It looks like Silent Hills-inspired survival horror Allison Road has taken a little too much inspiration from Hideo Kojima's ill-fated reboot, as the promising looking title has been canned. Originally the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, developer Lilith scrapped crowd-funding when Team 17 got involved as a publishing partner. But the game is no more.
"Sadly Allison Road had to be cancelled," reads a message on the title's official Twitter account. "Statement to come in the next few days. Thanks for all your support and very sad it came to this." We must admit that we never had particularly high hopes for this given how closely it appeared to be aping the P.T. demo, but it's always a shame when promising projects come to a premature end.
[source twitter.com]
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Allison Road = by the Goo Goo Dolls, cool little relaxing alt rock song from the 90's.
I mean the Gin Blossoms, sorry, my bad.
@sub12 Originally by Gin Blossoms, though.
EDIT: BEATEN!
@get2sammyb
Were the Gin Blossoms a thing in the UK?
Well at least it stayed close to the source material. 😉
@sub12 I don't think so, but I used to listen to Hey Jealousy on loop when I was like 17.
So all the people who supported the game will get their money back...no I do not think so.
@ekreig lol
@ekreig HA! ^_^
Freakin hell, I was looking forward to this.
Nice one @ekreig, btw 👍
NNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! DAMMIT! WWHHHYYYYYYY??? i cant believe this?!%$ what the hell happened. this was my only coping mechanism in dealing with the silent hills cancellation. ahhh man,.... heart broken
@MadAussieBloke what is this......Visage???!!!
Well, now it is indeed a true successor of P.T.
Kickstarter truly is a double-edged sword. Sometimes, a great product comes out thanks to your contributions, and sometimes you get swindled.
@EXP Yeah. The problem is that it's a crowd investment platform, but people treat it like an early preorder system.
"developer Lilith scrapped crowd-funding when Team 17 got involved as a publishing partner."
Write this in bold.
@sonicmeerkat So Kickstarter-supporters got their money back when they switched over to the publisher? I guess my comment was inaccurate in regards to Allison Road then. My bad.
@EXP It was a handful of people, makes me feel bad for journos when people don't read the whole first paragraph of a 2 paragraph article.
@sonicmeerkat @EXP No one got charged anything because the Kickstarter wasn't completed. Money only gets taking once a campaign runs its course.
@get2sammyb beat me to it. For some reason this seems to be a common misconception amongst many people across different articles I have read about Allison road being cancelled. Either reading comprehension is dropping like a sack of potatoes or people are not very familiar with how the Kickstarter stuff works. I only state the former because your article, like so many others clearly states the Kickstarter was cancelled when they got a publisher. I'm no fan of crowd funding, I consider the only money I've ever spent on early access games/Kickstarter to be lost to thin air especially considering the last game I supported prior to release was day z....years ago. Still feel like I was robbed. But there have been legitimate success stories and games we never would have seen without crowdfunding so that's a big plus but it's a risk.
They really took that PT inspiration all the way
@ekreig Good one!
Hope they try to kickstart it again. I supported a few kickstarter. I never feel ripoff if they fail. We need more people in the game industry. An i am more then happy to support them.
@EXP you should read what kickstarter means sometimes it goes well sometimes not. It is not a preorder it's a investment so there is no swindle........
Really gutted about this, loved the look of the early gameplay footage and was on the verge of investing on Kickstarter when they suddenly got the Team17 deal. Speaking of which, I'd love to hear justification from Team17 about why they canned such a promising title.
Wonder if Konami managed to shut them down by claiming it was too similar to their concept. If that's the case they may go after other spiritual successors to PT, such as Visage, and shut them down and still never release anything themselves out of spite.
I'd hate to say I didn't see this coming... But I really did.
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