Kick ass

As long as its nothing like SH4...god that game sucked. I dont like the sound of an "all new combat system". Sounds like theyre overcomplicating the simple "shitoshitoshit" combat.

Cool! I'll have it finished when Capcom release RE5 :D

i haven't played the psp one yet but i've heard from more than a couple of my silent hill fan friends that it wasn't as good with the new devs. I still love the first 3 so I'll definitely give it a whirl.

That sure is early. Well, around that time I will also get the specifically "tailored" Alone In The Dark 5 with exclusive content for the PS3, so that fits snugly in the timeframe!

Prom Night FTL. That shit looks about as corny as..... my.....

No.... I shouldn't say it...

Anyway, SH5 looks like it will be pretty cool. Here's hoping for chesty nurses and some sort of appearance by Pyramid Head.

*crosses fingers* Please be good like 2, please be good like 2, please be good like 2...
Also I like the way they put next generation in 's like they acknowledge it's a stupid marketing term. Hopefully the attacks and counters won't turn it into a more combat based game like EA's upcoming space game (I forget the name).

Great. One more reason to buy a new console. ^

Silent Hill 5: This IP Ain't Whored Out Enough Yet

Why not just make a good and proper sequel to 2. Fuck, Resident Evil has gotten more fan treatment than any other series and it didn't have nearly as much story impact as SH2. People say 'RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE CHRIS REDFIELD' and there we have it.

If we rabbled enough, do you think we could get James to return to Silent Hill? (actually, if James had half a brain... probably not) Failing that, could we not just get some developer to go along with the story of the Town=Judge,Jury,ExecutionerOfPeople.

Im sorry. Im just being overly vocal after how much Origins disappointed me the other day, but I bought it anyways (I dont even own a PSP!).

Shepard.... pretty popular last name, huh?

well this is it... after SH4 its time to bet all chips on one last roll of the dice. * crosses fingers *

Kick ass. I have a feeling this will be awesome.

@Komrade_Kayce: Can you people get over the fact that SH2 was its own game and not intended for sequel material. [Spoiler] James is dead (if you go by canon [End Spoiler]
The story set out by SH and SH3 is finished. SH4 was its own seperate game. The SH stories are about various people and their experiences with their inner demons inside Silent Hill. This series isn't meant to whored out like Resident Evil with the same characters over and over again. The beauty of Silent Hill is that we can see the same city from a variety of view points without having to hold onto the same characters over and over again. Personally, it makes the game more fun for me to see different characters' reactions to their time in the town. If they just stuck with the same characters, it would get boring really fast.

As to SH4 being bad, it was a change and not all the changes were good but damn, it was still a fine game from a story and artistic point of view. The gameplay wasn't even all that bad. Stop complaining.

I'll admit to being slightly concerned about this one, I really want it to be a great game and so far it certainly has the looks (and of course with Akira Yamaoka as composer it's going to sound great), I hope the outsourced developer works out ok and dowses my fears that it will turn out like the PSP game (speaking of which, I hope this is not the same developer which created that atrocity).

Although combat was never the series forte I'm hoping they don't go overboard with the new system and turn it into gears of war, would ruin any suspense the game generated through its atmosphere.

SH is one of my favourite series, especially the first three. But there is no way I am buying this game. They sold out the franchise and no one but Akira Yamaoka (who only wrote the music until SH4, I don't know why everyone thinks he's so integral to the series) from Team Silent is working on it. I play SH for the story and atmosphere, not for the 'string together combos for massive damage' or context-sensitive sequences. This game as a Silent Hill is just going to be a colossal failure. I might get the soundtrack but even that's been mediocre from SH4 on with 2 or 3 exceptions.

@PaddyStardust: The old school RE style combat has to go, it's too outdated.

What this probabaly means, I hope is more RE4 style stuff, combined with a bit of condemed 2, but thats just a hope of mine.

And just when you though Silent Hill couldn't get any darker, you have to find its darkest secrets. I have a feeling they'll run out eventually, and they you will have to track down the lighter secrets, such as the field of flowers behind that hulking monstrosity of sewn together man-parts and sexual frustration.

Looks like a good time. Anxious to play it.

I have to say the new trailer has a Cloverfield feel to it. When he's driving that car down the street.

@mrantimatter: But thats what made it so scary, you were really limited to what you could do. Adding counters just seems dumb for this kind of game, it could make the enemies too easy to beat. Look at how easy Assassins Creed was using counters, took all the fun out of the combat when you can counter every damned move.

I'll give you Condemned 2 though, up close and personal style would be awesome.

Yay! I think this game looks awesome and I can't wait to play it.

Why does it only mention Europe in the press release though? Did I miss something?

@monkeytail41: Save that for Noisy Hill.

Oh boy! I cant wait, just finish playing the room again. Need some more Hill.

omg omg omg omg omg I can't wait =)

Any chance the missing brothers name was James Sunderland?[//false hope]

@Geckosan:
This is being produced by a different studio: Double Helix Games. Still, I have little confidence but I will hoping for the best... I mean, they put together a pitch and demo good enough to convince Konami JP... so there must be some potential there... right?

Great news. Silent Hill 2 was one of my fav games, and I will admit after the second, they started to get worse, but it's a new generation of hardware and it's looking good.

The series definitely needed an improvement in the combat department. Nice to hear they're addressing the issue.

