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The irony of this complaint (one might say "bitching") coming from an internet commenter is delicious.

How much do they save by not paying Brady for four games?

I don't see how any of that addresses my point that both franchise offer the same formulaic gameplay across a dozen or more titles, just with steadily declining quality. The details of how and why that is don't concern me as the end consumer.

You aren't really helping your argument here.

I'm not aware of any disasters in the AC series, just a steady decline in quality.

I've already explained this elsewhere, and I'm getting tired of repeating myself.

They're both examples of formulaic games of steadily declining quality.

Still an odd counterpoint to make when you're criticizing a franchise that gives us the same basic formula over and over again while declining further in quality with each iteration.

Man, your obliviousness to the irony of using Final Fantasy as a counterpoint here is just mindblowing.

Who would know? No one was allowed to draw pictures of him.

This is incredibly fucking stupid, but any time bad things happen to Tom Brady I just figure the universe is balancing the books.

The worst part is that they specifically state that its most interesting property is the fact that it absorbs all vibrations and kinetic energy.....which should mean that it's incapable of ricocheting off of anything. It should hit one surface, and stop dead and fall to the ground.

Isn't the reverse of racism tolerance?

Eh, I think they've already got too much invested in that one to just let it die. They'll be wanting some measure of return on that investment, I'd imagine.

Asking for a friend?

We're probably not getting any more any games from Konami. They seem to be shutting down their console games division.

I doubt he was courting a platform-specific publisher. As an indie developer it would be in his best interest not to limit his audience that way.

They know exactly what they're doing with it: getting rid of it because they don't want to make video games anymore.

Yeah, poor Kojima with all his money, prestige, industry respect, and his ability to basically write his own ticket in the industry wherever he chooses to go.