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New SILENT HILL by Hideo Kojima & Guillermo Del Toro starring Norman Reedus

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SuicidalSteve

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Gambit said:
been out of the loop for three weeks, so I am just catching up on the news. Watched the teaser, since I don't have a PS4.

What really, really sold me on the trailer was the still perfect Silent Hill 1 music!
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Cave Johnson

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This is how you do trailers. No CG and no bullshit. See what it did for a dying franchise? I bet the awareness of this game has reached in levels than any of the previous games have done before.
 
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JasonUresti

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SoldierIce64 said:
I was honestly surprised by this announcement, Kojima definitely knows how to create excitement and I'm glad he's working on something other than Metal Gear.
Del Toro being involved is fantastic and judging by his films and love of monsters, we'll be seeing some scary ass creatures in this game. But sadly I don't think he'll be super involved with this game because he already has so much on his plate when it comes other projects (Pacific Rim 2 + animated series, Crimson Peak and more). I feel like he'll be involved with the monsters and possibly the plot, but not much else. But then again, I want to be wrong.
Getting Norman Reedus on board was also a surprise. He's such a nice guy, I got to take a picture with him at a comic convention a year ago and he was super good to his fans. Glad to see he's teaming up with Kojima and Del Toro, hopefully they can make a game worthy of the Silent Hill name.

My theory on the making of Silent Hills is that its the remnants of Del Toro's "Insane" project, the one that got canned a couple of years ago. When you think about it, the idea of Insane is similar to Silent Hill. Del Toro once said this about Insane: "With this new series of video games, I want to take players to a place they have never seen before, where every single action makes them question their own senses of morality and reality." (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/13/insane-trilogy-game-rights-held-by-thq-del-toro-keeps-movie-rig/). Maybe when Insane got cancelled Kojima proposed the idea of a new Silent Hill game to Del Toro? Kojima definitely enjoys Del Toro's work (or at least Pacific Rim), as noticed by his tweets about the movie (http://kotaku.com/hideo-kojima-reviews-pacific-rim-in-eight-tweets-680304164) so I can only imagine he asked Del Toro about the possibility of making a new game with him.

Now for the idea of the Silent Hills game itself.
From what I can tell, the concept of Silent Hills (notice the plural) is about each player exploring their own personal hell, one that is completely different from another person's. Norman Reedus' character will just be the vessel in which you explore your own personal Silent Hill. As noticed by the P.T. demo, the game teases at the idea of randomness to entice and frighten you. Maybe the full game will actually react to how you play or keep you guessing because of its randomness? Could it possibly be an expansion of Shattered Memories' psychological tests that changed the game as you played? Kojima is already encouraging people to play the P.T. demo together on streaming sites such as Twitch (http://kotaku.com/nobody-actually-knows-how-they-solved-the-silent-hill-t-1621044581), maybe that's a hint at the personal hell that the full Silent Hill game will have and emphasizes the idea of sharing that hell with your friends and other people on the internet? A game like this will allow Kojima to easily fuck with people like he already does with Metal Gear while Del Toro's imagination and Reedus' acting will bring the horror to life.

Maybe this is just me looking between the lines, but this is the first time I've been truly excited for a game in a long time. To me, this is a dream team come true, Silent Hill is a series that Kojima and Del Toro can use their fantastic creativity to the fullest and make something truly special happen. I can't wait.
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I think this might be more than remnants of Insane, I think this project is largely what Insane was being designed as. Del Toro talked a couple years back about it being in the hands of a very respected developer and they were going to start production. With Kojima's support and Konami believing in the project, it's very possible all parties decided to go big with it and make it into the new Silent Hill. This is a move that both gives a (basically) brand new project some extra safety of being under an established name, and could help to reinvigorate the Silent Hill brand which in recent years has fallen off as Konami has struggled to find a good team and approach for.

Hopefully Guillermo has Guy Davis supplying some of his great monster designs for this. I'm also excited to Kojima's game design tricks and sensibilities put to work in a horror game. I think this genre will play to his strengths in area (I'm hoping Del Toro and Kojima can both cancel out the weaknesses in each others writing)
 
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twobear

sputum-flecked apoplexy
Cave Johnson said:
This is how you do trailers. No CG and no bullshit. See what it did for a dying franchise? I bet the awareness of this game has reached in levels than any of the previous games have done before.
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To be fair I think it probably helped that one of the most famous videogame creators in the world is involved along with a major film director.
 
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UrbanRats

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-MD- said:
I mean how couldn't you? You could play through Beyond without thinking about Ellen Page?
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Sometimes, if a performance is strong enough.

When i see Cruise in a film, i only see Tom Cruise.

However when i watched Tree of Life, i didn't see Brad Pitt, and saw the character, since his performance was outstanding.
 
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TheBlueBomber

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-MD- said:
I mean how couldn't you? You could play through Beyond without thinking about Ellen Page?
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i can watch/play something and take the person for the character theyre playing, i didnt play Beyond, but she's playing a character, not herself in the game, idk how you can't
 
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Lime

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UrbanRats said:
Definitely gets my Palvovian smile going.
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:lol It was total fanservice. I understand why they put it in and it was cool to hear, but after having the theme driven to the ground by subsequent trailers and releases after SH1, it doesn't prove much to me. I.e. I mostly just associate it with SH1 (and to some extent SH3 because of the plot) and that's it. Anything else using it doesn't make much sense to me.

