Wow f really has me optimistic. Ragtag team with something to prove like the OG Team Silent. Great that they allowed them to take things that far in the trailer, means Konami will not be holding them back from doing some truly messed up, artistic and terrifying stuff. At first I was a little bummed it wasn’t playing off of the usual silent hill location and influence but I actually think in retrospective it’s great Konami isn’t forcing them to tread similar ground. The writer has written some of the best horror manga from a STORY perspective which is a very important thing for a silent hill game. NG and Death Mark are 2 of my favorite recent horror games largely due to the art and creature design. Let’s gooo!!
@@Kat-fu6gn I'm sure, but I mean gameplay genre given that Ryukishi07 is a visual novel writer. I'm guessing f isn't a VN, so maybe it has some VN elements? Or maybe he is just writing for something entirely different from his previous works.
@@ValcristRoda ryukishi is writing the story for the game, he makes psychological horror visual novels and the studio worked on the original dmc trilogy remaster, re2 remake, re3 remake and re7 next gen ports and also on re verse so i would say that it will be a classic 3rd person horror game
@@ValcristRoda he just wrote the story he isnt the director of the game. It looks like a survival horror game especially from that shot with the girl walking around with a pipe. It gave me old school silent hill vibes atleast that shot. Though if it wasnt for the fact that this is a silent hill event i would of never guessed that this was a silent hill game.
I know it was funny how it was worded. But Cristophe gans actually played the game. That's why he wanted to direct a movie about it, he even made snippets that he sent out to konami, in which konami liked. So they green lit the project. Hee actually plays the SH games and he was the one who pushed for it to have a movie not konami looking for a director.
The guys who made the Nier 1 remake, were a support studio who's most recent project was Contra Rogue Corps. Small support studios can do good things too.
@@RX-NoName A remake versus a full new game though. It's like as much as Bluepoint is a good studio for remakes, I would be skeptical of their first game original game.
Excited for Townfall and f. Is James' actor : Black Sails' Woodes Rogers? Luke Roberts. Awesome. Konami and Playstation should keep the Leash TIGHT on bloober. Don't let them stray.
Same here! And if memory serves right, there was a love and respect question once where they were asked who should play which ally if there was a movie about them and I think Brad himself said Christian Slater 😄
I feel like a stone cold cynic when it comes to series and its future, but Silent Hill F at least has me interested to see more. A scrappy little team that's really only been a support studio and might have something to prove could go either way, but Team Silent was initially in a similar position I guess. A proven Japanese horror author with unique style is a good sign, and a new setting and time period sound like the kind of potential risks I wish the series would've taken ever since 4 played with its formula but kept the general SH tone intact. For all the polish on display, the 2 remake honestly doesn't capture my imagination in the same way the potential of the smaller projects does. The Team Silent era really feels like lightning in a bottle and above all else I just want decent ports of 1 through 4.
I feel like there was a “wait, Konami is making games again!?!?” Moment that the internet completely missed. Everyone just acts like it’s perfectly normal that Konami is making games in 2022.
They're publishing but they're technically not making anything as you can see that they farmed everything out to 3rd party developers. Does Konami even have internal studios anymore?
@@jadedragon216 yes but most of the stuff they make are weird ass, super niche games; gacha; mobile; and Yu-Gi-Oh! (Most of their internal budget under their main entertainment branch is dedicated to mobile and the physical Yugioh card game)
@@jadedragon216 this is true, but a potentially surprising number of classic game publishers frequently farmed out development to other development teams. The Minish Cap or F-Zero GX are potentially good examples of this. I just think the real interesting story is that the IP are back in the game. I’ll take a new Sunset Riders no matter who makes it.
In my book, the fact that Bloober Team is making the remake is the best possible outcome for a few reasons: - I like the visuals of Bloober Team games. They remind you of Silent Hill, but look much more modern and polished. So in terms of a visual upgrade, Bloober Team is a great fit. - While their games are overall enjoyable, I never liked the stories or outcome in them. They might have some good ideas on paper but fall flat in execution and most of all compared to the greatest Horror games in that genre, which are the early Silent Hill games, their stories are very flat. But for the remake, the story is already there and if they don't change anything of that core, they can't do anything wrong So if they don't change too much and just use the artistry and decency that's already in Silent Hill 2 and only repeat that, but with better graphics and more modern gameplay, this might be a great remake, imo.
@@chillhour6155 Would you be so kind to explain what you mean exactly? Or would you rather just stick with unreasonable insults of some internet stranger.
@Chandler Burse You are the second person to tell me that, but no one is saying what exactly is wrong about it. (the other person above just insulted me and didn't react to my question) So please tell me, I honestly want to know what is so odd about it. From a purely technical standpoint I don't see a problem with Bloober Team. The biggest issue people have with them is how they put a redemption arc for a rapist in the Medium while simultaneously saying that the only way to end the story good is by killing the victim, because she's "damaged beyond repair". As well as other games in their library who have similarly problematic morals in them. But the story of Silent Hill 2 is already there. So if they don't change it, (and suddenly give Angela's father a redemption arc) it shouldn't be a problem. The only other thing I can imagine would be the art-style. And that's nothing new to remakes. Look at the differences between characters in Shadow of the Colossus and its remake. Or the westernized character style in Demon's Souls. But people still love the Bluepoint remakes.
@Chandler Burse Both is true. Bluepoint first made a Remaster on PS3: ua-cam.com/video/32N2LLlQ4b0/v-deo.html And then they made a remake on PS4: ua-cam.com/video/pdZQ98mWeto/v-deo.html Remaster and remake are both loanwords from the film-industry. In video games a remaster is when the same code-base (of the original PS2 game for example) is re-baked for a new platform. You can tweak settings or sometimes even replace assets (most of the times textures) in the process, but its essentially the same game running on a new platform. The remaster of Silent Hill 2 proved to be a big problem, because Konami lost the original release code-base and the remaster-team had to fix bugs again for an older beta-version of the game. A remake on the other hand means that the game is entirely rebuild on a new engine with all new assets. These can vary a lot in how close to the original they are, but if the remaking team takes too many liberties, modernizing the gameplay and changing the story, I would call it a re-minagining of the original game, not a remake anymore. Tomb Raider Anniversary is such an example. The Bluepoint remakes (Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls) are so close to the original, because they have special techniques to let the original game code run underneath the new game. So they can even take single parts of the game to behave exactly like the original game.
