I'm late on all of this. I knew it was being made but didn't follow anything about it. I haven't liked a lot of modern game remakes but I'm not opposed to them in theory, most just suck. and this one from the little bit I've seen the last few days is fucking egregious. I've never once thought games should stay in the ps1/ps2 era style for horror like a lot of retarded young people who thinks something old=scary. but this is maybe the biggest example of it just doesn't fucking translate all. mainly for me it's probably the combat, doing more action based combat absolutely changes the entire look and feel of the game, I knew when they announced this they were specifically trying to rip off the REmakes of the last few years but I didn't assume they would turn this into a full on action game. this looks like SHIT.
the coolest thing about SH has always been how effective those first games are of making you feel fucked up just playing them. they really do feel sort of dreamlike. a video game has never scared me but silent hill (2 particularly) probably came the closest when I was a kid. when I replayed it older, did it again but more because of how fucked up the implications of all of it is, and actually thinking about what the game, and the enemies and stuff are even about in the first place. just the tone of everything I have seen in these trailers that have come out seem to entirely have missed the point on the whole experience, from the graphics, the models, the performances of the characters, down to the gameplay itself.
I know I'm probably just regurgitating previously said things from the thread, I just wanted to complain about it. I'm not even really a huge die-hard silent hill fan, but this might be imo the biggest they entirely missed the point of the original game's experience I've seen from a remake like this, and that's from some trailers.