10/10 would watch again lol
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Kotaku: Silent Hills officially cancelled
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10/10 would watch again lol
Sephiroth_GR_
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DidntKnowJack
Member
I don't know why everyone is so upset. Now the door is finally open for a Downpour 2! Maybe even Homecoming 2! Get excited!
Soultaker0220
Member
konami you are treading on thin ice
I just realized something:
A soulless entity that works its contractual employees to the bone and then discards them once they are no longer of use, feeling no sympathy or gratitude and turning a deaf ear to the outcry of people on the outside...
Konami isn't The Devil.
Konami is Kyubey.
A soulless entity that works its contractual employees to the bone and then discards them once they are no longer of use, feeling no sympathy or gratitude and turning a deaf ear to the outcry of people on the outside...
Konami isn't The Devil.
Konami is Kyubey.
Stone Ocean
Member
We would already know that by now
matrixman92
Member
I think the worst part is that I was playing through all silent hill games for the first time to get ready for this. Suffered through the shitty ones...only had one more to go
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
This joke is more painful than funny.
Castle Vidcon as hilariously on-point as ever.
Mr. Enigma
Member
I wish Konami would just sell the Silent Hill IP to Sony or someone else. They have no clue what they are fucking doing.
A Link to the Past
Banned
I'd love to see them sell their properties, but you know they will never do that. I'd be curious to see what Nintendo, Sony, and MS would buy, if any. I'd like to see Bomberman and Adventure Island go to Nintendo, and Silent Hill to be MS or Sony.
Mr. Enigma
Member
And they don't care about console gaming anymore either. They make all their money now on mobile and Pachinko machines.
DXLelouch153
Banned
if theres a defense force for everything
then theres a fanbase for everything
someone make that a new rule
AstroNut325
Member
I have not been following what's been happening. What happened? Where's Kojima? Why didn't he step in to save SH?
Stone Ocean
Member
You really don't know about the whole Kojima leaving Konami thing?
It's kind of a big deal.
Ninja Scooter
Member
What a bone head company to just let PT and it's buzz die without capitalizing on it. Just stupid.
Kojima had an affair with Konami CEO's wife.
DXLelouch153
Banned
probably had an orgy with all the higher ups wives
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
In my restless dreams it did.
And Konami have now killed off Silent Hill and Castlevania, and MGS V will likely be the last one anyone cares about, so I guess they just want to exit video games completely. Hope they'll at least sell off their major IPs to someone who can actually do something with them.
C'mon Sony, buy Silent Hill and MGS ;_;
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Sn4ke, do you like to rub salt in the wound, brother? WHY DO YOU DO THIS?
Short version:
Konami is likely fucking Kojima over somehow, as his place on the board is gone, he is currently only contracting on MGS5,and he and his team will be gone in December(Konami is also systematically removing Kojima's name from all of his games, a total dick move).
This leaves Kojima unable to "save" Silent Hills from cancellation. There was some hope that they'd sell the IP to Sony or Kojima himself or something, but instead we're likely to get a half-assed game designed by a no-name Western developer on the cheap.
AstroNut325
Member
What? Kojima is no longer with or going to be with Konami? When did this happen? And why?
Edit:
Wives?
MistaBowaa
Member
If Kojima took to Kickstarter to make a horror game in the same vein as P.T. I would put $100 down instantly. I'm pretty sure he could get a huge budget by doing KS in the near term because of all the feels from the community.
I wonder if anything would prevent him from doing so.
I wonder if anything would prevent him from doing so.
Replace "EA" with "Atari" and you'd have a terrible night.
I do wonder if any of this fallout will result in several of the developers leaving and form their own company like Treasure did in the 90s.
Lets hope it sells them to an independent studio and not some company like Sony of Microsoft which would basically turn the games into exclusives and preclude people from being able to play it if they had a different console, wanted the best version.
Could they still fuck that up to? Or is it too late into development?
Shame Silent Hil got cancelled. I enjoyed P.T.
Mors_Verigo
Banned
Hell yeah! Survival horror is ba- oh wait never mind it's dead again...
How can it be "officially canceled" if Konami won't say shit?
This whole circus is completely ridiculous because they won't say anything about console development, their IPs or anything else. If your going to cancel the games, fire the creators and downsize to lower levels development(ie ditching core games), atleast let your shareholders and stakeholders know about what your doing, this is completely irresponsible as a company
This whole circus is completely ridiculous because they won't say anything about console development, their IPs or anything else. If your going to cancel the games, fire the creators and downsize to lower levels development(ie ditching core games), atleast let your shareholders and stakeholders know about what your doing, this is completely irresponsible as a company
This is the most absurd aspect.
I won't say that Silent Hills was necessarily going to do huge numbers (no horror ever will, anyway), but given the state the franchise was in (after they tore it to shreds with 10 years of bad decisions), the amount of buzz and attention P.T. got, was nothing short of a miracle.
Yet they are just happy to throw it all in the trash like this.
paragonpro
Banned
:3
It hurts, it just hurts so much.
ladyluthien
Member
I know it's been said like a million times already, but this is such a fucking bummer. I was really, really, really looking forward to what Kojima and Del Toro were going to bring to the series.
It is, but Konami doesn't give a single fuck about games. Not one fuck at all. The only reason Metal Gear is coming out at all is because they spent so much on it that it has to come out. Silent Hills wasn't that far along so they just got rid of it. I would fully expect Metal Gear Solid 5 to be the last full featured game that comes out in the West from them.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Sadness
Ganzlinger
Member
Sorry to post this, I'm sure it was already discussed a lot but this thread is kinda big and there is no further information on the first page. I wasn't following the whole deal with Silent Hills, but did Konami came up with an excuse/explanation for turning it down? As far as I know, P.T. received very positive reviews.
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Xpike
Unconfirmed Member
:3
damn it it looked so good
Meh.. It won't be cancelled just delayed imo until something is sorted out.
They aren't (you'd think) going to waste millions, and gain potential millions more on just one man.
I'm sure PT would've been "one of" the highest downloads on PSN and with all the Attention/Hype/Praise etc, i just don't see a cancel.
They can't be that stupid..
*sleeps better at night*
They aren't (you'd think) going to waste millions, and gain potential millions more on just one man.
I'm sure PT would've been "one of" the highest downloads on PSN and with all the Attention/Hype/Praise etc, i just don't see a cancel.
They can't be that stupid..
*sleeps better at night*