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You still didn't experience the original, only a shallow redo of it. Its the equivalent of only watching the Texas Chainsaw reboot, The Thing (2011), or the Jacob's Ladder 2019 remake while never finishing their original films. Good for you though. Fuck off tourist. https://enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/
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The narrative isn't the same and it's watered down tripe that cuts out important scenes and loses what made the original a classic, much like horror film remakes. It isn't a good substitute for the original.
 
That’s great. I still had a fun time playing it and I came here to post about my fun time playing it and all you’re doing is whining and crying because it’s not the specific version you want me to play. Stop it. Allow people to enjoy things that you might not enjoy it.
 
Oh the horror! Another remakefag lecturing about enjoyment! "Let people enjoy things." Because letting people enjoy things we don't like has had positive impact on everything yeah? Let's let trannies just enjoy what they like and never gatekeep! Let's let businessmen continue the ruination of art just because they enjoy it. What a hedonistic and simplistic perspective, I never thought of that. Your insight is invaluable.
 
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Now that the oldfag has been thoroughly whipped here's Silent Hill 3's PC port and How to fix all games (caution: Leddit) 1000346688.jpg

 
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The ambient music in Silent Hill 2 is phenomenal! I'm a huge fan of Aphex's twin's selected ambient works albums (the second one is my favorite) and the Labyrinth level music reminded me somewhat of the darker tracks from that album. It works so well to paint this claustrophobic, fear drenched environment. I was on edge the entire time I played this level. The jail and labyrinth to me are the two most unnerving locations in the game. Some of the upper hospital levels are also pretty horrific.

 
Sicko Hunter said:
Yeah, I have no idea what you’re talking about at this point trannies have zero connection to this conversation so I’m just gonna put you on ignore this is not a productive discussion and ruining the thread for everyone else.
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It's not ruining it. You should have known full well you'd be mocked for your stance on the remake if you'd paid attention to the thread at all. You can stick to your convictions without being such an overly defensive pussy. Do you need validation from some random person on the internet to enjoy anything?

Shiverpeaks said:
Is Ascension over yet?
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I think it ended awhile ago. I never attended any of the streams and the fact that the word "scam" was banned in chat really tells you all you need to know.
 
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I cannot think of a game that so perfectly marries lighting and sound to create a literal waking nightmare like it does.
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I agree with this. I've never been so bored while playing a game before. A literal waking nightmare is a fine way to describe a game as padded and uninteresting as SH2R. The only way to make it worse would be to extend it's length even further.
 
Sicko Hunter said:
The ambient music in Silent Hill 2 is phenomenal! I'm a huge fan of Aphex's twin's selected ambient works albums (the second one is my favorite) and the Labyrinth level music reminded me somewhat of the darker tracks from that album. It works so well to paint this claustrophobic, fear drenched environment. I was on edge the entire time I played this level. The jail and labyrinth to me are the two most unnerving locations in the game. Some of the upper hospital levels are also pretty horrific.
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All the music you've linked so far was in the original game. I wonder why that is...
 
While watching Silent Hill Revelations I realized Blooper team don't deserve the credit they got for translating SH2 into modern graphics. Much of their stuff is ripped from Revelations' other world. The one part I thought was really well done and it all comes from a low budget tranny film people hate. I wonder if their art department heard they were remaking SH2 so they watched the 2nd Silent Hill movie thinking it was related? Some of the shots are framed exactly the same as in the game and lots of ideas are clearly taken from it.

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Found on Reddit.
 
Brain Problems said:
At least Selected Ambient Works vol 2 is getting some attention out of all this. Brilliant album and one that has a track (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q3VBpYdjq4) that Yamaoka definitely ripped off almost exactly here: https://youtu.be/k7Kr15i7qeI?t=8112

(Can't find the track on the official soundtrack or unofficial/ultimate one but I am not looking that hard)
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It's this one:

As for the Aphex Twin similarity... ehh? To me, it just sounds like another piece of ambiance from one of those Zero-G/Spectrasonics sample libraries. I wonder how much editing Yamaoka even did on it, but I'd have to know the specific sample that was used.
 

I would have loved an Akira Yamaoka and Portishead collab with a music video directed by David Lynch or by some odd director for Silent Hill. At least there are overlapping influences to enjoy.


Ki-No-Ko was 100% influenced by Portishead's Strangers
Look at Ki-No-Ko at 2:49, compare it to 0:28 on Strangers.
 
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Nameless One said:
Look at Ki-No-Ko at 2:49, compare it to 0:28 on Strangers.
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Dude, trip hop was fucking huge in the 90s, they may both be inspired by something else before both of them. You wouldnt move for hip and trendy adverts using it, shows aimed at younger and "urban" demos (it actually worked better on the hipsters who didnt like grunge, gothrock part 2 or nu metal).

Plus you should always avoid the "who invented this genre" because some twat will show up with some obscure tape from before anything else, that is only somewhat related.

But as to the Akira, yeah, he was clearly aping a lot of the early UK industrial electro sound that was mushing about, but the Swedes had a bit of a scene going on as well around the early to mid 90s.

Although one thing is for sure when discussing the Silent Hill OSTs, early ambient works, Aphex Twin etc, is no one will mention Brian Eno for some reason, even though he might be one of the biggest creators who every creator mentions.

Kinda like how no one mentions Jean Michell Jarre, or Kraftwerk even though those fellas spread so far even black metal guys often mentioned them (Varg is a huge Kraft fan)
 
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Dude, trip hop was fucking huge in the 90s, they may both be inspired by something else before both of them. You wouldnt move for hip and trendy adverts using it, shows aimed at younger and "urban" demos (it actually worked better on the hipsters who didnt like grunge, gothrock part 2 or nu metal).
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Coolio. But did you realize the devs of SH1 snuck in a Portishead poster in the cafe and just so happens to be one of the only IRL band references in 1-4?
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Akira Yamaoka listened to what he enjoyed at the time. Portishead is a major influence on his work. You can hear it the most, it is one of the most prominent influence across all of his work in Silent Hill at least in the 2000s, even on the shitty western game OSTs that sound lesser. Other influences are more subtle. All of Silent Hill's trip hop WAS thanks to Portishead. I'm not saying the genre was invented, but I am saying SH's sound would not exist without some form of this genre. You can clearly hear how lesser SH2's remake sounds as a result of Akira, for some reason; cutting out the trip hop entirely which makes a lot of the tracks sound fanmade and less impactful.

Another influence might be Interlace since Akira got the vocalist to make a song for 3 with him. These two are the only bands to appear in the games to my knowledge. The rest are just singers like Joe Romersa and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. Other influences may be Chu Ishikawa still on the mind of Akira alongside NIN in the 90s when it comes to the industrial horror tracks.
Plus you should always avoid the "who invented this genre" because some twat will show up with some obscure tape from before anything else, that is only somewhat related.
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I never mentioned this, I'm just a music person.
Japs have a strong tendency to mix what they like into their art, even when it's seen as "plagiarism".
 
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