Silent Hill Could Explore Other Genres
Silent Hill: DownpourWell, Resident Evil is breaking genre boundaries with Operation Raccoon City, so why can't Silent Hill?
Although the horror series has always remained true to its roots, in that all titles utilize a third-person action format and a ton of suspenseful atmosphere, Konami is willing to change.
Silent Hill: Downpour senior associate producer Tom Hulett told Beefjack that they can always explore new concepts. As an example, he referred to Silent Hill: Book of Memories for the PlayStation Vita, which changes the player's point of view and tosses in RPG elements. Said Hulett:
"I definitely think Silent Hill has room to expand into different spinoff genres – as Resident Evil has as well – as long as they keep the fundamental themes of the series intact."
Well, that's the key, isn't it? At first, there were a few rumors that Downpour, in development at Vatra Games, would be a FPS. But Hulett said the game "was never going to be an FPS." Therefore, we'd like to think our beloved freaky franchise won't change too much; we can deal with stuff like role-playing mechanics, but changing how we experience Silent Hill? The fans won't like that one bit.
Tags: silent hill, resident evil, konami, silent hill book of memories
10/27/2011 10:49:11 AM Ben Dutka
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cLoudou
Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 11:03:41 AM
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Excelsior1
Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 11:05:06 AM
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silent hill hasn't been relevent since silent hill 3 in my opinion. it's been a long time since a silent hill game has mattered on the consoles.
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slugga_status
Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 11:07:13 AM
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Ultimadream
Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 11:19:28 AM
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If anything Silent Hill doesn't need to be more action-packed. I would like to see if more like the older survival horror games with fixed camera angles. Ever since Origins they have tried to focus on combat and since then it has just become more and more sluggish. Heck even SH: The Rooms combat was sluggish.
From what I seen, the people incontrol of the license just do not care for the past titles. I wish they would just start a new horror series and disconnect it from Silent Hill.
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ZenChichiri
Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 6:27:44 PM
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"I know, let's make a list of list of all gaming genres, put them in a hat, and then randomly draw one. That's the genre of our next Silent Hill game. Hmm let's see. OK, so the next 2 titles will be Silent Hill Go Kart Racers, followed by Silent Hill Tetris. If you lose at Tetris then Pyramid Head will jump out and yell "boooo". That way we'll really keep with the themes from the original games."
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luisliu
Friday, October 28, 2011 @ 3:11:58 AM
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___________
Friday, October 28, 2011 @ 6:21:23 AM
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ive given up on the survival horror genre, its sadly just dead and berried forever!
they can do whatever they want with the series now, no point b*tching and whining because there going to do it anyway!
have fun whoring out what was one of the best series ever created!
shame, developers and publishers have no respect and standards these days!
no brand pride what so ever!
its pathetic!
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Kevin555
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Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 11:03:30 AM
May SH, SH2, SH3 & even SH4 The Room live long in the memory. When Silent Hill games had soul.