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[TheDarkPhantom]

f stands for fucking fantastic, looking real good, Silent Hill is back, Konami has awoken from their pachinko induced slumber.

 

[Kataploom]

Silent Hill is well and truly back.

Exactly what I felt, really loving this, I need this!!

 

[ChiefDada]

Xbox version is Play Anywhere apparently, nice.

Well yeah...

 

[peronmls]

Because they going for more stylize character models instead of using scan face, I personally very happy about that, I dont care much for scan face.

Yeah but the characters in siren have personality. This does not to me.

 

[Kataploom]

It looks like a shitty mashup of all the horror games set in Japan. (Corpse Party / Siren / Project Zero)

Why Japan, anyway? I don't care about the land of the weaboo, all this to flirt people with pp anime.

The series has come a long way with the second remake, certainly not perfect, but quite polished. And they're already doing something stupid with it?

I'm loving it even more because it's Japan lol, I love Asian horror stuff, hell I don't even dig into American horror (European like Control dlc? Hell yes).

Really this made me so happy after what they did to SH2R characters

 

[Zacfoldor]

So much better than I expected.

 

[yogaflame]

Doesn't look like it. Or hell, who knows, it's in the 60s, someone like a young Dahlia Gillespie (sp) might make a cameo in this.

the girls town gets filled with fog and monsters and i bet someone summoned the silent hill god there in the plot

I hope there will be some connection to the previous silent hill game to make it more interesting lore. And possibly explain some of the story and lore from SH1 to SH4.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

More like Sirent Hill but I'm all for it the Siren games were dramatically underrated

 

[peronmls]

This is not scary. This is a cliche. You can do this in any video game. Generic contorted monster in a dark hallway with a single light above. I’m so spoiled by Masahiro Itos original ideas. Why call it Silent Hill. Call it “F” like the 3DO game “D”or Forte. This is not Silent Hill.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Certain folks hyping up Play Anywhere tells me that the ambassador program is still running, albeit with a very small budget

 

[BennyBlanco]

This is not scary. This is a cliche. You can do this in any video game. Generic contorted monster in a dark hallway with a single light above. I’m so spoiled by Masahiro Itos original ideas. Why call it Silent Hill. Call it “F” like the 3DO game “D”or Forte. This is not Silent Hill.

Yeah I kinda agree. It’s like the videogame equivalent of a James Wan movie. That said, I’ll still play this junk.

 

[peronmls]

Imagine a Japanese dev doing a game set in Japan instead of America...

That’s not it. Silent Hill never had anything to do with Japan. Now it’s shoehorned by random developers. Team Silent does Silent Hill better than “random dev#12”. You are just buying the product at this point. Not the game it should be.

 

[adamsapple]

That’s not it. Silent Hill never had anything to do with Japan. Now it’s shoehorned by random developers. Team Silent does Silent Hill better than “random dev#12”. You are just buying the product at this point. Not the game it should be.

There is no Team Silent anymore, hasn't been for 2 decades now.

 

[peronmls]

There is no Team Silent anymore, hasn't been for 2 decades now.

I guess you just figured that out? Welcome to 2025.

 

[adamsapple]

I guess you just figured that out? Welcome to 2025.

No, it's just a weird thing to invoke a long dead team this far beyond, lol.

Sh2 remake was well regarded, it was made by a Western developer.

Clearly Konami is fostering a completely different developer trying to do their own spin on SH, maybe this connects to the greater mythos and SH's gods in some way, we don't know that yet.

 

[Kataploom]

Because they going for more stylize character models instead of using scan face, I personally very happy about that, I dont care much for scan face.

Tbf that's what sets original SH2 characters apart from remake ones, using scans removed the creepy stylized look they had previously which is what made them look so magical

 

[Lethal01]

This is not scary. This is a cliche. You can do this in any video game. Generic contorted monster in a dark hallway with a single light above. I’m so spoiled by Masahiro Itos original ideas. Why call it Silent Hill. Call it “F” like the 3DO game “D”or Forte. This is not Silent Hill.

Fair point but I'd could apply this to huge portions of the original silent hill games, Every image from any moment isn't always horrifying, tons of pretty normal looking scenes that mostly invoke fair no because of what you see in the moment but what's been happening in general.

 

[Perrott]

That’s not it. Silent Hill never had anything to do with Japan. Now it’s shoehorned by random developers. Team Silent does Silent Hill better than “random dev#12”. You are just buying the product at this point. Not the game it should be.