@Chandler Burse Not only in The Medium, but their previous games, too. I've finished the Medium and agree. They literally gave a child-rapist a redemption arc, saying that it wasn't him but the demon inside of him, while on the other hand saying that his victim is damaged so badly beyond repair that the only way to get a good ending is by killing her. It is beyond fucked up. The story is at best dubious. But that has nothing to do with what I'm writing. I'm saying if the story is already there and they don't change it, don't add their Bloober Team morals into it, they should be perfect to make a remake because they have the technical knowhow and love the source material. So they should treat it with respect.
No, Shattered Memories is a spin-off / alternate universe where none of the events actually happened. It was all a hallucination Cheryl had after they got in a car accident and Harry died. Nothing even supernatural about it, just a traumatized girl's imagination.
Actually Silent Hill Ascension is a mobile phone app based around a social media horror experience. Silent Hill Townfall is the Until Dawn style Silent Hill game.
Just to clear up the movie confusion, return to silent hill will essentially act as dead space downfall did for the original game. It’s not a movie of silent hill two but something you watch to lead directly into the game and I absolutely cannot wait because I love the first silent Hill movie
are you sure though? cause they literally show movie storyboards and they are scenes within the games story so saying it "leads you into the game" is just false.
I honestly don't think I've found a single Bloober game more than just okay at best, and that's not even getting into the much deeper issues with their storytelling others have brought up. Even Layers of Fear, which seems to be the go to "But everyone agrees that one was good at least, right?" game of theirs, was mostly just shallow and tedious to me. That said, I'm not writing off their SH2 remake. They do have the framework of the original game to follow and Konami overseeing them. My expectations aren't high, but from what we've seen so far I think it could turn out to be at least decent. Even if it ends up being amazing though I still just want a good remaster of the original, along with the other SH games.
@@nelsonhamilton8262 You know, I think Observer might be their actual best game. I just feel like people bring up Layers of Fear more often, but I could be wrong.
Mediocre is the new 8/10 in this industry of ours, just ask IGN and every other Nimrod who blindly preorders, Konami giving the Silent Hill name to Blooper to sandpaper into modern gaming nothingness proves that Konami is still just being Konami
@@chillhour6155 It’s higher on metacritic than layers of fear in terms of user score and critic score…and both scores are above 6/10 lol. I know that I’m higher on observer than most people but I just think that game is brilliant considering it’s budget. Layers of fear I also like but I like it for what it is…which is walking through a virtual haunted house.
very pessimistic about bloober team being the developer on SH2, they tend to always have strong art design and we can already see that but gameplay… they fall short on. townfall very intrigued have a lot of faith behind no code but not much to go off so far. forte or f is perhaps the one i’m most excited for, having ryukishi07 (when they cry) as a writer elevates it massively again not much to go off of but still.
Konami we've had Silent Hill 2 rereleased and now remade while Silent Hill one is still locked away on PS1. Please give us a remake or remaster of the game that started it all
Hate to be the Negative Nancy but Bloober Team's entire body of work has me concerned with them tackling hard, sensitive topics. The pessimism is well-earned; The Medium especially makes me worried of how they'll adapt SH2 or the stuff they'll add to it. F has my biggest attention, though; the character designer worked on Death Mark and NG and the writer did Higurashi and Umineko
Jimquisition has a great video about their past work being 2 edgy! It's a good thing they're just remaking SH2, instead of a fully original narrative. I'm pumped for Town fall and f! They both look nice and chewy
100% agree. The way they handled mental illness / sexual assault in The Medium was so disgusting that I have no interest in anything they ever make going forward. Not to mention their games in general are just mediocre. It sucks that of all the devs out there, they're the ones who are getting the chance to do this remake.
They have guidance from yamaoka and ito so im sure it will be fine. From the trailer it looks like a 1 to 1 remake which is fine so really unless they decide to add new stuff there's no reason why you should be concerned atleast not for the story.
I agree I am, very very cautiously optimistic though after seeing the trailer and seeing what appears like a tonne of Konami employees over their shoulders in all that behind the scenes footage. As long as they are the guys just creating the 3d models and programming the game logic and what not and most importantly NO one on their end is touching the writing and screenplay then I think this has potential to be the definitive way to play silent hill 2. But again because Bloober is attached its going to be an up hill battle for them to have me to buy in personally.
It's nice that silent hill 2 is coming back. I'm worried about the other games though. Silent Hill is such a unique horror game and I feel like they are trying to do too much.
bloober team mid unfortunately but f having ryukishi07 as the writer should at the very least be pretty interesting; the horror elements of higurashi, umineko, and higanbana's visual novels are very well done
@@tryinglyon So... without spoiling too much (this is all largely in the first chapter, and treated as simple knowledge that doesn't interfere with the story)? Imagine there's this sleepy little town by the name of Hinamizawa. A town that, years prior, was risking being demolished to make way for a dam that ultimately would have led to the entire area being flooded. Until the people there managed to fend off and push those individuals out by banding together and fiercely protesting its construction... perhaps even violently so. Of course, that also means it might have been a little dangerous to have been related to anyone who was in support of building the dam... Now also imagine that sleepy little place has stories about a guardian deity who can be rather... vicious and cruel to those who threaten their little town. And, every year, on the eve of the annual Cotton Drifting festival since the dam was halted, people have gone missing... Or, rather, someone goes missing while another is found dead. And it all seems to tie back into the dam. Or those who start shoving their noses into what happened there to begin with. Or simply where they shouldn't be at all. It's... complicated to really break the story down beyond that because you risk spoiling things. But the Higurashi games are all on steam, with the first episode being free so it's definitely worth checking out! It's safe to follow the episodes by number from there, though I wouldn't recommend reading their descriptions beyond the first couple if you really want to go in blind. And if you like the first episode, they aren't terribly expensive (about $8 USD at their highest) for their regular price and usually see a decent percentage off when on sale--which they tend to be on regularly enough, including now for obvious reasons.
