Bloober Team releases PR statement on the state of Silent Hill 2: Production is progressing smoothly and according to our schedule
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Al Pachinko, Konami President
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FunkMiller
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Given Konami, if this is anything other than terrible it'll be some kind of miracle.
Just don't pre order it, for Christ's sake.
Just don't pre order it, for Christ's sake.
Esppiral
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Exactly what I thought lol
Dick Jones
Banned
Progressing smoothly? Wasn't this game originally slated for release this calendar year?
Team Silent's Silent Hill 2 on left. Bloober's final efforts on right.
Team Silent's Silent Hill 2 on left. Bloober's final efforts on right.
FunkMiller
Banned
Of course it is. It'll have dumbed down dialogue, it'll remove most of the atmosphere, it'll have microtransaction outfits for James, it'll strip out any of the overt sexuality, it'll remove most of the stuff around depression and suicide so it's not to sensitive for the 'modern audience', it'll run like crap, it'll shorten sequences and remove others entirely.
Badlucktroll
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emivita
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ByWatterson
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Konami in bold, LOL.
Esppiral
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The one on the right looks betterProgressing smoothly? Wasn't this game originally slated for release this calendar year?
Team Silent's Silent Hill 2 on left. Bloober's final efforts on right.
tommib
Banned
Don't forget the pyramid head origin chapter where you play as teenage pyramid head through QTEs.
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Badlucktroll
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I feel that they should have just had Virtuous slap on some AAA graphics to the original game like they are doing with MGS3, but with some direction from Ito and Yamaoka, not this eurojank remake
Kenneth Haight
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Nemesisuuu
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It's gonna be SHIT!
Esppiral
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Are you an expert?
Roni
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You could say that, though it might be an exaggeration; I had to deal with Japanese teachers throughout my childhood.
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Dr. Wilkinson
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People are just so fcking inpatient. Devs go dark so they can work on the game. It's not a sign that anything bad is happening
rabbity-thing
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We have basically no reason to expect this to be the case. Contrary to the hive-mind, modern gaming is not completely absent of material that could be considered controversial. While it could be said that the AAA space plays it safer to reach a wider audience, there's really not much in the AAA space coming to us from Konami to get a good idea of where they land on playing to the middle. It's quite possible they simply don't care to limit more questionable content. Likewise, I don't see that Bloober is the kind of dev to want to shy away from the darker elements of the story either. As for microtransaction outfits for James are concerned, the original had no extra skins to begin with, so this wouldn't be much of a loss.
Look, I don't think it'll be as good as the original either, but I also think we can probably ditch the whole "this game would never be released today" attitude until we have a reason to believe otherwise. And right now, we have no reason to do so. This whole thread exists specifically because we don't know almost anything about the game.
Pharaoh 117
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If your marketing plan has a year long gap in it maybe you should revise your strategy.
Badlucktroll
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If its even remotely successful, silent hill will then probably become bloober hill. konami wont worry about it and just have them make it. i bet we will get an original sh from them as well
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Roman Empire
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Bloober can't lie to save their lives. No way they won't fuck up the game when their best games are Layers of Fear and The Medium...
No matter what they say, their track record says otherwise.
No matter what they say, their track record says otherwise.
FunkMiller
Banned
Aside from every single thing Konami have done for the past decade, and Bloober team's previous games.
tommib
Banned
The remake of Layers of Fear released this year is the worst game I played in 2023. We can only expect the worst for SH2. It's going to be a trainwreck.
Go_Ly_Dow
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When you put it like that I give this game a 5-10% chance of meeting or exceeding the original in any meaningful way given Bloober's track record.
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Represent.
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Safe to say they will never work together again.
Giallo Corsa
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In all fairness, Observer (system redux) is a very good atmospheric cyberpunk game and Blaire witch had also some REALLY good moments - it's not all shit, it's just that these guys are technically incompetent.
This company is comprised by...some very good artists to the point that I could say that their art-direction team is one of the best out there but when it comes to the actual programming/coding they're definitely some of the worst - their games feels like they've been stitched together with visible seams everywhere with bad performance as an added extra.
Thinking about it it's an actual g'damned shame since again, the art and visuals are actually nice to good but when it comes to the performance, yeah...
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Yes. Exclusively timed for 2027
Which tweet?
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Not the person you've quoted, but I believe they are talking about this recent response they gave on Twitter:
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This right here. Especially if you're not the original creators, just update the graphics and that's it. For most of these games that's literally all that is needed. Trying to improve upon something that was already a masterpiece is a fool's errand.