Yamaoka lands at Grasshopper. New low-budget punk horror franchise coming?

[Bebpo]

http://hokanko3.blog13.fc2.com/

Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame is now a Grasshopper Manufacturer employee.  He probably didn't join to compose (sine he could have done that freelance & Suda already has his best buddy Masafumi Takada), so he must've joined to make his own games like how he took hold of the SH franchise and became the guy behind them.

Bets are open on what he makes, but if I was a betting man I'd probably put it on horror   After ex-SH people brought us Siren, I'm all for some more ex-SH people starting another Horror franchise.


/probably will be on Wii though because Grasshopper has no money.

[Raban]

I bet you if Sega had a home console, Grasshopper would be all over that motherfucker.

[Bebpo]

I think the EA thing fell through when their original games all bombed.  I mean Mikami just announced his new game he's going to be busy with for the next year or two at Platinum.

[Great Rumbler]

Who is this guy, some Silent Hill dude?

He composed the music for all the Silent Hill games.

[Great Rumbler]

Is that it?

 

[Mr. Gundam]

Whatever became of that Kafka game that Suda/Grasshopper was working on?

[Third]

Awesome news. Let's just hope he won't waste his talent by making a Wii game.

[Bebpo]

I decided to quit being a lazy SOB and found out he worked as a producer on the Silent Hill games. Now I see why there's some importance to this. If he were just a composer then it'd be pretty unimportant.

Yeah, he started as a composer on Silent Hill 1 and worked his way up to producer and basically being the Kojima of the Silent Hill series.  By at least SH3 he was the main behind it all.

random fun fact: Shoji Meguro, Atlus' composer for all the megaten games is starting up the same ladder.  Persona 1 PSP was entirely his project.

[Bebpo]

Whatever became of that Kafka game that Suda/Grasshopper was working on?

Suda wanted to make it but no one was willing to fund it.  He needed the budget to do it on PS3/X360.

The main thing holding Grasshopper down is that they make niche games that don't make a whole ton of money, so they can't really do big budget projects.  I mean hell, just to finance some of his smaller budget projects like No More Heroes Suda had to do anime license games like Champloo & Blood+

[Mr. Gundam]

Whatever became of that Kafka game that Suda/Grasshopper was working on?

Suda wanted to make it but no one was willing to fund it.  He needed the budget to do it on PS3/X360.

The main thing holding Grasshopper down is that they make niche games that don't make a whole ton of money, so they can't really do big budget projects.  I mean hell, just to finance some of his smaller budget projects like No More Heroes Suda had to do anime license games like Champloo & Blood+

Blood+ One Night Kiss is pretty interesting just for seeing the origins of No More Heroes.

[Third]

According to the report, Yamaoka will start out composing music, beginning with the "action-horror" project also featuring the support of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, announced late in 2008 with EA Partners backing.

Nya?

Holy shit. That means it's a PS360 game

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

as if Grasshopper games didn't already have fucking awesome music.

I hope to see the EA game at E3, but even knowing nothing about it its still my most anticipated game I've ever known from EA.

[Bebpo]

According to the report, Yamaoka will start out composing music, beginning with the "action-horror" project also featuring the support of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, announced late in 2008 with EA Partners backing.

Nya?

Yeah, I'd like to actually see the scan since afaik the EA project has never been officially announced and famitsu just letting it out the bag in a dev quote seems odd.

But if true, then you were right and I'm glad I was wrong because this game will be zomg