Let's remember Konami: what is your favourite Konami game?

Let's remember the old Konami. From the numerous Castlevania games, to Metal Gear Solid, and Silent Hil games? What is your favourite, and why?

The game can be either developed or published by Konami.

From the NES to the PS2 Konami put out just a ton of games I love, but considering Symphony of the Night is one of my favorite games of all time I'd have to pick that.

It's sad, Konami and Capcom used to be two of my favorite publishers and now look a them.

Silent Hill: Downpour. I fell in love with it as it is to me the best iteration of Silent Hill. With the biggest town, a great tale, good gameplay, side missions, and a lot of curiosities and easter eggs to find. Loved it.

Zone of the Enders 2 is wonderful.

If we look back, Contra and the Iga Castlevanias led to some damn good times.

Metal Gear Solid 1 or 3. 2 and 4 were great too, but i always have a soft spot for these two.

Suikoden 3, cuz fusing traditional RPGs with light Army SRPG play was tons of fun.

Honorable mention Vandal Hearts

Also miss Contra, Metal Gear and Castlevania already

MGS1

I have a special place in my heart for Suikoden II and think it might be the secret best PSX RPG.

The first thing that stands out in my memory is how quick everything is, you are in and out of battles in less than a minute. This makes a huge difference to me, not having to wait five seconds to even start a battle, then having to sit through too-long animations, it removes a lot of hassle.

The Metal Gear Solid games; I don't have a single favorite.

I'm sorry what was that? I fell asleep.

For me Konami was one of the big three Japanese third party publishers along with Namco and Capcom. Really sad to see all three of them struggle in this modern climate. Off the top of my head, here are a few of the Konami games I felt were iconic:

- Super Castlevania IV

- Contra

- Mystical Ninja

- Suikoden 2

- The Silent Hill series

- The Metal Gear Solid series

- Their line of rhythm games, which include DDR

- The Simpsons Arcade Game

Suikoden 2. Hands down, no contest.

People may be decrying the fall of Konami now, but they were pretty much dead to me when they all but killed off Suikoden years ago.

Don't you fucking judge me.

All MGS's, ZoE 1/2, Botkai/Lunar Knightss, Silent Hill 2 and SotN will be ahead of it but that ^ is not talked about enough.

I really loved Enthusia. A gran turismo style racing game they did on the PS2.

It was a game I found after the fact after completing GT4 and Forza at the time. It had key differences in structure but maintained the realism found in GT and Forza.

Lords of Shadow was something I didn't know I needed at the time I played it, but oh man did I love that game. Press Y to call Zobek every day.

Animaniacs for the original Game Boy. I can't think of any Konami games I've played since 1996... No, wait, MGS. I still think Animaniacs was better.

Suikoden 2. Then, all of their Bemani franchises.

I just tossed a 90% mint beatmania IIDX PS2 controller in the trash last week. I was moving and had to cut ties with some old game stuff.

You lucky devil...

Contra 3 is great.

Also, I really enjoyed all of the DS Castlevanias, particularly OoE.

The Turtles games (primarily Turtles in Time, and the SNES version of Tournament Fighters) were great games.

@pdxsonic: Turtles in Time was so much fun when I was a kid, loved that game.

Love how we are treating Konami like they are pretty much dead already.

Silent Hill 3 would be my answer, 3 was my first Silent Hill game and it left such an impact on me that the name Konami started to become a known name for me at that point.

This is gonna sound weird, but I remember have a ton of fun playing online tag matches in GTi Club+: Rally Côte d'Azur on PS3. There were nights when I only played this mode.

Either Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time or... Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Decade Duels. Shut up, Yugioh over Xbox Live was the best thing.

Honorable mention to Azure Dreams. Not really an amazing game or anything but no one else is gonna mention it.

I've never been much of a Konami fan. I was never into Castlevania for example. I would have to say MGS and of those I only care about MGS1 and 2.

For some reason, I went and bought both Dawn of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia at the same time a year ago. Dawn of Sorrow I finished in like 2 days, I thought it was pretty great. Order of Ecclesia is a good game but that game continually kicks my ass every time I pick it up. Seriously, that game is really, really hard, less in the old school Nintendo "memorize the levels and be patient" sort of way and more along the lines of "you have to move and react pretty fast" sort of way.

I haven't played all that many Konami games outside of the Castlevania series. Actually, I can't recall anything from Konami that I've played outside of the Castlevania series, of which I've played Super Castlevania IV, Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, and Order of Ecclesia. Of those, I have only finished Dawn of Sorrow. Symphony of the Night is something that I really want to keep playing but every time I start it, something comes up. I get busy, or something else comes out, or I find myself wanting to slip back into something familiar for some reason.

I should play Suikoden II one of these days, too, though I doubt I'll actually beat it. I just want to give it five or ten hours and see what's up.

