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Abandoned gameplay reveal coming soon! #PS5 exclusive #NotAKojimaProduction

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IntentionalPun

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The English on their website is incorrect:


Should be something like:



Should be something like:



This sentence doesn't seem strange other than the "unparallel" error but something about it doesn't sound very native.


It could well be that these are just European/Russian/Chinese whatever developers who are simply not native speakers.. Still, having lived in Japan for a while now (and working with Japanese people), some of this English sounds like the sort of stuff you get here in Japan, where it sounds/looks fine at first glance but then you realise it doesn't really make any sense after a second read.

So, yes, I agree it could be a Japanese team and therefore Kojima Productions.

Read into that what you will.. but the website does seem a bit fishy.

This is all a huge stretch.. outside of "unparallel" there's nothing wrong or unusual about the English used.
 

SlimeGooGoo

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Well the developer uploaded this image on Steam (April).
Can't read what's on that road sign.

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elliot5

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I'm having whiplash over this Abandoned hideo Kojima shit that happened a month or so ago. It's not a ruse by 600 IQ kojigod. It's just a shit asset flip horror game by a no name dude.
 

Papacheeks

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I'm having whiplash over this Abandoned hideo Kojima shit that happened a month or so ago. It's not a ruse by 600 IQ kojigod. It's just a shit asset flip horror game by a no name dude.

Their Twitter was started in 2015. That Photo was taken the same time. Too much of a coincidence. If Abandoned really is a what ever game, it's weird for Sony to make deal about it. Unless it was going to be a VR game which is what is rumored to be shown this year.
 

elliot5

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Their Twitter was started in 2015. That Photo was taken the same time. Too much of a coincidence. If Abandoned really is a what ever game, it's weird for Sony to make deal about it. Unless it was going to be a VR game which is what is rumored to be shown this year.
Sony isn't making a deal about it. They post blog and video shit ALL THE TIME on their website and YouTube channel. From no name indies to big releases. Anyone can apply for it. It's not an exclusive in the sense of a Sony partnered exclusive like Returnal. It's just the indie using that as a marketing tactic.
 

Papacheeks

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Sony isn't making a deal about it. They post blog and video shit ALL THE TIME on their website and YouTube channel. From no name indies to big releases. Anyone can apply for it. It's not an exclusive in the sense of a Sony partnered exclusive like Returnal. It's just the indie using that as a marketing tactic.

isn't it weird that their site didn't work for a while, and parts of it still dont work? Usually you would have a company page up months to a year before your announcement. You can have a website up about your studio and talk about a TBA title for next gen and PC.

But the timing is way off on this. They have had a twitter since 2015. Kojima got with Keighly in 2015 started talks with Sony a little later. If I'm wrong Im wrong, but it just smells like it's a troll or some kind of tease for a larger game.
 

Audiophile

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Lots of high frequency detail, looks kinda fugly tbh. Framerate seems a bit wonky too, like they're trying to emulate that stuttery look of old, atmospheric horror games that ran out of sync with everything.
 
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kingpotato

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I'm having whiplash over this Abandoned hideo Kojima shit that happened a month or so ago. It's not a ruse by 600 IQ kojigod. It's just a shit asset flip horror game by a no name dude.
Yeah I almost feel bad if there isn't anything special going on behind the scenes because the graphics in that trailer look like shit. If it's not a ruse, then it's shovelware.

Remember the last Kojima tease was still very high quality assets, images, trailers, etc. He doesn't do low quality bait and switches does he?

I mean look at P.T. ffs.
 
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Dabaus

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isn't it weird that their site didn't work for a while, and parts of it still dont work? Usually you would have a company page up months to a year before your announcement. You can have a website up about your studio and talk about a TBA title for next gen and PC.

But the timing is way off on this. They have had a twitter since 2015. Kojima got with Keighly in 2015 started talks with Sony a little later. If I'm wrong Im wrong, but it just smells like it's a troll or some kind of tease for a larger game.
But Jeff grubb said Kojima is best buds with MS now and Jeff grubb would never lie or obfuscate information to make MS look good and Sony look bad right?...

Edit: I have no idea what this is game is or whose really making it but Jeff grub isn’t the be all end all of the happenings of gaming. This game seems pretty secretive so for all we know anyone could be working on it, no one has to tell grub anything.
 
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Papacheeks

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But Jeff grubb said Kojima is best buds with MS now and Jeff grubb would never lie or obfuscate information to make MS look good and Sony look bad right?...

Edit: I have no idea what this is game is or whose really making it but Jeff grub isn’t the be all end all of the happenings of gaming. This game seems pretty secretive so for all we know anyone could be working on it, no one has to tell grub anything.

The thing Grubb doesn't understand that I know is Kojima productions has multiple projects. So if Kojima had a early concept for a game that he proposed to Sony/Xbox doesn't mean he also isn't working on another project or has been for some time for Sony. I think there is a chance he does have some kind of project in the works over at MS.

But to say Sony wont have him work on a project for them as well really shows Grubb doesn't know wtf he's talking about when it comes to the industry. He just hears things from people in the know.

