silent hill fans constantly finding out that it can in fact be even more over than it currently is

*walks up to the burning dumpster* [inhales sharply] "There was a beloved franchise here. It's gone now"

The biggest surprise of that NFT story is that there's still enough money in NFTs to throw a rave

I feel this whole concept is something you'd see in Futurama for like a single skit.

Just when you thought Downcoming was the lowest point of SH series We sure aren't TOWN with this

"Oh we got ROBBED!" summarized not just what Silent Hills could have been, but also the struggle of SH fans for like 15 years

Every time the Silent Hill fandom sees a new game and it turns out to be total dogshit, the online reaction reminds me of the girl from the first movie who has a breakdown while screaming "SILENT HILL!!!" from the top of her lungs

Omega-fumbling their IP and tripping over their own shoelaces face first onto a landmine truly is Konami's silent-hill.

pyramid head has to be like that... his parents are gone and he needs to take care of triangle girl in this harsh economy

BREAKING: Name “Hideo Kojima” Confirmed Worse Than the N-Word by Konami

It's because I love Silent Hill, that I want Silent Hill to die. I don't want it to suffer anymore. I don't want to see the horrible, twisted abomination it has become anymore.

it's actually extremely fitting that konami is the company that would travel the world to find the remains of something it already destroyed just so it could revive it and destroy it even harder.

Between Silent Hill Ascension and the MGS Legacy Collection, I do believe some people have just... forgot exactly what kind of company Konami is.

What I'm hearing from these cynical bastards is that we have never been closer to seeing an actual real-world appearance of Triangle Girl and Tina Yautja. (That's one for the olds in the room)

I wonder if "Koji", "Igarashi", or "IGA" are also banned words. (Former Castlevania game director/producer)

man, Konami are really nailing the horror vibes this year, i didn't take them for such big fans of Pet Sematary

You know, despite Shattered Memories being pushed as a remake of SH1 for marketing purposes, I'll always give it props for at least trying to tell its own emotional story with its own gimmicks and twists, as opposed to just aping Silent Hill 2 and Pyramid Head again for the third or fourth time.

Good to see that Pat is still using "The Civil War" to refer to basically any period of US history before the 20th century. It's that kind of consistency that keeps Crazy Talk so powerful.

So for those of you rubbernecking this train wreck, the further you go into it the worse it gets. It's kind of hilarious just how short and bad the 'scenes' are. There's a couple of okay actors , but also a definite air of no one being given direction. They blast up weird usernames for every offhand character, bc if your use enough Influencer Points, you had the majority of the choice, which is called a Gold Choice or something and that means your create-a-character gets used as the model for a background person. That's just an example, but there's plenty else wrong with it. It's.... honestly kind of amazing how awful every part of this thing comes out. The only thing i can give it is that a couple of monster designs are kind of interesting.

IIRC, Silent Hill Origins tried to make their legally distinct Red Pyramid Thing. They called it The Butcher.

I've been waiting to see your guys' reaction to this piece of sca- *BANNED*

JJ Abrams is on his 3rd streak being involved with a previously established IP and something somehow has gone wrong

The name Pyramid Head came from the game itself. It's from the item description of the Great Knife: "Massive weapon wielded by Pyramid Head. Hard to use, but lethal." Fans didn't just make it up. Pat wrong as always.

Silent Hill Ascension is an amazing experience... for the people who aren't playing...

Feel free to correct me on this if I’m wrong, but I’ve heard Pat say it a couple times now and I’m pretty sure I’m not. “Pyramid Head” is in fact, the character’s actual name. James initially calls him “red pyramid thing” in the apartments when he’s still not sure what he is, but at the end of the game after learning the truth of everything and acknowledging Pyramid Head and where he came from, you can interact with his body where James will comment, “Pyramid Head won’t move anymore.” Meaning that was his intended name as early as his original debut and the name “red pyramid thing” was more an in-universe placeholder as James doesn’t know his actual name yet. It kind of reminds me of in an rpg when you talk to a character but they haven’t introduced themselves yet, so the game just calls them, “Intelligent looking boy” or something. Unless of course the japanese name is different, I don’t know.

