Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro Team for New Silent Hill

[Scrythe]

Well if Ground Zeroes and Snatcher are any indicator, Hideo Kojima certainly has a knack for body horror, so at the very least it'll be gory as fuck.

I wonder the development and cancellation of Insane [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_%282013_video_game%29] has anything to do with this project.

 

[CaitSeith]

OMFG!!! Wait, it's for the videogame? My mind blowing hype has just been reduced to cautious optimism. Has Del Toro been involved in a game development before?

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Oh...a little bit of pee escaped when i first read this. Just watched a playthrough on the tube and can honestly say it was brilliant! Fuck it...im getting a PS4, sorry Tomb raider, you aint my bag o bloody bones.

Does anyone know if downpour is any good? I have been on the fence about getting it for the past week. Mixed reviews everywhere. Res evil revelations just isnt doing it for me currently.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Well that's neat. Kojima and Del Toro are never bad things

Kojima's work is idiotic, pretentious and tone deaf. He's a natural fit for Silent Hill like Michael Bay is for Ico.

Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Looks like someone's idea of a counterargument is not making one.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Silent Hill needs that nigh impossible balance of characters moving enough and likable enough... but mysterious enough that some blanks will NOT be filled, along with making sure that one of the most important aspects of the series (the town) is at the center of it all.

I do not know how much Kojima will be involved with this, but if it is quite a bit, I worry about what comes next.

Hey, you know the enduring mystery about what exactly is behind the horror and madness of Silent Hill?

Turns out, it's nanomachines. Who knew?

...

Why? Why would you ever...? Why...

NOTHING is just musing any more. Do you realize that?! The second you put it on the interwebs, you mystically installed the seed into Kojima's mind!!

Because of you, Samael is going to be an anicent Alien Construct really named the Hoodoo Voodoo Interlude Drive.

Captcha: Bond, James Bond.

Or that... you creepy sentient clairvoyant bit of programming...

 

[Mirrorknight]

Guillermo Del Toro is working on a new Silent Hill? Guillermo Del Toro is working on a new Silent Hill?! Holy crap!

...oh and Hideo Kojima is too, though it's much harder to be excited about that.

 

[DaViller]

That sounds very insane. I don't expect it to be a good silent hill game but I expect to be, at the very least, weird as fuck(wich is always good).

 

[Something Amyss]

Okay, I like Del Toro and think Kojima's awful.

I'm not sure how to feel about this.

 

[ThatDarnCoyote]

NOTHING is just musing any more. Do you realize that?! The second you put it on the interwebs, you mystically installed the seed into Kojima's mind!!

Because of you, Samael is going to be an anicent Alien Construct really named the Hoodoo Voodoo Interlude Drive.

Yeah, sorry about that. But it's not really my fault you see, because nanomachines.

Even if you don't like Kojima. I don't think anyone can deny that Silent Hill was fucking dead, and perhaps more importantly, Konami didn't give a shit about it.

People really need this drilled into their heads.

I really don't understand this logic. "The series is dead. It doesn't matter if it's bad, so long as we get another entry"?

Isn't that exactly the thinking that brought us Homecoming and Origins?

Think about the first rule of horror: The unknown is scarier than the known. Nothing kills horror faster than over-explanation, which even Kojima's fans will admit is a common feature of his writing.

 

[ThatDarnCoyote]

What we're saying, or at least what I'm saying, I guess I can't speak for Tohuvabohu, is that since the series is dead, bringing in new ideas will only help. Instead of aping the past, like Homecoming and Origins did, we are hoping that the inclusion of Kojima and Del Toro will take the series in a new direction that will ultimately revitalize it.

That's fair, I see what you mean a little better. My concern is that "new ideas" are not necessarily good ideas. And familiarity with Kojima's body of work does not give me hope that he is right for Silent Hill.

I mean, I'm seeing a massive retcon where it turns out the town of Silent Hill is really a secret VR facility run by a rogue element of the US government, dedicated to mind control experiments. In command of it will be a cartoon supervillain with a convoluted backstory in both the KGB and the NSA as well as an obvious physical deformity. Many, many mentions of MK-ULTRA will be made.