When death stranding was in Production I do know KojiPro had other things they were working on. And similar to Platinum's position doing contract work, thats kind of where Koji is at. They have a unique relationship now, meaning they could work on different games for different platforms at the same time. Thats the beauty of being Indipendent.
 

SkylineRKR

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Blue Box is apparently based in Holland. And they've been around for a few years. Never heard of them before to be honest, but apparently they released a game called The Haunting last year. So they might be legit indies, but its weird that they sort of get a push like this.
 

Heisenberg007

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This may turn out to be just an indie game, but it is so, so weird. Something fishy is going on.

Also, Sony is clearly going for big-budget blockbusters. Why would they make a deal with a no-name indie developer with absolutely no track record for a PS5 exclusive game. Apparently, they are releasing this game in Fall 2021, which is a time for massacre for unknown indie games.

This also just seems so weird and wrong and just ... incomprehensible.
 

ElCasual

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Also, Sony is clearly going for big-budget blockbusters. Why would they make a deal with a no-name indie developer with absolutely no track record for a PS5 exclusive game.

Well, they made a contract with the new studio of Jade Raymond.
 
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Heisenberg007

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Also, Sony is clearly going for big-budget blockbusters. Why would they make a deal with a no-name indie developer with absolutely no track record for a PS5 exclusive game.

Well, they made a contract with the new studio of Jade Raymond.
And that seems like a AAA game. Jade has worked on AAA games before. The other staff members also have years of experience making AAA games.

On the other hand, this is an indie developer that has never released and/or worked on a AAA game (AFAIK, but I could be wrong).
 

bitbydeath

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This is truely an enigma.
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-In small print under the title, it states “Artwork not final”, yet there is no artwork

-there’s an app which will pull down trailers at different times/dates, but why would a small indie studio which has yet to release any full games go to this extent?

-it mentions “experience all trailers (plural) including gameplay reveals” (another plural)

-The trademark at the bottom states “PlayStation Family”
 
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Heisenberg007

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This is truely an enigma.
E2sGF3QWEAQVswl
-In small print under the title, it states “Artwork not final”, yet there is no artwork

-there’s an app which will pull down trailers at different times/dates, but why would a small indie studio which has yet to release any full games go to this extent?

-it mentions “experience all trailers (plural) including gameplay reveals” (another plural)

-The trademark at the bottom states “PlayStation Family”
Good catch. I don't think I've ever heard the official term "PlayStation Family". Have you? Does anyone know what it refers to?

Also, why would a third-party indie studio have "PlayStation Family" mentioned on this image? Doesn't make any sense to me, unless I'm missing something obvious.
 

DonJorginho

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This is truely an enigma.
E2sGF3QWEAQVswl
-In small print under the title, it states “Artwork not final”, yet there is no artwork

-there’s an app which will pull down trailers at different times/dates, but why would a small indie studio which has yet to release any full games go to this extent?

-it mentions “experience all trailers (plural) including gameplay reveals” (another plural)

-The trademark at the bottom states “PlayStation Family”
I didn't want to take the bait of this being a Kojima ploy, but my god is this realtime trailer reveal the most Kojima thing about.... I don't know what to believe.
 
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Heisenberg007

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I didn't want to take the bait of this being a Kojima ploy, but my god is this realtime trailer reveal the most Kojima thing about.... I don't know what to believe.
Personally, I don't think this is a Kojima project. But to me, it just feels like something is off with this game, marketing, and announcement. Perhaps, this is a secret project from PlayStation's own first-party studio? Who knows.

I honestly have no theories. It just feels off and weird.
 

bitbydeath

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Good catch. I don't think I've ever heard the official term "PlayStation Family". Have you? Does anyone know what it refers to?

Also, why would a third-party indie studio have "PlayStation Family" mentioned on this image? Doesn't make any sense to me, unless I'm missing something obvious.
Seems to be legit.

Trademark Usage​

The marks "PlayStation family mark", �PlayStation" and any other product names, service names or logos of SIE Inc used, quoted and/or referenced in this Web Site are registered trademarks or trademarks of SIE Inc or its affiliates.

It could be that Sony as the publisher allows them to use it but can’t say I’ve noticed it used before for other third party exclusives.
 
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rofif

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I didn't want to take the bait of this being a Kojima ploy, but my god is this realtime trailer reveal the most Kojima thing about.... I don't know what to believe.
Actually Capcom did that with village. On ps5, the "demo" changed each time. it either showed counters or trailer or new demos
 

DonJorginho

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Actually Capcom did that with village. On ps5, the "demo" changed each time. it either showed counters or trailer or new demos
Thanks for bringing me back down to earth mon ami, let's hope this looks better than the woeful reveal before.
 

elliot5

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Stop reading too much in to it lol. It's a Turkish dude in Copenhagen or whatever judging by his LinkedIn. His English just might not be great
 
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Shane89

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this is silent hill.

unknown developer
fake name (abandoned) which is a clear reference to Silent Hill being abandoned
survivor horror.

there is kojima behind all this plot
 
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