What is your favorite retro Konami series, /vr/? http://poal

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Goemon

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>best konami series
Well this was easy

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Contra, with Gradius coming in at close second.

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How the hell did Konami ended up fucking their shit up anyway? They went from one of the most prolific Japanese video game companies to basically whoring out their IPs to pachinko machines.

I suspect it was after Kazumi Kitaue departed from Konami, since that's when they closed down most of their game development studios (such as KCE Tokyo) and started relying on outsourcing to western developers.

>>3276343
Was a good series, then it degenerated when they thought it'd be a good idea to turn it into a Metroid RPG with SotN and kill off the classic style mostly.

>>3276597

They didn't understand their own appeal.

>trying to force Castlevania to gain popularity in the west by giving it to a shitty western dev that immediately killed it
>trying to gain an older audience for Goemon by redesigning the characters to look "cool," sacrificing all of its charm and killing it

etc. etc.

>>3276692
Don't forget

>otaku pandering with Otomedius
>disbanding Team Silent and raping SH's corpse