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Silent Hill 2 remake pre-order lists a "new origin story" for Pyramid Head [UP: Apparently not. See threadmarks]
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First time when it comes to Silent Hill+Bloober discussion? š„“
It's always like this.
No one cares that the listed director/writer isn't the person that wrote/directed Layers of Fear or The Medium. No one cares that their studio will be absolutely scrutinized over THIS project- and an embarrassing failure could be catastrophic for them.
The doubts are understandable and justified, but it certainly doesn't make any of these threads any easier to navigate through if you have ANY kind of hope.
With all of the shit Bloober has eaten since the moment this game was confirmed, I hope they hit a home run. I'm sure there are good, hard working people in that studio that have had to read about how much 'they are total garbage' for over a year now from people on the internet.
Wishing them the best. This is a tough fuckin business.
Yeah I totally get it. My point is that it would've been better to avoid replying to deny fan theories, especially when they're good ones. It won't hurt to let these theories swim.
It's interesting to think that even if Bloober surprises everyone and delivers a good remake, it will then be a matter of people combing through the differences and debating what was a "Bloober idea", a "Konami idea", and an "Ito idea (that was backed by Konami)".
Given my past experiences with Bloober games, my natural optimism is losing out, but I would love for this game to be worth every dollar.
I agree. I think they'll surprise people. SH fans won't like it but SH fans already don't like SH so at some point it evens out.
Serious question. Have you played Bloober games? Because there is not exactly a lot of reasons to give them benefit of the doubt.
I have played pretty much everything since first Layers and they are pretty whatever studio.
I look forward to finding out about Pyramid Head's Sk8er Boi origins.
It's why Konami gave us the skateboard merch.
He's going to literally burst out of James's head.
Can you imagine sitting behind him at a movie?
Any more info on this? I just assumed it was The Medium team top to bottom.
The issue is he's inside James head, he's a representation of James hell/ the act he did that the whole game about. There's no origin story unless the origin story is focused on James outside of SIlent Hills.
The only way I could see this 'working' is if it's a side-story set in the past, of the town executioners depicted in the paintings at the museum. So not technically Pyramid Head, but what James likely subconsciously took on board during his tourist visit.
I'd like it to be great but Bloober have a lot to prove, they've yet to make a great game imo (though Observer had its moments), and most of their stuff is pretty one note. Also, the listed creative director of SH2R (going off the remake wiki page) was also the creative director of The Medium:
Mateusz Lenart - MobyGames
Game credits, biography, portraits and other game industry information for Mateusz Lenart - MobyGames
www.mobygames.com
I'm not sure how involved they were if any in the writing for The Medium, but considering they don't have writing credits in their mobygames profile I'm skeptical Bloober isn't using their usual team of writers for the remake in some capacity.
Sam Barlow said it best that the entire project is a 'poison chalice', there's no reality where it isn't going to get scrutinized to hell and back by the fanbase. I'll at least give Bloober credit for the undertaking alone given that added pressure, not an enviable position to be in!
Yes. Haunted house-level 'horror' experiences from a small studio with Layers of Fear and Blair Witch. Competent and creative DESIGN with The Medium with unfortunate narrative ham-fistery (not a word, I know.) Observer is supposedly their best work, but I haven't played it.
For an independent studio that specializes in horror they seem at least technically capable. My thought is with the right material (i.e. remake of an established classic) they can elevate themselves.
Yet to be seen with THIS project, but IMO this isn't Double Helix or Vatra circa late '00s and early '10s. More experience and, core content aside, better development delivery.
Prepared for ridicule, but per IMDB- Mateusz Lenart. Not sure why anyone outside of Bloober would insert this information if it's not true.
The Medium technical team- sure. It's the A-teamā¦ and this is as much of an A-team project as Bloober could ever hope to get now. But with almost no public info available, I'm not seeing Bloober 'auteur' Andrzej Madrzak anywhere near this. YET.
*edited Observation to Observer š«
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Umineko is his magnum opus. If you only got halfway through then I can see why you wouldn't understand yet but once you figure out how that story operates there's no way you could question his ability to work with metaphor and subtext. It's fine if his style isn't for you and it's fine if Umineko didn't grab you but he is definitely capable of having the layers needed to tell a good Silent Hill story.
Well I can't lie, that's raised my hype a little given that Observer is the one game from Bloober I actually really liked.
It doesn't take amazing powers of foresight to know this will be bad. A tiny bit of pattern recognition makes it clear there's virtually no chance this will be the one to break the trend of both awful Silent Hill projects and bad Bloober games.
Look, I'll be right there to criticise the game if it comes out and is bad, but that one line in the OP is like nothing to go off.
observation is No Code, they are making Silent Hill Townfall
you might be thinking of observer
That line is worded reallyā¦weirdly. Like it could also be "Pyramid Head is back" AND "there's also an origin story (of some sort)"
the other reading makes sense too, and if true, what the fuck, but could it not just be Born From A Wish?
the other reading makes sense too, and if true, what the fuck, but could it not just be Born From A Wish?
To be fair, the way the sentence is worded kind of makes it sound like Pyramid Head and the "origin story" are two separate/unrelated things, which were just awkwardly combined into one bullet point.
...Kind of.
I do not have much faith either way here.
...Kind of.
I do not have much faith either way here.
It's unlikely to be integrated into the main story and will likely just be an optional story that can be played through. So like I mentioned earlier, people can just ignore it like they already do with Born From a Wish.
That's it.
Two new Silent Hill games by teams that made an Observer and Observation. Fuckin hell that gets confusing when you've been drinking on a Saturday. š
Lol. I haven't played any Silent Hill except the first one and Shattered Memories (fully intend to play 2-4 someday soon). Which game is this from?
I mean, that's basically going off nothing but assumptions, given how little we've seen of the game.
I blame the ancient Egyptians for popularizing pyramids, and also evolution for evolving heads