
Silent Hills is as dead as a doornail, but that doesn't mean that game directors Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro won't be working together anymore. In fact, the two are already sharing ideas and planning a new game.
"I love working with Kojima-san. We are still in touch," del Toro told IGN. "We are still friends and working into doing something together, but that's not going to be [Silent Hills]."
Del Toro also shed some light as to what could have been with the now cancelled project. "We were in the planning stages, and it's a shame that it's not going to happen," he said. "We were talking about really pushing the boundaries of the new consoles, and making the game really mess with your head. One of the great moments in Metal Gear [Solid] was Psycho Mantis. The idea that a game can actually interact with you, and stuff like that."
Although Silent Hills will never see the light of day, its playable teaser, P.T., was one of our favourite games from last year. For that reason alone, we can't wait to see what these two geniuses create together in the future.
[source ign.com]
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What if Hideo helps Guillermo on making a movie?
Yes yes yes yes yes.
This is exactly what I was hoping would happen. P.T. is way better than any Silent Hill, and it was a demo. Hopefully they go first person, and they keep it spooky.
It'll be a first person shooter.... Confirmed
I hope this project will be exactly like P.T. , just in full game form without the Silent Hill name. I still want that concept to exist, even if it isn't Silent Hill, so I'm pretty pumped at what they could be doing!
That's great news, I can't wait to see it.
Will be interesting to see which console ends up getting it. You know Sony and MS are going to be in a battle for it but if NX is actually going to launch in 2016 Nintendo may want to make a splash.
For the game itself, I'm happy that Kojima and del Toro are going forward to try and make something happen.
@Gamer83 I hope a third party like Namco picks them up and rehires most of the old staff. Not sure what they'll do about the engine though. License it from Konami?
Metal Gear Solid movie.
Awesome!!
@glassmusic YES ABSOLUTELY! they need to make PT into a full game. ive thought that all along.
If Silent Hills did happen and there was a Psycho Mantis-esque part, that would be the precise moment I turned off and never played it again. That was weird in MGS, I can't imagine what is possible with it in horror.
@Vincent294
I think it's almost certain one of the three console makers nabs this and I think it will be MS but Nintendo has a whole boatload of cash it sits on until it thinks the time is right to strike. This would be an opportune time.
@Gamer83 @Vincent294 Nintendo would have little interest in this if it becomes some kind of full length PT. The favourite surely would be PS4 considering that's where it was in the first place and it seems a good fit for the platform and Sony would have taken note of the reaction to PT in the first place but also when Konami removed it. A little digging online does leave some ambiguity to who owns the Fox engine as all licensing appears to be for Kojima Productions and not Konami and very few Konami games use it
@carlos82
If it comes down to a bidding war and MS really wants the game I'd guess that's who's going to get it. The only thing that gives me hope that it could end up on PS4 is Kojima has always been a big proponent of Sony hardware.
This news has made my day.
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!
@Gamer83 would be better if none of the manufacturers get it and it is released on all 3 machines. Everybody should get chance to play it
@Mrskinner Yeah, I think everyone deserves to get in on this game. It shouldn't be exclusive to any one publisher.
"Put your controller on the floor!"
-Psycho Mantis
😂
I remember calling this ahead of time in a friendly discussion. The two of them have so much going for them and so much to prove. Del Toro will be desperate to finally have a part in a video game that is actually released! And Kojima is the type of person to come out of the Konami mess and make a monster hit without them and prove what he's really made of. And if reports are believed that things got nasty at Konami, there'll be even more drive to do it.
I hope it becomes a vision of what they wanted to do with Silent Hills. There were so many signs it would be a work of genius and everything made so much sense creatively. I await this with a ridiculous amount of anticipation.
Those two are always saying they're working on something together. I'll believe it when I see it, Del Toro is knee deep in movie productions right now.
He's got a horror movie in post, Pacific Rim 2 in pre, and supposedly he plans on Hellboy3 after that....which really leaves no time for him to be involved in a videogame.
Ohhhhh, yes. This should have been front-page. Color me excited.
Read that he is done doing games though, he told play boy at San Diego Comic Con
Konami needs to fix their junk! :/
@Mrskinner
Oh I absolutely agree with that. I'm just saying what I think is going to happen. I believe it will be a bidding war at least between Sony and MS.
Seriously hope this yields results sooner rather than later - I don't care if it has the 'Silent Hills' brand power behind it or not, I need a Kojima/Del Toro horror game in my life! No matter how much it mentally scars me in the process...
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