This shot reminds me: You'll see games with forklifts and crates, but you won't see one goddamn pallet. You know what a pallet is right? Yeah, you worked at the warehouse, you know. But all these whiny bitches who go to college on their parents' money and then design games have never been inside a real fucking warehouse and have no fucking clue that in order to move a fucking crate, you need to have a goddamn pallet. Hey Monolith, how'd that fucking box get in there?

as developers have lamented, the guts of the new consoles are geared to make the gaming equivalent of dumb blondes. It has to do with the fact that both the XBox 360 and the PS3's Cell CPU use "in-order" processing, which, to greatly simplify, means they've intentionally crippled the ability to make clever A.I. and dynamic, unpredictable, wide-open games in favor of beautiful water reflections and explosion debris that flies through the air prettily.

That means the next generation of games will likely play just like this generation. Only shiny.

(...)But there's another, less-obvious side of that muffin: if a machine is so "advanced" it can draw a photo-realistic city in the background of every level, that only means that developers now must hire somebody to render that photorealistic city instead of pasting on a bit of flat, blurred wallpaper. That means game development costs are skyrocketing and that leads to the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster syndrome. Bigger investments means developers must "play it safe" for fear of losing their ass. And that means fewer and fewer oddball "niche" games like those mentioned above and more quickie knock-offs based on movies.

(...) game development costs are skyrocketing and that leads to the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster syndrome. Bigger investments means developers must "play it safe" for fear of losing their ass. And that means fewer and fewer oddball "niche" games like those mentioned above and more quickie knock-offs based on movies.

Silent Hill is filled with them!

SH3 takes the cliches of toilet and ventilator to all new levels and creates an Art Form !

I wouldn't expect you to know Silent Hill. I've played the 2nd, 3rd and 4th part. I remember the time I liked it, but I hope no mood from SH will be in TEF! Creepy...

We love Silent Hill (though not the fourth one).
The Endless Forest will not be invaded by scary things. We have The Path for that.

But not so simple to design...

The Path is a single player game.
A multiplayer horror game could be quite interesting, though. Especially a creepy slow one like Silent Hill (as opposed to yet another action shooter). But not so simple to design...