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New SILENT HILL by Hideo Kojima & Guillermo Del Toro starring Norman Reedus
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The Silver
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The real Silent Hills will probably be in 3rd person but I would really like a game in the vein of the teaser, they utilized the 1st person perspective wonderfully.
It just needs to be tightened up a lot so you aren't wandering aimlessly so often.
It just needs to be tightened up a lot so you aren't wandering aimlessly so often.
You need to zoom in on anything that looks suspicious to you.
Check the radio, the phone, photographs, the plants, the clock, the door knobs, the lights.
Zoom on EVERYTHING, that's how you trigger events.
What happened with this? What is the unannounced PS4 title?
Admiral Woofington
Member
The lighting and textures were orgasmic. My friends and I wouldn't shut the fuck up over how good it looked. Especially on a ps4.
Fancy Clown
Member
Dunno about CG movie in real-time, but it's pretty damn good looking. There's decent amount of aliasing though.
PaulKersey
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Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The Tomorrow Children.
dark_inferno
Member
Also Pop ups (shadows) in 4-5 meters range.
So what... two hills now? what's up with that? are they rebooting the franchise by adding a plural? Sounds cool, but not the people I would expect for a SH game, Kojima's games are like low-end action movies in terms of script and del Toro films... I don't know, his creatures are good, but the overall themes of his body of work doesn't come close to SH, Kojima either. This is going to be a mainstream horror reboot, i doubt it will maintain the same type of fucked-upness 1-3 had.
It was phenomenal seeing a "next-gen" horror game boasting some of the best technical visuals and atmosphere I've seen on current consoles. Just from the introduction where they have a close-up on the cockroach and slowly zoom out; until they allow you to move your character, I thought it was a pre-rendered cutscene.
And weirdly enough, I thought it looked much better with the lights on than off, imo. There weren't really dynamic shadows on a lot of objects, flashlight wasn't acting like a real flashlight (you should be able to see more than 5 feet in front of you with it on, unless it's an exceptionally weak flashlight), and it looked more "video-gamey" in general.
Its a short, free gimmick game, you shouldnt expect to much of it.
brandonh83
Banned
See, I'm on the side of the fence that doesn't think that Silent Hill is total dogshit if it doesn't "capture" what you're talking about. People enjoyed Shattered Memories, and I would say that a fair share of people that actually finished Downpour thought it was at the very least a solid horror game with an awesome story.
I think that there's too much of an obsession with "Team Silent." They're not the only people on the planet that can create great atmosphere. They were artistically brilliant, but they're not the only artists out there. You're also preemptively criticizing something that we know almost nothing about at this point simply because they didn't make some grand announcement that "Team Silent" is back and they're in their same game and playing field that they were a few decades ago.
Kojima's team totally has the potential and skill to pull this off. You might be right; this game may not be the original Silent Hill. But it can still be damn good and have its own atmosphere; in fact I would rather see them establish their own aesthetic instead of trying to replicate Team Silent's vision. It would at least feel more honest and not a carbon copy. I want a new experience.
People are hyped because Kojima and his team are equipped and skilled people and going by their work on Metal Gear, extremely attentive to details and have great artists. This is easily the most optimistic situation that Silent Hill has seen in a long while. For the time being it's fine to be excited as it was a really shocking and interesting reveal, and Kojima is no slouch.
As much as I love SH1-3, they really just borrowed extremely heavily from the horror genre of film, this game already has the Eraserhead baby. It's true that the Metal Gears are 'low-end action', but that's because that's where he took inspiration, that will obviously not be the case here.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
And thank God that is your opinion.
Love Deterrence
Member
WELCOME!
The lighting and depth of field were both fantastic, but the darkness of the overall game does hide a lot, so it's hard to really judge. But yeah, even from just a brief glance, it looks great.
dr guildo
Member
I felt exactly the same about GFX, this is basically RE rebirth in real time, nothing less !!
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I dunno I saw seams all over the place but that might just be me. Otherwise it looked pretty great.
mekes
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I'm still in a bit of shock about this announcement, I thought the series was dead after the last few games. Which would of course been a disgraceful way for such a series to go out! The shock is also that they are seemingly taking it so seriously, based on the names involved with the project.