I was listening to this while driving, and completely lost my shit when it was revealed what the 3 banned words were. That was the hardest I've laughed for a while.

A slow burn of a dumpster fire. That's just splendid isn't it?

Looking at this trainwreck, I'm reminded of a Pat quote from the days of yore: "I'd rather have nothing." Go back to pachinko, Konami. The gaming world is better off without you.

Man, I usually would laugh at the misfortunes of NFT guys but getting your eyes burned out is horrifying, I hope there's still some way those poor bastards can get help or mitigate the damage.

This is one of the rare instances I feel bad for the devs because you can tell Konami's greedy hands were in the cookie jar even if the base idea for it was terrible.

Speaking of psychological trauma monster, foggy town against regular people in a movie style game it's called DARK ANTHOLOGY LITTLE HOPE

fun fact about the filter: It's case sensitive so lower case kojima just goes right through

11:40 I knew as soon as woolie started this that pat would bring up the alt pyramid head characters. I cant speak for Origins, but PERSONALLY I think the Boogeyman from downpour is the closest we got to a adequate successor to Pyramid Head, I think they did alot of interesting and unique things with him, that would've been better if the game wasn't, y'know...an unreal engine trashfire to play. And Im not opposed to having iterations on "The Trauma Monster" like Woolie said. To me its kinda like the "Stalkers" from the resident evil series, Mr. X, Nemesis, Jack Baker, Lady D. Its COOL to have this sorta rival character in games, its why people like Vergil, Zero, and Shadow, to have silent hill take that concept and turn it in on itself and make the monster YOUR manifestation is honestly a great design motif, and for a series founded in psychological horror I dont see any better way TO do that kinda thing.

14:00 it’s an anime called school days, Woolie. The ending is very much a reprieve from the episodes before it. Worth it, but only on a binge.

10:31 pyramidhead is called red pyramid thing one time. he is called pyramidhead five times.

Fact Check, the incident with the UV lights was at a similar party run by the same company in 2017 where a contract worker installed UV lights instead of stage lights. Nobody is sure what happened this time, yet.

Silent hill ascension is like Konomi saw what people were afraid of, of a microtransaction hellscape, and was like "yeah we can make it worse"

The threshold for spinning up a new NFT is relatively low enough that someone has probably already made, or will make in a few days, "Blind Ape Yacht Club" NFTs.

Every Moonscorched contestant from Fear & Hunger 2 is a better Pyramid Head than any of the off-brand Pyramid Heads from Silent Hill, because even if directly recreating it was not his intention, Miro Haverinen understands the purpose of that kind of monster better than any of the teams who worked on the later Silent Hill games. It is the darkest and most unkind reflection of a character's loathing and self-doubt, manifested in a form based on their understanding of the world around them. James saw a painting of a Civil War-era executioner, and compared it to the role he played in Mary's final days, and the image of that seeks to torment him physically in the way his own self-loathing tortures him mentally. The Moonscorched versions of the contestants similarly evoke themes related to the worst aspects of their human forms: Olivia's wheelchair, and how she feels it inconveniences both her and those around her; O'saa's obsession with knowledge and control; Karin's pride and sense of duty as a reporter. The key is that in order to be effective, the monster needs to be tailor-made to the character it haunts.

Those are the free market's eyes now.

I dunno bout u guys but I really wanna know how The Head Guy got pyramided.

W-well, there's still the Ryukishi07 Silent Hill, r-right..?

I'm just waiting for the day when Pyramid Head inevitably becomes the mascot of a basketball team.

The whole James seeing a picture of an executioner happens way late into the game and "pyramid head" isn't a fan name but the actual name of the character in the description of the great knife weapon. Defuq Pat

I don't know how these post-Team Silent developers trying to recreate Pyramid Head can expect anything but failure when none of them are trying to solve the specific problem that the Team Silent solved by creating Pyramid Head, which is create a big spooky fucking persecutor who serves the story of James Sunderland (spoilers) specifically by reenacting the source of his guilt over and over again by killing literal escort quest/analogue to his wife, Maria. Instead they keep working in this ass-backwards way where they write the main character's backstory so that a Pyramid-Head-copy-paste can exist. Every single game with a Pyramid Head copy (or just literally Pyramid Head again) has a secretly-I-killed-someone main character backstory with incredibly varied levels of making any god damn sense. It turns out, to make good psychological horror you need to actually write solid characters.

