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New Silent Hills Gif With Brightness Turned Up Shows Power of Fox Engine on PS4, Looks Scary & Real

GP: At GamesCom 2014, Kojima admitted that he deliberately toned down the graphics in the game, also worth noting is that the amount of different video formats compression this GIF went through, a fair amount of quality would have been lost, and this means in-game this sequence looks even better.

DigitalRaptor3526d ago

This demo alone is more emotionally impacting than any next-gen game so far.

Speaks volumes about what to expect from the final product.

nveenio3526d ago

One of my most impressed moments was standing next to the window with a flashlight and admiring how the light bounced through the glass and lit so realistically. The realism just added tremendously to the scare factor.

miyamoto3526d ago (Edited 3526d ago )

Imagine if the protagonist is Sean "Always Die on Screen" Bean!

I loved his role on Silent Hill movies. He was the perfect actor for them.

Sean Bean's presence always add that "vulnerability" on the screen whether drama, suspense or horror. You will be easily invested on him.

GiggMan3526d ago

I agree also. Don't give a damn what the resolution is or the FPS or whatever people argue about...

This for some reason screams Next Gen better any other example on either console. I love getting other people to play it for the first time and it still freaks me out.

fr0sty3526d ago

This is definitely one of the best looking games of the generation that has been revealed, and the best so far to release in my opinion. No other game has nailed that global illumination look so well. I render visuals in Cinema 4D a lot for my job as a video projection mapping artist, and I know in order to get that kind of lighting quality in offline, non-real time renders, it takes a lot of time to render lighting that looks anywhere near that good.

To see Kojima roll out visuals like that in a real time engine this early on in the generation shows me just how good at his craft he is. Kudos Kojima-San!

starchild3525d ago

Yeah, that PT demo really immersed me and impacted me. The graphics and sound really made you feel like you were there.

I agree that the graphics are some of the best and most realistic yet seen in a game. The Fox Engine does an amazing job with lighting, which is one of the most important elements for a scene to look believable.

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teknx3526d ago

Other than the Demon/Dark Souls series, most of the games nowadays spell things out way too clearly for the player in hopes of avoiding gamer frustration thereby making it appeal to a larger market.

Forget all that, PT harkens back to old school games where you would spend not only hours, but days stuck in an area. But when you finally figured it out, it was soo satisfying.

Without the internet, I'm sure there would be tons of people still being laughed at by sink-baby while trying to get that phone to ring.

Jack_Reacher3525d ago

God your so right. Games are so dumbed down for the casuals nowadays. It bugs the sh@t out of me in bf4 when you die after throwing a grenade and it dies with you. Ruins any kind of realism. Tho I do agree the pt demo goes abit far the other way.

Maybe more clues like hearing the thoughts of the main character thinking stuff out helping a bit could help. If you get what I mean.

Dontworrybhappy3526d ago

Its also the most tediously annoying game I've played this gen.

Bimkoblerutso3525d ago (Edited 3525d ago )

I have to say, as much as I loved the atmosphere, walking around for twenty minutes near the end, clicking endlessly on stuff until I found a random hole in the wall...it kind of ruined the mood.

BallsEye3526d ago

Looks great! Day one for me!

DevilOgreFish3526d ago (Edited 3526d ago )

DigitalRaptor -
"This demo alone is more emotionally impacting than any next-gen game so far.

Speaks volumes about what to expect from the final product."

you do realize that the playable teaser has nothing to do with how the actual silent hills game will play?

konami wrote in plain text at the end of the silent hills trailer - "This is a game teaser. it has no direct relation to the main title."
http://i.picpar.com/2zbb.pn...
http://www.gamersyde.com/hq...

They were just using the playable teaser for advertising purposes.

_-EDMIX-_3525d ago (Edited 3525d ago )

He might mean no direct relation in terms of main story....

We don't know in what regards he is saying this.

And um....DUHHHH ITS RUNNING ON FOX ENGINE! ie What he is seeing will look BETTER when the final version releases.

So....did you hear its not running on FOX ENGINE? Did you also hear its not in FP? Soooooo in what regard to you mean "relation"?

The trailer of Silent Hills is running on FOX...clearly.

The game is clearly still in FP as you see the character moving.....what part about what you saw suggested it wasn't going to play like the teaser?

What DR liked about this game will still be in the final version as I doubt the game will look different, it will likely look better.

FanboyKilla3526d ago

@digitalraptor more emotionally impacting? lmfao you try toooo hard.
you just said that the tp demo trumps everything on your ps4.

