Silent Hill 2 Remake Dev Bloober Team Giving Up Psychological Horror for ‘Mass Market’
Silent Hill 2 Remake and Layers of Fear developer Bloober workforce is formally transferring on from psychological horror video games to as an alternative deal with one thing extra “mass-market”.
As reported by Engadget, 2023’s Layers of Fear — which was an all-in-one remake of kinds of the primary two video games and their DLC — would be the studio’s last foray into the psychological horror style, which additionally included video games like The Medium, Blair Witch, and Observer.
Switching over to what’s internally referred to as Bloober Team 3.0, nevertheless, the studio will start making horror video games which can be extra motion targeted and require extra from the participant, maybe nearer to one thing like Resident Evil.
“We focused on the story, we focused on the mood, we focused on the quality of graphics and music, but we didn’t put a lot of attention on the gameplay mechanics,” stated Bloober Team co-founder Piotr Babieno. “It wasn’t our goal. But we determined that there was a ceiling that we couldn’t break if we didn’t ship one thing recent, one thing new.
“We determined that our subsequent titles must be far more mass-market oriented. We’d like to speak with extra folks. We’d prefer to ship our concepts, with our DNA, not by atmosphere or storytelling, however by motion. So all of our future titles could have a whole lot of gameplay mechanics. They will likely be a lot greater.”
The first of those video games would be the Silent Hill 2 remake, although Bloober Team is but to announce when this will likely be coming precisely. Announced in October 2022, the remake guarantees to have the unique story informed throughout up to date, seamless gameplay with no loading screens, however these extras have led to some fairly horrifying PC system necessities. Bloober Team can also be engaged on a recreation for writer Rogue Games, which the two companies announced in 2021. The recreation title and theme have but to be introduced, so the phrase is out if it would observe Bloober’s new ambitions towards extra action-oriented horror video games.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
