Kojima axes Zone of the Enders sequel

Hmmm, I think some of the disappointment and negative feedback is due to expecting new material. This was an UPDATE not a re-creation like Thief. Peter Brown is also full of shit for giving it a bad review for something that is NOT meant to be a new game! - thereby giving the readers false expectations.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I think it's also about time to bring a port of at least the 2nd Runner to PC - it is loooong overdue!

With a PC port, that might have helped them a little.

wahaha Kojima's was one of those best game makers of all time ....and kojima got too comfortable on that perch so its expected that he will expereince poor sales and poor makes.heck rising had to ripp off fans. those 3 scenarious should been free.. though i heard now its free lol look at 3ds mgs and vita. the framerate was so bad da sales was soo bad haha

Meh, Omega Boost was better anyway.

"We ported the game poorly, so clearly a sequel designed for next-gen consoles, actually optimized correctly and made to run correctly is out of the question."

See, it's this kind of crazy space logic that let Kojima write the plot for Metal Gear Solid 2.

Best mecha game I have ever played . Well, the first one was pretty average, but the 2nd runner was superb. Great gameplay and great characters. Shame about the 3rd one...

Me and my brother always absolutely loved this game. The whole reason we bought a PS3 and the HD collection is so we could both support the Z.O.E series and get to play it as soon as possible. We have waited for god knows how long. About a good 9 years. now. We couldn't give two craps whether the game was too laggy, or didn't support this, or that. We always looked on the good side because this was such a brilliant game. Now I have lost most my faith in Konami, because they cancelled a long-awaited sequel, just because the HD release didn't meet expectations. Of course it's not going to meet very many expectations! It's a HD re-release! Come on Konami! Think twice before you expect these things!

Well... I'd like to see a ZOE sequel... it would be pretty awesome... though I don't know about the other players and fans...

It says the HD collections didn't meet the fans expectations and the illiterates are reacting as if Kojima said it didn't make enough money.

I blame putting the game on the 360 when the games were never made on the Xbox originally.

Only game franchise I liked from Kojima. Never got the HD versions, though I wanted too as I love the series. Think I'll stick to the originals for the time being.

Could care less about Kojima and is MGS following. No respect and hope the series dies.

The moral of this story is, if you want to see a sequel you really want to see, pretend that the rereleases are perfect and that they improve the games. One minor complaint can cancel the whole sequel.

Go **** yourself Kojima. I'm sick of people pretending like these HD re-releases are somehow indicative of how a new game would sell.

I didn't buy your re-release because I already own the original games and can play them anytime.

Oh Kojima, how much you suck for this. Glad I never bought your Metal Gear series now.

Well minus the NES ones.

I bought it too... This really sucks

ZOE has never been a particularly high seller, so this news comes as no surprise.

Am I reading that right?

"Zone of the Enders HD's switch from 30fps to 60fps disrupted the smooth combat of the originals, the developer has concluded."

Isn't it the other way around?

Son of a b****!

I bought both games for the PS2 and the HD collection.

I would really like ZoE3, please.

ZoE2 was an amazing game! Really loved it and I don't even like the mecha anime or other games with the same thematic.

cheers

For the record, I bought the ZOE HD Collection

At least for once they didn't blame the pirates but their own damn selves. This is what happens when you release garbage. I'm a huge fan of those HD collections considering just how much the graphics are usually improved but I didn't even look twice at Zone of the enders HD after seeing how bad of a port it was.

... were they expecting amazing sales from a HD remastery? .... i dont want to buy a game i already have. .... a bad HD remastery on top of that....

Too bad, ZOE was a better series the MGS any day of the week. MGS is not even a videogame in my book, just a bland soap opera with robots and nukes. Oh and the controls have always been god aweful, after what, 20 years of making MGS you would think they would make a better control layout but oh well, thats what the video game market is coming too these days.

dude! I need a third ZOE game! and the ports of the hd may have looked pretty but they messed with the gameplay =.= so off-course it was not selling like hot cakes.

Why would I have paid $40 for a choppier poorly ported versions of two games I still have....

I remember there was a time when we felt sorry for Kojima, "oh poor guy he want's to make other projects but he is chained to MGS"...yeah, right..."chained" Kojima is a one trick pony, i doubt he can make a decent game outside the MGS franchise.

If its the same other places than it is here its not too surprising the collection didnt do well. I havent come across it in a single store where i live and its definitely hard to go buy it when there isnt a copy in stores to buy.

that's just lame, sorry i don't want to replay the exact same game.

Oh come on Kojima!, we waited years for this, and you shut it down cause of Konami's botched HD handling of the collection, meanwhile you have no problem of releasing the seventeenth or whatever repacking of metal gear

I blame Call of Duty. Yeah, Call of Duty's fault.

The whole reason I bought the HD versions was to show my support. Guess it wasn't enough. I was really hoping to see a new ZOE. At least I know now instead of waiting years like I am for the Last Guardian and FF Verses XIII.

Think Kojima thinking in the wrong way if a new ZOE is well made then people new to the saga will try to pirchase the first games. I thonk he dont want yo deal with the risk of doing a great game without the support of a blindless hype that people normally show with the MGS.

I love Zone of the Enders but the HD Collection makes me extremely disappointed. The excitement from ZoE2 is in how fast the combat is, but there are VERY RARE points in the game where it doesn't lag like shit. For them to give us an old game, put it on a new system and make it run like it's on a SNES is a slap in the face. Don't blame us for the cancellation of your game when you caused it. And if you fix your ****-ups, I'll buy the next one.

I didn't even think the frame rate issues were that bad. And if this is the problem then why not move the project to ps4?

What, so "fans" [more like elitists] are complaining that 60 fps was TOO smooth?

Oh jeez, remember how people complain that Dark Souls was gonna be trash on PC because it ran at 30 max? lol...