Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro Working on New Silent Hill

@saft: Pan's Labyrinth isn't explicitly a horror movie, but it's brutal and really goddamn creepy. I highly recommend it.

I saw the quote but didn't read it. Looks like I got read on my face.

I'm not a very big fan of his, but I guess his best "horror" movie (directed and written by him) is The Devil's Backbone, but it's not really horror, and it isn't very good, although it has a pretty awesome atmosphere. It also has a fair few unnecessary caricaturesque political implications.. But you wouldn't really see them if you're not familiar with Spanish history. The same goes for Pans Labyrinth, but I find that one even more grotesquely simplistic.

also @obcdexter and @roomrunner although I agree that some of the creature designs on some of his movies is truly spectacular. Particularly with Del Toro, a lot of people tend to assume it is ALL HIM, when a lot of his designs are pretty average and are spectacularly executed by artists like Wayne Barlow... sure he has the vision to select the correct artist to execute his idea, but that's a different thing.

In any case I do hope it does translate into a rejuvenation of the franchise.. that's for sure.

I don't see any downside to this collaboration (yet). But both men may just be putting their name on it - having done such things before - so I'll wait for some actual gameplay footage before moving to cautious optimism.

Sadly, this didn't work for me. Just for you to know, your the third way I've seen to end P.T.

idc anymore. mgs v is coming to PC and I just ejizzulated everywhere

I played the original Silent Hill (the only Silent Hill I played in fact) in a dark room on a tiny black and white 13 inch TV screen at my grandparents' house in the middle of nowhere in the south of Ireland... and It was completely terrifying.

I bought the game because of the demo that came with MGS on the PS1, so in my mind, Kojima has always been tangentially a part of Silent Hill.

Kojima/del Toro co-produce a Silent Hill game?

*adds to Watch List*

Bring back Akira Yamaoka or cancel the game, simple as that. It's not a Silent Hill game without his music.

This is great news.

oh god just watched a playthrough of the playable trailer, there is some creepy, unsettling stuff in there. Maybe I'll have to man up and play this game when it comes out.

Perhaps this will be my chance to jump in on Silent Hill!

Anyone even 1% skeptical about this needs to play P.T. It's hands-down the scariest shit I've ever seen. It's not about jump-scares or gross-outs; it's pure, genuine horror.

Yeah, it's like a really grim fairy tale. One of those movies you'd recommend to anyone.

Whats with the Kojima hate??? This Im will never understand about Giant Bomb :/ Im on the contrary am excited Kojima? hell yeah ... Del Toro? hell fucking yeah? new Silent Hill? AWESOMEEEEEEE

This has all the right people to make this game marvelous.

This sounds so bat-shit nuts dumb, it's probably what Silent Hill needs.

I for one am excited for this news. I'm a HUGE Metal Gear fan, and have loved pretty much every Metal Gear game, and while I've only seen Hellboy and Pacific Rim on the Del Toro front, I enjoyed them enough and have been meaning to see Pan's Labrynth that I take this as great news as well. I'm not a huge Walking Dead fan, but I Norman Reedus is obviously the most consistent thing in that series and I loved him in Boondock Saints so that's a bonus as far as I'm concerned. I am hoping though that Kojima's involvement is actually something worth while as opposed to his limited involvement in Lords of Shadow, but we'll see, as a big Metal Gear fan even I'll contend to taking issue with the fact that Konami has failed to do anything good as of late with any of their other franchises (and I'm still burned over Igarashi leaving) but I guess we'll wait and see what the future holds.

@sub_o: I hope so

This is like the best thing...ever? though, I don't really think they can do a SH like the first two, they're going to do it on their own style, more like a SH done by Suda than a SH done by the old team Silent.

Still, this is one of the few games I'm really waiting for.

Hopeful of this. I didn't jump and scream like the chick in the trailer but I just watch a playthrough maybe I need to play it for that. I liked the lack of jump scares and they seem to have a good sense of atmosphere. Would like to have another good SH game for once. Fingers crossed.

I agree. Even though he's got his quirks, he's constantly innovating and trying new things.

Yeah, every single one of the four main Metal Gear Solid games all feel unique and distinctive to one another.

PT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME! i haven't even finished playing it because I want to show a couple friends the game and have the same reaction so we all piss ourselves together.

Just imagine playing this with rift or Morpheus holy mother of god.

HYPED

I don't get the hate at Kojima as well. Patrick mentioned the character design on Quiet, but I don't get what's wrong with it. Is it because she wears so little and still kills everyone? To judge Kojima about certain design and story choices on what we've seen up to now is totally premature. We don't know the reasoning behind the character Quiet, maybe it all makes sense in the end (of The Phantom Pain).
He can come up with some weird stuff alright and if there's one series that could use a little more weirdness (since game 4) then it's this one.