Topic: Dave Cox leaves Konami

[Dark Nemesis]

Calling him a Flakey game producer and being all passive aggressive like that it doesnt surprise me that got a block

Cox got only what he was asking for with his attitude and i don't believe that there is any other game producer that would have talked back the way Cox did. That person was a customer, so if you talk back like that to a customer in public, then well.......i just can't imagine what other people/customers will think for you...

[X]

He should have been honest with us from the start about LoS' gimmicks, should not have quoted "forget everything you know about Castlevania", and he should have paid more attention to what his lackey Alvarez was doing during LoS2's development. All this has effected his reputation as a trustworthy developer in my mind.

[Akumajou Jason XX]

I had never heard of David Cox before Lords of Shadow.  I hope to never hear of him again after Lords of Shadow.

[ROCKMAN X]

After witnessing the travesty of a game that was Beyond  two souls i think its good that this guy left konami! this guy cannot write sh!t and that's probably why lords of shadow's story is messed up too.

[VladCT]

Actually that was more Alvarez's fault.

[JR]

Eh, I'm pretty neutral on the whole thing, I guess. I could see how people would view him as a douchebag, but he did seem somewhat likeable in the few interviews I did read/see about him. Granted, I don't remember all of his tweets that got people pissed, but I digress.

I did think it was cool of him to stop by the Dungeon for a brief while, before the company suits or whoever put an abrupt end to that.

I guess all I can say is I wouldn't mind seeing him succeed at something else. And I hope the CV franchise finds someone more suitable for its success, as well. (Not just monetary success, but being successful doing its own thing.)

[BLOOD MONKEY]

His games would be great if he didn't slap a CV title on it. If he hadn't of done that, he would actually had a storyline to call his own. Instead, he was lazy and used another game's title. Just like I tried to say to JKB Games "If it is different from the original concept, make it your own, and not their's". Too bad people don't listen. I could have loved his games if he didn't lie about them.

[bronty]

The proposed reboot of Contra better die off if it can't be done respectively. After the fiasco with LoS I did not want Cox to touch any other classic franchise in fear of them being alienated from their very own identity. Now that he's left Konami I can relax a bit...I hope.

contra reboot you say?   I will exercise my google-fu but curious what you have to say about this

[X]

contra reboot you say?   I will exercise my google-fu but curious what you have to say about this

Before Cox left Konami he had mentioned that he wanted to try his hand at other Konami franchises. Contra was one of them that was mentioned. Fortunately he's no-longer with Konami so he can't muck about with it and potentially destroy it.

[bronty]

thank you sir.    yeah I'd hate to see bad contra entries; there was enough of that in the PS1 era.   Shattered Soldier and Contra 4 were great though.   Looking forward to another along those lines hopefully.   I haven't actually played LOS2 but judging by this thread... it seems like I was spared quite the experience.

[DoctaMario]

Cox got only what he was asking for with his attitude and i don't believe that there is any other game producer that would have talked back the way Cox did. That person was a customer, so if you talk back like that to a customer in public, then well.......i just can't imagine what other people/customers will think for you...

Gamers are assholes though. In some ways, I don't blame people like Cox and Tameem for shitting on the fanbases when members of that fanbase do nothing but shit on the stuff they're working on just because it isn't like the 10 games they already own. I'll agree that Cox is pretty humorless from what I know about him, but I also can see why having to deal with the CV fanbase would make him that way at times.

[uzo]

You only have to "deal" with the fan base when you walk in and tell us to forget everything we know about it.

[theANdROId]

Yeah...I mean, I know we (the CV fans) are quite split in our opinions, and again I don't straight up hate the man, but he really didn't do himself any favors in all of this either. :-/

[Shiroi Koumori]

You only have to "deal" with the fan base when you walk in and tell us to forget everything we know about it.

Yeah and not deliver.

He should know that he has to deal with all the drama and the fandom when he came in considering he's been with the franchise since SotN. All franchises have drama, any point person must learn how to deal with fans properly.

[DoctaMario]

Yeah and not deliver.

He should know that he has to deal with all the drama and the fandom when he came in considering he's been with the franchise since SotN. All franchises have drama, any point person must learn how to deal with fans properly.

I enjoyed LoS1 and even MoF, so for me he delivered. If you didn't like the game, that's fine, but you can't say he didn't do what they set out to do, and that was create a solid reboot.

I agree with your last point, but at the same time, there really hasn't been much drama on a grand scale like there was when LoS was announced. I don't know that anyone could have predicted that.

And Nagumo, you can downvote me all you want, but you got blocked on Twitter because you made a snarky tweet without knowing the deal. For all you know, his superiors could have told him to say the stuff he did. I'm not apologizing for his behavior, merely saying that you don't know the circumstances behind it. And acting that way hurts the chances of them actually listening to the community when we say what we want.