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- 29 Apr 2015
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: Silent Hills cancelled
- Replies: 306
- Views: 181725
Re: Silent Hills cancelled
The Demographic winter in Japan is also a less discussed but big cause of slowing console sales. Consoles are primarily things bought for children and teens in school who have free time. Adults are usually too busy to game on console, which is why more use handhelds or cell phones. There are not en...
- 28 Apr 2015
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: Silent Hills cancelled
- Replies: 306
- Views: 181725
Re: Silent Hills cancelled
Here's a very good, sensible article about Konami's state of affairs: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/blog-who-killed-silent-hills It's not totally clear if someone high up in Konami simply doesn't like video games, or if this is just a business move towards ventures with less risk than video games....
- 27 Apr 2015
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: Silent Hills cancelled
- Replies: 306
- Views: 181725
Re: Silent Hills cancelled
I think it's not so much that they're incompetent, as they simply do not care. Video games are just not their main business anymore. Kojima was the last one who cared at that company.
- 27 Apr 2015
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: Silent Hills cancelled
- Replies: 306
- Views: 181725
Re: Silent Hills cancelled
This is actually not that surprising. Konami has been gradually moving away from the video game industry for quite awhile now. Video games are only a small part of their business these days. They also have fitness clubs, trading cards, slot machines, toys, and anime. From what I've heard, they make ...
- 13 Jan 2015
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: New composer?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 28940
Re: New composer?
Give me some examples of songs that were pre-composed for him, from the song examples I listed.Trauma_ wrote:I believe I've mentioned trip-hop and electronic music in there, and that much of his electronic/trip hop stuff has been precomposed for him.
I'm glad you ignored that though, truly.
- 08 Jan 2015
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: I chose P.T. as my PS4 Game of the Year!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5497
Re: I chose P.T. as my PS4 Game of the Year!
I don't like it when you put it that way, because you're not so much "educating" as expounding your own personal philosophy.unreadphilosophy wrote: we also help the public educate themselves on issues involving personal liberty
- 08 Jan 2015
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: New composer?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 28940
Re: New composer?
Mine too. You're only focusing on that one type of music. His really good stuff isn't industrial.Trauma_ wrote:Then my point is illustrated for me, thank you.
- 08 Jan 2015
- Forum: Silent Hill 2
- Topic: Abstract Daddy - fact or fiction?
- Replies: 130
- Views: 113401
Re: Abstract Daddy - fact or fiction?
Now *that* kind of insight is worth reviving a thread for, good job.
- 31 Dec 2014
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: New composer?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 28940
Re: New composer?
I'm pretty sure his most original songs are the rockish ones which in my opinion are quite generic, to me his "signature" sound are the industrial sounds used in the dark ambient songs and the ambience used in the trip hop ones, Honestly, there's so many great tracks from Silent Hill 1-3 ...
- 29 Dec 2014
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: New composer?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 28940
Re: New composer?
Take "Sun" from the SH 3 soundtrack for example, pretty much the entire ambience is a sample from Spectrasonics being looped, sure, it's nice sounding, but I wouldn't say he created it. I didn't say "Sun." I said the soundtracks from Silent Hill 1-3. Some of it is original, some...
- 27 Dec 2014
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: New composer?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 28940
Re: New composer?
I'm quite aware of it being a composer myself, but in my opinion Akira's use of them was rather shameless, some tracks are nothing more than 2 or 3 loops layered with a very simple melody on top. I so disagree. I think Akira created some of the best soundtracks I've ever heard, especially in 1-3. E...
- 17 Dec 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill: Downpour
- Topic: This or Sh4: The Room
- Replies: 49
- Views: 47331
Re: This or Sh4: The Room
You know, it's always boggled my mind that people trash on Downpour for its combat system. I've yet to see a Silent Hill game with spectacular, intuitive combat. Maybe because the series has never been about the combat in the first place. I really like the way that the early Silent Hills handle com...
- 03 Dec 2014
- Forum: Silent Hills / PT Teaser
- Topic: Kojima: "Silent Hill S could be open world"
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23589
Re: Kojima: "Silent Hill S could be open world"
Yeah, that's exactly how I feel about open world games. I've never really enjoyed the lack of focus in them. I prefer "semi-open" world games, like Metroid or Castlevania SOTN, where there is a critical path to follow but some room to explore. The earlier Silent Hill games basically used t...
- 22 Nov 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
- Topic: Silent Hill: Fisher Price!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20312
Re: Silent Hill: Fisher Price!
Very well said.Kenji wrote:Otherwise, *motions to topic* this. Shattered Memories, however well it stacks up against the rest of the new series, is honestly very full of itself: The cost being that when it doesn't connect, it comes off as being very far up its own ass.
- 22 Nov 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
- Topic: Silent Hill: Fisher Price!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20312
Re: Silent Hill: Fisher Price!
I agree that the puzzles were weak. Personally I really like the puzzles in SH games, they fit with the game's indentity really well, and add a form of gameplay that makes sense for the series. But yeah, it would have been better to have no puzzles at all than the half-hearted puzzles in ShatMemz. A...
- 03 Nov 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill 1
- Topic: Beta Monsters Textures
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9350
Re: Beta Monsters Textures
Wow, this is all really good work! It's neat to see what the monsters looked like in beta. I guess these changes were probably made for artistic reasons, and generally I think the final versions look better. The gray children especially look way more creepy in the final version. But still it's neat ...
- 10 Oct 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill 3
- Topic: Hard Difficulty - Will I Rage?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15321
Re: Hard Difficulty - Will I Rage?
Don't put the riddle level on hard unless you know what you're getting into. Especially for SH3, one puzzle requires you to know Shakespeare on hard! SH2 is probably the easiest game in the series, and that is it's biggest flaw. It's definitely a much better experience on hard, even if a couple of b...
- 08 Oct 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill 4: The Room
- Topic: Why does not appear all 19 ghosts of Walter victims?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12555
Re: Why does not appear all 19 ghosts of Walter victims?
If it was about bosses then Homecoming would have been the best in the series but SH is not Dark Souls. And if it WAS Dark Souls, then the bosses in SH Homecoming would still be pretty lame. No SH game ever has what I would call good boss fights, but they can be good for Silent Hill. The boss fight...
- 08 Oct 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill 1
- Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
- Replies: 68
- Views: 48090
Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
None of the characters in SH are real as it is all fiction, so when people say that she is dead you know what they mean dude I think you're just being a bit silly :D (they mean the CHARACTER did not survive the events of the story). Any Fictional characters can be killed off Brother. I'm not saying...
- 08 Oct 2014
- Forum: Silent Hill 1
- Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
- Replies: 68
- Views: 48090
Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
Fine, but which of Toyama's opinions do we accept? Which of Ito's? They aren't consistent. Yes, you're absolutely right. I think which one we accept is up to us. It's interesting that Toyama has decided to change his mind on it, but I actually think that's cool... it feels in the spirit of the seri...