Lmfao i know you were trying to take a silent shot at you know who, but you have confirmed these boring, no games articles for ps4. and the ps community seems to AGREE with you.

now dont get emotional on me.

DigitalRaptor3525d ago (Edited 3525d ago )

What a defensive, misguided response to what was me being surprised and excited about the impact a DEMO can have. Do you have issues of insecurity?? I'm serious.
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"you just said that the tp demo trumps everything on your ps4."

Firstly it's called "P.T." or "Silent Hills".

Secondly, so what if it does trump all else? It f*cking Kojima and Del Toro. What do you expect from the minds of those two genius creators? There's nothing out there on ANY console this gen so far that has gained a greater emotional reaction. "Emotional" not being happy, or tragic, but terrifying. The game is almost pant-soilingly scary and reactions elsewhere are confirming how disturbingly scary the game is.
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"Lmfao i know you were trying to take a silent shot at you know who"

What in the world are you talking about Mr FanboyKilla, who continues to prove that you're an anti-PS4 fanboy yourself? If you want to explain who i'm supposed to be taking pot shots at with a simple comment, go ahead.

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Akira20203525d ago

"his demo alone is more emotionally impacting than any next-gen game so far."

LOL...seeing your kid go through surgery; that's emotionally impacting.

Having to sit through a criminal case of which you are innocent; that's emotionally impacting.

Having the doctor tell you that your groin rash is any but a groin rash...now that's emotionally impacting.

But yes, the game will be like Ben Affleck in Phantoms....the bomb yo'.

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Ashraf893526d ago

Exclusively on PS4. Confirm!

MasterCornholio3526d ago

If you mean the PT I agree. But if your talking about the actual game then your wrong. It might be timed exclusive (like Tomb Raider and No Mans Sky) but it won't be a permanent exclusive.

Sm00thNinja3526d ago (Edited 3526d ago )

Good f******** GOD THAT IS TERRIFYING!! Just got the phone call and was finally chosen. I actually want to play the demo again. If a full 20 hr game can be this gripping.... Funny a demo was my first REAL next gen experience IMO. Also stop trolling Ash game hasn't been remotely confirmed as exclusive

Hardcore_gamerxbox3526d ago

R u related to ahsan rasheed he always trolls like u :)

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JakeTyler933526d ago (Edited 3526d ago )

I'm pretty sure it's scarier with the brightness turned up haha. Seriously though I haven't been this jumpy at a game in years. This is going to be fantastic.

GdaTyler3526d ago

Play Five Night's at Freddy's.

Cherchez La Ghost3526d ago

When I hit the corner for the first time...., this amazon scared the sh*t out of me! LoL!!

1nsomniac3526d ago

Why are you hitting corners, doesn't that hurt!? & fair enough the Amazon does house some scary creepy crawlies but I don't really see what it has to do with this topic...

MrDead3525d ago

I don't know about scary but I know a sexy dancer when I see one. I'd like to take this lady out and buy her some pudding.

Gore-Content3526d ago

Fox engine + PS4 = an unbeatable force!

Tctczach3526d ago

PC + ....take your pick= unbeatable force

RedDeadLB3526d ago

Yeah yeah, we get it. But it's not always the case. Consoles tend to get much better exclusives and PC ports (exclusives even) can be awful, even today.

With great power comes great responsibility, and there are many irresponsible publishers and developers that port shit to PC.

In that aspect, consoles are better as gaming devices. Not as powerful, but better. And I'm a PC gamer.

Tctczach3526d ago (Edited 3526d ago )

So you are saying that when MG5 coms to PC it won't be more powerful? OK. I don't think Kojima would do that. I agree about the PC ports though. (Not trying to be hostile if this is coming off like that.)

GW2123526d ago

PC + Uncharted? What does that equal?

Every time I try to enter that into my calculator, I get an "undefined" error. Maybe I'm entering it wrong.

starchild3525d ago (Edited 3525d ago )

@Buljo

Uh which multiplats are you talking about? Because every multiplat I have played has looked and ran better on my PC than on my PS4. I don't have the highest end PC around either, just a GTX 770 with i5 2500k setup. Battlefield 4, Assassin's Creed 4, Bound By Flame, Watch Dogs and Thief have all run and looked better on my PC.

The amount of truly bad ports to PC is minuscule. The PC version of Dark Souls was originally a bad port, for example, but with a few mods/tweaks it too is easily the best version of the game.

Jack_Reacher3525d ago

Whos pc is that then. Please dont insult us by telling us every pc owner has a rig that gives them that dream looking better than console experience.