I think we have every right to expect a fantastic Silent Hill game based on what has been shared
I think we have every right to expect a fantastic Silent Hill game based on what has been shared
RedAssedApe
Banned
the same reason why anyone gets hyped when a new game in one of their favorite franchises gets announced
some of us hold on to hope. that and the teaser was well done.
I think Reedus will have a cameo in MGSV.
Is this Trolljimas way of announcing a new godzilla game?
SkylineRKR
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It seemed to me that it was about a family drama. There has been an execution in the bathroom and there is a vengeful spirit of a mother and a laughing baby.
Ito needs to get back, and Yamaoka too.
Monster design it's just an area that gets consistently fucked up ever since he left.
Admiral Woofington
Member
From discussion looks like
man loses his job. Becomes an alcoholic. Wife gets job as a waitress, starts having an affair with the boss. Becomes pregnant. Husband finds out and murders her, stabs her stomach and removes the fetus. Her vengeful ghost is that haunting the house
Maybe Norman Reedus is related to them or he's completely unrelated. Who knows.
I'm still in a bit of shock about this announcement, I thought the series was dead after the last few games. Which would of course been a disgraceful way for such a series to go out! The shock is also that they are seemingly taking it so seriously, based on the names involved with the project.
I think we have every right to expect a fantastic Silent Hill game based on what has been shared
This!!
I'm so hyped, loved the PT.
Their scanning tech should become the norm.
They were right when they said artists can't really capture shape and surface details as accurately as scanning them directly.
Look closely at the candy bag, the cans, the bottles, the coat rack... those are very simple objects yet they felt very real.
The photo-realism reached is unlike anything I've seen in real-time, excluding racing games. This feels like a pixar demo.
Then again it's a L-shaped corridor in first-person looping a few times with a single enemy.
Thing is, scanning hardware is very expensive.
They were right when they said artists can't really capture shape and surface details as accurately as scanning them directly.
Look closely at the candy bag, the cans, the bottles, the coat rack... those are very simple objects yet they felt very real.
The photo-realism reached is unlike anything I've seen in real-time, excluding racing games. This feels like a pixar demo.
Then again it's a L-shaped corridor in first-person looping a few times with a single enemy.
Thing is, scanning hardware is very expensive.
GusZamboni
Member
what about the One version?
Admiral Woofington
Member
No confirmation but chances are it's multiplat.
Anyone who is invoking any silent hill game post "the room" really needs to step back and realize why this game has a lot more to be excited about.
This is the first time since Silent Hill 4 that there has been a dev team with a proven track record for quality placed on its production. With the directorial talent to be both visually interesting and mechanically engaging. Silent Hill games other than 2 have never had out of this world writing. All we need is a competent story wrapped in an other wise good game, and it will literally be better than anything this series has seen in almost a decade.
This is the first time since Silent Hill 4 that there has been a dev team with a proven track record for quality placed on its production. With the directorial talent to be both visually interesting and mechanically engaging. Silent Hill games other than 2 have never had out of this world writing. All we need is a competent story wrapped in an other wise good game, and it will literally be better than anything this series has seen in almost a decade.
How the heck can you come to that conclusion? The talent involved alone will guarantee this is different from post-Team Silent games (and all of them had their pros and cons). Seems that "real" SH games are Team Silent-produced, and then there's everything else.
Are we getting rid of all the Silent Hills post 4? Then yes, the S may be a play on 5 (I think it's unlikely). If not, then this is technically the 9th or so Silent Hill.
That makes me more excited for Silent Hill5
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
It's happening right now, and been on for 40 minutes. Still going though, and nothing SH yet.
Did just announce MGSV for Steam though, so Silent Hills may be coming to PC.
http://www.twitch.tv/konami
Well, yes. The first three games were works of art by very specific, special artists. It's less like a movie studio and more like a rock band. The band is still called Silent Hill, but every single original member is gone.
Imagine a band calling itself Pink Floyd and no one from the band was present. But they tried really hard to make it sound like the old albums. I wouldn't call it a Pink Floyd album just because it had the same name. But it might be a nice tribute, and they could develop their own sound if they wanted to.