Dont worry guys, i will give you the K word Pass

Maybe Konami should go back to doing Pachinko forever. Honestly tho, now Bloober Team's SH2 remake is already better because no matter how bad it is, at least it's not a micro transaction filled not-game. As far as we know.

Konami: We will let people pay money to speak in our chat. Paying customers: Impregnate me, Pyramid Head! Konami: .........

how have i only just found out you guys are doing these!

they *really* could've just made it until dawn and sold it as a game but MAN what the hell

: Am I town? Do I look like I'm full of monsters? Are you sitting there, eating pizza? I didn't think so. Forget you.

Honestly I don't even believe the scenes are actually prerendered. I think they're done IN ENGINE. What engine? Why? I dunno. But I suspect that's how they get cameo characters in, they're basically create-a-characters in any other game. This may be why the animations are so off sometimes. I once saw in b-roll footage in an interview they did that a character was 45 degrees out of place while closing a door in an otherwise fully rendered scene. I could even go one step further in my speculation that I wouldn't be surprised if they're using AI to assist with either the animation or maybe part of the writing. That's just how off kilter everything is in the worst possible way. Like, scenes where they should have TOTAL CONTROL of the actors still have a bunch of weirdness in how character move and talk. We may never get any confirmation on any of this but that's what it feels like watching it. The best form this could've taken was an Until Dawn type game with twitch integration but I don't think they were ever capable of putting in the work that would require. Oh, one final note. The way Genvid talks about affecting the "canon" of Silent Hill makes a lot more sense when you realize that all there other projects are based on much looser, comic booky IPs. The Walking Dead previously, and a planned DC comics and Borderlands projects. So they're kinda carrying over language from those over to SH.

Do you know how f&cking incompetent someone would have to be to *accidentally* order/source/acquire medical grade UV lights, install them into a lighting setup, but somehow not notice anything is amiss?

the most horrid thing about todays world is that everyone needs an origin story of 2-3 hour long video essay explaining the thing because most consumers cant be bothered to actually engage with the media they consume. I watch explain videos because I HAVENT consumed all the media for the series like light novels, CD drama, bloated mobile games, etc that may legitimately matter to the lore and characters but some of these people couldn't gather what's even 50% of what's happening even when the actually keep up with the series

The only positive to Pyramid Head's popularity is that more people understand how Hellraiser fans felt when Hellraiser 3 came out.

I was disappointed that such a horror game like P.T. got canned but they at least made a more horrible game

"You didn't need scams like this when you had Hideo Kojima."

The best silent hill game in years was that iPad game they played in the old channel.

Are there just some people to whom the Internet is a brand-new experience? I mean, imagine setting up something as large-scale as this and thinking "nobody would ever want to corrupt or pervert this".

I swear that the timeline map for SH Ascension are going to end up looking like the maps from Knife Edge: Nose Gunner

A very clever move by Konami, knowing that everyone is going to be super critical of the Silent Hill 2 remake, they release the biggest pile of shit ever related to the franchise, so anything that Bloober Team craps out can only look like an improvement.

This dumpster fire is a slow cooked meal that ends with the ultimate desert... the desecration of Silent hill 2. 😂

Why the fuck would I want to play steam games in a car. Can you fuckin imagine your shotgun passenger literally playing like dark souls right in the corner of your vision. I'd crash like immediately, what a terrible idea. Like the ONE time a year when you have to sit in your car waiting for an airport pickup or some shit.

One of the big reasons I respect Resident Evil is that when a villain is dead or irrelevant, its gone, no matter how iconic or popular. Nemesis? Dead. Mr X? Dead. Albert fucking Wesker, who many consider the main villain of the franchise, dead since 2009, without a word of bringing him back.

The reason Kojima left Konami was because they wanted him to make MGS-themed Pachinko machines, right? Why would you make a video game developer solely responsible for something like that? I'm sure Pachinko machines make a lot of money, but designing them can't be as time consuming as making a video game. I feel like they could have at least done both.

