
Yamaoka thinks it's a natural step for the game to move on to Western developers -- it had originally been a game whose horror is derived from American cinema. Plus the franchise is more popular in the US, he says. Yamaoka is also trying to move away from the horror genre, saying he "worked on some other titles that are not horror titles. But also I have something, another project in mind, that I'm trying to develop." If you're looking for what influences the Silent Hill team, he says it's probably David Lynch (The Elephant Man, specifically). So there you go. At least we can expect his white-noise style of music to scare us silly in Silent Hill: Homecoming, right?













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6-11-2008 @ 8:47PM
Bruno said...
off topic but my ps3 which i got as a birthday gift refuses to play anything anymore and when i told sony i didnt have the receipt since it was a gift they still are forcing me to pay 149 even though its still under warranty
anyone else have this problem?
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6-11-2008 @ 10:07PM
Zombie Huggles said...
I haven't had this problem and hope not to, but some stores require that the Serial Number be scanned. I know for a fact that if the system was purchased at Walmart, and if you know the store, date, register, and hopefully the approx. time, they can reprint a receipt for you. You'll just need to cooperate with the original purchasers. And you can do it from any walmart...but if it was bought from some where else, I don't know if they keep the same records or as willing to hunt through them.
6-11-2008 @ 9:37PM
mezzanine said...
Elephant Man??? What about Twin Peaks?? Blue Velvet?? ...pretty much everything other than that lawn mower thing he did gave obvious influence to the series.
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6-11-2008 @ 10:12PM
Zombie Huggles said...
I'm not a big fan of FPS but I feel that Silent Hill should totally go that direction. I think being a slower-paced game (in a good way), it would benefit from the more personal interaction with game. But that's just me.
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6-11-2008 @ 10:33PM
ch0rx said...
I have to disagree, I think silent hill being an fps would ruin the experience and in general rob the unique fright the game tends to instill. FPSs should be more of a shock fright game, things popping up. Silent hill tends to be more of an ambietic scare, making you progressively not want to be somewhere, in other words, they don't rely on loud noises and pop-up images. Back to the point, I just don't think it would work, why fix something not broken, right?
6-11-2008 @ 10:37PM
Marrvia said...
I don't know if I agree with you, but I have to admit, the 1st Person scenes in the apartment in Silent Hill 4 in the second half of the game were by far the scariest things I've ever seen in any other movie or game. The gameplay sucked, but that part was fantastic.
6-12-2008 @ 8:16AM
McWeen said...
Lynch is amazing. I may check out the next Silent Hill.
-side note, bought MGS bundle this morning and now have an actual reason to get excited about PS3 news, Woo-
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6-13-2008 @ 9:13PM
Ranus Studios said...
Suddenly I want to have Yamaoka's babies.
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7-19-2008 @ 12:28AM
McNasty said...
That's disgusting.
It's about fsking time, jesus christ. As if he hasn't stolen enough from American cinema already.
I'm sure all the fantards are still crowing about how Yamaoka's original, though, lolololollomg.
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