@@CURSEDSei Just out of curiosity...what exactly makes these games scary? Because I'm looking through these games' steam profiles and I'm really not seeing it.
@@tryinglyon It's all the atmosphere and the writing for the most part. The releases on Steam are ports essentially of the original (pretty much solo-dev) releases by the author so the art is definitely the weakest aspect, though there are a few good spots in it as well as you go. There are mods out there that actually take later releases with more professional art assets and other changes/additions and implement them into the steam release but that's a personal choice as it can be a bit of a hassle to get running for some. It's very much a slow-burn type of deal that leans on the psychological horror and the mystery that develops from there. And while probably not obvious at first, each game builds upon the prior ones overall. The first episode is largely a 'Outsider new to town' deal, since it uses that as the way to teach you about much of what I listed above, while also playing into a bit of the... paranoia... that might also come with it. The episodes that follow expand upon and explore other aspects talked about, teased, and mentioned from there while all slowly exposing the mystery at the core of it. I don't know if I'd ever say the games are... scary... as that is definitely subjective. I was never scared by them (I'd seen the anime beforehand which is its own thing but runs off a similar base, so I was aware of the major beats for a good chunk of it). But they are definitely unsettling in their own right, and again there's that element of psychological horror and suspense at its core that continues through a good portion of the episodes that accompanies that.
@@CURSEDSei Okay. I'll give it a shot. If it's not for me, then it is what it will be, but I'm hopeful that Ryukishi07 can do the series justice with F.
As exciting as all these game announcements are all I want is a damn collection that isn’t borked for newer consoles… never played 1-4 smh resident evil kinda spoiled me to be fair
I'm so excited, my favourite series is finally coming back. At the same time i'm terrified that Konami is gonna go FUBAR on all of this when they'll have a bad day in the future and cancel everything, you never know with them :P Also, i wish they'd finally port og versions of classic games to modern platforms, so far we still only have: Homecoming on steam, SH4 on gog, and SH HD Collection, Downpour and Homecoming on xbox back compat.
I always said the franchise is only as good as the developers. The fact that the guys that made the Medium are in charge of the remake makes me super concerned. I might just skip this unless it on sale.
So... Missed the stream (it starting earlier than the listed time not helping), but on watching the Twitch Vod and seeing the reaction to the SH2 remake...? It's disheartening when, despite the valid criticism listed off and mentioned in chat, nothing was said about the 'hate' towards Bloober team aside from attributing 'most' of it to Technical issues. As if that is the only thing anyone has ever stated about their titles. And it smacks of the dismissive tone used around DMC:Devil May Cry's release where rather than acknowledge or listen to the valid issues the game had, people were pushed aside as being 'haters' and their reasons were solely because of Dante's hair. No. That wasn't DMC:DMC's issue at launch, just as Bloober Teams major issue here isn't just 'oh their game don't run well'. Bloober Team has a consistent history of handling mental health issues with all the delicacy of a drunken bull surrounded by red painted fine china. Not just a single game, and not even their oldest... But through multiple releases. And The Medium is THE literal worst example of it. Any game that both tries to make light of the abusers whilst also painting victims of said abuser as irredeemable and broken goods is *REPUGNANT*. That the only 'good' ending in the game argues that victims are better off dead, and the achievement/trophy tied to it practically celebrates and make light of it is abhorrent. Bloober Team makes light of and shows what feels to me an intentionally dishonest and narrow-minded view of the trauma around abuse as well as mental health should be proof enough that they shouldn't be touching a game whose themes are so specifically tied around... mental health, abuse, and trauma... There is a 1-to-1 issue there. They've had time to improve their handling of those issues and haven't, and before one says give them time? The Medium was last year. It's recent. And no amount of budget could fix writing like that. You can like their games, think they're great even. But ignoring and dismissing the most damning critiques to instead give voice to the most shallow and superficial complaints feels... well, shallow. It definitely rubbed me the wrong way, just as I saw a few others in the Chat Vod bring up too. The only... bronze... lining to all this is Konami 'might' be holding them to a very tight leash. But if all Bloober team is doing is just graphical updates and some tweaking? Literally any studio could have done that. And the rumors of them potentially making additional content (endings, areas, etc.) just gives people more valid reasons to be concerned given the above. Imagine Silent Hill 2 having an ending that denigrates and paints Mary as the villain and deserving of her fate, and James as sympathetic. Because that is the fear people have, and what Bloober team's handling of that kind of content have veered towards.
I feel like Silent Hill F is a Kojima troll. Why would they give the game to a support studio that made REverse? They are definitely hiding something. And they gave info about all the games except SH F. It's really weird.
Wouldn’t make sense, Kojima announced Elle Fanning is the star of his next game, if SH f is set in 1960s japan like the rumors say then I doubt they are the same.
Kojima has no connection to the Silent Hill franchise. He briefly worked on the P.T. demo but the project attached to that was literally cancelled 8 years ago. Silent Hill existed without him for decades and it will continue to do so.
20:09 No. You can't film a CRT image. Edit: After receiving a comment from @Charlie Wood I double-checked and it is actually possible. There is a very cool explanation by Modern Vintage Gamer, which explains how you can do it. But here is the rest of how I though, it was done: to do something like this, you have to put green color on the screen, film it (maybe with two while squares for tracking the movement) and put the video digitally on top of it. They also bended the image around the curved display and added a fake CRT-effect on top of it.
@@charoleawood You made me look that up and I found an interesting video of how you can get it to work with a really good quality by Modern Vintage Gamer. Thanks. Today, I learned something.
This is really funny to me since one of the things we routinely did at GameTrailers was shooting gameplay footage off screens at events like E3, often whether the publishers liked it or not. -Bloodworth
@@EasyAllies Charlie Wood already told me so and I made a second comment admitting my mistake. My statement was based off live-reports from times before there were modern monitors and you would see the described effect. As well as how monitors in films were always faked back then. So based on these two facts, I was sure that there is no way. But from Modern Vingate Gamer's video I learned that there is a way actually.
Kojima has no connection to the Silent Hill series. He briefly worked on the P.T. demo, but the project attached to that was cancelled 8 years ago now. He has never had any true involvement with the series at this point.