Most of the things I've seen, heard, and/or read about Metal Gear Solid have pushed me away from that series. I know people adore it, and that's fine, but I've watched some Metal Gear Scanlon and it seems full of clunky game mechanics and conversations between characters that sound disjointed and unnatural.

I really like Super Castlevania 4 and Contra. As I kid I liked all their arcade beat 'em ups too. Even if they don't hold up super well they'll always have a special place in my heart. Particularly The Simpsons. DDR is one of my favourite rhythm games and if I'm ever in place that for whatever reason has a machine I'll play a song or two regardless of how stupid I look doing it. And of course there's Metal Gear. It's nonsense but goddammit if I don't love it.

I LOVE ME SOME METAL GEAR...

But Silent Hill 2 will always be the game that had the most impact from Konami that I played. Too bad they don't care and crapped all over the Silent Hill name with farming it out to third parties, fucking up the HD collection, and canceling the most exciting Silent Hill project since 4.

God damn you, Konami...

Castlevania Rondo of Blood, Dracula X Chronicles hell I love the re remake for the Snes, its pretty much the same game but man I just love it, to me its the best of the clasic Castlevanias before SoTN on a side not pretty much every single sprite in Rondo was re used for the rest of the series in 2D.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Aria of Sorrow was pretty good, as well. The MGS series has it's moments, but I've found that I've enjoyed the series only by overlooking some of the major problems that is has. Definitely glad it exists, though.

Wait.

Vandal Hearts was Konami? Holy crap, that was my first ever game on the PS1. Loved the crap out of that game. It's definitely a hidden gem of the system.

I also somehow forgot about Suikoden. Man, I seemed to have whitewashed a lot of what Konami did over the years. Now their loss is actually starting to feel tragic.

Enthusia Pro Racing. The Gran Turismo killer. Well, a gentle jab. And an AMAZING intro.

Suikoden II and MGS3 are desert island games for me. There's no way I could pick between the two.

Sunset Riders. I spent countless hours playing that game with my brother and dad.

Rocket Knight Adventures was freakin awesome back in the day. Probably one of the first games that mixed up the genres within the same level. Going from shooter to platformer for example.

Snatcher was pretty cool. Suikoden was an epic and I have yet to play Suikoden 2 (kinda saving it...). Metal Gear Solid is a game I have a weird history with. I must've started it about 3-4 times and always something gets in the way of me finishing it. I usually get to the point where you must go to some warehouse after meeting Sniper and one of the other baddies after her.

I really hope they can stay in the game though. With or without Kojima.

Metal Gear Solid 2. It's not my favorite MGS game, but it's tremendously important and still significant - most of the stuff that blew people's minds in Spec Ops or BioShock can be traced directly to Sons of Liberty. Plus, it was just an enormously ballsy game, one that just doesn't happen very often. The whole bait and switch was something that could have gotten the axe at any moment for various valid reasons, but it didn't. It kinda makes you think about Konami and their position in those years that they fully supported doing this.

Metal Gear Solid and Zone of the Enders. Kojima is a mad genius and I love him for it.

*SHING* Blades of Steel!

To this day one of my favourite sports games. You lose a fight? The ref will put your ass in the penakty box. It had a shooter minigame between the second and third periods. It also had ads for Jackal and Contra!

Still pull this one out at family get togethers. My brother in law lovingly refers to it as "Chinese Hockey" no matter how many times I remind him that it's Japanese.

Oh and also synchronized formation skating!

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Dawn of Sorrow and the majority of the Metal Gear Solid games. Also loved Rocket knight Adventures on the Megadrive and Snatcher on the Mega CD.

Forgot about Sunset Riders and Yu-Gi-Oh and i cant edit my post on my work computer T-T

Ground Zeroes. I'm 20. Only own a PC.

Symphony of the Night followed by Metal Gear Solid 3. I'm not even gonna go find out what else could possibly be in the ballpark of those two.

Silent Hill series , Metal Gear series , Zone of Enders , Suikoden .

Capcom and Konami make me sad , We loved their games when we grow up ... now they are missing , taking every step straight to hell ....

Suikoden 3. A lot of people swear by 2, and 2 is good, but the main characters are much cooler in 3.

Suikoden 2 is by baby

Whats a konami

Konami is synonymous with the PS1 for me and my nostalgia.

So I'll go with MGS1

The Metal Gear Solid games. Of all of the games, I found myself enjoying MGS3: Snake Eater (and later MGS3: Subsistence) the most, followed by MGS, MGS2: Sons of Liberty, MGS: Peace Walker, MGS4: Guns of the Patriots, and MGS: Portable Ops.

There's too many Konami games I enjoyed playing in my childhood on the NES and SNES/Genesis so I'll just say all of the Ninja Turtles games from that era (even the insanely difficult single player one on the NES).

Turtles in Time, though all their old Turtle beat em ups were great. Followed by the X-Men arcade game, which I can't believe no one has mentioned.