Would you rather have another middling Homecoming-tier SH but it's multiplatform or a Japan Studio production with that Sony glow-up & Ito/Yamaoka but it's exclusive?
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[VGC] VGC understands that Konami has already outsourced a Silent Hill project to a prominent Japanese developer, with a reveal due this summer.
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Would you rather have another middling Homecoming-tier SH but it's multiplatform or a Japan Studio production with that Sony glow-up & Ito/Yamaoka but it's exclusive?
It feels like the exact kinda thing Konami would do to me. Like when they were making Silent Hill Shattered Memories for Wii and PS2 at the same time they were making Homecoming for PS3 and 360 and it was just a confusing mess.
All along the PR for Homecoming was that it was 'a return to Silent Hill 2' and would be a proper Silent Hill 5 but then it was awful. And Shattered Memories was amazing! What a wild time.
Director:
Makoto Shibata (Fatal Frame series Director). That's my guess.
This is possibly the best pick if Fatal Frame team still exist.
So if Konami no longer wants to create the games and are just ok with licencing them (like Disney does), my bigger question is who picked up the MGS and Castlevania IPs.
To be fair, Yamaoka worked on (most of) the bad games, too. It's not like him being attached to a project is any sign of it being a good game - it just means it'll have good music.
Prominent Japanese studio, PS5 exclusive? 🤔 What if it's From Software? (One can dream) I recall there was some talk about another exclusive after Déraciné.
As for Bloober making a new entry to a famous franchise... Fatal Frame/Project Zero has also been dormant for a while. It would kinda fit for them due to the lack of combat.
As for Bloober making a new entry to a famous franchise... Fatal Frame/Project Zero has also been dormant for a while. It would kinda fit for them due to the lack of combat.
I mean, it's possible for there to be a great multiplatform Silent Hill, as 2 demonstrated.
This might be it.
Director:
Makoto Shibata (Fatal Frame series Director). That's my guess.
I just don't see how Japan Studio would be the one. It wouldn't explain why Toyama has left Sony to make a horror game honestly, and it doesn't seem like Sony has any interest in their Japanese division except for Astrobot and assisting developers like Bluepoint.
They do, they just merged with Team Ninja and made the Nioh games. Yosuke Hayashi recently said Team Ninja "have a few games in development" so this could be a candidate? Shibata (Fatal Frame series director) last worked on Nioh 1. Unaccounted for since.
Bloober Team has to be the most boringest team out there. Who the hell would look at The Medium and say "Yup, those people should make a Silent Hill reboot". Stay as far away from it as possible, Bloober.
Silent Hill 2 demonstrated that almost 20 years ago when Konami was developing in-house with a very talented team.
Unless they show otherwise, Konami doesn't have that and their outsourcing of the series (and the studios they hired) left a hell of a lot to be desired.
They need help- and I don't see why some people are so bitter about even the idea of Sony and/or Japan Studios taking the reigns and helping bring the (effectively dead) series back to prominence.
"More people won't get to play it if it's exclusive!" is something I've been seeing, but as far as we know (nothing beyond 'insider' talk) a new Silent Hill game won't even exist without help from another publisher/developer handling the heavy lifting.
Hey, an awesome third-party assisted multiplat SH would be great. As long as it's good that's all I care about. But who's out there to do it?
The foundation, at least HERE, has been Sony powering this series reboot.
Can someone make a shortlist of "plausible" Japanese studios?
-FromSoft (has done exclusive contract work for Sony in the past, has worked with Japan Studio)
-Platinum (the quintessential "independent" Japanese developer that does odd jobs)
-Japan Studio (the OG rumour, though the director quit and insiders are no longer confident)
-Kojima Productions (independent, has done "exclusive" work with Sony in the past, worked on Silent Hill in the past)
-Tecmo (made Fatal Frame....)
Tango Games (Mikami, Evil Within) is a Microsoft first party studio now so there's no way it's them. Capcom has zero incentive to work on an Konami project for Sony when they have their own massive horror games in the works.
