8 Video Game Sequels Sent Out To Die

So Konami has made a lot of, let's just say, questionable decisions over the years. From the weird insistence to release Pachinko machines over anything substantial in the Silent Hill franchise, to whatever the hell eFootball was meant to be, it seems that the publisher more often than not just operates within a vacuum of its on rancid farts.

It can also be pretty spiteful at times, especially when it comes to anything Hideo Kojima-related, as can best be shown in the absolute abomination that was Metal Gear: Survive. Now technically this is classed as an offshoot game to the wider franchise, but seeing as it most definitely begins on the Mother Base from MGS 5 it's almost impossible not to see this as a watered-down sequel in the loosest possible terms.

And hell it's better than calling it what this game actually is, which is a skip fire of piss wrapped up in rotten zombie genre crust. This game was like an ex giving you back your stuff but has taken the time to smear s**t all over your clothes, a punctuation point that basically existed to trade on Kojima's aura without having his name anywhere near the product.

Given the utter PR meltdown surrounding Kojima's exit, Konami couldn't have believed the game would have done well, yet they squirted out this title anyway, hoping to shift a few units before the world got wise to their tricks, a move that was highlighted by review codes not being delivered to outlets until after launch, meaning that the flow of negative press was kept to a minimal. Boo.