Silent Hill by Bloober Team is a worrying combination

XO: This Wednesday, the studio behind Layers of Fear and Blair Witch, entered into a partnership with Konami. In a statement, Bloober Team explained that they will be sharing information and technology as well as serving as joint developers on unnamed projects. It’s a pretty vague description of their partnership, but it hasn’t stopped the speculation foundries from firing up.

[CaptainHenry916]

My expectations is really low for this game. Regardless how it turns out good luck to Blooper team

[SullysCigar]

They'll need more than luck going by their past games. All are okay, nothing more.

An IP like this needs a decent developer with a proven track record. Otherwise, please, just don't bother.

[Vits]

They did prove that they can craft a good atmosphere if they try with The Observer. Their problem is always the gameplay aspect of things. So I feel they would be more suitable for a support role here, crafting set pieces for another studio like Tango Gameworks.

In any case though. Is not like Silent Hill is a particularly consistent stellar franchise. We like to only remember the good ones by Team Silent. But the true is that at it this point the series has seen worse than the worse Bloober Team has putted out.

So if worse come to worse. We will just get another Homecoming or another Downpour.

[FanboysKiller]

I get what you mean but tg focus heavily on weapons system and upgrades, both of them make excellent sh games but they are just a different beasts on their own.

[masterfox]

True, the medium wasnt that great, looks barely average , and if so making a silent hill game wont live up to its name imo.

[Rambokind]

What on earth are you going on about? The Medium is a fun game, not perfect, but it captures the atmosphere perfectly and tells a stellar story. Maybe stop playing so many CoD games?

[solideagle]

If a horror game is explained as "fun" game then I am even more worried for silent hill :D :P

[JTShiny]

I want to be terrified in a horror game, not just having fun.

[GamerRN]

So wait... Horror games aren't supposed to be fun?

[Dwarrior]

So the guy doesn't like The Medium. Therefore he must be a CoD player.

Grow up.

[Lostbytes]

Maybe, stop calling interactive visual novels.....Games. They are not. They are the evolution of "Choose your own adventure" Book. "Medium" was nothing more, than a walking simulator as a vehicle for a decent story. Barely could classify it as a game, IMHO.

[gleepot]

I'm a huge horror fan, and the medium was extremely mediocre and boring. It's not a fun game. At all.

[AriesBear]

The medium was really good i don’t know what your smokin.

[Kurt Russell]

I thought it lived up to its name. It was middle of the road, with some nice ideas... outdated basic puzzling and just a general lack of world interaction.

[Knightofelemia]

A new SH game I'll believe it when I see it as for Blair Witch I played it and got bored of it

[Magog]

Yeah they suck. The IP is worthless without the brains behind the originals.

[Rambokind]

They suck? Are you always this jaundiced and myopic?

[Popsicle]

It always amazes me the banter on here. For people that share similar interest one would think we would be a little nicer to each other.

[jeromeface]

takes like this are worthless, we don't have time machines yet

[Magog]

We have seen the other games from Bloober though. We have seen all the awful western developed Silent Hill games.

[Tedakin]

I think they make very good horror games. Blair Witch and Medium had some great moments. Some very creepy moments. There's just no way they can achieve what the early SH games did. It's going to always be a shame the Kojima/Del Toro version fell through.

[bRuud83]

As much I loved the series, I think they just need to leave the series. After SH4 different teams worked on the games and nothing good came out of it, mediocre at best. Only when the original team with the original music composer works on it, I would love to see a new entry.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Shattered Memories was amazing though story wise.

[Bathyj]

Konami just sell your IPs to Sony and go make slot machines or whatever it is you do now. You know they are the only ones that deserve them or will do them justice.

[Sunny_D]

But they need to be able to make Silent Hill pachinko machines. Can’t do that without owning the ip! 😁

/s🙄

[Fiddlerblue]

You joke but I think this actually has some truth to it. I really feel like Konami is doing the bare minimum to just keep the IP relevant enough to make pachinko machines and merch.

[aaronaton]

How did we go from PT to this?

[Highrevz]

The Studio that’s most likely to use fixes camera angles, I’m excited for this to be a possibility vs having a first person view game.

Bloober didn’t try to make Silent Hill but I’m happy for them to give it a go now.

[PunksOnN4G]

I swear Bloober horror games always have little to no combat lol soo nah wtf ever they are working on they can keep

[CrimsonWing69]

It was pretty disheartening to hear they’re doing it. Expect another Homecoming, Downpour, and Shattered Memories level experience. I’m sorry, but a western dev has yet to prove that they can make a Silent Hill game.

[Yusi-D-Jordan]

Kojima made the most interesting Silent Hill product in a decade, but no. Let’s give it to a company that excels in making mediocre games.

[anast]

I think they might actually pull this one off.

[FanboysKiller]

Tm just lacks world richness and a deeper meaningful story , they tried their best on mimicking sh vibe , they just need to do better.

[Thundercat77]

Silent Hill is a Japanese game. Western developers have tried to make SH games before and they have failed. Only Kojima has come close with P. T.

[coolbeans]

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories was well-received.

[Thundercat77]

I think it was just not that bad but it wasn't a game at the altitude of SH.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Shattered Memories was epic but I'll agree that the rest of the Western made games were bad to okay at best.

[oldenjon]

Silent Hill is dead, it needed a Kojima and Del Toro level reboot. I'm more excited for the Bokeh studios game at this point.

[Good-Smurf]

Konami burn their own bridge years ago, I"m not surprised that much smaller team like Bloober accepted the deal.
It's going to take a lot more than just money to make other proven, bigger developer to take chance with Konami again not when their own dev teams were still reduced to do sports and mobile games.

[Zeref]

I have absolute faith in Bloober Team, The Medium was an awesome game. It doesn't appeal to everyone because it's more of a walking Sim. But they absolutely nailed everything it strived to be.

10/10 Narrative
10/10 World building
10/10 Atmosphere

It even had some elements that felt like Silent Hill in some levels.

The only thing that held it back from being a masterpiece was that it doesn't have combat so it didn't appeal to most people.

I'm gonna be really sad if they never make a sequel to that game.

There's VERY few other developers capable of nailing a Silent Hill game, Bloober team is definitely on that list imo. Maybe even top two because I can't think of anyone who would do a better job besides Kojima.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Tango Gameworks could probably also do a good job too

[Traecy]

I hope they're not doing Silent Hill.

[Orchard]

I’d rather have Bloober do it than have no Silent Hill for another generation 🤷

[BandarHub]

I have faith in Bloober to deliver. The Medium was Silent hill in Spirit.
They nailed the atmosphere and most importantly, they can deal with touchy subjects that are very much in Silent Hills DNA.
The camera angles and tension you feel when entering different sections are present in Bloober's games.

The only concern I have is the combat and let us admit...Silent Hill was never known for its combat.

[Orchard]

Worrying would be giving it to another western combat focused studio.

SH will be in very capable hands with Bloober (if true).