden anymore is release crappy "alternative universe" games that exploit and ultimately tarnish the series' good name. -_-
Does anyone know if Jim was blacklisted before or after this video went up?
What was he even blacklisted for?
i think konamis ceos need a trip to silent hill
The truth hurts, I bed Konami is still trying to lick its wounds.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the PR department is deigning working in Konami and hoping their secret strike will bring it down.
Another fun fact:
Jim has unofficially hired himself as the head of Konami's PR & Marketing department.
As bad as Capcom have been with their DLC practices and all that hokum, at least they get their games shipped out in a somewhat timely manner. Konami hardly has any games coming out from their warehouses, even in their home country. The two franchises that are supposedly keeping them afloat, Yu-Gi-Oh and Metal Gear, can only help them for so long. Not everyone likes battle card games and overwrought interactive movies that masquerades itself as a game. Meanwhile, franchises like Contra, Silent Hill, and especially Castlevania get kicked to the curb with vaporware development, shoddy HD updates, and general lack of direction. In fact, I don't even know if Konami knows what it's doing. They need a massive restructuring and that needs to start at the top.
My god, what the hell happened to you, Konami?
How quaint Jim looks here talking about the month of madness as the worse thing to happen to silent hill, unaware of the hell that approaches *cough, cough* Hit the lever *cough*
If only he knew, *sob* if only he KNEW!!!!!
so silent hill 2 is jim's favourite game ever i liked this piece of information