Next Dead by Daylight killer and survivor are Pyramid Head and Cheryl (Heather) Mason from Silent Hill
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Y'ALL I COULD FUCKING CRY.
I love both Dead by Daylight and Silent Hill to bits. What a great announcement.
IM SO HAPPY THEY CHOSE HEATHER.
Though I'm curious why they've named her Cheryl. Strange choice when she's known primarily as Heather and not her original name.
THEYRE ADDING CROSS PLAY I-
I love both Dead by Daylight and Silent Hill to bits. What a great announcement.
IM SO HAPPY THEY CHOSE HEATHER.
Though I'm curious why they've named her Cheryl. Strange choice when she's known primarily as Heather and not her original name.
THEYRE ADDING CROSS PLAY I-
There's a premium skin that turns Heather into Lisa Garland
I'm almost more excited about this than the Silent Hill stuff. (well... it's a close one)
I play a lot of DbD and the game honestly looks extremely subpar, though admittedly this is because it started out as this small indie endeavor quite a few years back and has blown up more than they probably ever anticipated. It's been really overdue for a graphical overhaul.
Silent Hill stuff is incredible, but being able to see the entire game in a new light that I have so many hours in is so much more exciting for me. Here's a clip if anyone's curious:
Duuuuuudddeeee... feels like it's happening! I have been waiting for a proper Silent Hill follow up for nearly half my life :/
No, people have not mistaken a couple of skins from Dead by Daylight for a new Silent Hill game developed by Japan Studio.
Ooh snap, I took a quick glance at the video thumbnail and saw an overly muscular arm and assumed it was the movie design again.
This is how I always want to see his design and build. Glad you recognised his proper design though.
yeah, but it is what it is. He's "iconic" so Konami likes to put him in everything.
Hopefully if we get a new game, Sony has enough power to back up Masahiro Ito and say "nah, brah"
Incubus, Pyramid Head, Valtiel, Walter
Which of these would you pick to represent the series in a collab?
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Eh. In a game with tons of horror icons, I think he's a perfect fit. If your argument is that due to the fact that he's a manifestation of James' psyche, him existing anywhere else is illogical... I'm personally not bothered by that.
C'mon, Windrunner , this has gotta be an exception.
He might make a brief came.
Creator of Silent Hill's Pyramid Head Wants the Character Dead - Rely on Horror
No more Pyramid Head.
www.relyonhorror.com
Mmm...no, Konami can rot after the abuse they put their workers through, to say nothing of their mismanagement of their own franchises (including Silent Hil, which we have all apparently forgotten).
Kind of disappointing any developer would dare to partner with them after that report came out just because they cling to the rights of several IP their management did nothing to create.
Kind of disappointing any developer would dare to partner with them after that report came out just because they cling to the rights of several IP their management did nothing to create.
It's almost like Silent Hill is a terrible fit for asymetrical gameplay or crossovers in general and this is yet another example of Konami mismanaging its franchises!
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It would be better lore-wise if James was the survivor (or accompanying Heather) to be paired with Pyramid Head.
Unless this DLC is based on the second movie.
Unless this DLC is based on the second movie.
Whoa, that's cool. Is it still in the boys bathroom or did they change it to the girls?
If they must have Pyramid Head, have 4 of them stalk James across an area of Silent Hill as a reversal of the DBD formula. 🤷♀️
I'm just fed up with SH2's lore constantly being cheapened and mined for nostalgia. There's more to Silent Hill than SH2.
Except PH is the series mascot and IS the most iconic character from it. Why the HELL would anyone not use him if they had a chance of adding a SH monster to their game?!
Well, the main protag of SH3 is also here, so I mean, there you go?
I'm gonna have to disagree with it cheapening the lore. It was already cheapened by Konami long before that anyway.
