New Silent Hill 2 Remake Footage Looks GOOD... But...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- FINALLY... my optimism went up considerably! Still cautious though...
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1. Opening Thoughts: 0:00 - 1:44
2. Positives: 1:45 - 6:19
3. Cons: 6:20 - 8:13
4. Summarizing Thoughts on the Remake: 8:14 - 8:46
5. Thoughts on the Movie: 8:47 - 10:02
6. Closing Thoughts and Outro: 10:03 - 10:55
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Silent Hill fans have been eating slop for so long, they don’t know what good food tastes like anymore. Sad
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@@davooo7 The reply
This gruel tastes better than normal 😋
Yeah agree, this looks pretty good, if they don’t touch the story or endings in any way, ill be happy with anything else
Sad but true lmao
I'm just glad James doesn't sound like an absolute bro like the remaster
Dude, same. I like Troy Baker but that was BAD.
But in the remake he sounds like a surfer guy lmao
Now he sounds like leon Kennedy congratulations! "James" has sounded like everyone but James...
Yeah's almost got a Jason Bateman quality to him. Nerd dad with a quiet, impotent frustration, especially when he's talking to Laura.
@@maxderrat I actually found James' acting especially successfull. I mean, it is quite alright. He speaks exactly like the confused and helpless guy he was, tring to sound "nice" like in the original. Especially with his interaction with Laura.
I am still very cautious about the remake, but it looks like it may turn out like a 7 or 8/10 from here.
Edit: I now lost all hope about this game and probably won't be touching it anyway, but I still think James' performance is pretty good. If we ever get a proper remake of SH2, I'd like to see this actor performing again.
"I hope in the 18 years that have passed since the first movie..."
Oh dear god, no. I'm so old.
Gonna be 19...then 20...two decades, man.
Wait... no way. Yikes!
Would it been better if it ended 18 years ago?
@@Voice_of_p 🤓🤓🤓
@@victim21 Thought so
Two things I DO NOT like…
1. The flashlight being fixed to the camera rather than James’ body. Meaning looking round moves the flashlight even though James stands still.
2. The HUD and any on-screen display, especially the red border when injured. I really hope they add an option to turn that off.
I mean the flaslight thing it's an standard on 3rd person games, it supposed to help the player to see.
@@jonissues1914 I get that. But this is basic physics shit. Also, having the light limited to the characters model and not the camera would certainly help with the atmosphere, which Silent Hill needs
It doesn't look good. It looks terrible. Nobody needs woke trash. Boycotting the hell out of this D.E.I. crap.
@@kyleparsons145 I understand your point, realisticly it supposed parent to the james body. It is realistic but it would make the experience more disorientating because, slightest move create lighting movement. Sometimes its better to cheat
I agree completely on your second point though, the red line is too obvius and distracting
It looks like they're taking a lot of inspiration from The Last of Us series, with the player being able to break windows to gather items, how the melee combat works (like being able to instantly switch to melee and the general style of the animations, like how James lunges forward when the player attacks from a slight distance), the similar dodge mechanic and the flashlight thing you mentioned. All of those elements are also present in those games.
Everyone is so focused on Angela that no one is noticing that they changed Maria’s outfit.
Well... I really don't mind that tbh
It looks terrible. Nobody needs woke trash. Boycotting the hell out of this D.E.I. crap.
Or the nurses
Maria looks cute, I like her new model
They zapped all her personality out, she looks like my mom now
To add to the combat section of the positives at around 2:59 in the video, you can see that the nurse grabs the pipe that James is holding probably meaning that with some enemies you can't just mash attack to win, which I think is a good way to make combat just a bit more interesting.
I noticed that too, when I saw saw that I was like “Oh sh*t” it’ll stop players from spamming melee attacks
Amazing addition!
The thumbnail gives the impression that "fartface" wasn't the best part of the trailer
It's rage bait, a lot of ppl do that on their titles or thumbnails to attract ppl lol
Seriously...not quite sure about that choice. Feels very clickbaity when Laura was clearly the best par of what they showed.
@@idkdc2615 yeah yeah I know lol, I was mostly poking fun at the fact that "fartface" literally got the most pozitive reaction from Max (and myself included) during the live reaction stream
@@aleksp8768 Laura definitely took the crown
I watched that part and saw max cheering about it and i was just like (really...thats all it takes)🤣
The gameplay trailer is miles better than all the trailers they put out. However, Angela looks like she's an npc in Starfield.
they uglified her so much lol
@@deexempt since her father abused her
@@shahadalwttar1386 bro what? Her face model is emotionless like clay wtf you mean? I know her father abused her but this is not related to it
@deexempt she looks like an abused victim, what else do you need? She is legit younger than James by a decade, yet the original, she look like she was same age as him. If the problem is how the face is animating, thats the problem of the game as a whole.
She looks like she’s out of heavy fucking rain.
I still haven’t forgiven Konami for what they did to PT, and I don’t think I ever will. I just don’t trust them with the franchise anymore.
Is funny how everyone just forgot and forgave konami when they announced the revival of the franchise when they are the ones who killed it in the first place
Bro. Im so glad someone else said it. Angela looks low res like a PS3 character. And she is the only one that looks like that and it looks weird next to James.
Other than that, im glad she doesnt look like a 47 year old DMV worker.
looks like a character from LA Noire lol
Most comments make angela is suppose to be sexy instead of average which is how I always saw her but the style of the older game was going for a very somber tone. Even Maria seemed like a “older” woman maybe due to smoking and lifestyle. I feel like they can make her seem more natural than just slapped together. Well it is a studio with little experience outside there few own works. I’m not gonna attack anything yet til it’s out and I have seen it thru
Nah, she looks like a random npc who is not meant to be shown in any zoomed in footage.
Main characters on ps3 looked much better.
They made her look like a man that's what's off about her
The model is not the problem, the lighting is.
The actor for James's is gonna kill it. From the previews already, this guy is a damn good actor.
Have you seen the TV series 'From'?
I don’t mind James’ animations, he’s supposed to be pathetic…
My only problem with him is that he looks older
Looks like he’s in his late 40s 😂
In comparison to the first SH trailer, he looks much better for someone who has 29 years
I looked up why he looks so old, they purposefully did so because the fans have aged but imo it defeats the purpose of a remake, it’s not a new character. He definitely looks better than the older photos I saw.
@@TheCherrypoppinguilt and trauma ages you. Him looking substantially older suits him
@@zxtwist + hes an alcoholic and depressed individual
The mocap for the facial animations is ASTOUDING, at least for James. When Laura talks about the "thing" she has to get in the Hospital, and James kinda rolls his eyes, does a "tsk" and says "What is it?", and the emotions on his face are so genuine I can almost hear him thinking "Oh my God this brat, ok fine..."
About the combat animations, they probably look stiff because they're not mocap, they're handmade animations. At least thats the impression I've had.
