Interview Bloober Team Is Done Making Shitty Games, Admitting To The Failure Of Past Releases

[Absalon]

"We want to be a horror company," Zieba told me. "We want to find our niche, and we think we found our niche, so now we just--let's evolve with it. [...] And how that happens is more complex, but it also happens organically in a way, like with [2016's] Layers of Fear, people in the studio were like, 'Okay, we made some shitty games before, but we [can] evolve



"We gathered a team that loves horror," Piejko added. "So I think, for us, it would not be easy to switch [to other genres], and we don't want to."

"We don't want to make a similar game [to Silent Hill 2]," Cronos game director/designer Wojciech Piejko told me during an interview focused on the team's first post-Silent Hill project, which began to take shape a few months after The Medium was released in 2021. Though Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill 2 Remake were being developed on overlapping timelines, they come from largely different teams within the studio and are meant to feel like "different pizzas with different toppings--both delicious," he said with a laugh. Silent Hill 2 Remake was better than most seemed to expect, but Cronos: The New Dawn seeks to prove they can build something special from scratch, too.

More on it + Details About Cronos The New Dawn In The Interview Below:

 

[PeopleDreamsNeverEnd]

Well that's easy to say when your studio is peaking in popularity and success. I get that they're still riding that post-SH2 release high. But now they have to back their words with an actual really good original game of their own. Let's see if they can do it!

 

[NoHonor4amongZero]

Bloober was handed one of the great stories in video gaming history when they made SH2R. They're going to have to prove they have the chops to make one as good themselves from scratch to prove it wasn't a 'fluke'.

 

[Keksis_theBetr4yed]

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[Keksis_theBetr4yed]

Observer from them is a very good game and sadly the less known and I like Blair's Witch too.

Not a big fan of Layers of Fear or The Medium though.

 

[Hanzala02]

Let’s hope. I admit I wasn’t exactly jazzed about them making the Silent Hill 2 remake, after I saw some gameplay for myself I was convinced. I have been enjoying it a lot since I have picked it up.