Silent Hill art director, Masahiro Ito, isn’t impressed with Konami’s release of Silent Hill HD Collection. Upon being shown the screenshot comparison below by a follower on Twitter, Ito replied: “Left side is HD, isn’t it? It’s poor…”
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
IGN has an exclusive interview with the original developers of Silent Hill 2 who have returned to work on the remake developed by Bloober Team.
Ito: “Personally, I'm very satisfied with the quality of the town and the atmosphere of the Silent Hill 2 they're making. I really get the feeling that they respect the original while still making sure to arrange things in their own way. In particular, we had strong demands about the motif of fog when first starting on this remake, and they were sure to depict it just as we wanted. I believe from the bottom of my heart that they’re making something incredible.”
Sure, sure, Ito-san (huh, what does he know!?). Now let the real experts of hardcore Silent Hill fans tell you what's wrong with the remake and why the original is still much better.
What fog is. What it represents. How it ties to the story. How it's part of the lore. Is it natural? A mere creation of the town? Perhaps it's the creator's way of passing comment on world events clouding the masses' judgement as it clouded James'? How the original used just the perfect amount of water droplets, the right temperature and the absolute humidity percentage to create such a marvel piece of visual effect. How the remake ruined The Fog, the atmosphere, and in the process destroyed the entirety of the game.
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Honestly, I'm only a modest SH fan and there are definitely some things that concern me trying to bring a game like this to the modern era - though none so esoteric as those posed by your strawman lol.
Oddly, the first thing I'm curious to see how they handle is the script and voice acting. It is one of those scenarios where the original was written in a time where you wouldn't necessarily have high-quality writers on staff. But, more so than that, during a time where options for quality translations were harder to come by. Not only having to survive the quality of the translator, but the skill of their own authorship & balancing the script for the game & its new audience.
And they didn't really have the same voice direction & such they do these days, so you could get some really odd voice performances. This game somehow worked with all the pieces it had, and I think something might feel off if they try to punch up the script. I can't imagine they try to recapture the same tone of voice acting, that would be a tall order. And one I'm not sure they should even try lol.
Creating an environment is one thing, and in this case is a very big piece of the puzzle. But it isn't the only piece. I'm still hopeful it'll turn out great, but it has some unique challenges it needs to overcome IMO.
PS5 exclusives huh? This confirms another exclusive for PS5.
Im looking forward to this. The original left a lasting impression to the point that I still remember the feeling.
I may be mistaken but I remember hearing this had some direct funding from Sony.
Calisto Protocol, Dead Space: Remake, Re4: Remake, and Silent Hill: Remake.
Horror games are back in a big way! I'm loving it.
It is a little weird how most of them are just new versions of old games, though. Hopefully this gives publishers the confidence to green light more proper new horror IPs.
Looking forward to this, but I'd also likd3 to play through the original SH2 again.
I agree with Masahiro Ito, seriously WTF???? The HD collection looks worse than the PS2 version, even though it has a higher res. They really balls'd this one up :(
I'll wait till it drops in price and the game is fixed
I literally can't find anything about the developer that ported this, 'Hijinx Studios'. They don't have a twitter, a customer care line or even a website. I have to berate them through Konami's people. I mean, who are they really getting to do the port job? It disappoints me greatly that it will go down as one of the sloppiest HD jobs in this generation.
The Silent Hill series is one of my absolute favourites and to have a classic title moved into the current generation of consoles, there is an expectation that the performance is better, the sound is better and the overall in-game is presentation better. Except, it's none of those things.
I think it looks better in HD. Seems like I'm alone in that.
It's sickening to see how companies nowadays prefer funding a strong marketing damage control lobby than a proper port of a classic game.Reviews with 9's and 10's on metacritic are obviously coming from PR representatives, not the slightest doubt about it.
The games are broken, a VERY sloppy job badly done, this is outrageous, period.
Konami should cope with it and give away as a compensation the original PS2 versions AT THE VERY LEAST-.
You should vote with your wallet buying other things, or they'll keep on poking in our nostalgia with a pointy, dirty stick.
Just from those screen shots, I can't really see why it would be worth it for me to pick up the HD collection. Does the rest of this game really look this bad? The only difference I see is there is no fog, and maybe the textures look a little bit crisper. I wasn't hoping for a miracle, but I really can't tell the difference between the two.
Does anyone who bought the collection say otherwise?