And that's exactly why this is exciting.

We don't need yet another more or less exact clone of Silent Hill 2, as were the majority of the SH games that followed it.

Also, I don't get why you're mad about this departure, since they're not calling this Silent Hill 5, which would've suggested a continuation of the traditional style, but something else.

P.S. OG Team Silent wishes they had the prestige that Ryukishi07 alone has going into this game, so maybe do your homework before calling people "random devs".

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This is not scary. This is a cliche. You can do this in any video game. Generic contorted monster in a dark hallway with a single light above. I’m so spoiled by Masahiro Itos original ideas. Why call it Silent Hill. Call it “F” like the 3DO game “D”or Forte. This is not Silent Hill.

It's not meant to be "scary". didn't you watch the transmission? the whole angle is about "the beauty in horror".

The vibes I get are that this IP has had about three undeniably great games, a handful of good ones, and a bunch of average to bad ones. Plus, it has never truly broken through to mainstream success, at least not in the sense of a single entry selling 15 to 20 million copies.

What are they supposed to do, the same crap they did in the 360 era?.

I think the producer (either by the command of Konami or as a personal push) is trying to reinvent the franchise, giving it a second wind of relevance and hopefully make it a greater success....I mean this is not a charity.

Yamaoka said it best: this is a game made by Japanese developers, with Japanese sensibilities that westerners can't replicate

If we take these visuals at face value, they are at an AAA level

The only two things truly relevant are:

1. A memorable story.
2. How innovative and fresh the game mechanics, gameplay, and loops are going to feel/be. (Western devs are too corrupted by focus testing and market research).

Depending on the execution of those two points, this game could have a greater chance of breaking through to mainstream success than a "successor" to a traditional Silent Hill game made by bloober for example.

 

[awwr999999]

Is Konami finally back on track?

No. Konami's outsourcing all the development. Konami back on track would mean Team Silent making games in-house.

 

[Danjin44]

No. Konami's outsourcing all the development. Konami back on track would mean Team Silent making games in-house.

As far as I know most people who originally made Silent Hill left Konami.

 

[MasterDerico]

Genuinely weird, obscure and intriguing.
Exactly how I like SH games.

Exactly. And feels like Silent Hill!
Damn, release already!!! Day 0

 

[Danjin44]

We don't need yet another more or less exact clone of Silent Hill 2, as were the majority of the SH games that followed it.

I 100% agree with this, I'm glad they are doing something new instead of "just do another SH2". Dont get me wrong I love SH2 but at this point it just played out way too much from newer games to even the movie adaptation just wanna be SH2 and we dont need another one.

 

[MasterDerico]

It looks like a shitty mashup of all the horror games set in Japan. (Corpse Party / Siren / Project Zero)

Why Japan, anyway? I don't care about the land of the weaboo, all this to flirt people with pp anime.

The series has come a long way with the second remake, certainly not perfect, but quite polished. And they're already doing something stupid with it?

 

[Rickyiez]

Looks like a mix of Silent Hill , Fatal Frame and Forbidden Siren . If only there's some gameplay , not very convinced at the moment .

Also , the Otherworld with flowers actually is not as scary and as oppressive as the rust and dried blood from the usual .

 

[peronmls]

It's not meant to be "scary". didn't you watch the transmission? the whole angle is about "the beauty in horror".

The vibes I get are that this IP has had about three undeniably great games, a handful of good ones, and a bunch of average to bad ones. Plus, it has never truly broken through to mainstream success, at least not in the sense of a single entry selling 15 to 20 million copies.

What are they supposed to do, the same crap they did in the 360 era?.

I think the producer (either by the command of Konami or as a personal push) is trying to reinvent the franchise, giving it a second wind of relevance and hopefully make it a greater success....I mean this is not a charity.

Yamaoka said it best: this is a game made by Japanese developers, with Japanese sensibilities that westerners can't replicate

If we take these visuals at face value, they are at an AAA level

The only two things truly relevant are:

1. A memorable story.
2. How innovative and fresh the game mechanics, gameplay, and loops are going to feel/be. (Western devs are too corrupted by focus testing and market research).

Depending on the execution of those two points, this game could have a greater chance of breaking through to mainstream success than a "successor" to a traditional Silent Hill game made by bloober for example.

