Kojima and Silent Hill.

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There are a lot of rumors out there in the internets about Hideo kojima and the silent hill franchise.
Check out this video by Twinperfect about those rumors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4BXJa…
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Didn't go through the whole vid for reasons which don't matter now. Tho' I agree that Frictional games would be very interesting choice for another SH story :3. But this will probably never happen. Tho' such possibility is still more real than a chance that Team Silent would ever return. Let's be realistic.

Before blaming anyone how much post-0rigins games are f*cked up, each SH fan should face his or her pyramid head and ask him. It is not only a fault of developers from any company. Nor sometimes too rough criticism of game servers. It is mostly us - fans. We have blood of Silent Hill on our hands as well. After SH3 Team Silent sensed it is time for a change - you cannot tell the same person-lookin-for-someone/something-lost-in-SH story every time. Even today I hear that already SH3 was too much action game and lacked awesomeness of SH2. Not my opinion, but that's what I guess, most fans think. Look at these two facts combined with a growing pressure (fans want another silent hill). SH4 was an experiment which sadly failed. Not because it was a bad game. It was a good game - very different but still a great one. But try to explain that to ungrateful bitches like fans. Fans who burn anyone who dares to change the pace or style.

Okay - I myself can be pretty uncompromising when it comes to certain changes. Things you simply cannot change - like the mythology, previous storylines, history or even maps - you know stuff which belongs there. Other things i can more or less forgive if it works for the atmosphere or it is logical step (either it didn't previously work, or it is already too overused - hospitals, PH, Alessa's story, etc...). SH4 had refreshing style. There were indeed flaws - but everytime you try to experiment, there is always sort of middle phase, where you have to see what will work and what won't. If fans weren't assholes and gave Konami some respect and another chance I bet SH5 would be amazing game. Because - you know it is like a chain - fans bitch up about any news, game critiques send the game to hell and what was supposed to be a big hit is a big failure. Promised money are nowhere to be found, because people don't buy the game. Those who made the game are either fired or they go away themselves...

The SH: Downpour is exactly the same story. I just finished the game few days ago and still can't understand people's ignorance or even hatred. Yeah it has flaws as well, but I enjoyed the game. It had amazing atmosphere, and even without yamaoka, good sound and soundtrack. Story was nothing new, but hey, it is not only about the story, but about HOW you make it. And here it was not bad at all. DP was WAY better than Homecoming. HC is the worst part - tho I thing it is not a bad game itself, from SH franchise this part is the worst one.

Compare it to a successful band, which made so many albums and now they know they have to try different sound, because change is always inevitable. Even with the same members, one band cannot play the same music all the time - it gets boring for both fans and musicians themselves. Everybody knows that. And when they change the singer - omg it is hell on Earth. Because no matter how good the new singer is - the band will be never the same again (even if other members keep the style). It was a shame that Yamaoka left, but I understand him. All the ppl who bitch about Licht should give an advice on who would be better. Seriously WHO? One does not simply create the same or even better OST than AY. Licht isn't God like AY but his OST ain't bad at all. Did somebody say Broken Notes? Ah yeah, that would be awesome - shame is, that developers rarely consider independent projects, because they are not well-known. So my dear brothers and sisters - fans of Silent Hill - not everything is our fault...Money in the first place...

Point of this awefully long article is - when you realize the above, you have to know, why Team Silent will never come back. Why only few people have balls, to take unrewarding job like making another SH installment...