Curiosity surrounding PlayStation 5 exclusive survival game Abandoned continues. If you don’t recall, this is the title that – for 24 hours at least – people suspected may be a Hideo Kojima ruse. It’s not, and the developer Blue Box Game Studios put out a statement to confirm as much – but everything about it continues to confound.
Take this latest announcement by the team: an app is coming to Sony’s next-gen console on 20th June that will allow you to watch all of the game’s future trailers in realtime. What does this mean, then? Well, presumably the client will include all of the title’s assets, meaning that rather than just exporting video clips, they’ll be processed by your console instead.
https://twitter.com/BBGameStudios/status/1399221847632355337
Why? It’s a mystery, really! We do recall there being a Killzone app many years ago on the PlayStation 3 which allowed you to change the camera angle and speed of a small scene; it was basically a tech demo that was publicly released, so we assume this will be something similar. It’s a neat idea, we suppose – but we can’t shake this strange feeling we’re getting from Abandoned at all.
[source twitter.com]
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I do get weird vibes off this. It’s too nice looking to really be a product of a tiny team. And then the gameplay sounds like it’s a bit too good to be true too. So either this game is going to put AAA teams to shame or there’s a catch somewhere.
Sounds like something Kojima might do
I'm just not gonna care if it's a survival simulator.
Hope the trailer app has trophies.
Saying that this game has nothing to do with Kojima is exactly what Kojima would do... and that’s exactly what I want! Let The Ruse continue!
u wot m8? yeah still confused and so far completely underwhelmed
There’s something weird about this game for sure, but I don’t think it’s Kojima’s.
@Just_2_milky
Beat me to it
Hmm, very suspicious, it give me pt vibe before revealed it's a silent hill games..
Well, I hope the destination is as weird as the ride.
I originally dismissed this when everyone thought this was a Kojima project. But having such a fancy trailer/demo thing sounds a bit too high tech for a small indie team that hasn’t shipped a game yet, there’s definitely a lot more to this game than meets the eye.
Edit: also June 20th, could this be when PlayStation has their showcase 🤔
hope this won't have that ugly "overrated-hype-smell" like some other pre-teased games (yeah, looking at you, TLOU2, ResidendEvil, COD...)
I mean, this isn’t just a simple game from a small developer is it? I mean, it’s gotta be obvious now. Right?
Considering the live streams are currently a highly compressed, low bitrate 1080p perhaps they are onto something.
Regardless of all the other discourse going on around this game, that's a really cool idea and personally I'm really excited to check it out!
This game is way too impressive looking to be a small indie studio. Could it have been made by... extraterrestrials??? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes! 👽
We have seen how stunning work individual devs have done in the past, this might be a very good looking but small title.
Don't think this isn't possible for a small team. Stanley Kubrick often worked with only a few people on set, and he created masterpiece after masterpiece...just saying this to make some sort of point...But honestly I also dont think it looks that awesome.
Isn't Kena also an impressive looking game made by a small team? Maybe, as we expect of Kena, this is a shorter experience.
Might be silent hill.
Not sure if im seeing a different trailer than some of you because it absolutely does not look impressive in any way, yes theres a lot of trees that look to be scanned from real life of whatever but everything else about this screams not pro lol.
This is going to be another cheap janky horror game that i dont buy lol just you watch. The font on the sign in the trailer pretty much solidified that lol you can find the exact same font in the graffiti on the wall. Cheap n janky, im calling it
I'm getting p.t vibes. It would be fun if this was a Ground zero style prequel to something else and Blue box games are developing this, but it is not the main game....
Some mental gymnastics for you there, but true to form.
@lolwhatno an 'Ancient Aliens' reference
Silent Hill & Kojima vibes?
@lolwhatno Nope it’s an Ancient Aliens reference—the worst/best show on TV!
I don't see why everyone keeps saying it seems to be something Hideo Kojima does. I know he's unexpected, but come on!
This whole thing seems shady, true. But I really dont think if Kojima would go an pull the same stunt again. Just that we're suspecting it's Kojima is probably enough reason that it's not.
I remember the whole thing about Kojima, Murat Pak and Archillect back when Death Stranding was announced. Everyone was convinced Kojima was Murat Pak. When things got too shaby and Pak took the ruse to the next level, Kojima came clean and denied any and all connections, and so did Pak.
I was 100% against this being anything to do with kojima until i saw the whole putting hideo in google translate fron English or Japanese to turkish gets you the last name of the supposed game director. If thats a coincidence thats a pretty damn big coincidence. Then theres all the weird stuff that doesn't add up like the app, the logo, the website, the fact that they say both the games in early development and that its coming out this year. Even if its not kojima, something is going on. I dont think this game is what it claims to be. To the person who said kojima wouldnt use the same ruse twice is actuaoly forgetting this would be the third time using a fake studio. And i dont know i think the low quality of the teaser is one of the biggest red herrings. It just reeks to me of being purposely bad. If i eat my words thats no big deal. I just find it hard to believe that sony would let that see the light of day. We’re talking about the pinnacle of quality here.
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