Because your so wrong. I still dont see a pc for the same price that can play games as good.

Oh im sure you can quote us some specs. B ut funny you all miss out stuff like the operating system which is a big chunk of the money. Im sure you can get away with running a pirate one. But then I hope you get caught

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Tctczach3526d ago

Don't pull the exclusives card because I could post a ton of stuff. Plus Uncharted isn't running on the Fox engine so please stay on topic. Thanks!

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20 Awesome Canceled Games You'll Never Get To Play

You can understand some games getting canceled, but these awesome looking games still baffle us to this very day.

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-Foxtrot39d ago

"Tommy saving the planet from an army of aliens after they abducted him and his entire bar, with the game ending on the promise that Tommy would be back, but that promise was never fulfilled"

The thing is with the original Prey 2 that Tommy wasn't even the main character, they replaced him with some generic looking space bounty hunter. It was a refreshing change to see an awesome Native American character with ancestral like powers fight aliens yet they ditched him. It was only after an outcry they showed much later in a new preview that Tommy was in the game as an NPC.

I'd have prefered a real sequel with Tommy as the main character, literally picking right up from the originals ending.

As for Eight Days...Sony really needs to pick this up

If Amy Hennig was still at ND, I'd have loved to see her tackle it after what she did with Uncharted.

isarai39d ago (Edited 39d ago )

I thought that was awesome too, and honestly i wish people werent so damn critical about cultural variety in games. I feel like people try to ruin devs lives if even one detail is off about their culture in a game and so everyone is too scared to try anymore

isarai39d ago (Edited 39d ago )

One of the lead engine programmers for Prey 2 at Human Head was my programming instructor when i was taking game design. This game was in limbo at the time and we asked once and only once about this game, the misery in his eyes when he told us "this is the 1st and only time ill ask you to never ask me about that game" was something ill never forget😅 he used a couple assets through the curriculum for teaching purposes but nothing very tangible. Just a function here, a 3d prop there. Such a shame. Years later i saw him at a magic tournament, we caught up and he still thinks about that game and how it's "practically done" probably sitting on a drive somewhere

shinoff218339d ago (Edited 39d ago )

Practically done? Jeez that fking blows because that looked much more interesting then what bethsada made. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the one bethsada made.

Lmno looked interesting.
I'd knock titanfall and fez off the list. Add something else. Scarface 2 man only if would've been awesome. Prey 2 should be higher to. Either way not a bad list. Out of 20 there's only 2 I'd hate on.

isarai39d ago

That gen got a lot of games canned right before the finish line. Cipher Complex, Battlefront 3, legacy of kain dead sun just to name a few

XiNatsuDragnel39d ago

Games that need to come out: Battlefront 3, 8 days, and timesplitter 4.

Skuletor38d ago

One that's not on the list is Killing Day, I remember seeing the trailer in 2005 and being impressed at the time. Being Ubisoft you know it would have been a AAAA game too, lol
2 Days to Vegas and The Getaway 3 are two other games that seemed promising but never came out.

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Canceled Video Game Sequels That Never Happened

Anticipation can turn into disappointment so often in the video game world. Canceled video game sequels can feel devastating, especially those that promise to expand upon the thrilling stories of their predecessor. Wealth of Geeks runs down some of the most disappointing cancelations that kept anticipated sequels in the dark.

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shinoff218362d ago (Edited 62d ago )

The orginal prey 2 better be on this list.

And it is. Man if could've got this instead. Wonder why no one's step up to do this kinda game yet. I think there's one in development for pc, it's cyberpunk Era but it takes place in some huge apartment complex I think. Anyway I'm saying this not knocking the prey that came out cause I did enjoy that to but really wanted prey 2 (canceled)

Skuletor61d ago

I wonder if they never happened because they were cancelled 🤔 (stupid headline)

Rockstar61d ago

Was just thinking the same thing...

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5 Ambitious Games That Shouldn't Have Been Canceled

Sometimes even promising titles never see the light of day. These are five of the most ambitious games that shouldn't have been canceled.

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GaboonViper270d ago

Silent Hills cancellation was a travesty.

mrbearbear269d ago

I still wonder to this day if it was a reboot, or sequel.

cammers1995269d ago

Lol. The tags made it so I didn't have to visit your website.

goldwyncq269d ago

Kojima wouldn't have started his own studio if Silent Hills didn't get cancelled so even if it stung at first, I'm fine with it.

chobit_A5HL3Y269d ago

i remember being so excited for patriots for years, only to have them release that siege trash. i hate how multiplayer games, pvp in particular, have ruined so many potentially good games.

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