Talk:Silent Hill 2 (upcoming video game)

Bloober's Silent Hill 2 was confirmed by Konami to be a reboot

I know that sounds weird, but hear me out. Konami themselves stated in the Silent Hill Transmission Livestream, during the statues bit, "we are proud to announce that GECCO will recreate the creatures in the rebooted Silent Hill 2, as highly detailed statues. I mean, it's right there. Plus, watching the Transmission, everyone besides Akira Yamaoka and the Bloober CEO, were careful to never explicitly or implicitly state that Silent Hill 2 (TBA) was a remake. Akira Yamaoka was the only one who outright stated it was a remake, while the Bloober CEO said they were recreating everything, which made Silent Hill 2, what it was. Everyone else doesn't say this. Not Masahiro Ito, not Motoi Okamoto, not that Selina lady, not even the SIE Exec, Christian, ever stated implicitly or explicitly that Bloober's Silent Hill 2, is a remake

I don't know, considering Konami themselves stated, it was a rebooted Silent Hill 2, so I think reboot is the better term than remake. They said it around 37:17 in the Silent Hill Transmission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ooEM1n4pM&t=2237s

If this is just semantics to you guys, or you guys think my entire talk paragraph is silly, I'm fine with that. It's really up to you guys, but when Konami themselves stated Bloober's new game is a rebooted Silent Hill 2, istead of a remade Silent Hill 2, I just think that should be stated MetaPlanet (talk) 00:04, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

I found some statements and articles that reaffirm my opinion

https://gamingbolt.com/silent-hill-2-remake-bloober-team-cant-comment-on-rumours-due-to-relationship-with-our-partners#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20would%20say%20that%20it's,story%2C'%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.. "Interestingly, Babieno went on to reiterate that Bloober Team is working on a licensed property with a partner, saying that in spite of that, it will still retain the studio’s identity. “I would say that it’s hard to work with someone who [owns an IP you’re working on], but we are always talking with those licensors, [saying] ‘Guys we would like to use your license, but we would like to tell our own story,'” he said. “If we are not able to tell our own story, if we will not have creative freedom, it doesn’t make sense, because Bloober Team will not make a great game. If you are in a prison, you will not be able to fly. So that’s why we are trying to only [make] those titles in which we are feeling, ‘OK, it will be a Bloober Team game, not someone [else’s].’ So even on the project we can’t talk [about], it will still be a Bloober Team title.”".

Here's another that adds some additional context to that quote, which also shows up in this article. https://www.ign.com/articles/silent-hill-2-remake-rumor-bloober-team. "Babieno didn't make clear that this was a reference to the Konami title, but it feels likely given that Bloober's Private Division game is a new IP. If that is the case, and Bloober is working on Silent Hill, Babieno's words could be taken to mean that the company is applying its own ideas to Silent Hill 2, or alternatively that its Silent Hill game is actually a new story in the series entirely. The CEO did not provide any further comment on those lines"

I think these basically confirm that this is a reboot of Silent Hill 2, rather than a remake MetaPlanet (talk) 22:48, 15 December 2022 (UTC)