Who cares about “the beauty in horror”??? What the hell does that even mean. Flowers and blood look pretty together??? Just sounds pretentious. Please stop this nonsense. Yes the games are better done by Japanese devs. There INTERPRETATION of western horror was great. That’s why people love Silent Hill 1-4. Not because it ever took place in Japan. Nobody ever said “I want silent hill to take place in Japan.” It’s the western interpretation Japanese devs had. Imagine if Resident Evil was being developed by western devs. It would goofy. Like this.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Yeah but the characters in siren have personality. This does not to me.

To be fair, Siren is a released game that you and others have played. This isn't out, no one has played it, and we've barely seen anything regarding the characters. There's just not enough here to even make that assumption IMO.

This is not scary. This is a cliche. You can do this in any video game. Generic contorted monster in a dark hallway with a single light above. I’m so spoiled by Masahiro Itos original ideas. Why call it Silent Hill. Call it “F” like the 3DO game “D”or Forte. This is not Silent Hill.

I wouldn't say it's "cliché" per se, but they have to show what they're attempting to do, which is make a horror game. Which, they could only do so much with what they showed us. Masashiro Ito is great, but I wouldn't just shun this entire thing just yet, especially when it sounds like they're trying to push something more unique for the IP. Because it was always meant to be a Silent Hill game in the first place, maybe there will be more ties to the universe in some way, too much to tell as it's not even out yet. We really don't even have that much to go with. We just know there's fog, and there's monsters. That's about the only correlation we have. This is Silent Hill, I guess just not the one that you want, and that's okay. I personally think it's admirable that they're trying something so different.

That’s not it. Silent Hill never had anything to do with Japan. Now it’s shoehorned by random developers. Team Silent does Silent Hill better than “random dev#12”. You are just buying the product at this point. Not the game it should be.

I'm assuming you didn't watch a lot of the stream, because they literally go over the whole "why Japan" thing. Hey man, I know it sucks that Team Silent is gone, but they've been gone for forever, but that doesn't mean the IP needs to die too. It's looked and felt brighter than it has in a LONG time, so I welcome it. At least SOME of the team is still involved in some way in various projects, it's cool they can even pull that off. I'm curious to know what the game "should be" in your eyes.

Who cares about “the beauty in horror”??? What the hell does that even mean. Flowers and blood look pretty together??? Just sounds pretentious. Please stop this nonsense. Yes the games are better done by Japanese devs. There INTERPRETATION of western horror was great. That’s why people love Silent Hill 1-4. Not because it ever took place in Japan. Nobody ever said “I want silent hill to take place in Japan.” It’s the western interpretation Japanese devs had. Imagine if Resident Evil was being developed by western devs. It would goofy. Like this.

Again, it's something they touch on in the Transmission, and quite a bit. They even mentioned that as Japanese developers they were able to do things in a way that no one else could at the time, which is why people loved the original games so much. So, what would happen if you took that and integrated it into a world and culture they're more familiar with, like Japan? It's far from nonsense IMO, I think it makes a lot of sense. It's also pretty bold in a way, but I mean, come on, we're likely getting more remakes. They already tried sequels "like the other games" and they weren't that great. So, they want to give it another shot and in a very different way. I think it's impressive of them TBH. Even more so if they nail it, and I hope they do.

 

[Andrew Evenstar]

obviously looks totally different but looks like it could be pretty good.

Edit: saw the screens in this thread and it looks awesome.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Who cares about “the beauty in horror”??? What the hell does that even mean.

It's their angle or direction.

Flowers and blood look pretty together??? Just sounds pretentious.

we do not have the context.

Please stop this nonsense. Yes the games are better done by Japanese devs.

not necessarily better, but different. especially when western devs tend to make the same game in terms of design language. Which is the point.

Not because it ever took place in Japan. Nobody ever said “I want silent hill to take place in Japan.” It’s the western interpretation Japanese devs had.

You are talking about an almost 30-year-old franchise, and like 10 games or so behind it.

Imagine if Resident Evil was being developed by western devs. It would goofy. Like this.

as far as i know this game is being developed by a Taiwanese studio, and a Japanese creative team, right?

That’s why people love Silent Hill 1-4.

There was some divisiveness between those games.

There INTERPRETATION of western horror was great.

People love the vibes, but I would argue that the vibes are more related to Yamaoka’s music/soundscape and a foggy, melancholic place, a liminal space (this is the essence). regardless of geographic location and time frame.

