Even without that I think it was always going to be the most popular one. It's a console generation ahead of the first one (when console generations actually mattered) so it has better graphical fidelity and more refined controls and it's a self-contained story that resonates better with the general public compared to the third one.
It's terrible. Mary being dead is supposed to be a plot reveal at the very end of the game. From this boxart where Mary is literally in heaven, to James's constant weepy expressions, it's obvious to any new player that she's dead. The whole pacing of the story is destroyed.I really like this artwork
I am pretty sure that the fact that the wife is dead is revealed right at the beginning. The possibility that James is wrong and that she is still alive (i.e. the existence of the letter) is the mystery that drives the game for the most part.
This is a kind of red herring. You could interpret it that at some point in the game James will meet his wife and that she is indeed alive.As someone pointed out on the thread before, this is from the game's intro
I, as a creator, would be pretty fucking depressed too if your legacy was to be remade by fucking western devs.
coincidentally, those two are Silent Hill vets. Meanwhile the cheery dude used to work at Nintendo.
They are in their own private Silent Hill right now.
The "F" game is the only one that looks like it has any sort of potential but its not a Silent Hill game. If anything it looks like Fatal Frame with its strong Japanese themes. The other ones are pure cashgrabs that will at best be so bad that the series will be put on ice indefinitely and at worst will start another round of "re-imaginings" like with Resident Evil so that zoomies can also say they played Silent Hill without ever touching Silent Hill.
Why does he look asian? Isn't the entire point of Silent Hill that its American horror done through a Japanese lense?
Doesn't look Asian to me. He's just making a Japanese old man face.
that's not true, he sued because they didn't pay him for using his voice in HD remasters (some legal contract fuckery). In fact, James in "Dead by Daylight" looks more like Cihi than James in the original game.James looks different in the remake because Guy Cihi sued the SH2 creators that the character in the game looks like him. Hence James cannot be James anymore
Damn, I read some untrue rumors and believed themthat's not true, he sued because they didn't pay him for using his voice in HD remasters (some legal contract fuckery). In fact, James in "Dead by Daylight" looks more like Cihi than James in the original game.James looks different in the remake because Guy Cihi sued the SH2 creators that the character in the game looks like him. Hence James cannot be James anymore
Fingers crossed they resourced it aptly and this isn't just a cashgrab based on Capcom's success with REmakes. Konami seem ... "better" of late, but it's not exactly been a high bar.
Yes, but also no. In his interview he stated that it was because of unpaid royalties they owned him because Konami fucked up and never gave him a contract that would specify a buy out of his performance. Ergo by default he was owned royalties which Konami denied pretending they have a contract somewhere laying around which of course did not exist. Because of that the remaster could not re-use the original dub without paying him royalties and so Konami rather re-dubbed the whole game.
My favorite part about that scandal is that the person that replaced him, Troy Baker, went on to suck Konami's dick saying that it's Guy's fault and that there are no residuals in gaming. And on a completely unrelated note Troy Baker is part of SAG-AFTRA, a union for voice actors that later went on a strike because they wanted their voice-actors to be paid residuals.
Which they in all honesty should be. If your vocal performance becomes a defining feature of a character in a video game(like in the case of David Hayter voicing snake for over a decade) its basically no different from an actor portraying a character in a movie. The industry at large has spent way too much time living outside of the norms of... well any other industry under the sun and reining that in is nothing but good.
No, they shouldn't. They zip in, take an exorbitant rate money down, record a few hours of lines, and then also expect things like reuse limitations, first billing and a share of the profits on a product that took tens or even hundreds of people working on it fulltime for three to five years. That money's coming from somewhere, and that somewhere's the end consumer's pocket. And while you can name the odd memorable performance in a videogame, most of them bring jack shit to the table and any average actor's as good as the next for any given role - you
As far as I understand there are still pros and cons for the PC version.