I was thinking the same. In my opinion, Heavenly Sword has hands down the best facial animations of any game ever, and this is the first game I've seen since that I feel like could be a contender.
YESSSS I LOVED HIS REACTION! It was a great touch!
I loved his reaction too. Still gushing over how detailed the facial animations are
Another cool detail I happened to notice is that the dead bodies lying around seem to have the same model as James, just as in the original
the movie James' hair is the worst part
looks like a really bad cosplay of Sam winchester
Last of us tv show
@@internettraveler8666 Last of us tv show also looks like cheap cosplay to me, but people seem to like it, may be the movie will also turn out great. Who knows.
A bit unrelated but one thing that's been in the back of my brain is the name "Silent Hill f". The font of "f" and how it is in a different color, kind of triggers memories of piano lessons during my childhood. It reminds me of the music dynamic indication symbol in music for forte, meaning "loud or strong". The font for "forte" is similar to the font style of the "f" in Silent Hill f.
It looks terrible. Nobody needs cheap woke trash. Boycotting the hell out of this D.E.I. crap.
Yeah, I'm 90% sure that's intentional. Hard to say for sure since there's like no info on the game outside of the trailer and a few tidbits here and there, but I think that's what they're going for.
Yes, I actually thought it was pronounced Silent Hill Forte. Definitely intentional.
I love absolutely everything, except Angela’s model. I hope they fix it because it looks less realistic than the other models in the game
Her voice acting looks a little off too, but f*ck it im pre ordering that
@@davooo7 I agree. But still gonna play it on first day 💪🏻
According to Reddit, they're not gonna fix that face. They're okay with that though. Guess it's modding time.
Despite that, it's just one image that looks bad.
It seriously baffles me how her original model from almost 20 years ago, looks more believable and more polished than the one in the remake, despite its superior tech
@@seanibarra-loredo7290 Idk man. If you look beyond the extermist crying about "guys juust want super models!!" I've seen enough mention they find her face a bit odd, and want it touched up.
I have to add when I was watching the transmission and I saw James get down on the street to crawl into the house, I went "Oh, there is NO WAY I'd do that." And it struck me that this rang as a real SH2 reaction. James just jumps in there head first, and it feels like something he'd do in the OG.
Toilet hand and not cleaning
It's very in character for him. Ever since I saw a video talking about the original in depth and how james doesn't really care if he lives or dies. It makes so much sense why he blindly jumps into dangerous holes and stuff. He ... doesn't care. He's at war in his own mind between fighting to live against monsters. But also not really caring if he does. Poor guy.
idk I just find it funny how we're getting two simultaneous adaptations of the same story at once because they know that's generally what fans like more in the series.The game definitely could benefit from a remake if it's done properly. But why make a movie that's going to be a direct adaptation from the same source material when you know comparisons will be made? Or is that the reason they're doing that? who knows at this point.
Some people like movies. Some like games. Different mediums
Christoff Gans originally wanted to do sh2 but was given the first game instead
@@internettraveler8666 Well that's a good thing hopefully he had enough practice to nail the second movie
To be fair, the movie will be different from the games. It helps that these are two different mediums, but also that the movie continues from previous ones, and plus, must adapt one of the endings of the game.
I'm still pissed that this hack director gender swapped the protagonist for the first film because a dude being scared is "too feminine" and just threw pyramid head in a movie without James for no reason.
I get that its an adaptation but that first movie butchered the first game's story to the point where I wonder why it was even a Silent Hill movie in the first place. So needless to say I don't have high hopes for this film. I'm sure the cinematography will be decent but just the fact that James drives a d bag modern muscle car already rubs me the wrong way. All these little dumb detail changes add up. Maybe not to a new audience member unfamiliar with Silent Hill but its not like a sequel to a 18 year old film will be attracting anyone new but Silent Hill game fans.
3:13 with all the respect, Max, this is the second time you mention this about Akira (you did in the Livestream yesterday too) and I think you giving too much importance to this: Gans was talking about how he personally loves the first four games and, IN THAT CONTEXT, Akira was the composer of the already mentioned and praised games. I didn't interpret it as he was not aware of Akira as the composer of latter games. It's just context
Ahhhh. Okay fair enough. My bad.
I think people are justified in their reservations towards anything old being made "new." A lot of games are legit afraid to be edgy. They're "safe edgy" or "safe sexy" but if it goes beyond that then people get super offended for others. Old Silent Hill never played it safe or went to safe edgy. They went for where people were afraid to go to in their own minds. A "modern re-imagining" or "updated for modern audiences" is like telling me basically my soda will be flat by the time I get it. BUT ITS STILL SODA. BETTER THAN NOTHING. RIGHT!?
This game had spiritual symbolism and "other" symbolism that still to this day is so deep.
I hate flat soda.
EXACTLY what I thought! Better than nothing! I can still drink regular Coke if i dont like Coke zero even though its done its best to fit the original!
I want it to attempt to offend me to the extreme
What games are you playing?
Is Cyberpunk and Baldurs Gate 3 “safe”
What about all the indie games that tackle heavy subject matter
As much as I don't mind the costume change for Maria, how come a lot of people keep saying its better because the original is out of date?
Doesn't Silent Hill 2 take place in the mid 90s/early 2000s, why would it be out of date for a time period when it was in style?
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I really like that James can crawl now as a way of navigating through space as it implies a connection between him and the frantic movement of a beaten lying figure. These are the types of thematic and technical updates I was hoping to get with the game.
I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE YHAT THATS SO SICK
They made the Nurses boobs smaller
Not understanding why the nurses had big Boobs
They were big because they were a description of James's physique.
All the characters look different.
They even fricked with Maria's outfit, she was wearing a sexy outfit because that's James's ideal woman.
Wow,
Maybe if you worry less about pointless bullshit like that you’d have some actual pauses with you
@@Indigo_1001The point of the game is pointless bullshit?
@@Indigo_1001 Dude. James being a Pervy Loser is a part of the story. This is hardly a hidden detail.
@@Indigo_1001 EVEN IN GAME THEY ARE NOT REAL (but things made by the city itself to torment James).
Dude go psyop somewhere else.
Masahiro Ito confirmed they didn't make the nurses boobs smaller, the comparison you saw wasn't with sh2 nurses.
Maria was never james' ideal women, from the 2 remarks you made you've actually never played silent hill 2 and you're just finding stuff to hate for whatever reason.
The scene w/ Laura perfectly captures the uncanny creepiness of the original direction. The way she moves, her expressions and how the camera lingers on her. Angela's scene however feels like it's from a completely different game.
It’s lost the Twin Peaks vibe
yeah, but to be fair even David Lynch lost it after making the first two seasons, at least the romantic warm aspect of it that I think you mean. It might be something that is just difficult to recreate when such somewhat isolated (more sincere?) small towns don't really exist anymore. I think they were swallowed up by the connectedness that comes with the internet some time ago.
I'm hoping they'll add enough that it makes up for what they inevitably lose, though. I'm hopeful. It seems they perhaps could manage that.
