JetBlackPanda
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Holy fuck... Konami.... I don't even...
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Guillermo del Toro confirms he will not be collaborating with Kojima on Silent Hills
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afternoon delight
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brandonh83
Banned
If people don't give a shit anymore it's because how the franchise has been handled after around SH3. I think PT demonstrated that when you do something of quality, people will be interested. I thought PT was pretty cool but for me it was always just a promise. I do prefer the third person, story-driven aspect of Silent Hill and while PT was neat it didn't scratch that itch. But it promised something that would dig into that itch later on down the line with a tube of Neosporin.
People care about Silent Hill, you just have to give them something that promises greatness. PT did that, hence the excitement. I'm not saying a series with the concept of PT wouldn't be cool, it would be, but Silent Hill is fucking awesome and yes, people do give a shit about it.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Yet people are gonna buy mgs5 in droves
JetBlackPanda
Member
part of me wants to buy it used. Kojima deserves better..
Why is this happening? Konami!?!
It's hard not to view Konami as one of the worst companies in gaming right now, maybe some details will come to light about this whole situation but as things stand they just look to be ruining a bunch of amazing things for no reason.
PT was/is incredible and the plan for Silent Hills had me so excited.
PT was/is incredible and the plan for Silent Hills had me so excited.
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
A Jonah and the whale type story where you are swallowed up by a Kaiju and have to survive as long as you can against various creepy crawlies sounds OK.
Wouldn't really be Silent Hill though
akidnamededdy
Banned
Officially buying MGSV used, fuck off forever Konami.
matrixman92
Member
PES.....castlevania....rising 2 maybe...thats it
Basically.
Yep.
I hope Konami enjoy making gym towels, or whatever the fuck they want to do.
I think I'm going to cancel my MGSV special edition.
EDIT:
Done.
Fuck you, Konami. Seriously.
Fried Food
Banned
Well that's disappointing.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
There really wouldn't be anymore silent hill anyway.
brandonh83
Banned
I'm not going to make consumer-based decisions for other people, but that decision would have my full support.
Either going to borrow MGSV from a friend or Gamefly it. I hate that because I love Kojima, but it is what it is.
Dead Man Typing
Member
Crap, I thought I didn't need Konami after mgs5 but I forgot about Rising.
The Mad Draklor
Member
So I wake up in the morning, log into GAF, and this is the first thing I see.
God. Fucking. Dammit.
God. Fucking. Dammit.
diesturbia
Member
Not me. Going to either borrow it or buy it used. MGSV went from day one to buy it used sometime maybe.
It just sucks. I want to support Kojima and his work for MGSV, but I don't want to give Konami a dime. I think P.T. was the nail in the coffin for me.
P used from GameStop.That Brown Guy
Member
Um, he actually said "greasy heart"?
plagiarize
Banned
Well I want more of what P.T. gave me, and non of that relied on it secretly being a teaser for a Silent Hill game. P.T. generated huge interest when we only suspected it had something to do with Kojima. It didn't need a publisher we'd heard or, or a franchise we'd heard of, or a horror director's name attached to it or even confirmation that it came from Hideo.
Kojima announcing a horror game in the vein of P.T. would be huge news, more so if Del Toro is attached. P.T. didn't need Silent Hill. Any further horror projects from Kojima won't either.
Cloud Strife
Member
NOOOOOOOO
Catalix
And on the sixth day the LORD David Bowie created man and woman in His image. And he saw that it was good. On the seventh day the LORD created videogames so that He might take the bloody day off for once.
I'm fully assuming Rising 2 is dead at this point, which upsets me more than anything from this whole fiasco.
E the Shaggy
Junior Member
What is even Konami's business plan at this point? What games are even coming out from the company with Kojima leaving?
PROh1bited
Banned
Konami is the new Capcom.
Castlevania is dead now, though.
Yeah, Kojima and del Toro teaming back up to make a first-person horror game.
meltingparappa
Member
The thing is, say that Silent Hills was 10% complete but with a complete design doc and most of the pre-production finished and was seen by a million different people at Konami, with the management pouring over them and approving them (even if only for budgetary reasons).
If KojiPro recycles ANY of that, it might mean an immediate lawsuit after the game reaches a point where that content is revealed to the public (i.e., when the game is almost done). If they change thew new Pyramid Head character into a Square Head character, that's still a little iffy.
The path of least legal and financial resistance is to just abandon the dream, and mourn that they went through all the trouble of making a digital Daryl for nothing.
N° 2048
Member
Bemani.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Didn't Naoki leave too?
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
True.
In fact, they could just go the whole hog and create a Pacific Rim horror game. You control Charlie Kelly who, fearing a second Kaiju invasion, drifts with a Kaiju brain once again and is stranded inside a literal alien nightmare.
You can put whatever you want inside the game, giant monsters, tiny insect monsters, his own childhood memories of school, hospital visits, ron perlman chasing you with a switchblade, it's all on the table.
It would be Silent Hill in all but name.