Idk stories that happen all in the characters head or primarily all hallucinations lack weight to me, cos there's no actual stakes. All the perimeters of the story can just be changed on the fly to serve whatever plot they wanna make up, regardless of logical story progression.
People are going crazy over mere announcement videos, but we had an actual DEMO with Silent Hills, and that was cancelled... when we people ever learn to not give a company your excitement and money until they prove themselves adequately. By the way they are having multiple SH titles coming out, how does this not scream cash grabs? What other announces multiple installments for a single franchise at once? But Konami of course would do so because they only care about money and Pachinko machines. The explicitly stated many years ago that they were getting out of the video game industry in exchange for pachinko machines... yet people are embracing them with open arms over... a simple series of announcements... absolutely bizarre. People have the IQ of a goldfish.
I'm sucker for everything SH, the more the better. Capcom is going crazy with RE, i can finally stop being jealous of RE fans and have my own buffet too.
If Konami really wanted to do right by their fans, they would give us Silent Hills that Kojima and Guillermo del Toro were working on, not these cash grabs. How are these cash grabs? Well you can tell they are because Konami were all about Pachinko machines not too long ago, and the fact that they announced multiple titles all at once for a single franchise... if that doesn't scream cash grab from the notoriety of a franchise's reputation, I don't know what does.
What would that actually achieve? Silent Hills has this weird cult status it just doesn’t deserve. Kojima was as much an outsider to Silent Hill as the rest of them and his work leading up to its release hadn’t filled me with confidence.
I think that people have greatly overvalued what Kojima was working on. From what I understand, PT was it. They didn’t get any further. There’s not some half finished game out there waiting to be polished up and released…
Okay this is just hating for the sake of hating. If theres one thing bloober does well it's art direction but sh fans just love to whine about everything. Prob the fans that dont deserve a new game at all.
The chonk on the right needs to go “How can everyone be canon” You dumb creature. Get it though your enlarged dome that everyone votes on an outcome. The outcome with the most votes is canon. Fucking empty thoughts behind those greasy fat eyes.
2014: They tease us with Silent Hills
2022: They tease us with Silent Hills
Damn was it really 2014 that PT came out?
Nope, Silent Hills was cancelled 8 years ago and none of the developers work for Konami anymore. All of these projects are different, no connection.
@@Jenema2 bro...
I think that if this does well they’ll remake 1 and 3. Since 3’s story follows 1 it makes sense to release them that way.
they gotta remake 4
Chris Pratt as James in Return to Silent Hill
James Corden as pyramid head
Silent Hill, HERE, WE, COME!
He’s so cool
Itsa me!!, old looking frightened fellow
Wow f really has me optimistic.
Ragtag team with something to prove like the OG Team Silent.
Great that they allowed them to take things that far in the trailer, means Konami will not be holding them back from doing some truly messed up, artistic and terrifying stuff.
At first I was a little bummed it wasn’t playing off of the usual silent hill location and influence but I actually think in retrospective it’s great Konami isn’t forcing them to tread similar ground.
The writer has written some of the best horror manga from a STORY perspective which is a very important thing for a silent hill game.
NG and Death Mark are 2 of my favorite recent horror games largely due to the art and creature design.
Let’s gooo!!
SILENT HILL RESSURECTION OF F! LETS GO
love yall, always a pleasure to hear your insights :) as someone who has never played Silent Hill, i'm excited for the 2 remake and for Silent Hill F!
Maybe you should play the originals
@@andrealorenzini5099 oh definitely!
Silent Hill f generating a buncha hype due to Ryukishi07. I wonder what kind of game it will be? Adventure?
Definitely psychological horror
@@Kat-fu6gn I'm sure, but I mean gameplay genre given that Ryukishi07 is a visual novel writer. I'm guessing f isn't a VN, so maybe it has some VN elements? Or maybe he is just writing for something entirely different from his previous works.
I think that is the "mainline" one (or at least most) it will probably be the most traditional outside of the remake.
@@ValcristRoda ryukishi is writing the story for the game, he makes psychological horror visual novels and the studio worked on the original dmc trilogy remaster, re2 remake, re3 remake and re7 next gen ports and also on re verse so i would say that it will be a classic 3rd person horror game
@@ValcristRoda he just wrote the story he isnt the director of the game. It looks like a survival horror game especially from that shot with the girl walking around with a pipe. It gave me old school silent hill vibes atleast that shot. Though if it wasnt for the fact that this is a silent hill event i would of never guessed that this was a silent hill game.
Love that opening music such nostalgic and brings back so much memories
I'm cautiously optimistic about Silent Hill 2 but hopefully everything goes well since Silent Hill was a huge part of my childhood
I know it was funny how it was worded. But Cristophe gans actually played the game. That's why he wanted to direct a movie about it, he even made snippets that he sent out to konami, in which konami liked. So they green lit the project.
Hee actually plays the SH games and he was the one who pushed for it to have a movie not konami looking for a director.
the new Silent Hill being made by the guys who made Resistance and Re:verse is what we deserve
Yeah because Re:Verse is a beacon of quality...
@@michaelandrews117 That's the joke
@@Shofixi As someone that wants a good Silent Hill game? Yes.
The guys who made the Nier 1 remake, were a support studio who's most recent project was Contra Rogue Corps. Small support studios can do good things too.
@@RX-NoName A remake versus a full new game though. It's like as much as Bluepoint is a good studio for remakes, I would be skeptical of their first game original game.
Excited for Townfall and f.
Is James' actor : Black Sails' Woodes Rogers? Luke Roberts. Awesome.
Konami and Playstation should keep the Leash TIGHT on bloober. Don't let them stray.
they at least got enough fog, cautiously optimistic
I’ve watched you guys forever now and I just can’t look at Brad without seeing Christian slater💀
Same here! And if memory serves right, there was a love and respect question once where they were asked who should play which ally if there was a movie about them and I think Brad himself said Christian Slater 😄
@@acuity1980 it’s legit perfect casting
Tbh I'm more excited about Townfall than f, just because of the devs working on it. Observation was pretty good
Bloober huh? I'll keep my expectations very low then.
