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    Akira Yamaoka is best known as the producer and sound director for the Silent Hill series, but now works over at Grasshopper Manufacture.

    Akira Yamaoka departs from Konami

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    #1  Edited By Jeust

    After the completion of the soundtrack for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Akira Yamaoka has departed from Konami. 
     
    Now the Silent Hill games can really get crappy! 
     

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    You'll be surely missed at Konami.
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    #2  Edited By gearhead

    I have never bought, and never will buy a Silent Hill game.

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    #3  Edited By Jeust
    @Gearhead:  
     
    Not many reasons to get it after this anyway. 
     
    The only thing that shone in all SH games was the soundtrack, now it will probably be made at Climax.
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    #4  Edited By xyzygy

    WHAT!? NO! 
     
    That was like, the best thing about the games! Honestly! 
     
    Argh... I wonder where he'll go? I think he should go to From Software, or Square.

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    #5  Edited By cstrang
    @Gearhead said:

    " I have never bought, and never will buy a Silent Hill game. "

    I will shed no tears, either.
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    #6  Edited By Jeust
    @xyzygy:  
     
    or team up with the studios of Dead Space.  
     
    It won't probably happen... :(
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    #7  Edited By vidiot

    This is upsetting. He was not just a composer, he was very hand's on with each entry in the series. He will be deeply missed. I look forward with whatever his new projects will be.

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    #8  Edited By eirikr

    This is a common occurrence in the gaming industry for composers to leave their companies and start up new studios. If Yamaoka left Konami on good terms, it's highly likely he'll stick close to them at the start of his new venture and compose for any future Silent Hill games. Same thing happened with Uematsu, Sakimoto, and Mitsuda when they all left Square.

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    #9  Edited By Jeust
    @Eirikr: 
     
    Will it happen?
     
    It's sad to see almost the entire team behind the 4 first silent hill games go... the franchise will most definitively never be the same again.
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    #10  Edited By xyzygy
    @Eirikr: Does Nobuo still compose for final fantasy? I thought he was solely with Mistwalker 
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    #11  Edited By eirikr
    @Jeust: I'd say there's a pretty high chance of this happening. 
     
    @xyzygy: Uematsu has his own studio called Smile Please. Notably, he's composing the soundtrack for Final Fantasy XIV, which is surprising all things considered. But, he's been doing work for them for years, including writing the image song for FFXII and the soundtrack for the arcade game Lord of Vermilion.
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    #12  Edited By Icemael

    This isn't that surprising. A couple of months ago another brilliant composer, Michiru Yamane, left Konami as well. I hope the two keep composing for their respective series... Castlevania just isn't Castlevania without Yamane's music, and while I haven't played any Silent Hill games, I've heard really good things about Yamaoke.

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    #13  Edited By Jeust
    @Eirikr: 
     
    Thanks for the info.
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    #14  Edited By ryanwho

    I'm always a little insulted at how shorthanded some people are to credit the whole of a franchise's success to a single person. Its rather insulting, frankly, and unrealistic. Every person who actually played music in the SH games still works at Konami, as do the people who design the monsters, and any number of other pivotal people. But oh, the person you choose to fully credit the game's quality to is gone so I guess those other people are just worthless now, huh.

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    #15  Edited By skippyscissors

    Aw crap, not good. I hope Mary Elizabeth McGlynn still does some vocal stuff.

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    #16  Edited By Jeust
    @ryanwho:  
     
    i understand your point, and you're right, but you have to comprehend that it was him that composed the musics behind the SH games, and it was the last known remain of the Team Silent that made the first (and arguably best) four chapters of the franchise. 
      
    If the series was loosing its touch, this doesn't sound promising. 
     
    It's sad news for horror and Silent Hill fans.
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    #17  Edited By Rhombus_Of_Terror
    @Jeust said:
    " After the completion of the soundtrack for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Akira Yamaoka has departed from Konami. 
     
    Now the Silent Hill games can really get crappy! 
     
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       You'll be surely missed at Konami. "
    He didn't just do the soundtrack, he actually created all the sound effect with his team. Sound was one of the greatest assets of the games. His replacement has huge shoes to fill.
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    #18  Edited By Jeust
    @RhombusOfTerror:  
     
    i didn't knew that...  
     
    Thanks :)
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