Bloober Team Made a Mistake.... 

Okay soooooo whenever I addressed Angela, I kept saying Laura. I have NO CLUE why I kept doing that. I took notice after editing but was too lazy to edit all of that. So here's my correctional comment. No need to come at me. 🤣

If you hear"Modern Audience" You gotta be sceptical lol. Why would you market a game for a "Modern Audience" when the game has a pretty popular fan base already? why not focus on the fans that actually support your product?

So basically it was not made for fans. Ok...

Usually, nowadays, when you hear "For a Modern Audience," it does mean the game has woke and DEI content in it. Pretty much means they are alienating their fanbase to pander to a group of people who will never play the game, far-left propaganda, contrived writing and characters, etc. It's clear our video game market is on a decline compared to the Japanese and South Korean developers who just make games with gorgeous women in it with fun combat because that is what gamers want. Usually, when games like this flop, the devs go on the defense and start calling the fans Bigots, Sexist, Racists and every type of Phobe imaginable.

Yea the modern audience least the one being chased doesn't exist all that does is scare off fans like us

The way they beg to buy their crappy product for “modern audiences” is like DSP e-begging for money. No thanks. I want games made for gamers not a game with a gaming base that doesn’t exist.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be made for "modern audiences" now 😑 I literally don't get ANY new games anymore because they are all watered down activist propaganda

They mentioned the modern audiences thing in a previous interview months ago when they got flak for having hit-detection and DEI included into their game. They are only now saying "give the game a chance" because they can clearly see everyone is livid with them and many preorders have likely been retracted or something. Point is, they can see that they're not getting any love and only (too late) can comprehend that they should have just stuck to the source material.

I went to bloobers website and 'modern audience' is listed in large font over silent Hill 2. Its like they want it to fail.

The project started in failure and will end in failure. I hope they let the Silent Hill series die in peace.

9:38 Very good question that many people are questioning these days on games made "for modern audiences".

Not sure why, they seem to be panicking, they already got their instant cash flow from Blackrock/Vanguard, for using the term Modern audiences. Did they want to continue making games? You can't have both. Take your blood money, and GTFO.

I rethought buying the game day one the second that interview was posted. I rather wait than be sorry that i wasted 70 bucks. SH2 is just one of those games you can not neuter

They could have two game modes, woke/modern and classic. Let the player choose what experience they want.

For those that still need to hear this, this game was NEVER going to work, okay? Konami is still publishing, they are still making all of the marketing and big boy decisions. Konami, Bloober, Sony and Unreal, all companies involved in this project, are dipping their knees into the woke/progressive crap. This was always going to be a disaster when it came to changes. Especially considering Unreal literally released a manifest showing what you were and were not allowed to do on their engine and basically pigeonholed all game creators into making ESG/DEI friendly games. Even without this, we have TWO DECADES of awful Silent Hill games and movies to reference. Over 8 bad titles in a ROW out of Konami due to their poor management and decision making. We still have several more on the way while Ascension and Short Message both came and went while proving there is no quality control. As for the Remake, it's boned. Listen, if they actually CARED about appeasing fans, they would have started out by announcing they were working on ports at the very least and started with a Silent Hill 1 Remake, not a Silent Hill 2 Remake to tie it into the new movie they announced (and yes, it is a movie tie in, they mentioned this in the initial press conference and it's being helmed by the guy who botched the first two movies with wild story changes). Konami. Does. Not. Care. They never did, right from Silent Hill's inception where they dangled a vague idea for a Resident Evil competitor and dumped it on a team with nothing to show for themselves who they fully expected to fail and FIRE afterwards. Konami has always had a parasitic relationship with Silent Hill, only clinging onto it while they thought they could turn it into the next big consumer fad. This is just more of the same. The franchise should have stayed dead. We have plenty of Silent Hill successors now and we aren't getting anything decent while Konami is still charting for the ship that is Bloober. Bloober, even if they weren't lazy plagiarists (watch "Bloober Team Bites" by Bobvids for more on that), have their hands tied right now. Uniquely, they couldn't make a non-woke game if they wanted to: Sony, Unreal and Konami all want exactly that and they are unable to refuse.