Huber blowing eardrums @ 7:40. 😂
It was worth it though. 💯👏🏼
i'm not likely to play it, but i'm 100% watching Huber's playthrough of this remake. i'm there
I am excited to see what No Code can do with Silent Hill having played Observation (great game, nailed atmospheric horror and dread imo).
Stories untold is also fantastic as well
Observation is barely a game
@@citizen3000 it’s considered a interactive game
@@denimschaffer9439 It’s barely interactive, is the point.
Silent Hill: F in the Chat
Man I'm so excited
I've been burned by Konami before but I'm hype for sh2 remake and silent hill f
I wonder what led to the time mix up. I definitely saw this live at the announced time.
ITS ABOUT TIME!!! Also am i the only one who thought of fatal frame during silent hill f?
I feel like a stone cold cynic when it comes to series and its future, but Silent Hill F at least has me interested to see more.
A scrappy little team that's really only been a support studio and might have something to prove could go either way, but Team Silent was initially in a similar position I guess. A proven Japanese horror author with unique style is a good sign, and a new setting and time period sound like the kind of potential risks I wish the series would've taken ever since 4 played with its formula but kept the general SH tone intact.
For all the polish on display, the 2 remake honestly doesn't capture my imagination in the same way the potential of the smaller projects does.
The Team Silent era really feels like lightning in a bottle and above all else I just want decent ports of 1 through 4.
They have such a detailed figure of James and yet they screw up with his look in the new game.
And resident evil showcase tomorrow
I came for Huber and wasn't disappointed lol. Silent Hills fans are really bashing this stuff though, these games look awesome.
It’s one of the most toxic video game fanbases unfortunately.
Like pretty much all of them unfortunately. Literally every good game series has some self entitled dumb fans
Presentation sells..preorders
Ooh a piece of candy
I feel like there was a “wait, Konami is making games again!?!?” Moment that the internet completely missed. Everyone just acts like it’s perfectly normal that Konami is making games in 2022.
They're publishing but they're technically not making anything as you can see that they farmed everything out to 3rd party developers. Does Konami even have internal studios anymore?
@@jadedragon216 yes but most of the stuff they make are weird ass, super niche games; gacha; mobile; and Yu-Gi-Oh! (Most of their internal budget under their main entertainment branch is dedicated to mobile and the physical Yugioh card game)
@@jadedragon216 this is true, but a potentially surprising number of classic game publishers frequently farmed out development to other development teams. The Minish Cap or F-Zero GX are potentially good examples of this. I just think the real interesting story is that the IP are back in the game.
I’ll take a new Sunset Riders no matter who makes it.
They still make PES/eFootball every year
To inform 52:32 is a very resemblance shot to Hell Girl, anime. i will say alot of the visuals borrow alot from that series.
In my book, the fact that Bloober Team is making the remake is the best possible outcome for a few reasons:
- I like the visuals of Bloober Team games. They remind you of Silent Hill, but look much more modern and polished. So in terms of a visual upgrade, Bloober Team is a great fit.
- While their games are overall enjoyable, I never liked the stories or outcome in them. They might have some good ideas on paper but fall flat in execution and most of all compared to the greatest Horror games in that genre, which are the early Silent Hill games, their stories are very flat. But for the remake, the story is already there and if they don't change anything of that core, they can't do anything wrong
So if they don't change too much and just use the artistry and decency that's already in Silent Hill 2 and only repeat that, but with better graphics and more modern gameplay, this might be a great remake, imo.
With all my heart you have no fucking clue what you're talking about, such pure garbage
@@chillhour6155 Would you be so kind to explain what you mean exactly? Or would you rather just stick with unreasonable insults of some internet stranger.
@Chandler Burse You are the second person to tell me that, but no one is saying what exactly is wrong about it. (the other person above just insulted me and didn't react to my question) So please tell me, I honestly want to know what is so odd about it. From a purely technical standpoint I don't see a problem with Bloober Team. The biggest issue people have with them is how they put a redemption arc for a rapist in the Medium while simultaneously saying that the only way to end the story good is by killing the victim, because she's "damaged beyond repair". As well as other games in their library who have similarly problematic morals in them. But the story of Silent Hill 2 is already there. So if they don't change it, (and suddenly give Angela's father a redemption arc) it shouldn't be a problem.
The only other thing I can imagine would be the art-style. And that's nothing new to remakes. Look at the differences between characters in Shadow of the Colossus and its remake. Or the westernized character style in Demon's Souls. But people still love the Bluepoint remakes.
@Chandler Burse Both is true. Bluepoint first made a Remaster on PS3:
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And then they made a remake on PS4:
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Remaster and remake are both loanwords from the film-industry.
In video games a remaster is when the same code-base (of the original PS2 game for example) is re-baked for a new platform. You can tweak settings or sometimes even replace assets (most of the times textures) in the process, but its essentially the same game running on a new platform. The remaster of Silent Hill 2 proved to be a big problem, because Konami lost the original release code-base and the remaster-team had to fix bugs again for an older beta-version of the game.
A remake on the other hand means that the game is entirely rebuild on a new engine with all new assets. These can vary a lot in how close to the original they are, but if the remaking team takes too many liberties, modernizing the gameplay and changing the story, I would call it a re-minagining of the original game, not a remake anymore. Tomb Raider Anniversary is such an example.
The Bluepoint remakes (Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls) are so close to the original, because they have special techniques to let the original game code run underneath the new game. So they can even take single parts of the game to behave exactly like the original game.
@Chandler Burse Not only in The Medium, but their previous games, too. I've finished the Medium and agree. They literally gave a child-rapist a redemption arc, saying that it wasn't him but the demon inside of him, while on the other hand saying that his victim is damaged so badly beyond repair that the only way to get a good ending is by killing her. It is beyond fucked up. The story is at best dubious.
But that has nothing to do with what I'm writing. I'm saying if the story is already there and they don't change it, don't add their Bloober Team morals into it, they should be perfect to make a remake because they have the technical knowhow and love the source material. So they should treat it with respect.
49:30 Silent Hills Shattered Memories is a remake of Silent Hill 1, I believe
No, Shattered Memories is a spin-off / alternate universe where none of the events actually happened. It was all a hallucination Cheryl had after they got in a car accident and Harry died. Nothing even supernatural about it, just a traumatized girl's imagination.
the silent hill ascension will be like dark picture games while silent hill f will be like fatal frame games.