Having zero hope in this, somehow it got even worse than i thought

“we still don't know pyramid head”

That thumbnail is amazing

Pyramid Head appears as a racer in the Krazy Kart Racing game. make of that what you will.

James does use the term "pyramid head" in the labyrinth when you grab the great knife it wasn't made up by the fans or anything

Thought let yall know that sh: ascension is streaming on tubi with new episodes every week apparently.

Bruh, "Red Pyramid Thing" vs "Pyramidhead" is like Freddy Kruger's intended characterization from Wes Kraven vs how we engage with Robert's Freddy today...

Paige should just turn one of her fanfics into a Silent Hill script & call the next game, "Silent Hill: SunDowning" ❤😂 It would be the greatest thing in Silent Hill history since its inception!

Konami is almost like a bad husband to a woman that says they changed but goes back to old ways.

Being a silent hill fan must be pure suffering

This is not at all a dunk on Woolie. But the way he says Pyramidhead I kind of hear Permithead. And because my brain is dumb that naturally went to Kermithead. So now Kermithead.

the real silent hill were the money we made along the way ~ konami probably. lol

Good ol Tezla Coil

When I saw reveal the shock was so jaw dropping i think my jaw fell off because how bad it is

Sledgehammer gasmask not pyramid head from downpour could have maybe worked if the payoff to his build up hadn't been finding out who's face was under the mask, and that answer being dependent on the "choices" throughout the game.

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Cant wait to see what the guys have to say about "Jam-making npc"

Silent hill really is the posterchild of "I'd rather have nothing."

Silent Hill died to that damn Downpour 11 years ago.

Woolie "I can't believe the absolute vile things that were being said in that chat with nobody moderating it" Pat "Woolie the only person in the chat for an hour was you"

It would have been way easier (and honestly kinda rad) if they had actually written and filmed things as they went so the choices actually could matter. And don't tell me that's impossible; old soap operas like Days of Our Lives came out with 5 episodes a week, every week, for _literal decades._ Surely Silent Hill can manage _one._

I wish they made a remake of Silent Hill 1 (SH2 is a masterpiece but SH was in my eyes, more scarier)

If you try to say Hideo Kojima it just comes out as "la li lu le lo" Weird

Kojima’s name was never banned, the chat eventually got disabled because people didn’t give a fuck and we’re just shitposting, I saw people streaming it spamming the chat with “HIDEO KOJIMA CUMMY IN MY TUMMY.” or some shit like that

5:35 well that's just fucking great huh!?

I've never cared about actually watching horror but I'm always really interested to learn the lore and mechanics behind some spooky shit that the writer came up with, like I have zero desire to watch the halloween series because the answer to the question "why is michael myers immortal and unstoppable" being "because he's the shape" "what does that mean?" "doesn't matter" is really boring to me. On the flipside it's one of the reasons I enjoy games like resident evil so much, particularly 7 and 8 at the end of each game there's an area near the end where you find out what the mould is, why it does what it does, how it works, that shit is nirvana. I don't care about being scared, I just want to read the writer's version of the SCP wiki for their movie or game.

All this awful Silent Hill shit just reminds me of one of my favorite tweets which goes like: "*gruff plumber voice* Ah see, there's ya problem, ya see that big narrative gap where an audience could use their imagination or speculate as to what sort of backstory could go there, making them engage more with the story on a personal level? Yeah, there's supposed to be CONTENT there."

*searches thesaurus for other words for “scam”

"I don't care what they tell you - Harry Mason was always black!"

I still don't know how people can have faith in SIlent Hill by this point anyway - it has been two decades since last good Silent Hill game. Well, I did hear Shattered Memories was good. Still, 14 years or so.

what i find funny is that konami will see the negative feedback from this and be like "wow they really hate silent hill huh /: might as well cancel the rest i knew this was a bad idea"

Why do I feel like the person who tweeted, "Play Grand Theft Auto while doing Grand Theft Auto," doesn't know what Grand Theft Auto means?

Is that Tesla tweet still up?

They were wrong about one thing. There were no defenders of Ascension

Gotta love all the bots in chat too. Gotta throw ai in there