They should’ve focused on the fanbase that exists. They’re the ones who practically champion the franchise which gets other ppl curious and then brings them into the franchise thus making the fandom bigger and companies make more money. It’s a win-win!

The past doesnt need to change because some lgbtq people and women dont like it , And thats why every change to classics needs to fought against.

I still want to play it so i can see what this "made for modern design" is about. If it follows the story like in the og 2, I'll be happy as a clam

I have the original game , if i dont like it - i can still play the original.. but the game looks like alot of fun .. i dont want the exact carbon copy of silent hill 2 .. its already good as is . They might be pleading due to konamis terrible decisions and the short msg was awful . Im only putting money down in small increments because if it is actually good and i dismissed it like i did downpour , probably something i wont be able to finally get my hands on

"modern audiences" pandering translates as uglyfication of characters and activism over artistic integrity.

The red flag for me was maria's change with her outfit, it shows me that the devs don't understand SH2 at a deep level or they are like you said selfish and change the material to what they want.

You realize your intro is inaudible, right? Like either get good at pronouncing the syllables or ask yourself: "who is this intro for if it's inaudible and I barely pronounce each word?"

Ngl i feel so sorry for SH fans. They dont deserve that. … And im so happy to be a RE fan 😅

Modern audiences 😂

Capcom adapted the design of female characters for "modern audiences" in the remakes.

I’m going to wait on it for the reviews, did the same with RE3 remake and saved my mental health

Ur rockin that hat

"sweet baby inc." or "modern audience" have become trigger words that will make any gamer run away from your game as if it were a venereal disease.

I gotta laugh when you bring up gameplay yet ignore the RE3 remake which ironically has the best gameplay out of all the RE remakes yet. RE 2 is a glorified walking simulator. RE 4 has sluggish movement, terrible pacing, and is nothing but QuickTime event disguised as gameplay. RE 3 is fast paced, waste no time kick ass boss fights and amazing scenario design. As for RE 1- amazing game design ...but combat is....well it's there I suppose and is servicable.

Ppl get absolutely angry whenever they hear “for modern audiences” which from the past history is seemingly valid. But we can’t keep flipping out whenever we hear it, I’m sure bloober and Konami means it’s “modern” like other 3rdPS like Alan wake,RE,and dead space. Given the camera angle and fighting is similar to those games. One dev even said “to make it competitive in 2024” meaning again like the other horror games as those r the current standards

I have been a fan of Silent Hill since 1999 the Silent Hill 2 remake "was" going to be one of the games I got in 2024 other then Stellar Blade but not now. Visions of Mana, Dragon Quest 3 remake, and Silent Hill 2 remake all blew it when it come to my money oh well I'm sure the Modern Audience I keep hearing so much about will finally show up this time...

Just destroy every copy after a recall, issue a delay announcement, go back in and fix everything, and re-ship it all. It'd cost money, yea. But losing as much, if not more, than you would if you fixed it would be a worse prospect

I will lnever play the remake. I've got all the originals, and a bc PS3. Making it for the "modern audience" also means the game will hold your hand from beginning to the end. Coz the "modern audience" are completely brain dead and so sensitive they have had to change the looks of characters. Pathetic!

For me the overall tone concerns me the most. The dialog & voice acting seems off. The attitudes & vibes of each character & their personalities don't fit. It sounds like they don't understand the characters or how to achieve the correct tone through out the game. I hope it will be good. I'm just worried this game will treat us like children tho. With hand holdy gameplay. Button prompts, Toned down storytelling, you name it. Hopefully they don't go that direction where they don't want to make people uncomfortable because this game is meant to make people uncomfortable. If they aren't okay with creating a uncomfortable inappropriate game then they really picked the wrong team to make a game such as this. The movement seems really stiff, it's like the character isn't interacting with their environment. The weight and movements with certain objects seems off. I'm okay with them making some changes. There are ways many things can be changed and still hold the same core of this game. I hope they find ways to achieve that. (it is annoying how divided and out of control a lot of people are getting. I wish things weren't so weirdly divided. Then some counter the critical people with a sorta Toxic Positivity. I wish valid criticism could be heard and addressed. It will be nice if things can chill out and we can get back to being able to critique things in a healthy way again lol)

What this says to me is that they took the "liberty" to completely change shit. No respect for the art or original vision and that's why it will forever be inferior to the original. Konami should be ashamed of themselves giving SH2 to a studio with no good games under their track record. I have already decided that I won't even give it a chance and none of you should either. Angela looks better in the original game and it's not even arguable. Literally one of the worst games ever to try and add DEI, absolutely no place for it.