Actually Silent Hill Ascension is a mobile phone app based around a social media horror experience. Silent Hill Townfall is the Until Dawn style Silent Hill game.
Just to clear up the movie confusion, return to silent hill will essentially act as dead space downfall did for the original game. It’s not a movie of silent hill two but something you watch to lead directly into the game and I absolutely cannot wait because I love the first silent Hill movie
are you sure though? cause they literally show movie storyboards and they are scenes within the games story so saying it "leads you into the game" is just false.
@@furynvm idk but either way I’m excited to see what the returning director does
@@GoB1996 Same.
Thanks for the reaction! Looking forward to Townfall most but I will play all of these (even 2R looks good)..
I honestly don't think I've found a single Bloober game more than just okay at best, and that's not even getting into the much deeper issues with their storytelling others have brought up. Even Layers of Fear, which seems to be the go to "But everyone agrees that one was good at least, right?" game of theirs, was mostly just shallow and tedious to me. That said, I'm not writing off their SH2 remake. They do have the framework of the original game to follow and Konami overseeing them. My expectations aren't high, but from what we've seen so far I think it could turn out to be at least decent. Even if it ends up being amazing though I still just want a good remaster of the original, along with the other SH games.
Is Layers of Fear that one? I thought that was Observer?
@@nelsonhamilton8262 You know, I think Observer might be their actual best game. I just feel like people bring up Layers of Fear more often, but I could be wrong.
Mediocre is the new 8/10 in this industry of ours, just ask IGN and every other Nimrod who blindly preorders, Konami giving the Silent Hill name to Blooper to sandpaper into modern gaming nothingness proves that Konami is still just being Konami
@@nelsonhamilton8262 that 6/10 game, yeah they're best work
@@chillhour6155 It’s higher on metacritic than layers of fear in terms of user score and critic score…and both scores are above 6/10 lol. I know that I’m higher on observer than most people but I just think that game is brilliant considering it’s budget. Layers of fear I also like but I like it for what it is…which is walking through a virtual haunted house.
very pessimistic about bloober team being the developer on SH2, they tend to always have strong art design and we can already see that but gameplay… they fall short on. townfall very intrigued have a lot of faith behind no code but not much to go off so far. forte or f is perhaps the one i’m most excited for, having ryukishi07 (when they cry) as a writer elevates it massively again not much to go off of but still.
when I was first told bloober was working on it I somehow heard bluepoint and got extremely hyped. Either way ill be buying day 1.
You are talking as if original SH2 had a good gameplay lmao
Am I seriously the only one that sees the similarity between new James and Brandon Jones??
I thought the same thing. Brandon Jones but like an unnatural, ugly cartoon face version of Jones.
26:34 best reaction :)
Konami we've had Silent Hill 2 rereleased and now remade while Silent Hill one is still locked away on PS1. Please give us a remake or remaster of the game that started it all
SH1 is not locked away to only PS1, I've played it on both PS3 and my PSP, do wish it had proper ports current gen stuff though
Silent Hill 2 never got remade
His face looks derpy.
Yeah, they fucked it up completely, facial animations are gross too
to be fair James's face was quite derpy (in a different way) in the original too
Hate to be the Negative Nancy but Bloober Team's entire body of work has me concerned with them tackling hard, sensitive topics. The pessimism is well-earned; The Medium especially makes me worried of how they'll adapt SH2 or the stuff they'll add to it. F has my biggest attention, though; the character designer worked on Death Mark and NG and the writer did Higurashi and Umineko
Jimquisition has a great video about their past work being 2 edgy! It's a good thing they're just remaking SH2, instead of a fully original narrative. I'm pumped for Town fall and f! They both look nice and chewy
@@michaelmoratto YES, forgot they did a video about that. They said it better than me LOL
100% agree. The way they handled mental illness / sexual assault in The Medium was so disgusting that I have no interest in anything they ever make going forward. Not to mention their games in general are just mediocre. It sucks that of all the devs out there, they're the ones who are getting the chance to do this remake.
They have guidance from yamaoka and ito so im sure it will be fine. From the trailer it looks like a 1 to 1 remake which is fine so really unless they decide to add new stuff there's no reason why you should be concerned atleast not for the story.
I agree I am, very very cautiously optimistic though after seeing the trailer and seeing what appears like a tonne of Konami employees over their shoulders in all that behind the scenes footage. As long as they are the guys just creating the 3d models and programming the game logic and what not and most importantly NO one on their end is touching the writing and screenplay then I think this has potential to be the definitive way to play silent hill 2. But again because Bloober is attached its going to be an up hill battle for them to have me to buy in personally.
It's nice that silent hill 2 is coming back. I'm worried about the other games though. Silent Hill is such a unique horror game and I feel like they are trying to do too much.
James looks like Jones lol
bloober team mid unfortunately but f having ryukishi07 as the writer should at the very least be pretty interesting; the horror elements of higurashi, umineko, and higanbana's visual novels are very well done
What are his stories even about? I keep hearing praise but I don't know a damn thing about them.
@@tryinglyon So... without spoiling too much (this is all largely in the first chapter, and treated as simple knowledge that doesn't interfere with the story)? Imagine there's this sleepy little town by the name of Hinamizawa. A town that, years prior, was risking being demolished to make way for a dam that ultimately would have led to the entire area being flooded. Until the people there managed to fend off and push those individuals out by banding together and fiercely protesting its construction... perhaps even violently so. Of course, that also means it might have been a little dangerous to have been related to anyone who was in support of building the dam...
Now also imagine that sleepy little place has stories about a guardian deity who can be rather... vicious and cruel to those who threaten their little town. And, every year, on the eve of the annual Cotton Drifting festival since the dam was halted, people have gone missing... Or, rather, someone goes missing while another is found dead. And it all seems to tie back into the dam. Or those who start shoving their noses into what happened there to begin with. Or simply where they shouldn't be at all.
