Off all things, Death Stranding has some segments that feel like that. Uncharacteristically for the game, there's these segments you find yourself fighting squads of corpses in the trenches of WWI, a bombed out city in WWII, and the jungles of Vietnam.
"White dude returns from war, sees hometown culturally enriched, wants to return to war"
I hate that I have to ask this now, but: Which Silent Hill 2 are we talking about?
The remake. The only other Silent Hill game I've played before it was technically the PT teaser.
It was Homecoming and the twist was he was never a soldier and had gone crazy because he watched his dad ritualistically kill his kid brother. This was supposed to be Silent Hill 5.
OOF, those are even worse then Veilguard
As I predicted, forgotten within a month
Funny that you think they'd ever make a new game with a white guy as the lead that isn't a remake of something from the PS2.
They're like this about any remake. Zoomies and late-millenials are really insecure about not getting to experience gaming golden age and get really offended when you tell them their new remake slop is, at best, a disservice to the original and, at worst, makes it actively worse. FF7 Remake and Rebirth are the other two games that get this reaction. It's my favorite way to suss out who is a retard when talking about videogames.
You would think that the generation basically raised by technology would just go "fuck it, we can emulate the games ourselves". Kill 2 birds with one stone
Much like how baby boomers are technologically illiterate; the young ones, to their ability, can only experience it if it came pre-loaded as a phone application. Explaining to them how to handle zips, file systems, and torrent old entertainment would be too much for them, as they only knew the apps from their touchscreen bricks doing all the work. As per eDove:
SH2 had a very good PC port (which I proudly own and which ran pretty well when I replayed it on W7 a few years ago) so they don't even need to emulate anything.
That's actually a really interesting idea, and ripe for a genre fakeout with the marketing. It'd be cool to see a character that's like... a less-pathetic version of Eddy. Because Eddy kindov enjoyed the violent release that being in Silent Hill gave him, but it was in response to high school bullying and more average stuff like that. I'd like to see a character that becomes aware of their descent into hell as it's happening, like a crazy fever dream - then it can end on a depressing note like the MC getting killed by the cops (who look like monsters) after they track him down to Silent Hill.
No, you see, the culture war is a great war that needs to be fought to the bitter end. There are no survivors here (except bg3). Since sh2 remake has been deemed woke, it has now been doomed to be called a piece of gigantic shit eternally here and elsewhere. There is no room for nuance anymore.
That's the thing most of us are baffled by. It's totally backasswards thinking. Wouldn't you rather want to experience the game that hundreds of thousands of people already have such fond memories of first? To see what makes it so important in the first place that a remake of it is such a big deal, and then check out the new version to find out whether it did the original justice?
