New Silent Hill Announced

[d1r]

I copypasted some random ass Steam review, but you negative nellies would probably love this game if you could see past Maria's jawline being two inches too wide or whatever.

Then put it in quotes. Seriously. Forum ettiquette 101.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

world is healing.

It's nice but the quality is a bit low IMO. I don't know why the Ashley's costume mod from RE4R haven't been ported yet, it's a complete recreation of the outfit with better textures and higuer quality.

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[Freedos]

I don't understand. Lots of years saying about "Silent Hill is not as actiony and jumpscary as RE" and critizising entries like Homecoming because its pointless repetitive gimmicks, tone and being combat heavy...and yet a Silent Hill 2 remake with more enemies and jumpscares than lots of Resident Evil games, with mostly obligatory combat, a more "realistic" and less lynchian tone, sanitized story (which was bloated to +20 hours long btw), nerfed radio and lots of pointless repetitive gimmicks...isn't just fine, but a masterpiece, the original but improved and best Silent Hill game! It's Silent Hill 2 but fixed!

Yeah, I finished the game. I wouldn't call it exactly bad game by itself, and it has lots of detail and effort behind, it's the best western entry, but if this is the evolution of Silent Hill then I'm a monkey's uncle. And I replayed the first two Silent Hill games before the remake. I love the original SH2, but it isn't even my favourite (it's the first game).

When a (decent) rerelease of original games? Lots of saying about "masterpiece" or "piece of work" but so little care about preservation of the original work.

 

[Ravielsk]

I don't understand. Lots of years saying about "Silent Hill is not as actiony and jumpscary as RE" and critizising entries like Homecoming because its pointless repetitive gimmicks, tone and being combat heavy...and yet a Silent Hill 2 remake with more enemies and jumpscares than lots of Resident Evil games, with mostly obligatory combat, a more "realistic" and less lynchian tone, sanitized story (which was bloated to +20 hours long btw), nerfed radio and lots of pointless repetitive gimmicks...isn't just fine, but a masterpiece, the original but improved and best Silent Hill game! It's Silent Hill 2 but fixed!

Its easy, the people "hating" on Homecoming are the original Silent Hill fans who were measuring it against the original trilogy which they played.

The people praising the remake are the new age fans who are fans of the idea of Silent Hill 2 but have never actually played it.

This is the curse that all remakes bring upon their source franchise. They delude what made the original special and inject a fake fanbase that ultimately is just a bunch of tourists enamored with the concept of the franchise rather than its substance.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Homecoming was criticised because is mediocre at best, same as Downpour. Not because they are more action focused. The team silent games were also focused on action, there's plenty of enemies and ammo scattered to the scenarios. On the OG Silent hill you can reach the elementary school with +50 bullets on your inventory easily even after killing several enemies. But they were really solid survival horror games. In Homecoming and Downpour there's issues in the story, the level design, atmosphere and riddles design. Still, these games still have appraisal in the horror fanbase because at least they tried to be horror games.

As "souless" it may be, the remake is better than the other western SH games in those aspects.

 

[Max Damage]

Since I'm not going to ever play the remake, I watched the cutscenes on Youtube, and a couple changes aside, most of dialogue is needlessly rewritten for the worse, and scenes have bad directing, especially towards the end (the tape reveal and onwards is jarringly bad), and soundtrack is phoned in. James sounds more emotionless in the very end than rest of the game, I'd take uneven VA from 2001 over this, even Angela. I genuinely feel bad for anyone who plays this instead of the original.

 

[Yuggoth]

Platinumed the remake, which wasn't very difficult thing to do. Especially when you know the original inside and out.

It's probably the best thing to happen to the series for the past 20 years, but that's not saying much, considering how crappy all non-TS games were. Especially since Bloober already had a very solid basis for making the game. Not to say there were no significant downgrades from the OG when it comes to the frequency of combat encounters and overall pacing, but eh, it could've been worse.

 

[Shinji]

Bloober Team and KONAMI Continue Their Collaboration​

Bloober Team, the Polish masters of horror, and the Japanese giant Konami Digital Entertainment (KONAMI) are continuing their partnership, announcing the signing of a new agreement for a joint project. Following the massive success of the remake of one of the most highly anticipated psychological horror games—SILENT HILL 2—the developers are now focusing on a new game based on KONAMI's IP.

https://blooberteam.prowly.com/383560-bloober-team-and-konami-continue-their-collaboration

 

[Tehdagah]

Bloober Team won!

 

[d1r]

Bloober Team won!

Time to ruin Silent Hill 3!

 

[Yuggoth]

Bloober Team won!

Time to ruin Silent Hill 3!

There's not much sense in remaking the direct sequel to the first one and leave SH1, but that's Konami we're talking about.

 

[Perkel]

Yeah the should go for SH1, that game needs remake the most because often people forget it exists, it would also be a nice way for them to actually improvise rather than just recreate with small changes to see if they can actually do it.

 

[Max Damage]

Only one that could use a remake is 4, not that I would trust Bloober to not fuck it up as well.