It's... complicated to really break the story down beyond that because you risk spoiling things. But the Higurashi games are all on steam, with the first episode being free so it's definitely worth checking out! It's safe to follow the episodes by number from there, though I wouldn't recommend reading their descriptions beyond the first couple if you really want to go in blind. And if you like the first episode, they aren't terribly expensive (about $8 USD at their highest) for their regular price and usually see a decent percentage off when on sale--which they tend to be on regularly enough, including now for obvious reasons.
@@CURSEDSei Just out of curiosity...what exactly makes these games scary? Because I'm looking through these games' steam profiles and I'm really not seeing it.
@@tryinglyon It's all the atmosphere and the writing for the most part. The releases on Steam are ports essentially of the original (pretty much solo-dev) releases by the author so the art is definitely the weakest aspect, though there are a few good spots in it as well as you go. There are mods out there that actually take later releases with more professional art assets and other changes/additions and implement them into the steam release but that's a personal choice as it can be a bit of a hassle to get running for some. It's very much a slow-burn type of deal that leans on the psychological horror and the mystery that develops from there. And while probably not obvious at first, each game builds upon the prior ones overall.
The first episode is largely a 'Outsider new to town' deal, since it uses that as the way to teach you about much of what I listed above, while also playing into a bit of the... paranoia... that might also come with it. The episodes that follow expand upon and explore other aspects talked about, teased, and mentioned from there while all slowly exposing the mystery at the core of it.
I don't know if I'd ever say the games are... scary... as that is definitely subjective. I was never scared by them (I'd seen the anime beforehand which is its own thing but runs off a similar base, so I was aware of the major beats for a good chunk of it). But they are definitely unsettling in their own right, and again there's that element of psychological horror and suspense at its core that continues through a good portion of the episodes that accompanies that.
@@CURSEDSei Okay. I'll give it a shot. If it's not for me, then it is what it will be, but I'm hopeful that Ryukishi07 can do the series justice with F.
So,2024 I'm guessing for SH2
2023
i'm dissaponted , i was waiting for a silent hill's pachinko machines voiced by Chris pratt
As exciting as all these game announcements are all I want is a damn collection that isn’t borked for newer consoles… never played 1-4 smh resident evil kinda spoiled me to be fair
I'm so excited, my favourite series is finally coming back. At the same time i'm terrified that Konami is gonna go FUBAR on all of this when they'll have a bad day in the future and cancel everything, you never know with them :P
Also, i wish they'd finally port og versions of classic games to modern platforms, so far we still only have: Homecoming on steam, SH4 on gog, and SH HD Collection, Downpour and Homecoming on xbox back compat.
Sorry for being ignorant but can anyone tell me who Ryukishi07 is?
When They Cry series creator.
Higurashi no Nako Koro Ni, Umineko no Naku Koro Ni.
Killer yandere school girls and social mysteries
Trypophobia. 41:10
It’s nice to see one reaction that doesn’t just immediately dogpile on Bloober Team.
They deserve being shit on, they're sub par developer that shouldn't even be in the business of making anything related to horror
No Isla? Thats a bit of a shame, hopefully she does her own reactions.
Enjoy
twitter.com/IslaHinck/status/1582855665957363712
-Bloodworth
@@EasyAllies Thanks blood!!
B Team has no idea what its doing. When the voices, and facial animations look worse than the original, thats a problem.
Imagine what the original Team Silent could do if you teleported them forward to 2022 and gave them modern hardware to work with.
Gow ragnorak preview friday?
F and Townfall look much better than 2 tbh.
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Code Veronica > RE3
And it deserved a remake more than RE3 did, Capcom did Claire dirty
There should be a trial for Isla not being here!
I always said the franchise is only as good as the developers. The fact that the guys that made the Medium are in charge of the remake makes me super concerned.
I might just skip this unless it on sale.
I suppose they probably have a much higher budget for this though, and there's some oversight. Let's see
Bummed that Bloober is taking the lead on this, they’re pretty mid 😕
Is 'mid' new zoomer slang?
@@greyknight5168 what up grandad
@@citizen3000 We used to say 'meh' in the olden times
So... Missed the stream (it starting earlier than the listed time not helping), but on watching the Twitch Vod and seeing the reaction to the SH2 remake...? It's disheartening when, despite the valid criticism listed off and mentioned in chat, nothing was said about the 'hate' towards Bloober team aside from attributing 'most' of it to Technical issues. As if that is the only thing anyone has ever stated about their titles. And it smacks of the dismissive tone used around DMC:Devil May Cry's release where rather than acknowledge or listen to the valid issues the game had, people were pushed aside as being 'haters' and their reasons were solely because of Dante's hair.
No. That wasn't DMC:DMC's issue at launch, just as Bloober Teams major issue here isn't just 'oh their game don't run well'. Bloober Team has a consistent history of handling mental health issues with all the delicacy of a drunken bull surrounded by red painted fine china. Not just a single game, and not even their oldest... But through multiple releases. And The Medium is THE literal worst example of it. Any game that both tries to make light of the abusers whilst also painting victims of said abuser as irredeemable and broken goods is *REPUGNANT*. That the only 'good' ending in the game argues that victims are better off dead, and the achievement/trophy tied to it practically celebrates and make light of it is abhorrent. Bloober Team makes light of and shows what feels to me an intentionally dishonest and narrow-minded view of the trauma around abuse as well as mental health should be proof enough that they shouldn't be touching a game whose themes are so specifically tied around... mental health, abuse, and trauma... There is a 1-to-1 issue there. They've had time to improve their handling of those issues and haven't, and before one says give them time? The Medium was last year. It's recent. And no amount of budget could fix writing like that.
You can like their games, think they're great even. But ignoring and dismissing the most damning critiques to instead give voice to the most shallow and superficial complaints feels... well, shallow. It definitely rubbed me the wrong way, just as I saw a few others in the Chat Vod bring up too. The only... bronze... lining to all this is Konami 'might' be holding them to a very tight leash. But if all Bloober team is doing is just graphical updates and some tweaking? Literally any studio could have done that. And the rumors of them potentially making additional content (endings, areas, etc.) just gives people more valid reasons to be concerned given the above.
Imagine Silent Hill 2 having an ending that denigrates and paints Mary as the villain and deserving of her fate, and James as sympathetic. Because that is the fear people have, and what Bloober team's handling of that kind of content have veered towards.
