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Well damn this just keeps making me more and more disappointed

As to the expense part of it, there was a Silent Hill movie that was going to be released around the same time as the game that starred Reedus in it. I think I'm sounding like a broken record saying it but from what I've heard the movie may still be happening. So perhaps you have that to look forward to still; heck I'm all for a good Silent Hill movie!



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Stop rubbing salt in our wounds.



All signs point to them not making up the money they would have spent on this. Xenoblade X is pretty much another perfect storm of awesomeness (An all star composer Hiroyuki Sawano, an all star mech designer Takayuki Yanase, a AAA budget with a massive open world, the Xenogears/Xenosaga character designer and artist Kunihiko Tanaka) and it seems like it will be up to everyone outside of Japan to make this game profitable.



Oh my god, his works are amazing. No! I really hope Kojima and del Toro revives the game.



LurkerJ said:
Something I read today:

"The more you look at MGSV and what Silent Hills was going to be, it's clear: Kojima is expensive. del Toro, Reedus - expensive alone. Add another established person, Ito, plus w.e development scope there was (probably big). Konami doesn't want to shell out that much money.
And honestly, we know he's sad too, but do we really think Norman Reedus would be cheap? He's in one of the biggest shows right now.Would the Pacific Rim director be cheap? Silent Hills was going to be too expensive for a publisher doing well outside of AAA games.
So while we can throw hate at Konami, if they can't (or don't want to make AAA games), Koji Pro were big spenders. Very big spenders."


Not really, the foxengine was the most expensive but it was used for silent hills and PES as well. And given how low the yen is it would be cheaper now for konami to keep devoloping fox engine games. 

If konami didnt want kojima to work with deltoro and reedus they should havecut it off and let kojima work alone instead shutting down the whole thing



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I'll say it before and I'll say it again: Guillermo Del Toro and Norman Reedus would probably have expected some generous pay for their involvement. This project would have been expensive and you're handing it to Kojima who is rumored to not be very budget-conscious? For an IP that hasn't been relevant for years and if vg numbers are anything to go by, has suffered declining sales since its inception? In an environment where AAA development has only been getting more expensive?

As much as people hate Konami for the move, they were the ones footing the bill. I can't help but feel they know better than anyone else on the internet about their own budgetary concerns and what their own research was telling them.



pokoko said:

So none of this, then.

Gyo

I've procrastinated watching that film for months now. ^^'



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

Hey look you know this awesome game you will never get, let me show you all some awesome concept art! Here looks great, ha but you will never get it.

Please del Toro, no, don't put more and more salt in our superficial wounds.



pokoko said:

So none of this, then.

Is that a walking shark? Where is that from?



XanderXT said:
pokoko said:

So none of this, then.

Is that a walking shark? Where is that from?

Gyo, the "bad anime version"

Just read the manga yesterday out of interest, pretty interesting, really weird. The ending was a little unsatisfactory even for Horror standards.