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Now I want a Kolchak: The Night Stalker game.
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Really go after that much vaunted demographic of 70 year old boomer survival horror fans.
Kolchak revival would be great, it's been 20 years give it another shot guys get some cucked streaming service to pick it up come on
Was looking forward to Post Trauma but it looks a bit shit and like it unfortunately falls into that trap of having amateur devs that have a lot of heart but not a lot of knowledge/resources/savvy to bring it home. Maybe things'll get ironed out but the SH clones seem to fare far worse overall than RE ones.
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let's pray that there won't be announcement of demake of SH¹ anytime soon.The last thing I need to see is some western Devs filled with faggots shitting up the lore even more.
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Yeah, but as far I know it never left the beta stage (thank g-d)
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it was just a fan project, it wouldnt have fucked any canon. I like fan creations in general. I even like Book of Memories because the concept of a Silent Hill skinned Diablo / Path of Exile clone sounds dope.
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Book of Memories got pretty neat soundtrack by DL otherwise I can't say much about it.
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Love Psalm's leitmotif to the original from the SH2 soundtrack was kino. The general non-vocal OST needed a bit of spice on the track titles. "Wood World" "Wood Boss" "Fire World" "Fire Boss" are kind of uninspired. Silent Hill: Utilitarianism with brutalist architecture as its theme would have been interesting if Book of Memories managed to achieve anything it tried to achieve and the things it succeeded at were achieved unintentionally.
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That's what Shattered Memories was supposed to be.
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Now I remember the wii game with Dahlia as a whore thanks. It shall stay forgotten.
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Shattered Memories just feels quaint now in retrospect. It would have been fine if it wasn't dickriding the Silent Hill name for clout and had horror sections that were more than just glorified chase sequences.
And you could get that ending where Harry is a pimp that bangs Lisa and that other chick on the side.
I'm enjoying it so far. There's been a whole surge of fixed camera horror games that have come out with more on the way, so there's clearly a market for them. I doubt the game is flawless but there's only so much hatred I can have for something that cost me a measly 13 dollars. I'd spend more going to see a movie these days if something that isn't dogshit would actually come out.
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I'm generally pretty anti-remake and was very against SH2's remake (but relieved it wasn't the trainwreck we all thought it was) but I wouldn't mind seeing them remake SH4, as long as they had Ito and Yamaoka involved and kind of babysitting them like they did with SH2's remake. I say that just because SH4 was kind of an unfinished mess and needed some more love, conceptually it was a solid idea. I know why they did SH2 first but I still wish they hadn't, SH4 is the only game of the original four that could really benefit from the remake treatment at all.
It's interesting how Resident Evil made such a huge leap with RE4 totally reinventing the series, while The Room was a bit more conventional in its approach by comparison but on a macro scale was pretty experimental. It was an open world survival horror game, to use modern nomenclature, which is really interesting. Kojima talked about his Silent Hill game also being open world, the fact that PT was very inspired by the apartment sections in The Room always made me wonder what he had in mind. I'd be interested to see what a new team could do with the same concept, keeping the same story and ideas of SH4 but reimagining the structure as a more open experience. Patching up some of the enemies that are just nonsensical and not scary (gorilla ladies that make stock sound effect burp noises when you hit them are not scary) would be nice as well.
I actually think they systems they made for the SH2 remake would have worked much better in SH4, the remake was a little too big for what it was adapting whereas SH4 probably could benefit from more stuff, particularly when you're forced to go through every world again with Eileen. Having some kind of control over Eileen's actions ala RE4 could be a start, even if it's something as simple as being able to tell her to stop trying to fight everything and haul her ass over. There's so many issues with 4 that I could see actually being improved by modern game design, whereas with SH2 there was a lot more that could have gone wrong and taken away from the experience. For example, there's an argument to be had about how the camera differences changes the way a person views the story of SH2 - with the fixed camera in the original you feel more disconnected as a third party to the events of the story, whereas the modern cinematic third person camera every game uses nowadays is meant to make you feel more immersed like you're in the role of the game's protagonist and meant to identify with them more.
