A mixed bag of rumors was posted this evening concerning two of the biggest horror game franchises. Horror games have reason to be cautiously optimistic as the Silent Hill franchise may be getting a soft reboot with two new titles. However, the immediate future for the Resident Evil series after RE3 remake might be a bit depressing. It’s rumored that work on Resident Evil 8 was restarted late last year and that it will be several years before the game is released.
These rumors come from ResetEra member Dusk Golem. Of course, these are to be taken with a grain of salt. Still, Dusk Golem has previously revealed leaks about Resident Evil 2 remake and Resident Evil 3 remake that turned out to be true.
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In other news while I'm dropping this stuff, and I think I can talk about this, I'll mention there is a couple new Silent Hill games in the works. Konami about two years ago reached out to various developers to pitch ideas for two Silent Hill games, one a soft-reboot of the
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) January 21, 2020
This is just a guess, but I'd say there's a high chance one or both of those titles may be revealed this year, but we'll see. I don't actually know their plans or anything about these games other than their existence though, I don't know much about the inner workings of Konami.
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) January 21, 2020
According to the leak, The Silent Hill games have been in the works for roughly two years. One is set as a soft-reboot of the franchise, with the other being a narrative adventure companion game in the vein of Until Dawn/Telltale Games. Dusk Golem goes on to say that he believes there’s a high chance at least one of the games may be revealed this year.
I guess I can talk about this because people keep on asking me, but I'm going to warn I won't talk about Resident Evil leak stuff for a long while after this so don't be surprised if I don't respond to specific questions.
So yeah, Resident Evil 8 is years away.
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) January 21, 2020
The leak also claims that Resident Evil 8 was in development in 2016 as RE7 was close to launching. However, work on that stalled when the team on RE8 was moved to work on RE7 DLC and RE2 remake. Dusk Golem claims that all the previous work on the title was scrapped six to seven months ago and restarted. So, with the current version of the game only a half-year in development, we shouldn’t expect it for a few years. Additionally, they state that Resident Evil 3 will be the last remake we see for a few years. However, remakes of some games in a similar vein (hopefully Dino Crisis) are currently in production.
There was a version of RE8 that was in development since late 2016, though it went on pause during 2017 due to needing more hands on for RE7's DLC and RE2 (which was behind schedule at the time). Still, there was an RE8 version that was in the works for a few years.
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) January 21, 2020
However, it actually got officially scrapped and the project rebooted only like 6-7 months ago, so the "final" RE8 version hasn't even been in development for a full year yet. Now these reboots often go faster because some assets and such are carried over, but don't expect RE8
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) January 21, 2020
However, according to the rumor, Resident Evil fans will get a bit of respite. They state that another Resident Evil game is in development that will probably release in 2021, but that it isn’t a main series title or remake.
anytime soon.
There also won't be any Resident Evil remakes out in the next few years after RE3. There is a couple other Capcom games being rebooted in the same vein as RE2 & RE3 though in the RE Engine, which should be seen pretty soon.
There is another Resident Evil game
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) January 21, 2020
which will probably release next year, but it's not a remake nor RE8.
And that's all I'm gonna' say, now don't bother me about RE for a while please.
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) January 21, 2020
Again, these rumors might be totally off point, but the leaker does have a reasonable success record.