Bloober remaking my favourite game of all time is like a fucking nightmare I had once. Christ they're so talentless.
Konami still makes games?
Nope, they outsource them to the cheapest and most talentless developer's
I feel like Silent Hill F is a Kojima troll. Why would they give the game to a support studio that made REverse? They are definitely hiding something. And they gave info about all the games except SH F. It's really weird.
Wouldn’t make sense, Kojima announced Elle Fanning is the star of his next game, if SH f is set in 1960s japan like the rumors say then I doubt they are the same.
Kojima has no connection to the Silent Hill franchise. He briefly worked on the P.T. demo but the project attached to that was literally cancelled 8 years ago. Silent Hill existed without him for decades and it will continue to do so.
Silent hill reveal with no Isla? I want my non existent money back
Sorry! We wish she was there too, but she was spending time with her family back home! - Gabby
@@EasyAllies you didn't have to reply I figured there was a good reason :P Thanks Gabby!
20:09 No. You can't film a CRT image.
Edit: After receiving a comment from @Charlie Wood I double-checked and it is actually possible. There is a very cool explanation by Modern Vintage Gamer, which explains how you can do it.
But here is the rest of how I though, it was done:
to do something like this, you have to put green color on the screen, film it (maybe with two while squares for tracking the movement) and put the video digitally on top of it. They also bended the image around the curved display and added a fake CRT-effect on top of it.
You absolutely can film a CRT image, cameras can be set to the same hz as the monitors they film
@@charoleawood You made me look that up and I found an interesting video of how you can get it to work with a really good quality by Modern Vintage Gamer.
Thanks. Today, I learned something.
@@CycloneFox
No problem :)
This is really funny to me since one of the things we routinely did at GameTrailers was shooting gameplay footage off screens at events like E3, often whether the publishers liked it or not. -Bloodworth
@@EasyAllies Charlie Wood already told me so and I made a second comment admitting my mistake.
My statement was based off live-reports from times before there were modern monitors and you would see the described effect. As well as how monitors in films were always faked back then. So based on these two facts, I was sure that there is no way. But from Modern Vingate Gamer's video I learned that there is a way actually.
Will Kojima-kun talk about this on his podcast?
He will *allege* to it.
No he'll talk about himself
Kojima has no connection to the Silent Hill series. He briefly worked on the P.T. demo, but the project attached to that was cancelled 8 years ago now. He has never had any true involvement with the series at this point.
Idk stories that happen all in the characters head or primarily all hallucinations lack weight to me, cos there's no actual stakes. All the perimeters of the story can just be changed on the fly to serve whatever plot they wanna make up, regardless of logical story progression.
It’s neither of those things. Silent Hill brings the monsters to life and it’s protagonists are in actual danger.
The stakes are his real life, which is enough
@@raltor20 Except for the crappy Shattered Memories spin-off where nothing was real and the protagonist had been dead for 10 years.
"Good faces!"
What?????
Baffling comment
@@citizen3000 Yeah
People are going crazy over mere announcement videos, but we had an actual DEMO with Silent Hills, and that was cancelled... when we people ever learn to not give a company your excitement and money until they prove themselves adequately.
By the way they are having multiple SH titles coming out, how does this not scream cash grabs? What other announces multiple installments for a single franchise at once? But Konami of course would do so because they only care about money and Pachinko machines.
The explicitly stated many years ago that they were getting out of the video game industry in exchange for pachinko machines... yet people are embracing them with open arms over... a simple series of announcements... absolutely bizarre. People have the IQ of a goldfish.
I'm sucker for everything SH, the more the better. Capcom is going crazy with RE, i can finally stop being jealous of RE fans and have my own buffet too.
Please.
Shut the fuck up and let people be happy.
Silent Hills was already cancelled when P.T. released. Kojima went to Sony behind Konami's back in a really petty/unprofessional move.
There was a *SILENT HILL* here. It's gone now.
my problem with bloober team is that thier games is sooooooo boring
We needed Isla reaction to all of these.
I think shes live tweeted her reaction since she's out of town
Bloober is awful. I have zero interest in this remake with them involved.
How monetized will Konami make these? $10 for a "Blue" outfit perhaps?
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Cool for being an exclusive!? 🐸
James looks too old and also a lot more frail. Not a fan of this remake thing.
give me mama's milk
The Medium's story is incredibly offensive to mental illness so.
If Konami really wanted to do right by their fans, they would give us Silent Hills that Kojima and Guillermo del Toro were working on, not these cash grabs. How are these cash grabs? Well you can tell they are because Konami were all about Pachinko machines not too long ago, and the fact that they announced multiple titles all at once for a single franchise... if that doesn't scream cash grab from the notoriety of a franchise's reputation, I don't know what does.
Why would Kojima and GDT go back to Konami after how they were treated. They could still make the game they want without the SH branding on it.
What would that actually achieve? Silent Hills has this weird cult status it just doesn’t deserve. Kojima was as much an outsider to Silent Hill as the rest of them and his work leading up to its release hadn’t filled me with confidence.
I think that people have greatly overvalued what Kojima was working on. From what I understand, PT was it. They didn’t get any further. There’s not some half finished game out there waiting to be polished up and released…
Konami didn't want to spend the extra money on talent
Silent Hills is literally never happening. None of the developers work at Konami anymore and they burned bridges with both Kojima and del Toro.
Tbh, it all looks like trash apart from the Ryukishi07 project.
Townfall looks great it’s being made by the devs of Stories Untold which was criminally underrated
Reveling to many games at once is stupid
SH2 remake looks terrible, lifeless and artless.
Actually blind
Okay this is just hating for the sake of hating. If theres one thing bloober does well it's art direction but sh fans just love to whine about everything. Prob the fans that dont deserve a new game at all.
shit am I gonna have to buy those super expensive silent hill PS2 games now? No ports?
Hell yeah I like this group (no weird people) more than the others, just missing the boss man.
The chonk on the right needs to go “How can everyone be canon” You dumb creature. Get it though your enlarged dome that everyone votes on an outcome. The outcome with the most votes is canon. Fucking empty thoughts behind those greasy fat eyes.
sony always wins baby let's go !!!!
Silent Hill 1 that needed a remake... 🤔🙄