It’s not Laura, it’s Angela btw.

Oh no the dreaded two words 🤦 I grew up with this, what on earth are they thinking? I'll give it a chance but I'm so tired of those two words that have flat out destroyed all games and media that I have dear and beloved to me, it probably won't sell well because of it, but I hope someone considers a original SH trilogy collection with modern options because I'd more than likely be interested in this than it's reimagined version, but I'll give it a shot

i rather play a new game than a remake Original SH2 is still good now if SH 1 got a hd remaster or remake, i will turn my eye

Yeah, its gonna be shit. I love silent hill, but "modern audience" bullshit is a dead giveaway they won't be authentic to the original game

Keep “modern” garbage, sweet baby inc and wokeness away from silent hill

What ( modern audience ) really means is for a group of activist. so they are not making a game for gamers but for a minority of crazies.

Good to know before the purchase as I'm not part of the "modern audience".

All they had to do was update the graphics. That's it. Insane.

Oh damn

To hell with modern audiences.

When they say “For the modern audience” what they mean is for the (Product consoomers) or the people that don’t really play games much or buy games.

Well , Ill wait on the reviews to see the full extent of how modern this is for modern audiences .

what modern audience really means is the alphabet people.

The gaming industry do not deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point.

I still had my playback speed on 2x, so that intro was even wilder 😭

Still doesn’t look like James.

Oh no, it's retrograde 😢😂

Hahaha high seas sailing only for me now. They will never get money from me.

are there enough prisons........

Graphics aren't everything. What truly matters is story, characters and gameplay. Too many modern devs throw these away to push "the message"

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im not gonna play that abomination

another DOA game

Angela😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Well it is a horror game 😂

I think the problem is this, Game Industry today, doesn't like to take criticism. It's very common for them to use the term "Modern Audience" , because they think it's an easy way to avoid the heat. And most of the industry in general, only cares for what the journalist write about their product, more than what the consumers think. If they listened to their fans, things could've gone better than what's happening right now. A good example? Look at the Sonic The Hedgehog the movie. Fans criticized the CGI Sonic model, they listened to the criticism, People love the new model, and they're now waiting for the 3rd Movie.

I want everything to be great graphics, gameplay, themes, characters. Im not getting this game lol im tired of these devs not making these games for the fans. The modern audiences barely touch their fking game.

Yoooo wassup Gryphon it’s been too long man how are you? I’ve been good myself and even better because a game I’ve been hype for since 2020 is coming in 10 days, and that is Black Myth Wukong. A Chinese Mythology game based on Journey to the West Novel, if you ever get the chance to view the trailers especially the final trailer the enemy/boss variety is crazy more so than any resident evil game combined and the designs are something that are just wild. It’s not my place to judge what games you would like and not like, but all I’m saying is, it could be a good one to check out. But that’s besides the point I’m just hype for the game is all. 😅😂 Now as far as Silent Hill 2 is concerned, look man, I seen this coming from a mile away, I knew there was just something fishy going on, and right here basically confirms my biggest fear, now look I was never really all that excited for this game but I know that Silent Hill 2 is loved by a lot more people than I first thought, if this game doesn’t live up to that original the same way RE 4 did, it’s just not gonna pull through. Bloober team really gotta make sure this game is as polished as it can be before launch at the very least if it ever is expected to win over the hearts of many. We shall see.

It went from point to point remake to its our own take on the material the wording distresses me so ill wait and watch

I hate the trend of companies being so passively toothless that they're always making sure that mythical "modern audience" is pleased instead of making a fucking game they want. If you're going to add your own spin to it, do it as yourself. No one needs or wants to see how submissive you are.

They hired DEI AKA the tirants Sweet Baby Ink this game is DOA F This not getting my money 👎🤣🤣

yea im skipping it, buying it used