How James stands when he first see the lying figure is very real to modern world. He has never seen combat, so he can make mistakes. Im pretty sure he saw some movies with combat, and that's what he just remebered. That stand may not be the best for him, but it does show that James has no idea how to fight, properly.
My biggest issue is that Bloober took "modernizing" the game as "remove the camera quality during gameplay."
SH1 had a third person camera, too. SH 2 had a third person centered-high camera. A third person camera doesn't 'modernize' a game. Good use of the camera to emphasize things the way the old games did was post-modern. A slight change to emphasize a door while it is safe won't hurt the player or be a detriment. James still goes forward while holding forward and backward while holding back it wouldn't matter if the camera moved to create suspense as long as it returned when needed.
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This is the most coherent opinion I found about the game.
It looks great overall and after so many many years of crappy Silent Hill games or just nothing, we are going back to explore Silent Hill with an amazing ambientation and atmosphere.
People are losing their shit into details. Angela doesn't look great in some shots (I think she looks fine in others), but she looks now more like a teenager, her personality feels better than before and she looks more afraid of his father than before.
This is not going to be a game that everybody will love and that is totally fine.
Well said, among many other points raised by me and others in the comments I would add that maybe (reasonably in the favor of these people) the trailer reveal didn't do the game any favors. And allot of people really stuggle to change their minds on things. It's a human flaw. Some people find joy in admitting they changed their mind. But allot of people once they made their mind up. They will claw and reach for anything to validate that ad ifinitum.
So thats why first impressions are always so vital. Most people don't have it in them to change after the fact. It's to complicated and uncertain. Better to just find new bullshit reasons to keep the old opinion intact.
However as you said it looks much better now. It's getting to the point I'm interested in this game like with Alan Wake 2 and Resident Evil 4.
Grummz and his cult will hate it
You described Angela’s appearance better than anyone else in here. It’s not they she looks bad: I can see why they made her more round. But it’s the fact that she looks low resolution especially compared to Laura
It looks terrible. Nobody needs cheap woke trash. Boycotting the hell out of this D.E.I. crap.
It's like the artist had a picture in their mind but couldn't figure out how to get it to the model.
Imo that’s only true for that outdoor cemetery scene. The dark scenes looked much better
@@Luis-rp2lmI agree, I think it's mostly a lighting thing. Lighting is the vast majority of presentation. It doesn't matter how perfect or high poly/res your models/textures are, it's going to look bad if it's not lit properly.
Honestly I think she looks fine even in the cemetery; it's moreso the stills that look off. At worst she seems maybe a little unpolished, and I think that's likely to be touched up between now and release. The game isn't finished yet.
@@Luis-rp2lm yessss even tho we got a glimpse (nano second) of her holding the knife, that model looked good. It’s very strange people think they are trying to push this lgbt agenda. I think the developers just rushed the Angela cemetery scene that’s why it looks bad.
Tbh, i prefer the uncanny feverdream voiceacting from the original silent hill 2
I get that it has that old time charm, but it was never going to return unfortunately. It wouldn’t work today. Some things only work in the exact eras where they first happened.
@@vgman94 Yep, in addition I think it being created by Japanese developers gave a lot of that "uncanniness" that western cultures probably just can't easily recreate, and perhaps even the original creators couldn't by now.
Some of it probably has to do with the evolution of technology for sure. There was much more hand animation then in combination with motion capture, and building of custom game assets and engines that with the complexity of newer games might be too big of a task. It's similar to how the animation in The Simpsons changed. Scenes became easier to animate, but much of the charm and exaggerations of the hand-drawn animation were lost.
That's probably one of the main reasons so many games seem so similar today. One can't reasonably expect someone to be able to build a game engine from the ground up that would have all the now standard features of Unity and Unreal Engine and also be idiosyncratic and unique to one game series, having also unique options to hand-animate something.
@udopadrik9971 i wish i could find silent hill 3 for an affordable price but unfortunately everytime i see it somewhere the price is almost 300 dollars. I wish i got these back in the early 2000s when i was a kid
@@deandomino6732 I feel your pain. They have risen in price, but 300 dollars seems way high. At least in the PAL region the game can still be gotten for under €70 it seems, unless you are hoping for a NIB (New in packaging) version. If indeed the game in other regions is as expensive as you say it might be a cheaper option to buy a different region PS2 or Xbox and then SH3 for that. :)
I once sold all of my games, but luckily had the sense to rebuy all of the PS2 Silent Hill games a few years back for like €30-€50 a piece myself. They have gotten more expensive in PAL region as well, but luckily not $300 expensive.
@@deandomino6732I got the OGs when they were fairly new.. I remember they were fairly inexpensive lol My original SH 2 was stolen but I just replaced it quickly
6:42 Silent Hill fans know that James has no idea how to hold something for combat, hence why James is holding the board like he is. I would expect this from someone who has never played Silent Hill 2 but not someone who is a big fan.
There's a way to make it look stiff and unnatural with good animation, but my point is that it looks stiff and unnatural with bad animation. I'm quite aware that James isn't training to be in the UFC.
What I don't understand about this is that he will hold the board like that because he doesn't have experience but then will run around with the pistol like hes leon... its a nitpick but it bothers me
It might look stiff because it looks like there's no power to it. Inexperienced or not, if you're trying to smash a skull open, there's gonna be oomph with every hit.
the finishing blows look like he's laying the board on them rather than smashing them with it.
Angela is easily the only glaring issue in my opinion. She doesn't sound like a dope head anymore which is concerning. She always had this voice that sounded too sleepy to be sober and also she doesn't come off as completely hopeless and surrendered to her fate. And yeah, I agree, the graphics for her for some reason seem so obnoxiously flat. And some of the writing for her new lines is sorta obtuse in terms of her being aware of her surroundings.
I love that out of context like being not a dope head is a bad thing.
I felt the say way about the lighting...the hospital seemed to bright and im not a fan of the lights in the hospital. You changed the brightness settings in the clip with the nurse and it looked perfect! One of the things that makes the original hospital iconic for me, is hearing the static of the radio and hearing the footsteps of the nurse but not being able to see then until they were in range of your flash light and then that iconic battle theme hits and the nurses make those crazy sounds, man that shit is just special to me!😁
At 7:34 idk if you picked that clip on purpose but it perfectly captures the problem you're addressing, in which you can see her turtleneck re-texturing randomly, she does seem lower res for some reason
I’d pay to see a game where we help Eddie become an MMA fighter, his final boss will be a courtroom after he murders someone
Ohhh no.
While I do have my problems with it I still think this looks good so far and I love the little details added like with James updating his map by actually marking it, it's such a nice detail.
Eddy è stato sostituito da un personaggio misterioso ho sentito Sara vero?
Silent Hill fans can never be happy, just like the characters lol.
No. Do not accept trash. Lol. 😐.
