Love Deterrence
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"S" stands for "plural fun, plural scariness." Nope, not even making that up! (That's the meaning Hideo's giving us, anyway!)
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New SILENT HILL by Hideo Kojima & Guillermo Del Toro starring Norman Reedus
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I could definitely see Silent Hills having some aspect of random generation, so each player is seeing a different "Hill". Those parts in P.T. where is seems like things are subtly changing are really unsettling, but it gets dumb with the ending trigger which is hopefully just for the teaser.
AuthenticM
Member
plural scariness
Revengeance.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
The thing that caught my attention is apparently they say they purposely made the graphics and playability worse than the full game so people wouldn't guess it was a professional studio game and think it was independent, and the actual game will look much better.
They consider these graphics bad?
They consider these graphics bad?
Expanding on the concept from Shattered Memories would be pretty darn cool.
Fancy Clown
Member
THE ONLY THING SCARIER THAN SILENT HILL....IS SILENT HILLS.
Scary just got plural.
Scary just got plural.
brandonh83
Banned
The visuals were really nice, but it was still very static. It didn't really have the visual atmosphere that you come to expect from Silent Hill, so I think he just means that it was very plain compared to what the actual game will be like, with an actual character on screen, enemies, animations, particle effects, better textures, etc.
If these were bad, I'm excited and terrified to see how great it'll look when it comes out. Jeebus.
Randomised experience for everyone. That sounds fantastic.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
SILENT HILLS
"You may survived a SILENT HILL, but can you survive several SILENT HILLS?"
Broder Salsa
Banned
I'm sure they are all well aware of how important he is to SH, although downpours soundtrack wasn't bad, it sure as fuck wasn't Yamaoka standard either.
Admiral Woofington
Member
The silent hills have eyes.
Comfort Jones
Banned
You really think the big thing stopping them from getting the guy who got famous for composing music for SH is a twitter campaign? Yamaoka isn't exactly doing nothing right now.
Silent Hills |OT| plural fun,plural scariness
Wishmaster92
Member
Dude...... apart from the aliasing, how the hell can it look better?
Will it look better? This has to be a joke.
Besides, they already have a new composer. That german dude or whatever. Saw him in the list.
Dude...... how the hell can it look better
now imagine the crazy silent hill transformations. That's how.
Love Deterrence
Member
Hahaha! I'm making the OT, so you guys better come up with something good!
Fancy Clown
Member
That's just for PT, I don't think we know who is working on Silent Hills or in what capacity yet
I really dug the office building otherworld in SH3. Those gothic grates and weird blue lights were superb.
brandonh83
Banned
It looks nice, but it's missing a lot of key ingredients such as interesting art direction and the token grittiness of Silent Hill. I don't really associate plain hallways with no atmospheric filters with the franchise. That's all I think he meant, was that this is a tech demo without all the bells and whistles that we come to expect. It's certainly great looking, but it's not quite that traditional Silent Hill look either, and I think the game proper will have really mindblowing effects, animations, and so on.
AuthenticM
Member
I hope Silent Hill, the town itself, isn't lit up like that with all its street lights functioning. He looked a little silly walking around with a flashlight.
Don't get me wrong, it was very pretty though.
Wishmaster92
Member
So i'm guessing they will stick with first-person? Maybe it's more immersive this way.
Maybe it was just the presentation for the reveal? Silent Hill needs those sick camera angles, yo.
MillionStabs
Banned
I'm really curious as to how they'll handle his character in this game. Since most people know Reedus as a real tough,capable guy from TWD; and that sort of character doesn't work very well in survival horror games.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I wish it did but with the star power they got to be lead, it'd be a waste of money to use his likeness and then only have him appear in cut scenes/mirror images.
brandonh83
Banned
This also stuck out to me, but it's a thrown together thing for the game reveal. Really hard to gauge what anything will be like at this point. It's not like the lights working will make or break it though.
Yeah, see, that makes sense. First person so you don't know it's Reedus until the reveal.
Not necessarily, just saying that it might be a play on the number.
I think it's a good idea that Konami dropped the numbering system. I also don't think just because the name is now pluralized, that they're doing a reboot. 'Rebooting' means you're taking the old material and making it fresh, which is clearly not the case with this game.
thehillissilent
Member
I look very much forward to playing the game. Hopefully, it will do my name justice.
RyanPierre
Member
I wonder if this playable teaser is something that Digital Foundry might do an analysis of.
Well, Silent Hill is all about being a dead town, a ghost of life. Remember that sound effect in the mall in SH3 where you hear the muffled voices of people having a good time behind the wall? That's what Silent Hill is kinda all about, mood-wise. Disconnect, loneliness, emptiness, powerlessness, the unknown... and eventually, once you shift to the Otherworld, balls-to-the-wall environmental malevolence.
If all the lights are on, you can see more, there's less fear of what's to come because you physically see what's all around you. "Fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh." Right?
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
Any of Team Silent on this?
SolidSnakex
Member
I'd like for it to remain first person, but they probably went that route in order to throw people off of what it was since Silent Hill is associated with being in third person. Plus they were trying to hide the identity of the playable character, which is why the mirror in the bathroom obscured his face.
Probably not, unless the one or two guys who transferred to Kojima's MGS4 team from SH3 are back. I think SH3's director was one of the Kojima team guys. But who knows?
phalestine
aka iby.h
Stuck waiting for the phone to ring. To those who got it, do you remember what time? Wondering if it needs to be on the hour?
Dude...... apart from the aliasing, how the hell can it look better?
Will it look better? This has to be a joke.
I fully expect the full release to look better. Who knows how far off the game is.
brandonh83
Banned
Completely agreed, but again we're analyzing a teaser. Which is fine, it's what we've seen so far, but it's not something that gives me any level of worry. I'm with you though on the presentation, for sure.
Robdraggoo
Member
since silent hill origins and have looked upon this series with severe skeptism. I am genuinly excited to play this. Alien isolation had its skeptics but now it looks like the real deal. since amnesia and then outlast, I think this is the future of survival horror and I could nto be more excited that one of my favorite genres are back in full force.
This teaser kind of reminds me of those internet scavenger hunts they would do with the TV series LOST. I sincerly hope this catches on.
This teaser kind of reminds me of those internet scavenger hunts they would do with the TV series LOST. I sincerly hope this catches on.
Personal hope: They keep this first-person segment like The Room, except it's the entire house. You gradually explore and uncover more parts of the building (or it morphs and changes), that lead to new passages or levels of the third-person part. Extra points for looping corridors and non-rational geometry à la Lovecraft or House of Leaves.
Spacecowboy77
Member
Oh god.. My heart is not strong enough for games like this..
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