Konami officially announced the Silent Hill 2 remake today for PS5 after months of speculation, rumors, and leaks. The three-minute trailer offered a first glimpse of Pyramid Head while confirming that Bloober Team is handling development.
They dont totally suck, but their games are half baked for sure. They make interesting worlds and stories, but the gameplay is linear and unremarkable.
Im disappointed because all i see is once again Konami outsourcing a valued IP to a random western developer. At least this one has horror experience i guess. Homecoming was made by Frogger and Barbie developers.
Im still not clear if the Japanese developed Silent Hill F is a game or not.
Based on what I am seeing, these guys is working in collaboration with the original developers of this game. And what we see so far looks damn promising. Many people will eat their words after this.
@Concertoine - bonus here is they can help re-create the world while already having the story and gameplay sort of done for them from the original. This is best case scenario for them.
It’s under direction of the originals though. I think the hate for bloober is laughably cringe. They make mediocre games but they’re not some trash studio some edgelords want to keep pushing
@blackblades they’re actually a really good developer. It’s just that they made an exclusive game for Xbox which stirred up the fanboys. Then it became cool to jump on board and grief them. Like gamers tend to do, they’re a fickle bunch.
One of the few developers that are still innovating. The way they handled dual worlds in the medium. The way they used binaural sound tech in Blair Witch was phenomenal. Then one of the first uses of full ray tracing in a game. That list alone is really impressive considering how stale the industry has been during that time and the fact they managed that while they’re not a AAA developer. I would agree they haven't hit the AAA grade yet. But it does go to show how easily gamers are led into mindless stupidity.
Silent Hill 2 is a masterpiece in my opinion. It's my 2nd favorite game of all time. ALL TIME! That's how highly I think of this game. Yet the footage of this remake already looks disappointing to me. First off James gives me a totally different vibe. He wasn't nearly that old in the original.
Overall, I'm just not feeling like graphic style and vibe. Maybe I need to see more, but it's a SH2 remake that looks not much different than the B level Silent Hill games were we getting before like Homecoming and downpour. I just didn't feel the heart of the original Silent Hill 2 in that trailer. And it's PS5 console exclusive to boot. So trust me, I want to like it but I just don't so far.
I have the opposite vibe to you myself. Like you, Silent Hill 2 is up as one of my favourite games of all time. But I like this new James. It was always meant to come across as a traumatic experience for him, this new James seems to sell that better.
I just have concerns with Bloober. I don't mind their games, they always are environmentally sound, but gameplay is usually a bit clumsy and limited... and their game optimisation is atrocious.
After looking at those Unreal Engine 5 graphics you are not impress? That looks great an more facial realistic! The original Silent Hill 2 I had I played on Xbox, was clunky as heck to play at the time, but the game was awesome game and atmospheric. This one brings up more atmosphere and horror than the original. It’s what the original developers intended for the original that is what your seeing. You will eat your words my friend.
Could use more grit though. Characters lools very clean and weirdly rubbery. But town loks neat, just hope they use that ugly looking otherworld transition from the movie, that they borrowed in both Homecoming and Downpour.
They used to transition in interesting and creative ways (Like climbing up the bell tower and emerging in another world), after the movie it just became an ugly vfx.
No its also on PC. And Konami is working together with Sony on this one, so its PS and PC only. They're will be no Xbox version, so forget it, not in 12 months, more like never.
...they are working with sony on the marketing, not the game development. The game will come to xbox after 12 months, but will xbox gamers be interested after seeing it be available on ps5 / pc during that time?
It’ll be on PC too where hopefully it’s not poorly optimized. Being unreal 5 and Sonys pretty solid commitment to pc lately, I don’t doubt it’ll run solid
So after all this waiting, hoping for a Kojima rebooted Silent Hills, we instead get a remake of SH2 by one of the worst developers in the industry, a film and small indie, absolutely gutted i am.
And now a f**king MP live service game, f**k you Konami.
No Code are devs from Alien: Isolation and did Observation which were both fantastic. So there is some hope there. I was really looking forward to hearing Silent Hills was on the way back.
The Silent hill F games story is being done by the guy who wrote Higurashi: When they cry. Great story and truly messed up in every sense. Also was made into a great anime. Worth the watch.
While I find it funny they didn’t feel the investment was worth it when Kojima and Guillermo were at the helm, I’m still thankful they haven’t tossed it entirely to the curb. I’ll wait til the games out before I start malding and seething though.
When everybody plays, we all win...Proceeds to have Starfall+TES6 PS5 development cancelled before attempting to buy the largest 3rd party publisher to continue the trend.
Fighting fire with fire.... I still cant see street fighter v final fantasy remake or spiderman on xbox store.... Rayan crying saying he fair microsoft will make extra bonus for cod is laughable (because thats exactly what his doing) well i was believing ps was for the player when i shifted from x360 to ps4 but man Ps this gen is so toxic and use their fans to milk money and also play dirty with xbox so im happy saying xbox putting dirt on their eyes... Hope they will buy lot of studios after ABK
Same it's exclusive to ps5 as it would of been better as an Xbox exclusive and day 1 on gamepass, Hopefully the next silent hill game ms pays to make it exclusive.
It should be exclusive to Xbox permanently as it's not fair that Sony money hats everything in sight and MS never gets a chance to buy up exclusives. Hopefully it will be on gamepass on pc day 1.
It would have been better how? For you? This game would absolutely NOT have been better in a business sense to be released as an Xbox exclusive. Playstation made Silent hill into what it is now, it only makes sense that Konami released the remake as a timed exclusive on the "home" platform first. It's business and Sony and silent hill 2 go hand and hand. Also, for Microsoft to get a third party game of this caliber on gamepass like you said, they would have to pay Konami alot of money.
It would be better on Xbox gamepass because it's anti customer for Sony to charge gamers for exclusive games at least MS foots the bill for gamers and puts games up on gamepass for free.
not sonys fault MS is too lazy to do timed exclusive deals like this. they are too busy trying to buy entire publishers and make all their games exclusive to xbox. guess that is what happens when your internal studios are as inept as MS studios are. why would konami or any other studio do timed exclusives if they are getting offers from sony? sonys has the lead in install base and their custoners actually buy games instead of begging for "free" games on gamepass.
Oh Condemned is something else wow 😮 those fast hobo enemies are scary as hell lol 😆 with the first person combat! An the investigation is the best part of that game. When it came out on Xbox 360 it was an instant classic. Part 2 was good as hell as well too!
It's crazy to think that 21 years later we are all here to see the return of such a legendary masterpiece.
Bloober team......
Silent Hill 2 is a masterpiece in my opinion. It's my 2nd favorite game of all time. ALL TIME! That's how highly I think of this game. Yet the footage of this remake already looks disappointing to me. First off James gives me a totally different vibe. He wasn't nearly that old in the original.
Overall, I'm just not feeling like graphic style and vibe. Maybe I need to see more, but it's a SH2 remake that looks not much different than the B level Silent Hill games were we getting before like Homecoming and downpour. I just didn't feel the heart of the original Silent Hill 2 in that trailer. And it's PS5 console exclusive to boot. So trust me, I want to like it but I just don't so far.
I need to see more before making a final judgement. I don't trust Bloober to deliver on this at all given their past games. But we'll see.
Noooooo only PS5, tis a sad day my fellow gamers