Guy Cihi, the original voice and motion capture actor for James Sutherland in Silent Hill 2, has written an open letter to Konami Digital Entertainment on his Facebook page regarding the voice-acting recasting controversy in Silent Hill HD Collection.
The sirens are sounding again, beckoning you back to the foggy ghost town as we rank all the Silent Hill games, from the chilling classics to the misguided missteps.
I mostly disagree with Downpour's position. Yeah, the game is not amazing by any stretch of the imagination but is much better than the HD Collection and Homecoming. The main issue is the performance, but that was mitigated by the patches, especially on the PS3. Personally, I put it a little behind Origins and The Room.
Having Restless Dreams as a different entry from Silent Hill 2 is also a choice.
Normally, we would not consider it a different game (Restless Dreams), but since it had a very different critical reception and had new content, it was allowed. As for Downpour, I would agree, but since that one is subjective, we let him make his case for the placement.
silent hill 2 is definitely the best one out of those.
for me personally, the whole ritual/cult stuff was always so weird to me in all the other games.
No disrespect but I put SH2 over 1. 1 is fantastic, but 2 took it all up a level.
GF365: "Silent Hill 2 is the sequel to 1999's Silent Hill, and it was released in 2001 by Konami. Here's why Silent Hill 2 is one of the best survival-horror games of all time."
i played a couple of months ago for the first time.
i agree that its a great survival game, but i think the minute u realise you can "kill" them, its takes alot of the initial fear out of it.
the same thing happened to me in Siren Blood Curse.
but its definitely one of the best games, when you start looking into the lore and the symbolism
Never played it. I had moved on from PlayStation since then. So looking forward to the remake. Hope it’s not too cheesy tho.
I've just brought the silent hill collection for the ps2 and absolutely loving it
Here are five worst video game remasters that ruined its original material or at the very least, contributed to tarnishing its good name.
Did people not like the Mafia 2 remake? I got so into it. Thought it was amazing. Never played the original.
Some of these are fitting but I can't help but feel like the author just has nostalgia for the original Mafia 2 here. Dmc Collection on PS4 is fiiiiine its just a collection of PS2 games and the PS3 performance was not amazing. The point is to just have the PS2 games for a new gen of people. Crysis Remastered is also totally fine and has been patched and updated to death since launch. The original version essentially ran on one CPU core and they couldn't fix it let alone get that running on console/switch so they had good reason to do what they did to boost interest in Crysis before the Crysis 4 announcement
Lots of way worse remasters out there lol GTA, THPS HD, that Mario 3D All Stars trash, etc
That's the issue, you haven't played the original.
The new one is slightly better looking but it's bugged af by comparison.
Would it really have killed Konami to just pay the guy?.
They are a multi-billion dollar corporation, a VA's salary would be less than pocket change to them.
That was a very moving letter and he didn't really need to do that, was very noble of him. With that said I actually still don't understand the whole issue because I truthfully don't know who to believe, Konami or Guy?
However I still want to go to Silent Hill. That is the main concern.
Bloody legend, this Guy Cihi.
I have never played the original games, and I am uncertain as to whether play the HD collection, or the PS2 versions due to this voice acting fiasco.
This guy is legitimately giving up any recognition or rights he has just so that the original voice cast can be heard in the game so that a newer generation of gamers can experience this horror classic.
I really hope Konami listen to him, and at least offer him ANY amount of money for his selfless act.
this is actually very sad. When he mentioned "Team Silent" in his open letter, I felt really sorry for the people that put time and effort in the development of Silent Hill. Silent Hill isn't the same anymore and I never liked how Konami is handling the franchise. I still refuse to believe that Western developers can save franchise. They don't understand Silent Hill the way Japanese developers do.
the voice that replaced him is actually quite good, however all other voices really suck.
So yeah i would still prefer original soundtrack