Konami is finally done pretending Hideo Kojima is just on vacation. Kojima has moved on to other things involving a naked Norman Reedus, and Konami just released a trailer (above) for Metal Gear Survive, their first Metal Gear game not created by Kojima. It’s billed as a co-op survival game set in an alternate universe. Yes, that means zombies. It always means zombies.
Oh, goody, a zombie version of Metal Gear without Kojima’s input. Let’s see how YouTube viewers receive that…
Whoopsiedoodle.
And Twitter wasn’t any more kind about a zombie Metal Gear alternate universe without Kojima’s input, either:
What about Metal Gear *spins Worst Possible Ideas Wheel* set in an alternative universe with *spins second wheel* Zombies
— YES…HA HA HA…Y͟E͟S͟! (@NotFaulty) August 17, 2016
crazy that konami decided to make a new metal gear game despite apparently having never played one
— Nathan Grayson (@Vahn16) August 17, 2016
Metal Gear Survive pic.twitter.com/bxdYC4E2el
— Scandal_Ikari@mastouille.fr (@Scandal_ikari) August 17, 2016
Metal Gear Surviving: Survengeance
— YES…HA HA HA…Y͟E͟S͟! (@NotFaulty) August 17, 2016
https://twitter.com/WhiteWolf_316/status/765837028512727040
And some people noticed the Resident Evil vibe to the whole thing:
No one is interested in Metal Gear Solid: Umbrella Corps
— FroggyWithFries (@FroggyWithFriez) August 17, 2016
When I think Metal Gear I sure think "vague resident evil looking thing" and not "fever dream about the military industrial complex"
— mr. “just joined a new forum” (@Papapishu) August 17, 2016
Others were just bathing in the schadenfreude:
oh my god I can't stop laughing at Metal Gear: Zombies
Konami are SUCH GREAT HEELS
— Bryan Rose (@br26) August 17, 2016
https://twitter.com/aerith_jpeg/status/765831662714269696
https://twitter.com/_tyrfing/status/765826284702294016
But the best reaction of all is still a photoshop of Kojima posted by Norman Reedus two months ago:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGnrvZIMcOS/
Pinky out, because you have to keep it classy when you drink those salty tears.