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If Del Toro has anything to do with the creature design, then that is the reason this game will be creepy as fuck.



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You mentioned Pan's Labyrinth twice yet I'm not convinced you know anything about that movie, or this thread wouldn't exist.



CladInShadows said:
If Del Toro has anything to do with the creature design, then that is the reason this game will be creepy as fuck.


THIS. That's the main thing the last SH games have been lacking. In the first SH games, the creature design was one of the main element that helped to fully understand the story. Also, they were indeed creepy. Homecoming just had nothing original ("Hey, let's take all of James' personal demons from SH 2 and let's put them in a game where they have absolutely no reason to be !"), and Downpour was pretty lacking. Though the mannequins were pretty scary, but well, these and dolls always creeped the hell outta me.



Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you are necessarily right.

It looked good, but I don't like how (at least in the footage shown) the game pretty much let you know something freaky was about to happen by trapping you in a room. It gave off a Disney's Haunted Mansion (the theme ride, not the terrible movie) feel where you wander from set piece to set piece. Also, the demons looked terrible... Turkey baby, are you serious? That actually made me laugh. And the jump scare lady... Yawn. That was the great thing about Silent Hill is the demons could look like anything. Granted this was just a playable "tech demo" and does not reflect the actual game, let's hope they do better.



bigtakilla said:
It looked good, but I don't like how (at least in the footage shown) the game pretty much let you know something freaky was about to happen by trapping you in a room. It gave off a Disney's Haunted Mansion (the theme ride, not the terrible movie) feel where you wander from set piece to set piece. Also, the demons looked terrible... Turkey baby, are you serious? That actually made me laugh. And the jump scare lady... Yawn. That was the great thing about Silent Hill is the demons could look like anything. Granted this was just a playable "tech demo" and does not reflect the actual game, let's hope they do better.


"turkey baby"... It's called a foetus. It was supposed to be unsettling, not terrifying. That made me laughed more than it should have...



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He made some decent horror movies.

He also wrote some half decent horror novels.



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CDiablo said:
hunter_alien said:
Dadrik said:
Just go watch The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, and comme back to tell me he only does "popcorn" movies again and there's no reason to be excited.


Add to it Mimick and Cronos both highly underrated movies IMO.

OP: that has to be the most generalized view on Del Toro's lifework ever. You are crying commercial, and all the "horror" element you cand find in his movies where in Blade 2 and the creature design in PL.  Its obvious that you only focused on his moneymaker movies, just to make a point, or you are making a terribly wrong, illimford point.

 

Either way it was a substandard try to downplay a game from which we have only seen a teaser thus far...

You clearly are not reading my original post and see what you want to, must be nice. How is it generalized? I named every horror movie he has made Chronos,Backbone,Mimic were all mentioned. Are you mad I didnt menion some bullshit short film that he did that no one has seen? Oh yeah, Mimic as cookie cutter as you can get for horror movies and is rated as such.


If you count Mimic as a cookie-cutter horror movie, that tells everything what you know about the creature-feature genre. You are obviously not a fan of horror and several of its subgenres as you trow around generalized notions, similar to how TV Programs do.

I clearly read your first post, and everything you wrote is baseless. Like it or not I seem many other users echoing my opinion... The fact is del Torro is among the best mainstream movie directors and Kojima is one of the best Japanese developers should be more then enough to grab your attention.



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