Silent Hill: Book of Memories (aka Silent Hill's Dead, dude)

Here's some douchebag in charge of the game, telling you why this game's gonna be a change for the series and just how totally awesome tits it'll be:
[WARNING: If you're a Silent Hill fan, make sure you keep most of your initial reaction off the keyboard before you respond in this thread. This isn't IB, and as much as I empathize, you can't just post a string of violent vulgarities...like I did in the comment section of a similar vid on Tube]



Yeah, I know it hurts. I feel it too. Just take a breath, and let it out slowly.
...Now you can post.
You good, man? You gonna be okay?
I know I'm not...

It's official now. Silent Hill is dead. The mythos and legend will only live on in fan fiction, for Konami has set SH on fire like Dahlia Gillespie.

The shame is that the premise of the story sounded good to me.
"Make your own protagonist?" I repeated to myself. "Well, okay I guess. Maybe it'll be like Shattered Memories and my character's past will be shaped by what I do in the game."
Then the gameplay premise came in, along with the footage...

I approve of this post. I was so angry when I first heard about this PoS, this really did deserve a thread. Silent Hill is dead now. It really hit a nerve with me, I have always adored the old Silent Hill games (especially 2), and over the years, it was getting painful watching the series die. Then this came along, and curbstomped the series into the dust. I never thought the series would return to its former glory after Team Silent left, but I thought it would at least get better after Homecoming, but this... there is no recovery. I miss the old days of Silent Hill, when the stories were so deep that you could analyze them with entire books, websites, and forums.

Well said sir, the series has reached an end. It's time to move on.

i loved the first 2 silent hill games but they really messed up on the new ones today and btw have they even patched up the bugs in the silent hill collection yet or did they decide to not fix em

Can't wait for the low sales and terrible reception the company's going to have, Shattered memories got it right but this is inexcusable. We can't really say whether or not this is a "good" game, but we can agree that this is not a silent hill game

What the hell happened to the Shattered Memories guys, anyway? Didn't they make Downpour? That game really pissed me off because of how much potential it clearly had, but it was buggy as shit and by the end you really got the feeling they stopped caring about the gameplay when you were forced to fight through a gauntlet of enemies on an elevator.
...Ugh...

Also, to paraphrase a commenter on that vid I linked: Considering this is a multiplayer game with a view akin to an arcade title and the point of Silent Hill is to be alone and creepy, we can safely say this game has already failed as a game right from the get-go.
_Even before it was funded, the second the words "Silent Hill" and "multiplayer" were uttered in the same seriously spoken proposal, the game already sucked.

There's no reason to even give this a chance at arm's length. It's like saying, "Hey, we're going to make a Devil May Cry game for the PSVita, but it'll be multiplayer and look like a shitty arcade game for some back-end of a Pachinko parlor. Oh, but don't worry, because it will have enemies from every other DMC title...and maybe even an appearance of a certain enemy that's been run into the ground by creatively bankrupt folks! *tee-hee*"

Agreed, though. Shattered Memories was, despite it's minor flaws, very fucking good. I too cannot wait for the day Konami says, "Oh shit! We just poured money into a game that NO ONE wants to buy!"