-FromSoft (has done exclusive contract work for Sony in the past, has worked with Japan Studio)
-Platinum (the quintessential "independent" Japanese developer that does odd jobs)
-Japan Studio (the OG rumour, though the director quit and insiders are no longer confident)
-Kojima Productions (independent, has done "exclusive" work with Sony in the past, worked on Silent Hill in the past)
-Tecmo (made Fatal Frame....)
Tango Games (Mikami, Evil Within) is a Microsoft first party studio now so there's no way it's them. Capcom has zero incentive to work on an Konami project for Sony when they have their own massive horror games in the works.
Sony allegedly has exclusive marketing rights (at the very least), so unless this is another ancient deal similar to Ghostwire then it's pretty much impossible for Microsoft to have signed off on it.
Koei Tecmo would be the most likely I feel. They do a lot of outsource work and everyone else already feels rather packed (Playinum already has multiple projects in the wings).
It's definitely not Kojima (Andy said so in Terry) & if PS Studios is involved it's likely in an assistance capacity. Similar to Nioh.
It's definitely not Kojima (Andy said so in Terry) & if PS Studios is involved it's likely in an assistance capacity. Similar to Nioh.
I thought about Tango cause they could be a great fit but they are probably too small to be working simultaneously on Ghostwire and Silent Hill (which according to rumors has been in dev for a couple years already).
Most likely ones imo: Koei Tecmo and Japan Studio.
Well Sony is being rather generous nowadays and seeing as how they don't own the Silent Hill IP, much like the MLB license, who knows maybe this will remain multiplat?
To be fair covid could have potentially really fucked up the reveal. I'm pretty sceptical too though.
Katharsis when you gonna drop hints Sony buying some dev teams and/or publishers? We need to keep the train going!! 2021 is still young!
If it ends up being Sony Japan as the full-on developer and not just assisting. I imagine Konami likely mandated a PC version has to be included as part of the deal (even if it's a later port like Death Stranding). As some of these crossovers don't make much sense if it ends up being full exclusive.
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Do you know if a PC version is gonna happen or this game is gonna be a full exclusive ?
They're still doing PES every year, they did Super Bomberman R and Metal Gear Survive a few years back, Contra Rogue Corps in 2019, and Momotaro Dentetsu just recently (which has been a massive success home side). Not to mention the Castlevania and Contra ports/collections. They still do games. Just not very high profile ones.
Do you have the platform information for the mgs remakes? Pc version or just ps5?
I would get hyped but I already know it's not going to be good
Can't be as bad as the Bloober one at least
Can't be as bad as the Bloober one at least
Just PS5 for now but since PlayStation want to expand their games to PC, I think it's possible it comes to PC one day.
Gotcha and as for the silent Hill remake it's the same situation? Thank you for the response.
I absolutely agree with everyone throwing in KT as a possibility. They have the horror pedigree with Fatal Frame and much like how they turned to Nioh when Ninja Gaiden wasn't working out, it's a good way to refocus their skills in the genre in a new direction. The Japan Studio connection is also perfectly explained by this.
Really hope Bloober isn't also making a game though, would be a real monkey's paw wish if that's what was necessary for something like "Fatal Frame team makes Silent Hill" to be a reality.
Really hope Bloober isn't also making a game though, would be a real monkey's paw wish if that's what was necessary for something like "Fatal Frame team makes Silent Hill" to be a reality.
Well, tbf, that was a little different as several companies were doing things like that where they made the 'regular version' for the Wii, and the bigger games for PS3/360. Like Capcom did with Umbrella Chronicles vs RE5, for instance. The Wii was also not HD development, so it was a lot cheaper to do something like that as well as it would be nowadays.
The source of this rumour has said it's not KojiPro, just a prominent Japanese studio, which could be a number of studios really, as that's not really all that specific. It was rumoured awhile ago KojiPro was working on a VR Silent Hill or had talks about it, but it fell through.
Quick, someone update the Silent Hill bird vs RE8 Vampire Mommy raven meme with an extra panel!
