Abandoned’s bizarre – and oft-delayed – Realtime Trailer app has been renamed the Realtime Experience app, ahead of its purported 29th July pre-load date on the PlayStation 5. The client will allegedly play host to “multiple trailers (when available)” between “5 to 12 minutes” as well as “gameplay demonstrations” and “future live events”.
Of course, many have, quite rightly, started to question whether this client even exists in the first place. Indie developer Blue Box Game Studios has made a lot of curious decisions with its supposed PS5 exclusive, but due to the project’s curious similarities to a Hideo Kojima ruse, it has attracted an enormous social media following as a result. It’s all quite weird.
https://twitter.com/BBGameStudios/status/1415322045974450179
The team’s got two more weeks to put out the pre-load, so let’s see if it can deliver anything tangible at all. The game’s first trailer, it was discovered, was made up of publicly available Unreal Engine assets, but went on to attract over a million views on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel. You can catch a recap of all of the events thus far in the video embedded above.
[source twitter.com]
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Well if this isn't a Kojima conspiracy, the developers certainly know how to be as weird as Kojima, so kudos to them.
The more they talk the more pressure they put on themselves to deliver.
Nah. Whatever. Over it.
Had fun with the conspiracy theories and digging down that rabbit hole a month ago. But I second the "over it" comments.
Also having an app to debut your trailer is at best, one of the dumbest things imaginable and at worst, a plot to steal people's data. Either way I'll wait 15 minutes later and see the news reports.
I'm going to download the app and see if it messes with my PS5 Kojima style.
So RT-E instead of PT...
@Jayslow the app is suppose to be the answer to dodgy internet as you download the trailer and then the PS5 shows it as it would if it were being processed live. No lag or res drops.
The biggest marketing disaster awaits
I'm too annoyed with Bluebox and Hasan to care anymore.
I don't know what's going on with this but can we really call it indie? What we do know for sure so far is that they're out sourcing a lot to expensive teams with previous links to Sony first party games. And that this game is getting its own app...I can't think of a single other game on PlayStation with its own app. What's the point? None of this screams indie.
Either way...it's all getting a bit boring now isn't it?
I'm still interested to see what all this fuss has been about.
With them apparently using a lot of premade assets I'm just probably not gonna care once it's revealed.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING
...uh huh... I'll just watch them on youtube but good luck Blue Box.
@Loftimus isn't it actually that the app is proof that the amazing graphics are actually rendered in real time and not pre-rendered fake gameplay.
@Milktastrophe it doesn't have to be either or but I don't see how that could stop them giving their trailers a boost if they wanted to.
I'm just happy to have front row seats to a potential giant train wreck in the making.
There was a “Silent Hill Experience” UMD on the PSP. Confirmed. End of Story.
@Korgon its free to download and watch , why would you watch it on youtube?
God help them if:
1) It’s not Kojima
2) If it’s 💩
3) It’s not Kojima
They dropped another Silent Hills nod too. They said this is something better than a playable teaser https://twitter.com/BBGameStudios/status/1414725815833595904
After death stranding, I certainly am not looking forward to anything new the overhyped kojima puts out. So regardless of what this internet created hype bubble is, it's going to burst regardless.
It should have been renamed as the “Real Time Wasting Experience”.
@Throb “They” didn’t drop an SH nod, some rando on Twitter said “What? Like SH?”
@Lolwutz PT was an acronym for Playable Teaser, the tease for Silent Hills.
Someone commented about the app and BB games replied with "Something better than a playable teaser" and a wink emoji
@twitchtvpat
Primarily because I just don't care about resolution that much which is the only real reason I could see for why someone would want this. If they add a demo to this thing later down the road then I might go ahead and download it but if all it is just trailers and gameplay demonstrations, I can get those through YouTube. If the gameplay is impressive it doesn't need the best resolution.
Can't wait for Silent Hills return.
Why does a set of trailers for a new game by a small unknown studio need its own app?
What's wrong with YouTube?
This makes no sense.
Why is Hideo's head there? I don't mind all the silly articles with zero depth...but then i remembered i came to like this site so much years ago because of the depth and independence i didn't find elsewhere...
Very intrigue by this. For all mention of a app, too me this sounds like a playable demo. So much mystery surrounding it & I'm enjoying it. Nice to see something other then the normal-even tho it has been a bit messy the messaging of everything. Roll on the 29th
This is either the most genius promotion we've seen in a long time, or, it's the most diabolical form of self-sabotage we've ever seen. I'm leaning for the latter.
Silent Hill - Abandoned makes sense to me...
I can't wait to see this dumpster fire of a game. I feel bad for the "studio", they haven't been able to produce more than an asset flip after all these years and now the whole world is watching them set themselves up for failure.
Wake me up when this is all over. Unless this is seriously the new Silent Hill, hard pass from me.
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