Yes silent hill fans just WANT to hate silent hill...these poor companies slave away at the studio for our benefit its charity really...and us toxic fans just refuse to accept their love.
@@BrianOblivionByeah but there's a difference between not accepting crap and simply being nostalgia blinded. I read hate comments on gameplay and voice actors despite being way better in the remake. Other comments about Kojima being the only one that can resurrect Silent Hill, which is ridiculous.
@@Rafesco The Kojima take is the one that really makes me laugh and makes it clear that they have no braincells of their own. We all know Bloober is horrible with subtlety, but these people think Hideo Kojima of all people would be better? Hilarious.
@@ATC43*Hold's R1 to look at titties.* "Why isn't Angela hot!?!?"😮😢😡
SH2R looks like if Last Of Us and REr2 had a baby
TBH most games somehow drank from the TLOU well these last few years. Even in Re4 Remake you can tell there is things here and there that came from TLOU (just like horror games have been feeding from PT, Outlast and Amnesia)
@@anavitoriafarion2621
Uh no?
Games like this has existed far before TLoU, like Dead Space.
What exactly did RE4 take from TLoU? Being able to crouch? Did TLoU invented that?
There is barley a stealth component in RE4 while TLoU IS a stealth game
@@Indigo_1001I agree
@@anavitoriafarion2621Actually I think Dead Space or Resident Evil 4 original did it first.
My largest concern is honestly Angelas new character model and voice, I dont think either fit the character.
I dunno I think the mundane, confused, and depressing voice acting is better in the original, I thought James, Laura, And Mary/Maria was fine but I DID NOT LIKE the trailer with Angela.
I’m not the biggest on the new James voice, but i am biased for guy.
I agree with most of this video except the part where james holds the plank, I think it looks akwardly perfect for james' character
hate the changed Maria's outfit, OG is so iconic
And it was a key part of her character. The change screams of the studio disregarding key details
@@josedorsaith5261 New outfit is based on Julianne Hough dec 2018, she was very popular in Dancing with the stars.
I mean its an outfit if the character looks the same idc
@@tristenatorplaysgames6833 It's not just an outfit though it's almost as if people aren't understanding the original at all.
Woke stuff nerfed her
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Disturbing
the origional angela's features were more sharp, it went along with her sometimes more piercing sharp approach to james, this look makes her look too soft and more approachable although it does make her loook like a victim, it's the wrong type of victim that seems like she can be comforted as opposed to damged beyopnd repair to a point that she becomes unlikable as a personality due to her lashing out and suspicion of everyone.
She looks more harmless and innocent which I think will be a different perspective to her story. Like, how can someone harm someone so soft and innocent looking
@looselygaming6130 Indeed. The original Angela looks just like the actress Jordana Brewster. . .
18 years? That’s crazy to think about. I hope in that span of time, the director has had the chance to actually play a Silent Hill game to its completion. The first movie was a terrible adaptation and gave the impression that the director stopped playing the game after Harry woke up in the cafe.
Yeah that's the biggest problem with the first one. On it's own it's a good horror movie but a horrible Silent Hill adaptation. I feel like a lot who enjoyed it never played the game.
@@yamiq2996 Exactly. And I’ve read and heard their defense that gamers are never satisfied and just want to complain about everything.
No, we just want to maintain the integrity of the story and characters and the vision of the creators. It was the creators’ work, imagination, blood, sweat and tears that got us to be fans in the first place.
If viewers who hadn’t played the game truly liked the movie, they would like it even more if the movie kept elements from the game intact.
Keep Harry as the main protagonist for starters. The loss of his wife makes his predicament in Silent Hill more desperate and agonizing since Heather was the only family he had left. Not only that, but Heather was the last connection to his late wife.
That’s way better than an irresponsible mom who runs away from a cop and her husband so she can take her daughter to Silent Hill.
But what about female roles, some may say. Cybil and Lisa were significant characters in the story. And since Heather had to grow up partially without a mother, Cybil or Lisa had potential to be strong mother figures. But of course, that wasn’t as impactful in the movie because of obvious reasons.
So, yes, again I have to state that even the fans of the butchered movie would’ve enjoyed a more faithful adaptation of had that been allowed.
It was a bad adaptation of the game, it has barely anything in common. Though I still quite like the movie, I think Gans understands the atmosphere very well. If someone could rein him in and make sure the story stays the same, it could be one the best game adaptations ever.
@@VenomCarson02496 Agreed. He has the atmosphere down. He needs a consultant who actually finished and understands the game.
@@brootal4234 I think that he has played all the games all the way through, he just didn't pay attention to the themes or story, he just paid attention to the atmosphere and vibe
Its hilarious how they covered maria's exposed midriff as "too sexy" and meanwhile you go to the mall and every teen girl is wearing a top showing off her midriff. Pretty popular style right now. Is exposed belly button too sexy now? Are we back in the 1950s? The whole point of her character is she is supposed to exaggerated and sexual in a way that makes James uncomfortable. We have a story with a character like abstract daddy in it but we cant have an exposed belly button. I mean good lord. Its clown world.
Are you gonna fap to that? 'Cause I'm gonna be playing the game, not stare at Maria's clothes for hours on end. I mean, come on now. That should be the *least* of your concerns when nit-picking the game.
Playing the OG right now while watching and i was hoping that resource scarcity is a big thing. Anytime i play horror games and my resources are low, i feel encouraged to retread areas with greater attention to detail in order to find everything. In a Silent Hill game, you almost always find small world, lore, or story details by accident while looking for said resources. This has me very excited
I think it's weird they haven't shown Eddie in a single piece of promotional material
Honestly, I think the issue with Angela is her proportions. Her head seems too wide for her body, which is quite narrow, so her face comes off as looking like a rubber mask more than anything. I actually think the best thing they could do is not just narrow her head more, but also make her sweater puffier, it's WAY too form fitting and makes her look too thin for her head. I also think it would go a long way to making Angela feel more like her previous counterpart, a woman who has a LONG history of abuse like Angela and who has dealt with her trauma in the way Angela has wouldn't wear a sweater so formfitting. Angela is the type of traumatized person who doesn't want anyone to touch her and so, personally, I'd have her wearing a big, chunky sweater that almost feels like she's hiding in it, something that obscures her body underneath and make her feel safe. Having a sweater be so close to her body is just doing her no favours on a number of levels.
I agree, and I liked how in the original, their bodies looked, that sounds so weird but in the original, their shoulders were broader. Their models look like teenagers, especially maria’s, their bodies look like it came from roblox.
Wait I just realized Ive been commenting this and I didnt point it out, her shoulders look so raised.
Bloober Team definitely have a difficult time with faces.
Nope, that was on purpose. It's another woketard company trying to push androgynous and ugly characters...as usual.
It literally looks like Resident Evil 2 Remake. They saw RE2 Remake and just decided to make that game but with Silent Hill aesthetics draped over.