That said, I think a lot about where the series would be today if they had decided to stick with what Shattered Memories was attempting to do and Downpour was more like that, vs falling back on the Homecoming third person action game formula to be safer. People might have been more forgiving if it wasn't trying to so hard to be like everything else, at least give it points for being experimental and pushing the boundaries of what Silent Hill is.
It's interesting how Resident Evil made such a huge leap with RE4 totally reinventing the series, while The Room was a bit more conventional in its approach by comparison but on a macro scale was pretty experimental. It was an open world survival horror game, to use modern nomenclature, which is really interesting. Kojima talked about his Silent Hill game also being open world, the fact that PT was very inspired by the apartment sections in The Room always made me wonder what he had in mind. I'd be interested to see what a new team could do with the same concept, keeping the same story and ideas of SH4 but reimagining the structure as a more open experience. Patching up some of the enemies that are just nonsensical and not scary (gorilla ladies that make stock sound effect burp noises when you hit them are not scary) would be nice as well.
I actually think they systems they made for the SH2 remake would have worked much better in SH4, the remake was a little too big for what it was adapting whereas SH4 probably could benefit from more stuff, particularly when you're forced to go through every world again with Eileen. Having some kind of control over Eileen's actions ala RE4 could be a start, even if it's something as simple as being able to tell her to stop trying to fight everything and haul her ass over. There's so many issues with 4 that I could see actually being improved by modern game design, whereas with SH2 there was a lot more that could have gone wrong and taken away from the experience. For example, there's an argument to be had about how the camera differences changes the way a person views the story of SH2 - with the fixed camera in the original you feel more disconnected as a third party to the events of the story, whereas the modern cinematic third person camera every game uses nowadays is meant to make you feel more immersed like you're in the role of the game's protagonist and meant to identify with them more.
The idea was there but not the execution. Once you realize that there's nothing outside of the frozen nightmare world that can harm you, those sections become very boring. It also falls back on the western developer's obsession with SH2 by once again making the main twist of the game "someone died in the past". In general the focus on psychology by talking about psychological terms and basically spelling out how SH2 did what it did feels very midwit-core. Like when you have to tell because you can't show, you're kind of outing yourself as a hack.
That said, I think a lot about where the series would be today if they had decided to stick with what Shattered Memories was attempting to do and Downpour was more like that, vs falling back on the Homecoming third person action game formula to be safer. People might have been more forgiving if it wasn't trying to so hard to be like everything else, at least give it points for being experimental and pushing the boundaries of what Silent Hill is.
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The problem was the devs lied to Konami about what they were making. Both wanted to make a Silent Hill game, but Konami wanted a remake and the devs wanted to make their spin on things.
The only good part is the joke ending with James.
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ignore this post, enjoy the pics dump
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Guess SH2 remake is on GOG now. Really screams of desperation when you drop the game on a platform with no DRM that no one uses and a massive discount.
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It could also have something to do with SH4 being part of their Preservation Program where they shored it up and did some bug fixes. The other Silent Hill games also up there on the list where the community votes for games to be added to this program, including Silent Hill 1. So who knows, Konami doing this could bode well. Silent Hill 1 and 2 are among some of the most requested games with nearly 80k votes each.
They were already looking at reporting the games a few years ago but maybe letting GOG do it is the answer. Even if you don't game primarily on PC, those games will run on your average laptop just fine. But I think I'm just being optimistic, it's kind of a miracle we got The Room.
They were already looking at reporting the games a few years ago but maybe letting GOG do it is the answer. Even if you don't game primarily on PC, those games will run on your average laptop just fine. But I think I'm just being optimistic, it's kind of a miracle we got The Room.
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Silent hill 2 and 3 are already on PC too. Though their PC ports are a bit harder to find.
As far as most people are concerned, only SH 1-4 exist.
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Yeah. But it's for that reason I'd rather see the older games getting listed on GOG before the remake. The new game doesn't need preservation on GOG right now, it's not even a year old.
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You can’t buy 1-3 digitally anywhere, unless you’re willing to hunt down overpriced physical releases the games might as well not exist for the majority of players. And no, the HD “remasters” don’t count.
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No but I do think itll be good. It shouldn't have the name it has but if thats whats gotta happen to get the game made so be it.