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What's your favourite Konami franchise of all time and why?

What's your favorite Konami franchise?

  • Metal Gear

    Votes: 251 40.2%

  • Castlevania

    Votes: 172 27.6%

  • Contra

    Votes: 8 1.3%

  • Gradius

    Votes: 14 2.2%

  • Silent Hill

    Votes: 66 10.6%

  • Suikoden

    Votes: 61 9.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 52 8.3%
  • Total voters
    624
Vanillalite

Vanillalite

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
7,709
What is your favorite Komami franchise throughout the ages?

I'll make a poll, but I wont be able to include everything.

Does your opinion change when we go from 2d to 3d? How about SP vs MP?

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saenima

saenima

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
11,892
It's close between Silent Hill and Metal Gear. But SH edges it out because the gameplay is more to my liking. I always liked MGS despite the gameplay. The SH formula is really up my alley though. Jank and everything.
 
TheJollyCorner

TheJollyCorner

The Fallen
Nov 7, 2017
9,470
Silent Hill.

Konami wanted a Resident Evil clone, but thanks to a fairly loose creative leash on (at the time a very young) Keiichiro Toyama, what they got was a highly unique, legitimately unnerving horror masterpiece.

A few sequels would follow that would up the stakes in story-telling, art direction, and overall unsettling themes.
Sadly the series flew too close to the sun and, like seemingly all things Konami within the mid/late 2000s/early 2010s, it was left out to rot and eventually die.
 
Dullahan

Dullahan

Always bets on black
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
7,410
Castlevania. It's been with me since my childhood. It's under a different name now but it's still here.
 
Glass Arrows

Glass Arrows

Member
Jan 10, 2019
1,414
Castlevania but I have a suspicion it might be Silent Hill once I finally get around to playing 1-4. Those soundtracks are GOAT status.
 
shoemasta

shoemasta

The Wise Ones
Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,025
Metal Gear might be my favorite franchise in general.

Silent Hill is great though
 
XaviConcept

XaviConcept

Art Director for Videogames
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
4,907
Metal Gear, but its kind of cheating.

If you consider the games overall quality, their art, their soundtracks and the theme ... its kind of a giant fucking mystery as to why Castlevania isnt the most popular franchise of all time. They REALLY fucked that one up.
 
Wood Man

Wood Man

Member
Oct 30, 2017
5,449
Suikoden. I like that the battle isn't necessarily good vs evil or saving the world. They're more political driven and a bit more complex. Plus I just love all the 108 character rooster.

Please bring it back Konami. And not that Tierkreis BS. Gimme a real #6
 
CoyoteSpitfire

CoyoteSpitfire

Member
Oct 28, 2017
1,202
Silent Hill. Amazing art, music, atmosphere, and - in the case of 2 at least - truly excellent use of subtle storytelling. I still listen to Akira Yamaoka's soundtracks and imagine how special Silent Hills could have been.
 
Xenosaga

Xenosaga

Member
Oct 27, 2017
11,981
Metal Gear (Solid). It's one of my favorite videogame franchise of all time. I first played MGS1 back in PS1 and was blown away, and ever since I fell in love with the series (and Kojima's stuff).
 
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Pyro

Pyro

God help us the mods are making weekend threads
Member
Jul 30, 2018
14,505
United States
MGS for sure, though I really like SH1 & SH3. Crazy and depressing realizing how many great IPs Konami is pretty much just sitting on now.
 
Fat4all

Fat4all

Woke up, got a money tag, swears a lot
Member
Oct 25, 2017
92,756
here
despite its blunders, still Silent Hill

i even almost enjoyed Downpour for a hot second
 
MrS

MrS

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,085
Silent Hill because 1 and 2 brought the fear like no other games before them. Will never be topped as the scariest games I've ever played, and I love them for that.
 
lightning16

lightning16

Member
May 17, 2019
1,763
I think Metal Gear and Castlevania are the only two historically Konami franchises I've played enough of to have an opinion, and I don't care much for either one outside of MGS3 which is one of the best games ever made. If we count Hudson Soft's franchises, then it'd be Bomberman with Bloody Roar at #2.

I don't know where Frogger factors into all this but I like that one too.

Bomberman's one of the formative games of my early video game-playing days. I really enjoyed the series up through Bomberman Generation. Loved the Nintendo 64 games, Generation, Max on the Game Boy, and whichever of the Super games I played. Also played a ton of Bomberman Fantasy Race on the PS1.
 

Deleted member 11413

User requested account closure
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Oct 27, 2017
22,961
Vandal Hearts, the first game is a seriously underrated SRPG, I would put it up there with the best in the genre. Second one was experimental and not as good but still an interesting game.

Silent Hill would be second for me, all the Team Silent games are excellent.
 
Zukkoyaki

Zukkoyaki

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,274
Other: Yu-Gi-Oh

Edit: Largely because of my decade-long affinity for the physical card game. There has been some GREAT digital adaptations.
 
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Deleted member 4869

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
7,753
Metal Gear, easily.

Great story, fantastic and super memorable characters, immersive gameplay and settings, and incredible soundtracks.
 
onpoint

onpoint

Neon Deity Games
Verified
Oct 26, 2017
14,950
716
Castlevania full stop hands down nothing comes close

So many amazing games, incredible design, fantastic music, just so much quality across so many decades

Rip Konami
 
Laxoon

Laxoon

One Winged Slayer
Member
Jan 24, 2018
1,833
For me there isn't a franchise with more heart and soul than Suikoden 1-3 period. I'll always love Castlevania, Contra, Silent Hill and Goemon a LOT but there's just nothing else like those first three games.
 
Trickster

Trickster

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
6,533
Metal Gear. It's a pretty low bar though. Konami games were never really my thing. MGS1 and 2 were fun, but I hated 3, and never played any of the subsequent ones
 

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Oct 30, 2018
44
Castevania is my favorite franchise, but I feel bad for all those Metal Gear and Silent Hill fans too, because we may never get AAA experiences with any of our favorite Konami franchises again. :(

The reason I love Castevania is because of the gothic atmosphere. I love the action games like Rondo/Bloodlines and Igavania styles equally.
 
Castor Archer

Castor Archer

Member
Jan 8, 2019
2,298
Castlevania's the most consistent for me. Sure every game isn't revolutionary or grounds breaking, but they're just well built good-ass games.
 
Lindsay

Lindsay

Member
Nov 4, 2017
3,132
Gotta be Bomberman. Yeah, its a Konami series by way of them buying Hudson but theres been a few released under their belt so alls fair imo. Sunks loads of time into Mega Bomberman, Super Bomberman 2, and Saturn Bomberman back in the day. Mostly battling the really dumb CPUs who really, really hate the skull pickups lol.
 
King Alamat

King Alamat

Member
Nov 22, 2017
8,113
For some reason, Konami owns Bloody Roar and I spent a good part of my childhood playing the first game instead of Tekken or the Soul series, so that.
 
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