I gotta say, seeing what they did to Angela really makes me feel that they didn’t understand the idea of her original design. She looked and sounded mature, but the way she suddenly switches with her tone, posture, gestures and facial expressions makes you doubt her age, where as the new Angela looks like a 15-16 year old….
As to the radio thing, sure it would make sense to find a radio in a house, but in the original we found it at some hobo-hut or some construction site, can’t remember specifically where it was, which also makes sense to me, because, well, if it was construction, then they’d have some music when they work, if it was a hobo-hut, then they’d have something to try and keep their spirits up, and a luxury….
It was under a bridge that had been blocked off with some garbage laying around. It very well could have been a hobo hut, seeing how the monster was eating a dead body before James walked up.
Bait
Looks like a slowburn, atmospheric survival horror experience much like the original sh2. Cautiously optimistic about this remake
I’ve missed that in aaa horror. Dead space you’re an extreme action killer, in re4 you’re an extreme action killer, in Callisto protocol you’re an extreme action killer etc.
@@Luis-rp2lm agreed. I think Alan wake 2 did survival horror pretty well, better than some other recent games
Al I need is to sell a kidney to afford it
What I loved:
The town & environment
Music
Maria looks so cute in this game you gotta love her
Combat is fine, people who complain about it must have never actually played these games. RE & SH were created alongside, every survival horror game had the same combat back in the day.
What needs improvement:
Character models like James & Angela (not because she looks woke, get those weirdos away, but because of texture & lightning)
Monsters need to loose more blood not dust. At least it looks like it.
There wasn’t anything I hated. I look forward to both SH2 Remake & movie.
James is holding the large stick like a baseball bat, which a lot of people with 0 fighting experience do, so it KINDA makes sense? I dunno man, I feel like I'm just making excuses for something weird lol
He took it back.
why does no one talk about how bad that monster knocked over the boxes, if you watch it again, they movie before it even touches it.
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still think you really glossed over the reason why people are mad at the Angela change. She went from being an exhausted, disoriented and haggered woman who looked like she could stab you the moment you turned your back or moved too suddenly, to someone who seems...relatively fine and comfortable . She lost a LOT of what gave her presence and mystique in the original and they could have done a little more to preserve that. Even some more shadowing of her eyes would've made a big difference.
She looks like they hit generate on Makehuman and called it a day.
You people are reaching so hard to find reasons to hate on this, good god
I remember back when the first movie was in production the guy was crazy excited to be in charge bc he's a huge fan of the series. then why he ended up not coming back for revelations was bc most of the problems with the first were studio interferences and he was mad and didn't wanna deal with that again. but i can't find any of the articles i remember reading now since that was so long ago ugh.
assuming im remembering correctly, these lil sneaks and snippets we're being given looks like he may finally be given his way and the studio may be backing off this time. im tentatively optimistic. i always wanna trust fans to do a franchise justice when they get behind the wheel and the past several years have had really good adaptations with the help of having fans behind the scenes making this stuff. 😭
I liked how they updated that Jacob's Ladder style face twitching on the nurses as well.
Now that’s a great change.
Being a fan of Silent Hill is like being a fan of Star Wars: we always return to the franchise, and each return feels like a punch in the gut. There's always a mix of disaster and disappointment, and even if there's a possibility of finding some new quality material, it will always remain in the shadow of the original trilogy.
The SH2 Remake feels just like that to me-merely a shadow. In fact, I'll go further and say that it feels more like a homunculus.
Its perfectly fine to be cautious, I have to remind myself to be such as well, but something that has cemented for me that they Are going to do this game justice is a little detail on the Nurses: They have the red squares over their mouths.
Such a small detail could have been easily overlooked or deemed unnecessary, plenty of remakes are guilty of not adding small but important details, but Bloober seems to know that this is important, and if they know that, I have faith that nothing's been left out.
The only thing that I'm not a huge fan of is that the nurses shriek when they see you, which I don't think should happen, but it's a minor gripe.
Masahiro Ito who worked on the original monsters came back to make the monsters in this game
Regardless, it's good to see those little details aren't being forgotten.
Stuff I didn’t like in the gameplay:
1-real time interactions from james, like suddenly taking out his notebook and writing stuff down. He isn’t a detective, what is this?
2-Healing items showing up on HUD. I’d wish it was like in the RE:remake. Just drink it from the inventory menu. Because minor details like this push the game into survival aspect of the genre more instead of psychological.
3-Angela: dialogues are exactly the same. Also her delivery of her lines is much worse than the original. James is not holding up to it either but angela is so bad.
4-animations: walking animation is good but there is something wrong with running. Also that garden door needs to be heavier it feels like paper when he pushes it. Also I wish they added animations like in the outlast instead of just pushing the doors with your body. Like press x to open the door in normal speed, hold x to open slowly. Press x while running to open the door fast. That woulda been so good.
5- make another ost with modern drone sounds like in the resident evil and leave it up to us to pick in between.
Well these are all that come to my mind. Other than these I’m absolutely fine with the remake.
“We have Leon Kennedy at home”
Leon Kennedy at home:
there will be no Sillent hill 2 again, the original PS2 release is the best one because it is the one that the Team sillent members wanted to create. All other are copy cats, best efforts to imitate but are not the same, from acting to graphics , everything was delivered with intent, and changing that is not how it was meant to be. that said, I am on board with a remake but prefer to avoid any further comparison
Thank you for the shout-out, Max! I completely agree on everything you said about what feels unnatural about Angela's looks and animation. I do wonder if it's intentional as a way to make us feel uneasy, if that's the case, then it kinda backfires. I do hope they can tweak that and the melee ground finishers as well as some other animations, like the way James interacts with doors. Also, let's expect the game will have some gamma/brightness levels to play with, since by doing some experimentation on the gameplay trailer footage during the hospital section and some HDR playback magic on an OLED screen, I can say that black levels are raised and blown out like hell, which could be fixed by October or remedied with some good in-game settings, or even some Reshade.
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And, to elaborate on the fact why some people would undersandably disagree about the change with the radio section in the other video (and it is valid to be against change just for the sake of change), I still stand by it. I can understand the argument of like how surreal and dream-like the original introduction to the "lying figure" was; how it's supposed to "not make sense" for the player and not have James shit the bed right there because of this underlying symbolism and dismisal of its consciousness for wanting to find answers in dead-end places, sticking your hand through a hole, not caring about your survival, etc... still doesn't make the finding the radio any less "videogamey". Sure, the game is designed to make you feel uncomfortable, but it's still a videogame, so many of the decisions they made when designing the original game came down to getting you to buy what they are trying to communicate, and that entails having to make decisions that just serve the "gameplay" aspect of it and don't have any real deep meaning behind whatsover, and which have the possibility of taking you out of the immersion in some cases, like putting a radio in a cutscene in a random closed-off tunel with a visible monster to signify that monsters make the radio go off (SH1 set up still is the best in this regard), or that the dead bodies you see everywhere have James' model because developers just found it easier to do that, so they used it again for Harry's dead body in SH3 with slight modifications, or that James encounters abstract daddy monsters in Lakeview hotel because "it's a videogame lulz" according to Masahiro Ito on Twitter.