Other than that, instead of just adding more polygons and higher resolution textures to the environment, they should focus on more post-processing effects. Stuff that can really mess with your perspective. They already showed that trailer where the level sort of melts away into the alternate dimension. I wanna see more stuff like that. Also, with all the melee combat in the game, it would be cool to see the Euphoria Engine make an appearance, but I suppose I'm pushing it.

i notice it only refers to a european release... does this mean another sh3 style staggered release? (i hope so...)

Just this weekend I had cause to go to my local Ace Hardware store and buy a 48 inch long 1 inch diameter metal pipe. All I could think of as I carried it around was "I'm gonna get attacked any minute by a horde of zombie nurses". Then the fog rolled in...

There's gonna be half-naked headless cheerleaders. It's obvious. The name says it all.

@badasscat: You'll be alright as long as your mobile doesn't start screaming out static ;)

@Midori: That's a relief!

If they can get the realtime Light/Dark transition to match the quality of the film version with the environment decomposing around the character then I shall be extremely pleased.

Silent Hill 2 is my favorite one (of course)...however, I actually enjoyed the PSP one, 0rigins. It wasn't incredible, but certainly not the atrocity people make it out to be.

That being said, it's hard to make sequels to the games. SH2 story is fairly final, SH3 capped off SH1, SH4 is fairly final, 0rigins kind of set up SH1. A lot of the games are really self contained. That said, maybe this (or in the future) will be a game that contains a lot of fan service references to all five of the previous games (not so obscure newspaper clippings, news reports, diaries, etc).

@Phazonmasher: Amen to that!

you robbed my thoughs

I like Silent Hill, but the combat system is definitely lacking. I hope they bump up the maneuverability of the characters and their weapon usage, while at the same time, still give you that sense of uselessness. What bugged me before, was the way they would swing their weapons slow & sluggishly. Yes, this is realistic, but seriously who swings that slow, when freakin' monsters are after you?

I don't need Devil May Cry type adrenalin action (I do love the series though), nor do I need weapons found in Resident Evil (another of my favs). All I need is a better combat system.

I think the soundtrack will kick loads of ass but... I mourne for what the Silent Hill series has become and what Homecoming will do to it further.

@Midori: Then again it could just be that after 4 they figured how much worse could it get if we whore it out to someone else? ;D

I liked Silent Hill 4... Henry had one hell of a downward kick on him.

Though that guy falling out of the sky and just standing up saying "Ow." was immensely retarded.

I'll be getting this even if it turns out to be another SH4, just because of the soundtrack.

I noticed theres alot of people referencing SH2 here...

For any consolation, I remember one of the devs stating that this game will have heavy influences from the second game, so whatever the heck that means I just hope they manage to capture the atmosphere that made SH2 so great.

Oh and im opposed to a more action oriented SH5 *cough*RE5*cough*. Feeling utterly helpless ftw!

Why do people hate the combat in SH? You're supposed to be a regular person using whatever you find around you. SH3 for me was the perfect system - SH2's combat but improved by adding strafing, which gave you a lot more maneuverability when fighting off enemies, but if you still don't like it then you can just run past them.
Combat isn't supposed to be the focus of the game, and the suspense of knowing an enemy is ahead and that you're not well prepared to fight them adds to the atmosphere, as opposed to RE where you walk around a corner just wondering how many pieces your rocket launcher is going to separate said enemy into. The main focus of the games is the story and psychological horror and part of that is knowing you're ill-equipped to fight properly.

I still want a boxed set that includes all the previous games...including #1.

I really wanna catch up on this series.

*hint* *hint* Konami.

@Phazonmasher:

Very well said!!!

@KirbySS:

I actually liked it too, even tho it started out as another game ... it was entertaining to me. And I liked the tie in.

@ShaggE:

Akira Yamaoka is the man!!! My favorite soundtrack is the Silent Hill 3 OST.

I'm so happy to hear that I don't have to wait until next year for the new Silent Hill game! YES!!!!

@PaddyStardust: I thought Silent Hill 4 the room was good, the only problem was that it wasn't good as other Silent Hill so comparing with rest of the series it sucked.

@lordofsword:

I'm not really excited about SH5 because I'm burned out on the gameplay which they haven't changed a bit since the first game, but I think it'll end up being a solid entry.

The Collective obviously have a love for the series and they have a lot to prove. Silent Hill games live and die by their story, if they can deliver on that, I have no doubt they can handle the cookie cutter gameplay.

The franchise really needs to be reinvented, but I don't think Konami gave the Collective license to rock the boat.

All I really want is a remake of the first game in any case. :p

Oh wait. I'm confused. I'm thinking Alone in the dark....Wow...all these games are confusing.

I think i'm getting old.

Please be better than Origins.

@Phazonmasher: Amen. There's no reason for James to return to Silent Hill. I was unaware that there was a canonical ending to SH2 though; how did you find out which of the five/six it was?

@Rodent: A simple port of 1 would be nice. I don't need any updates, it's just that I can't seem to find my PS1 memory card.

Yeah, i can´t wait for it!!!!! i haven´t played origins (i hope i get it this week, but here where i live is almost impossible to find it) but i don´t think i´ll be dissapointed, i´m a really hardcore fan when it comes to silent hill, though, i still have doubts about the western treatment and development of the series, let´s just hope that SH5 gets the same quality of all the games or wait for a remake of SH2, in fact, that´s what Konami should´ve done...