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Kotaku: Silent Hills officially cancelled
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Guys, I hope you realize that the trending is relative to your own personal interests on your Twitter account.
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Deleted member 10571
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Aw man. I know it's in style to hate Konami, but all I can think about is how long they were along with me for this weird silly videogame ride, from Game Boy until today. And now they're -presumably- gone soon, with this as the end of it all. It's a shame, really :/
Whoever's suffering and afraid of losing their job within the company right now, and reading this stupid forum: I wish you guys and girls all the best. You are the good guys, even if your bosses are maybe crazy people.
Whoever's suffering and afraid of losing their job within the company right now, and reading this stupid forum: I wish you guys and girls all the best. You are the good guys, even if your bosses are maybe crazy people.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Knew that this new CEO was an idiot. How can a CEO just give a middle finger to its company. Man.
I meant that Bethesda did well with The Evil Within, was being sarcastic to make a point dammit.
I meant that Bethesda did well with The Evil Within, was being sarcastic to make a point dammit.
tintin1029
Member
Crap. I forgot to add the "Chronicles" part.
Fox Mulder
Member
Has there even been a game that released an amazing demo, got tons of attention, but was canceled like this?
"Konami is going to burn MGS into the ground."
As if they didn't already do that with sacking Kojima. All Kojima can do is finish MGS5 quickly, make some bank and then bounce from the sinking Konami game-space.
As if they didn't already do that with sacking Kojima. All Kojima can do is finish MGS5 quickly, make some bank and then bounce from the sinking Konami game-space.
DecoyOctopus
Member
Konami is trending worldwide.
ArkkAngel007
Member
I can't follow the logic that because Silent Hill was never a major hit that it can never be so. The first film iirc did really well with home video release, and Silent Hill is extremely well known at least in the US despite the references (mostly to fog) likely overshadowing dramatically that of actual first hand knowledge through playing of any of the installments.
Combine that with AMC heartthrob/bad-ass Norman Reedus and strong marketing, we could have possibly seen a Resident Evil 5 sales situation (if multi-plat). It's a surprisingly large pool of potential audience.
Combine that with AMC heartthrob/bad-ass Norman Reedus and strong marketing, we could have possibly seen a Resident Evil 5 sales situation (if multi-plat). It's a surprisingly large pool of potential audience.
biglittleps
Member
Seems like mobile gaming killing AAA games because the time and money needed for these are too much this generation and if the game fails with critics then its going to be disaster. So companies are happy with mobiles profits which requires less time and money without any problems from critics at all because they are F2P mostly.
Sephiroth_GR_
Member
Why was the post deleted?
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I guess it means that Konami will want faster development on the series even at the cost of it's quality. I'm sure that the next MGS after Kojima won't take 5 years, 2 at most.
Leafhopper
Banned
I think he meant sales wise that Sega would want.
Memorabilia
Member
This just triggered my gag reflex. Lol Sadly, as funny as this is, its not too far off from the thinking thats infecting the entire industry now.
Teletraan1
Banned
Hopefully the cancelling and a huge uproar will prompt someone else to make something new in this genre. While people love their tried and true gaming series it wouldn't hurt to have some new blood in this genre. I can't think of a better example of this than Cities Skylines. It rose from the ashes of Simcity's dead husk to be a better game. I hope we can see something similar with this genre.
LookAtMeGo
Member
I hope somebody picks these guys up and funds a game from them that doesnt carry the Silent Hill name. Please, somebody.
DXLelouch153
Banned
and it wont be Metal Gear in anything but name
IDK Konami is watching
Horror games are a dime a dozen. They vary in quality, P.T happened to be at the top without resorting to jump scares and being chased.
fluffydelusions
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TheGreatDirector
Banned
What a mess. The amount of excitement for this project seemed unheard of for the series. What a disappointment.
Stiler
Member
So freaking stupid.
The PT demo garnered so much positive pressand people were excited for a new SH game from Kojima/Del Toro, you had two great talents working on a gamethat mayn people were excited for and then the company seems to just tank it on purpose by ruining their relationship.
I don't get why Sony doesn't step up to the plate, offer Kojima/Del Toro the chance to make the game for them officially and fund it as a first party exclusive to ps4. They can call it something else besides Silent Hill so Konami can't do anything about it (As long as they start fresh and don't use any assets or things from the time under Konami.
The only wrinkle in this might be if Kojima has a non-compete agreement with Konami until "X" time.
The PT demo garnered so much positive pressand people were excited for a new SH game from Kojima/Del Toro, you had two great talents working on a gamethat mayn people were excited for and then the company seems to just tank it on purpose by ruining their relationship.
I don't get why Sony doesn't step up to the plate, offer Kojima/Del Toro the chance to make the game for them officially and fund it as a first party exclusive to ps4. They can call it something else besides Silent Hill so Konami can't do anything about it (As long as they start fresh and don't use any assets or things from the time under Konami.
The only wrinkle in this might be if Kojima has a non-compete agreement with Konami until "X" time.
My point still stands.
We need verification from someone's twitter who's not associated with gaming at all.
DXLelouch153
Banned
Sony might just be biding their time, waiting for the opportunity to strike
remember Yoshida is friends with Kojima
brandonh83
Banned
I just think some of these franchises would be better off, hell, a lot of games would be better off if they would just dial it back a bit. I don't think Silent Hill needs a huge budget to be good. I think if anything, if I saw an effort that was more reliant on the story and atmosphere, you know, utilizing art direction to execute the presentation instead of being a graphical dick-waving contest that I'd feel better about it. Silent Hill does deserve good production value, but I think that can be done without spending so much money.
Sure, giving Kojima the budget he would have needed to execute this grand plan may have been vast, but it doesn't mean it would have been a great Silent Hill game. A great horror game, perhaps, but I'm not convinced it would have scratched that itch. Some argue that it would have been better than Silent Hill due to the concept, but the concept in the teaser was basically mainstream horror, which Silent Hill is not. It's fine to prefer one thing to the other, but don't take an existing property and change it to appeal to people that never liked it.
I'm not saying that this would have been the case, but while I was excited for the game, it wasn't really because Kojima was attached to it. I thought it was promising but the jury was still out on it. My point is, if they don't want to spend that much money, they need to take it in a more reasonable direction. I would be fine with a digital only Silent Hill game made by a passionate team with the resources to execute a realistic vision in accordance with budget. I thought Downpour was a brilliant game that was held back by bad management.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
As long as it sells, and it will sell, at least for a couple of entries.
DXLelouch153
Banned
if that leaked interview report from Super BunnyHop is true then the franchise is doomed anyways
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Well I feel Kamegawa knows that, specially after he kicked Kojima.
But they want to get the most of the brand until is not longer profitable.
Also, ot, but Maria Ozawa is trending in my Worldwide feed, not Konami.
See.
Also says something about your twitter habits eh?
There are websites that track this independently. I don't know about worldwide, but right now Konami is the one of the top topics trending in the U.S.
lol
The Blackrose
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You are confusing Tailored Trends with the actual regional data.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
I hope so. That was just an obtuse warmed over point and click adventure. Didn't really like it.
R10Neymarfan
Member
Probably because they got delisted on NYSE
brandonh83
Banned
Their official statement when asked about the cancellation should be "nanomachines."
paragonpro
Banned
It's so appropriate that opened this thread and started episode duscae at the same time, because that title screen music perfectly matches the atmosphere this announcment and monumental fuck up that konami has created.
BumblebeeCody
Member
Dunno why but I find this funny. I was pretty interested in getting it though. Would love to see how far they got into development. Show a video of what could've been and stuff as opposed to waiting 6 years for it show up it on unseen64.