So, yeah. This section in the trailer is videogamey as well, but at least makes more sense in a game where you as a player are encouraged to make sense of the world. That's my two cents. Rant over lol
I dont know why Konami didn't reach out to the original writer and director for consultation, would be very interesting to see them all working with Bloober, feel like that was another ball dropped by Konami.
The animations 😭
the characters look like muppets.
Honestly, the new gameplay has reignited my excitement for the remake. I enjoyed what I saw and didn't have any issues with the combat animations as you did. However, I do feel that James' interactions with the environment, like placing his hand on gates or walls as he passes, are missing. These subtle details enhance his presence in the world, but I understand that implementing such animations can be challenging for a small team. It's a minor gripe and certainly not something that would ruin my experience with the remake.
That said, I do have two concerns that could impact the game experience. Firstly, as you mentioned, the combat becoming too dynamic, reducing the fear factor. The dodging mechanic already worried me when the remake was first revealed, and now, seeing the quick action heal feature in the new gameplay adds to my concern. The original game's combat was terrifying not just because it was clunky but also because the healing process made the player vulnerable. The anxiety of healing while an enemy was nearby with the menu open added to the tension, and I fear this might be lost with the new mechanics.
My second concern is about the new UI. Specifically the addition of a bullet counter and location announcement. The bullet counter removes the tension of unexpectedly running out of ammo, which can reduce the game's fear factor. Similarly, announcing locations undermines the sense of disorientation and being lost, which is crucial for the atmosphere. The city’s unpredictable layout and the need to frequently consult the map contributed to the horror and vulnerability. Providing location names can diminish that feeling and remove the uncertainty about whether you're in the right place, which detracts from the experience. I hope there will be at least an option to disable the UI.
Also, I’m not a fan of the red vignette health indicator. It feels too contrasting and unnecessary since James' posture already serves as an excellent health indicator. But this is just a personal aesthetic preference.
Overall, I was pretty happy with the new gameplay. At least now I know that the remake is not going to be horrible as the last trailer made it seem like it would be. It probably won't be perfect (it's impossible to be perfect for everyone after all), but it will definitely be a great game!
I've never had a twitter, and I'm not getting one now. Any way to view the thread without an account?
fog is weird it need more fog and need more dark
Haven't been feeling it since the very start. The alchemy between the "extreme" and the "subtle" that eastern developers had in their vision is gone, impossible to imitate or replicate.
Would be laughable to even think of re-capturing that same (literal) work of alchemy.
I think it simply has to do with something rooted in culture and times. (No, I don't fetishize Japanese devs. It's just the way it is in this case.)
The vision, sensitivity and artistic intuition of the original team in that particular moment of their lives are aspects that can't be artificially replicated for any sum of money in this world.
What can I say: it looks modern in every possible way. Modern, with all its negative and positive connotations. A modern game for modern audiences, in looks, presentation and feel. Characters look, react and feel like modern TV standards.
I hope that people enjoy it, but I can say it's definitely not for me. Never expected nor ever even wanted a remake to be fair.
Sometimes it's just right to let things go.
I have sympathy for this argument. That's one of my primary concerns that is going to last all the way up until I play the game. I do believe that modern elements can be used to create a new and worthwhile experience, but there is something to be said about all the unique factors that played into the success of the original games and gave them their identity (the visuals, the concepts, the limits of the hardware/software at the time).
I agree with this 1000%. This is exactly how I feel about the remake. Silent Hill should have been left alone a long time ago.
That is pretty much how I feel too, but you managed to put it into words in a way that I just couldn't. It made me happy to see someone else sharing the same opinions as me, since almost everybody else seems excited about this remake, and those who are not often cite reasons that seem strange to me. I especially agree with "Characters look, react and feel like modern TV standards" which is what I hated the most about this trailer. I honestly feel like every single character is being ruined by the acting.
@@maxderrat I'm sure it can be a worthwhile experience if you give it the opportunity.
Maybe SH is not the right thing to modernize, that's all.
The problem I have is that this whole series is one of the most cannibalized, misunderstood and trampled-over intellectual properties I've ever witnessed in 40 years.
It bears such a great power that everyone wants to fight for its appropriation or the validity of their interpretation.
Nobody does that for Resident Evil.
Imagine if somebody from Hollywood in 2030 decided to film a remake of Eraserhead. Promising they're going to "stay true to the original" but bring it "to modern audiences".
Camera angles, shots, dialogues, music choices, colors, compositions, choice of actors.
Choice of haircuts, costumes.
That's why at some point you went "Mmmmhh... Ewww" when the original tracks were playing as the new James explored the environment (It was probably just an edit for the sake of the trailer, I assume, but still...).
That felt wrong. Everything feels wrong: the way monsters are shown, the way Red Pyramid is shown in the very first announcement trailer.
It's the galvanized corpse of somebody we knew now being puppetteered with some of their most memorable quotes recorded and played by somebody else, in a slight, clumsy effort to replicate their voice. Somebody that desperately wants to be our friend. Its puppeteer gaslighting us, tricking us that they are *one and the same*.
... It's funny that it always has to be SH2.
Nobody wants to tread on that mine field that is SH1 and the cult. Nobody likes the cult.
The fire, the soul split in two. It's too complicated for the western developer to understand even though it is SO rich in western esoteric symbolism... Despite being under our nose, we never understand it, and we need the Japanese to reinterpret, re-package and sell it to us before we shout "oh wow! it's a masterpiece"!
Miyazaki-Souls situation right here.
Nobody will remake SH3 without a remake of SH1. Nobody cares about that poor weird guy Henry Townshend.
All the sequels beyond 4 are an outright (distorted, misinterpreted) copy of SH2.
This speaks volumes about the power of this game. The story is a simple trope of amnesia. Literally the most overutilized thing in media.
But it's how it's presented that strikes us so deeply.
Enough rambling...
Wait. I have a message from SH2:
"It is happening again"
"When you see me again, it won't be me".
I maybe the only one, but I want a SH: Downpour remake. That game is fantastic in the exploration of the town, setting, eerie atmosphere, and creepy lore. Just up the graphics. Make better mosnters. Maybe turn the "chasing" sigments into first person view. And "finish" that mining cart boss. I think it can be one of the best SH game.
Having an actual combat system (including dodging) but making it a bit janky is the best way to translate the awful controls of the original into modern gaming. As such, I think it succeeds in getting the right balance between rewarding some skill but still letting you feel relatively vulnerable. A smooth melee combat system means that it would be easy to get good at it and thus make you feel powerful.
they nerfed the nurse's booba
its all over.
Good change imo. I know the meaning behind their design, but bro, it’s a horror game. Marguerite from resident evil 7 is a FAR better female character than the vampire lady from re8. I don’t need huge tits in my horror game
@Luis-rp2lm so it's a good change because big boobs offend you lol.
