Also if they need to convince investors I am 100% sure they would get 5+ million dollars on kickstarter.
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Junji Ito was involved in Silent Hills
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Also if they need to convince investors I am 100% sure they would get 5+ million dollars on kickstarter.
Just read a news article. There are two companies involved, Shibuya and Sony. Shibuya are helping with marketing and production. Sony are helping with "some publishing" according to Yu Suzuki himself.
So people asking Sony to make Silent Hills a reality, don't bet on it.
onepiecefan
Member
F sake, this game had all the ingredients to be an absolute masterpiece.
Exentryk
Member
Watch out. The gap in the door...
it's a separate reality.
The only me is me.
Are you sure the only you is you?
This Silent Hill has gotten a bit too postmodern for comfort.
HyperBitHero
Member
What the fuck...how could they do this?
I know what you feel. Last time I felt that was when Final Fantasy was canned on N64.
And well, thank God it happened. But SH is different.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
There is still hope
Let it go, my son.
Why?
I do have a feeling Kojima was spending money like water. Just look at MGSV. He got Kiefer Sutherland as the voice actor for Big Boss. I bet he wasn't cheap, but the end result is WAAAAAAY less voice work. An almost mute Big Boss/Snake is just so damn weird.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
paragonpro
Banned
FUCK EVERYTHING. Maybe the three of them can go to kick starter, I am confident they would get an absurd amount of money to make a horror game.
noctis_pls
Banned
Fucking bullshit... we didn't need to know this 
JigglesBunny
Banned
Son of a fucking bitch, ow.
You were too beautiful for this putrid world, Silent Hills.
You were too beautiful for this putrid world, Silent Hills.
no, they didn't give yu suzuki any money for development. sony's involvement in shenmue 3 is limited to support in marketing, technology, and a section of the publishing (likely getting physical ps4 copies made). this is all in the kickstarter FAQ and was reiterated in an interview with gio corsi.
in the case of silent hills, there's nothing stopping sony snatching up kojima (either as first party, or if he forms an independent studio) to make what silent hills would have been with del toro and ito. P.T lit the gaming world on fire and the fact silent hills got canned left a huge void that copycats and 'inspired by' games are trying to fill. i can see it definitely receiving a respectable budget too. you've got one of the biggest names in gaming pairing up with an acclaimed film director and an artistic/literary icon in the horror genre. there's a lot of potential for reaching a lot of demographics with that.
considering sony does a lot to try winning hearts and minds of gamers, a 'revived' silent hills under a new name feels very possible to me.
PancakeAlmighty
Member
This just in, cripplingly upsetting cancellation becomes even more upsetting
Hero Prinny
Member
Not for nothing but the game could still exist, kojima and del toro arent no names, just get someone else and boom, a spiritual successor to the game that never was
light story spoiler:
No its not, it made sense in the context of the story.
So I don't mean to pour more salt (or troll), but this project sounds like a money pit. Don't get me wrong it sounds cool but also I got a nagging feeling there wasn't a snowballs chance anyone was going to make their money back. Please note I am speaking from my armchair here.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Wow, wow
Spieler Eins
Member
PT wasn't too promising, but now I also start to feel disappointed.
indigo-cyclops
Member
This news is especially devastating since Ito actually released something within the last year or whatever. This fucking sucks.
Visualante2
Member
I have a copy of Uzumaki. Does it really matter? You don't have to be familiar with his work to understand that it would have been a dream team.
kitschbeam
Member
You feel it too don't you?
Harken Raiser
Banned
The only reason I discovered his work is because of people talking about him on GAF - so I assume there's a lot of fans on this site.
Turin Turambar
Member
He's more known than you may think. I found that a fairly sized amount of people have read one or two of his short stories even if they aren't regular manga readers.
not to turn this into a shenmue thread or anything, but the wording in that quote annoys me a lot. suzuki never mislead anybody. media and people on this very forum rushed to link sony as more involved in shenmue 3 than had been mentioned. it didn't help that some weird flustered attempts from sony pr to get closer to the project during the e3 news cycle were misinterpreted. it even persisted after the kickstarter finished with people still thinking sony has any kind of financial input in development of shenmue 3, all because of the press jumping to conclusions and sony wanting to suck up the fanfare.
but anyway, silent hills. i think sony funding a kojima/ito/del toro game as a new IP is actually still pretty likely. it's more likely if kojima ends up as a 1st or 2nd party dev under sony, but it could still happen even if he becomes a third party.