Just because a series is dead, doesn't mean it's okay to pop open the coffin and have a puppet show with the corpse.

It strikes me that, if anything, a Del Toro/Kojima pairing would be better suited to make a Resident Evil game.

 

[Khanht Cope]

Silent Hill isn't Kojima's own original creation, and the extent to which he is involved, leading or collaborating with the writing and direction isn't known. It should be fine if he recognises restraining pressures and takes guidance. It won't be a particularly subtle Silent Hill, (I've only seen Silent Hill 1&2 and 1 was hardly subtle) but it's not going to be MGS. MGS is an espionage series. The thing people should be questioning is game design. Doing survival horror well is difficult.

 

[Saika Renegade]

While I can see these producing something very interesting, I will simply say that I don't foresee a lot of overall subtlety in the course of it. However, I've always felt that Kojima's strongest suit was writing characters, so hopefully we can see some of that talent in this dynamic duo team-up.

 

[BurningWyvern90]

del Toro I can get behind. The rest....we'll see.

From the gameplay trailer thing I watched, it does look unnerving as shit. But it also looks like it would get repetitive really quickly if that's seriously all the game is going to be, and other than the claustrophobia it seems like as it is so far it relies too much on jumpscares. And it doesn't look Silent Hill-y. But really, that's not surprising.

 

[Remus]

After playing the "trailer", I am thoroughly impressed. It's scary as hell and can take hours and hours to figure out. It's tight, nuanced, easy to miss the little things, which of course is the entire point. It's another of those games like Outlast, where watching the Lets Play videos on Twitch, Youtube or PSN are just as fun as playing yourself, with the added benefit of seeing others react to the environment the game drops you in. It's claustrophobic, sometimes grotesque, the lights look like human cages when their shadows are cast upon the wall, I like!

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

Kojima's the only shred of hope I have left for the series. If it were any other developer, I'd be inclined to instantly write it off.
This, however, COULD work.
My only reservations lay in that there is no evidence of any Team Silent members present, which makes me wonder if the nuances of the series will be properly treated. Furthermore, the title is a bit off-putting. Aside from being a bit cheesy, it seems to say "there are multiple dimensions", which is a bit too blunt, in my opinion.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Wow, that's a pretty potent combination, time for me to start playing Silent Hill.
Problem is I have this compulsion to always start game series' from the top and from what I hear, only the first three are any good and the next *checks wikipedia* six aren't great.
Wow, really, six? That's a lot.
...
Guess I'd better get started!

 

[L. Declis]

Right.

I shall buy this game, because it has Kojima stuck to it and nothing he ever makes is boring. Plus, he has been wanting to escape MGS for ages, so I'm excited to see what he is going to do when he gets the chance for something completely different.

Del Toro will bring the creepy atmosphere, they both bring the body horror, Kojima will bring solid gameplay and no glitches, and the story...

Well...

That is going to be something you won't forget.

This shall be my first Silent Hill game, but only because everyone told me the remakes were crap.

 

[havoc33]

The demo looked absolutely awesome. What a way to introduce a game! Definitive day one buy from me. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna find myself a copy and play Downpour. I never bothered due to the mixed reviews. Which version is the best, 360 or PS3?

OT: I don't get the negative responses in here. Konami finally decides to throw some serious money at the series again, and this is how you react? After the last few releases, it really can't get any worse.

 

[Shuu]

I would hate for this to be an exclusive.
Kojima is a strange man with very warped ideas of human behavior, but if he's a broken clock, Silent Hill might just be his "twice a day" if you see what I mean. And Del Toro? Oh man, this could be spectacularly good or spectacularly bad, but either way it will be spectacular, and it would suck for Xbone and PC players to miss out.
Peh! Artificial exclusivity is sooo last gen. If you want your game to do well, make it available to your WHOLE audience. It's kind of obvious.