@Luis-rp2lm ... I take it you never played 2. The nurses look like that because they're a representation of James' pent-up sexuality. Just saying you know the meaning doesn't mean you realize why the original design was brilliant. It is for this reason I'm gonna press X to doubt.
The contrast between extreme body horror and appeal is what makes them interesting. When you're designing a monster or character you need to understand the concept (or personality if a character) behind what you're creating first. The idea with the nurse is going from that quick shift of lust to revulsion. It also signifies that perhaps James never cared about women for who they are, only their bodies, since they lack faces. This game is barely passable in presenting that.
It stinks of the same poor design that hit the Fool's Idol in Demon's Souls remake, where they took a figure that was supposed to be serene and welcoming so she can trick her victims, and had her immediately snear and seem malicious in the Remake. The intent behind the design is the most important thing to convey.
@@SpacePirateLord the original designer worked on the redesigns. I’ll trust him over you. I mean I’m looking at an official pic from the remake and the nurse has tits. Idk what else you want.
Their skirt is still up the nurses asses which is there point
I think the one problem I have with the remake the one issue that is taking me out of the atmosphere and game is that in combat the camera is thrown around way too hard I wish it stayed more still. It sort of makes me get a motion sickness feeling, and it ruins the building dread completely to me. It feels like i am literally being thrown around forcefully instead of letting ME feel scared. Otherwise, I am feeling the way you do. I'm pleasantly surprised!
Doesn’t the camera get disoriented in the original though.
@joshshrum2764 when moving it gets disorienting with the perspective as it moves through the world, but here in combat, it is like you're ramming it forward when you attack or get hit which isn't just disorienting but takes me out of it with the abruptness of it compared to the original which sort of just has the camera confusingly move around. Not really a big fan of the original panning it gets sort of too much but here it is only in combat and it is cranked up way too hard with zoom in shake
What actually sold me this time was the subtle facial animations James makes along with his voice acting. To me it looks really good and makes me excited for the game. Also, did they change his face from the earlier trailers? He looks much better now .
For me, the whole Remake feels like a Resident Evil Remake total conversion, with how James is moving, how he holds the gun, that he can dodge and the finishers against the Nurse. It seems to action focussed.
And I'm not a fan of the redesigns either. Angela looks like she has a baby face and Maria doesn't look sexy enough with her new design for the purpose she has.
The environments doesn’t look depressing and decayed enough like the OG
LOL. Weird how perception differs. To me it seems the environments in the original looked more warm and romantic. :)
Those complaining about the thumbnail image from Laura, open your front camera and tell me how does it look like
Whey will always find some stupid things to complain about.
Better than that 😂😂😂😂
What about :
- the signature crisp live shadows which were caused by James walking into a room with a flashlight? They still look amazing even today.
- the constant "behind the shoulder" camera instead of the fixed (when needed) and dynamic (when needed) perfect camera angle from the original SH2 which made the experience more like a movie and less like a game?
I just wanna know what’s up with the marketing. The gameplay at the Silent Hill showcase looks good imo, but the stuff shown at the State of Play looks like an entirely different build. Don’t think I’ve ever seen such disparity between gameplay trailers released the same day before.
It was for an earlier build.
Bloober continuing their L streak
Honestly my biggest gripe is that James is crawling on the ground stomach first with a bloody trail beneath him. Into a hole in a garage. Now call me crazy but that just doesn't seem like an appropriate or real reaction to seeing the hole for the first time. So they should probably change how he gets in the house Honestly. Other than that it looks good. But they should not call this a faithful remake. Nothing wrong with making changes as long as it tells the same story. But it's definitely not faithful to the source. So they should just say that. Case and point, the hospital. While it looks beautiful with sunlight coming through the windows. Would you even be able to see that Sunlight in fog? Which creates some kind of continuity issue. Like I herd another person mention actually.
James stuck his hand into a god damn bloody poop toilet and didn’t clean it its in character that and he mentions to Angela that he doesn’t care what happens to him if it’s dangerous
james crawling into that house is a real sh2 reaction. he just doesn’t care
Plus it’s a dumb pace change like why is that there.
@@tristenatorplaysgames6833He had to he was against it too.
"Rougher than trying to be Eddie Dubrowski's personal trainer." Savage right out of the gate. I'm here for it! Also, I hope that the fighting mechanics will actually be fun rather than stiff and awkward in the original. Laura's voice acting probably could be better because she sounds more mature for her age, at least in the original she sounded like an 8 year old.
"Monsters? They look like monsters to you " ?
Max, I'm not gonna lie, while I won't knock EVERY positive you mentioned about the game because I can agree on things like Laura's face or some of the visuals, this largely reads as you trying too hard to be optimistic.
Angela's face is a huge red flag like everything that came before it, a signal of bad things to come. It looks bad, sure. However, how can you completely fail to mention Maria? They kept everyone else's classic designs but redesigned her to be distinctly less provocative which is horrible considering IT WAS THE ENTIRE POINT OF HER CHARACTER. She was a visually perfect version of how James wished Mary still was. They toned her down and made her look like a middle aged mom just returning from the grocery store. That is a HUGE red flag when it comes to potential compromises on the game's narrative and themes.
Think that's worrying over nothing?
I think you forgot that the game is being published by Sony who are whole hog on DEI and ESG, is running on Unreal 5 who literally set parameters around what games could be made on their software that revolve around DEI and ESG, and Konami straight up came out and said this game was for "modern audiences".
Then stack on top of that the lack of fixed camera angles because they are just trying to follow the tracks of the RE remakes and are scared to just do an analog controlled fixed shot game (which still work, games like those are STILL coming out in the indie market and doing perfectly fine, let's stop pretending like it is a death sentence). The original camera system allowed the game to center shots on important objects, monsters, cinematic angles meant to evoke certain feelings, and now they are gutted entirely just because of the stigma against them which shows a lack of balls in that regard. But as a result of this change, they now need contextual prompts to appear on screen that show you where items and interactables are. Let's also not forget that this camera style tends to shoot straight up your character's --- the moment you back into a wall and SH2 is FULL of tight corridors. Yada yada, you get the point.
There is a general lack of integrity here.
Everything you are praising is SURFACE LEVEL.
Remain skeptical until proven wrong. It's not like there weren't 8 Konami managed Silent Hill IP's before this that proved shallow and vapid or anything. It's not like Bloober have a history of plagiarizing other companies (check out "Bloober Team Bites" by Bobvids for more on that) or anything. You have EVERY reason to think this is going to suck and the illness is on them to prove us wrong. And if we are proven wrong, GOOD. I would love that. But we currently have no reason to think they will.
What does DEI stand for and why is it bad?
"Diversity. Equity. Inclusion."