It's almost like the aural equivalent of Pyramid Head to me. :)
 
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UrbanRats

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Lime said:
:lol It was total fanservice. I understand why they put it in and it was cool to hear, but after having the theme driven to the ground by subsequent trailers and releases after SH1, it doesn't prove much to me. I.e. I mostly just associate it with SH1 (and to some extent SH3 because of the plot) and that's it. Anything else using it doesn't make much sense to me.

It's almost like the aural equivalent of Pyramid Head to me. :)
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That was definitely the point of using it.

Though this teaser marks the "return of Silent Hill" in such a way that i can forgive the use of an iconic piece.
They started with a teaser that no one knew being connected to Konami, much less silent Hill.
So using that music was sort of warranted, for a quick emotional identification beyond the title itself.

Bottomline being: Not the most gratuitous use of such a thing, for the series.

I wish they hadn't (as you point out) ran it into the ground before this.
 
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-MD-

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TheBlueBomber said:
i can watch/play something and take the person for the character theyre playing, i didnt play Beyond, but she's playing a character, not herself in the game, idk how you can't
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I can but when it's a video game character that looks 100% like the actor it's pretty hard not think of the actor playing it.

Because it's a video game.
 
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glottis8

Banned
-MD- said:
I can but when it's a video game character that looks 100% like the actor it's pretty hard not think of the actor playing it.

Because it's a video game.
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I thought Willem Dafoe and Pierce Brosnan did a good job in Everything or Nothing.

But i agree... there are some actors. Beyond is a great example. Ellen Page was just awful. No substance.

Other games i can think of where they had lookalikes was LA Noire.
 
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JBourne

maybe tomorrow it rains
I shouldn't have watched Patrick play this. Now I just want to drop everything else I'm playing and go through Silent Hill 3 again.
 
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EVIL

Member
JasonUresti said:
Hopefully Guillermo has Guy Davis supplying some of his great monster designs for this. I'm also excited to Kojima's game design tricks and sensibilities put to work in a horror game. I think this genre will play to his strengths in area (I'm hoping Del Toro and Kojima can both cancel out the weaknesses in each others writing)
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While I love Guy Davis and his work, I don't think his monster looks are very fitting to Silent Hill. He manages a more.. fantasy style for creatures, instead of the twisted corrupted monsters that provide silent hill with its unique look
 
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Sylver

Banned
iKhayal18 said:
Release it also on Wii U then. I can't even image what they would be able to do with the Wii U Gamepad (even if it added just an off-tv mode, that would improve the experience considerably). Silent Hill Shattered Memories on Wii wasn't that bad...
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Well you can play it via Remote Play on Vita, I played it yesterday with my Vita and was amazing.
 
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Detective

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The greatest teaser of all time.
Maybe Capcom will learn something from this an realize what people wants.
A HORROR GAME. Not Thriller, Not Action horror rolling on the ground shooting and kicking. Bring RE back to were it belongs or give it to Kojima.

Is this multi or exclusive?
 
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TheJollyCorner

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Thorgal said:
I have seen it mentioned many times but is there any proof that either Kojima or Torro will be writing the story ?
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We pretty much know jackshit about who's doing what, unfortunately.
Don't know who's writing, don't know who's directing, don't know who's composing, etc.

Maybe we get some details in the coming months... or they wait to officially blow it out @ E3 2015?


Either way- the painful wait that began last week when the mystery was solved will likely carry on for a while. I'm not too optimistic at an official unveil at TGS, either.
 
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TheJollyCorner

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BY2K said:
I wonder if the fact that P.T was exclusive to PS4 means Silent Hills will be too.
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Yeah- a lot of people have been wondering this for about a week now.



If it's Konami doing all the heavy lifting? No way in hell it will be exclusive.

If Sony jumped in and assisted development? Yes.


As of now we just don't know, but the lack of a Studio Japan or SCE WW studios logo during the SILENT HILLS trailer at the end leads me to believe that Konami is actually carrying this thing on their own. Pretty amazing, considering almost the last decade of mediocrity.
 
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ryuken-d

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wow, I played PT and it was so amazingly fucked up and scary. they did a great job. I had to look online to beat it, how could you know what to do? screaming into mic?! what! so cool, cant wait for the new silent hill (s) !!
 
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ryuken-d

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OricWindstar said:
Just played PT for around 30 minutes before getting killed. Now I have to try and got sleep; this is going to be a rough night...
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you got killed?! how did that happened I didnt get killed, I didnt think it was possible. I did run through the red lighted halls ways for 10 minutes
before I looked through that damn hole... so stupid
. I just ran and ran and walked a little.
 
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Pachimari

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I'm playing through that P.T. teaser and I'm on my 3rd run through the house, and I just can't do this. As soon as I hear woman cries near me to the left at the door with surround sound, I had to pause it. And I think I'm gonna turn off the PS4.
 
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gconsole

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iKhayal18 said:
Release it also on Wii U then. I can't even imagine what they would be able to do with the Wii U Gamepad (even if it added just an off-tv mode, that would improve the experience considerably). Silent Hill Shattered Memories on Wii wasn't that bad...
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Sorry, WiiU can't even render the door in this game.
 
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