In regards to him showing up in the film and other mainline Silent Hill titles, then yes, I wholeheartedly agree that it's dumb decision making and a betrayal of their lore they've built. But when it comes to a crossover event or being a "face" of the franchise in marketing material it doesn't really cheapen it since it isn't meant to be canonically part of the franchise.
Plus, we will need to wait and see, Dead by Daylight usually has lore snippets for characters and why they exist within that world. And the devs of DbD seemed to understand the importance of what they're doing by mentioning why Heather/Cheryl has the perks she has. It's possible they have some sort of in game DbD lore as to why Pyramid Head is in there, though I'll admit, it might end up being dumb anyway.
Aping what SH2 did (troubled amnesiac, bogeyman antagonist etc) is precisely why this franchise became toilet after it left Team Silent's hands. Pyramid Head is meant to be a one-off, he's not meant to be a mascot and every attempt to wheel him outside of the context of James' personal hell is missing the entire point.
I agree, I guess this ship sailed long ago. I'm just sad to see what this franchise has become after SH4 and the constant recycling of Pyramid Head to me is symptomatic of its downfall so my immediate reaction is to push back against it. He's been robbed of his specialness and mystique.
If the rumors are true and a new Silent Hill game by Toyama is indeed happening then including the most recognizable monster from the series in a popular multiplayer game to boost brand recognition before dropping a new entry is, in fact, not mismanaging the franchise.
Seriously, I hate how Konami has dropped the ball on a bunch of series I love but if a new entry that does Silent Hill justice does come to fruition then this is actually a good move.
Are the updating the animations as well cause that's always been super ugly and jankly looking as well. And some of the older licensed models are not so hot either, is everything getting improved?
Y'ALL I COULD FUCKING CRY.
I love both Dead by Daylight and Silent Hill to bits. What a great announcement.
IM SO HAPPY THEY CHOSE HEATHER.
Though I'm curious why they've named her Cheryl. Strange choice when she's known primarily as Heather and not her original name.
THEYRE ADDING CROSS PLAY I-
At the end of 3 she says she's going to start using her real name.
The takes in this thread lol. Some people just can't understand that a non-canon crossover event is just a non-canon crossover event. Imagine giving such a shit about something so pointless
Its the equivalent of a FIGHTING game cameo. It has nothing to do with the lore of SIlent Hill.
You're not wrong about him being robbed of his specialness and mystique, but unfortunately popularity robs a lot of ominous figures of their intimidation and special nature. See stuff like Darth Vader, Xenomorph, Predator, Michael Myers (Carpetenter literally tried getting away from him with Halloween 3). It's just the sad truth of fanbases and the internet nowadays. Branding and marketing above all else. I've learned that I can't do much about it so I'm just trying to roll with being excited that the thing I like is still cared about.
And it shows the franchise is still relevant and popular.
They've dropped the ball on Silent Hill so many times that the ball has tunneled to the Earth's core.
There is nothing here to suggest this time will be any different, it's just Konami milking their franchises and expecting to be given credit for doing nothing.
I really appreciate the love they threw to all three games of the original trilogy with this update.
I'll definitely play this in preparation for that new silent hill Sony is making. I'll take anything silent hill related.
Nah it's fun
Add him in Smash too
It's like saying Ghostface shouldn't exist outside of a film because the whole point of Scream is that the killers are somehow capable of understanding that they are in a film, so they play with the "rules" of the horror movies. Yet he's in this game too and it's awesome. Who cares, it's not canon...
I get that and maybe I can enjoy this for what it is too. I just would have preferred James as the central protagonist if we must use Pyramid Head again and maybe have Eddie, Angela and Maria also to make up the numbers and to make it thematically consistent.
I appreciate that in a vacuum my aversion might seem a little extreme but I worry that SH2 has become too tightly associated with what people think Silent Hill is and that it will never recover from that; this obsession with SH2 after all is what doomed the post-SH4 games from the get-go, never mind their quality (or lack thereof). You can't do the same trick twice and expect people to be as impressed as they were the first time around.