It is the policy that you cannot craft a piece of fiction without representing very particular parties, usually targeting specific races, the female gender and any number of bizarre representations of trans or otherwise dysmorphia addled individuals. If that sounds ridiculous that's because it is, but it is very real. You may have also heard the phrase "ESG", and that is the scoring system major corporations like Sony, Microsoft, Warner Bros, Blizzard and so on all grade their content and the content of companies under them by.
Why are they so obsessed with this? Because they literally get bank kickbacks for participating in this behavior and it has been encouraged by Blackrock. It's why characters get routinely blackwashed nowadays, or turned into trans characters, or suddenly become gay, and so on so forth. It's why Disney literally can't release a single project without it eventually becoming a woman empowerment story and often at the expense of suspension of disbelief or whatever worldbuilding previously existed.
It's why Kathleen Kennedy keeps getting jobs, why the Sweet Baby Inc issue was such a big deal and why everything seems so insufferably focused on identity politics while having all rough edges smoothed out to fit a certain agenda.
This makes it a VERY scary prospect when talking about the Silent Hill 2 Remake as Konami and Bloober both dip their toes into this, but more importantly, Unreal Engine literally released a document disclosing all of these guidelines recently (which you are free to look up) which outlines what people using their engine have to abide by and it is literally everything I just described.
Given the content of Silent Hill 2, this means LARGE PORTIONS OF THE STORY will either have to be gutted or changed dramatically to fit other people's sensibilities. Hence why I say they are "compromised". Pleasing fans is not the objective here.
And before anyone starts expressing doubt, yes, all of these things are verifiable and you can find these guidelines on any search engine. In fact, most of them are using the same guidelines and you can probably find some variation of them just by looking them up in Google images. Look up "Disney DEI guidelines" just as an example.
Blizzard literally built an AI to determine what types of characters to create based on these guidelines which they used for both Overwatches.
@@Impalingthorn Guy, you just recited to me an unhinged conspiracy theory with zero actual evidence because you dislike diversity equity and inclusion. You should get that checked out.
I smell paid damage control.
Who's getting paid?
@@maxderrat
You are. Aren't you?
It was an overall mixed bag for me. It still feels heavily that Konami is still searching for a success formula of the format. They are currently focusing on the past and not really looking forward. Two big projects based on a legendary videogame that was created over 20 years ago. There is much work needed to bring the Silent Hill IP back in style. Also, the refusal to release any of the older games in good quality is baffling, but this is something, you can also blame Capcom for. Speaking of Capcom, just yesterday I saw a short, weird but cool triphop reel of Resident Evil 2 Remake Cutscenes and man, this game is over 5 years old and with every effects intact, the game looks still criminally good, surpassing, in my opinion at least, everything the Silent Hill 2 Remake currently has to offer. I won't say that the Remake looks bad, I think they nailed it in terms of the design of the town and enviroroments and I also do think voice acting and the melancholy atmosphere is great from what they've shown. But there is so much other stuff that still looks weird or not properly worked on. The animations are a complete mixed bag and in some scenes, every character has some unintentional uncanny valley vibes surrounding them. There seems to be no proper inventory or HUD and when James is hurt, you have this horrible red bar around the border of the screen. Some designs looks like they came straight from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 era. The Remake is still lacking serious production values and I can only hope, they will still use feedback to give the game the polish it needs. If they can do that, I think this game can be the first new Silent Hill project worthy of the name. The Short Message was, and I still think that, an interesting project and could be way better if it would handle the themes presented in the game more subtle.
Here's a real question: what time period does the game take place in? Is it set in the early 2000's like the original or modern day? I ask because some of the character designs
BROUGHT TO YOU BY SWEET BABY INC.
in this case another ESG/DEI group HIT DETECTION
Are they involved ?
@@humbleservant7797 100 Percent. With Silent Hill 2 Shirts and fat ugly feminists with shitting eating grins.
I know Homeworld 3 has DEI detected, and it shows 😕
My only major gripe with the new 'finding the radio' moment is that the monster attacks you. In the original it's terrifying, but technically harmless. In my opinion the fact that James is reacting in self-defense in the remake is a mistake.
They look like monsters to you.
Angela is no PS5 model. I think they might've had a deadline for the trailer
But the game still won't be released for a little over four months. Bloober said they want to get it right, and surely that includes listening to feedback on animation, graphical fidelity, and gameplay
I love the original games! They had such an impact on me back in the day. I must accept that it's the past and see these new games in a new light. If it's a decent game, fine. It doesn't have to be a silent hill game though
This Transmission renewed my confidence in the Remake. Bloober has proven they can nail the environment, ambience, and performances from the actors. Now I just need to see them refine the combat (make it preferable to avoid combat, but still satisfying to engage in) and storytelling (showing, not telling). If they can do that, then I would be confident in giving them my money and saying that they’ve succeeded in a quality remake. I can tell they’re pouring a LOT of love into this, they just need to continue doing what they’re doing and refine it!
What is this art style you are talking about?? Is the art style in the room with us??
Art styles describe the way the artwork looks. Style is basically the manner in which the artist portrays his or her subject matter and how the artist expresses his or her vision.
Style is determined by the characteristics that describe the artwork, such as the way the artist employs form, color, and composition, to name just a few. Another important factor in determining the style of an artwork is to examine the way the artist handles the medium, taking into account the method or technique that the artist uses. An additional aspect of art styles is the philosophy or driving force behind the artwork. All of these stylistic elements are defined by the choices artists make as they compose their artwork.
From some website.
@@BrianOblivionB Buddy, I know what art style is. I’m saying this game doesn’t have one
@@SleeplessSpecter By definition, that you accepted as accurate, you are wrong.
@@BrianOblivionB You’re right Brian. Here I was thinking this game looked bland and generic but after you copy and pasted art style into Google, I realize the error of my ways. What a fantastic art style Silent Hill 2 Remake has. I can’t wait to consume this product on October 8th on my PlayStation 5
@@SleeplessSpecter you can think it's bad, I might even agree with you, but to say it has no art style is false. Now that you admit to it having an art style, my semantic needs have been met. Good day, sir.
James is too handsome, looks like an actor, and the voice acting is no where near the spirit of the original.
I would love to see the fixed camera perspective, it adds so much to the gameplay, I wish that the devs would add a setting where you can choose which camera mode you’d like. There could even be areas of the town where there isn’t fixed cameras as I understand it can be clunky for a newer looking game. I would understand having follow cameras outside silent hill and in the open areas of the town like in the fog, that way when the fixed cameras are on like in narrow corridors or spaces like that it really adds to the intensity of the fear of the unknown and creates a further feeling of entrapment. Idk how they’re gonna do the butterfly room in the apartments after u see pyramid head as that room is primarily scary because of the fixed cameras, there’s a red light emanating from somewhere in the room similar to pyramid heads light and you can’t just turn around and see there’s nothing there you are stuck waiting that’s what’s terrifying about it.
The characters' heads looks too big compared to their bodies.
Konami is dead and they shouldn’t be humored.