 

[sendit]

Windows Store is something that's becoming more common lately... it's definitely starting to mean something.

The fact that more and more publishers are signing up also means that MS is, a priori, managing to convince them to jump on the PlayAnywhere bandwagon or at least have a presence in its PC Store for the future.

P.S. Silent Hill 2 Remake on XS and the Windows Store in September (end of PS exclusivity)?
It wouldn't make sense not to do so when you release the rest of your games (including those in the series) on day one.

The copium is real lol.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Danjin44 you scared me

 

[Hayabusabruh]

It looks like it transitions into gameplay after she picks up the pipe, but fades out so you don't see who she's fighting

 

[Javi97]

"Watashi no mottomo ochitsuki no nai yumenonakade, watashi wa ano machi o mimasu. Sairentohiru. Anata wa watashi o itsuka soko ni tsuremodosu to yakusoku shite kuremashita. Shikashi, anata wa kesshite sōde wa arimasendeshita."

 

[Komatsu]

Loving the Fatal Frame II / Siren vibes.

 

[ergem]

Where’s a b c d e ?

 

[Nickolaidas]

Dunno why, but this is exactly what I expected the game would be. Blind faith being rewarded is a rarity, but occasionally it happens.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Where’s a b c d e ?

Silent Hill = a
Silent Hill 2 = b
Silent Hill 3 = c
Silent Hill 4 - The Room = d
Silent Hill - Origins = e

We don't talk about Homecoming and Downpour. And definitely not Book of Memories.

 

[CityHunter1981]

Not sure what to think about it. Looks good, but as a Silent Hill game?

Seems more like a new Siren game.

 

[POKEYCLYDE]

This surprisingly looks amazing.

 

[peronmls]

It's their angle or direction.


we do not have the context.


not necessarily better, but different. especially when western devs tend to make the same game in terms of design language. Which is the point.


You are talking about an almost 30-year-old franchise, and like 10 games or so behind it.


as far as i know this game is being developed by a Taiwanese studio, and a Japanese creative team, right?




There was some divisiveness between those games.



People love the vibes, but I would argue that the vibes are more related to Yamaoka’s music/soundscape and a foggy, melancholic place, a liminal space (this is the essence). regardless of geographic location and time frame.

I have absolutely no idea what the heck you are talking about with most of those responses. I will say that this game should be named:

SILENT HILL FUJITSU

 

[DeepSpace5D]

Most likely day 1. Would’ve liked to see gameplay or a release window though.

 

[The Fartist]

Who cares about “the beauty in horror”??? What the hell does that even mean. Flowers and blood look pretty together??? Just sounds pretentious. Please stop this nonsense. Yes the games are better done by Japanese devs. There INTERPRETATION of western horror was great. That’s why people love Silent Hill 1-4. Not because it ever took place in Japan. Nobody ever said “I want silent hill to take place in Japan.” It’s the western interpretation Japanese devs had. Imagine if Resident Evil was being developed by western devs. It would goofy. Like this.

 

[kiphalfton]

Wake me up when they show gameplay.

You're probably going to be waiting forever.

I joke, but betting it will have very limited "gameplay".

Maybe some melee combat, but probably mostly just a walking sim.

 

[SnapShot]

The idea of a rotten "otherworld" japan owns I hope they explore it thoroughly

 

[kiphalfton]

Who cares about “the beauty in horror”??? What the hell does that even mean. Flowers and blood look pretty together??? Just sounds pretentious. Please stop this nonsense. Yes the games are better done by Japanese devs. There INTERPRETATION of western horror was great. That’s why people love Silent Hill 1-4. Not because it ever took place in Japan. Nobody ever said “I want silent hill to take place in Japan.” It’s the western interpretation Japanese devs had. Imagine if Resident Evil was being developed by western devs. It would goofy. Like this.

Okay, then do everybody a favor, go play SH 1-4, and STFU.

K thnx bye

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Silent Hill in Japan? Count me the F in!

 

[Gamerguy84]

Perfect game to play on my Portal, lounging around the house.

 

[Chittagong]

The most exciting trailer I have seen in nearly a decade. So refreshing to see a novel setting and incredible creativity.

 

[Melchiah]

Looks absolutely fantastic. Love everything about it. I just hope it will stay true to the originals, and avoid the trendy ever-present invincible stalkers.

 

[Gubaldo]

Aah more atmospheric games.
Bring them on all day long.....