Silent Hill 2 Remake Gameplay Trailer - Luke Reacts 

Luke has some crazy brain rot. A horror game focusing on story and characters and he literally get so bored just because there aren’t hordes of monsters. That’s crazy and embarrassing

God, looking at his chat… It seems like children are watching him rather then adults

I'm sorry, but am I wearing rose-tinted glasses? I think the visuals are pretty good. In some shots the game looks phenominal, and sometimes it looks a little old, but in a good way that seems true to the original game. I can't blame it on nostalgia goggles, since I played the remaster only a few years ago. So, wth?

I don't know if your chat mentioned this. But it would be wrong to compare this franchise to Resident evil or any action heavy horror game. Though resident evil inspired the franchise. The original SH games relied heavily on depth of story, atmosphere, and symbolism. Action was NOT the priority. Seeing this gameplay trailer made me realize that they are getting the game right. Also when in combat you aren't supposed to feel "strong" you're playing as a broken depressed ordinary man. so in that context you are actually supposed to feel weak and underpowered. So yes the melee animations look weird. It's on purpose, it always was. If you don't like that thing that's more than okay. The rest of us that are interested will play it :)

I’m so excited for this man. Owning 2-4 is lovely and being able to replay originals whenever I’d like and now being able to revisit in a modern terms is gonna be great. Of course, have to temper expectations, but this presentation set my excitement in stone

Wrong, the heavy fog for technical reasons was for the first silent hill because of the limited draw distance, the dynamic fog in the second one actually cost a lot of ressources to render(constant transparency).

Luke titles when it’s an Xbox game: “I have concerns, it looks not very good” Luke when the game comes from Sony and looks like shit:

Luke was 4 when Silent Hill 2 came out. I'm not old I'm not old I'm not old.

That looks good to me. It nailed the look and feel of the original. It's hard to nail down atmosphere in a trailer. To me playing this with a pair of headphones in the dark looks like a good time!

Honestly... The game looks GREAT to me 🤷‍♂️ The only thing I kinda hate that they got rid of is those Static/Panning Camera Shots that these games used to use (like Slient Hill/Devil May Cry/Resident Evil/God Of War etc. etc.) cause the normal 3rd Person Over The Shoulder camera is just eeeh 😒

As someone that was a big fan of the first four games this looks great to me. Dang, I'm 20 years older than Luke.

The MOST important thing to capture in SH2 is the tone and atmosphere, then the story and dialogue. "Combat" was never really the focal point of it, just a necessity of survival, but so long as the tone and the setting give the right feel it should be "ok". This Remake trailer feels off, and not in a good way. It feels too Resident Evil rather than Silent Hill, and that's a big problem. The OG SH2 still holds up to this day because of how unique it is as an experience, if this Remake can't tap into the essence of the OG, it's not going to end well for it. SH2 is one of the cornerstones of psychological horror, and is so unique in it's own genre that even other Silent Hill games don't really feel the same way to it.

Anyone else sorry that PT (Silent Hills) never got made? That "demo" seriously haunted me, both because of the psychological horror elements, the cryptic puzzles, the crushing atmosphere and my neverending curiosity towards it, even though it scared the living s out of me. It was like the puzzle box from Hellraiser; frightening, fascinating and intoxicating at the same time. This seems okay, but if you played PT before anyone knew what it was, THAT was horror at its finest.

I’ve never played silent hill 2. And I’ve heard conflicting opinions about the trailers. Some are excited. Some are cautious. Some absolutely hate it already. And while I’ve never played it, I’ve come to respect the amount of passion behind it and just how brilliant it was for its time. How it handles trauma and mental illness is something that’s never been able to be captured again. This remake will either understand that and absolutely nail it, or it will be a total failure. Either roll a 20, or utterly fail. That seems to be the pressure that this game will be under. Which is daunting, but unfortunately also fair. Remakes have a lot to live up to in general. Especially if the original is so beloved. Resident evil has been mostly killing it with the remakes.

Children in gaming these days are an interesting breed. The graphics never made silent hill neither did the combat. But everyone will salivate over hellblade 2 after it gave them a 4hr long campaign, linear path and basic combat.

Im crazy or this guy never played released before 2010? Every time he says "im just 26!!!" Guy clearly have a fair limited game experience, its not interested in most things and just want to talk about The Last of Us, Bloodborne and Elden Ring(although his reaction for the last lore trailer were terrible). Tell me, why people care about he thinks? For God sake, this guy in the RE4 review that he started caring about games about when he entered in the college. This is a joke and i cant take someone like that seriously

Honestly, it looks much better than I was expecting.

Loved the original Silent Hill 2. While I don't expect any Remake to be 100% accurate to the original i am excited to play this game.

Sadly its a game from Bloober team, and now we are discovering DEI is involved so, probably now Im going to play it later Not day one.

Looks good and if they make it their own all the better. Sh2 og is one of the best games ever and it still holds up. So a silent hill inspired remake is the best idea

Rough Character models, Stiff animations, clunkly melee combat. The PS3 era is so back 😎

Blondie is actually the female protagonist in the game. 😁

It looks great to me

It's doing well as far as tone and gameplay. It's difficult to look at this remake as anything new when this game has been imitated to death by other devs. As fan of the original, it's on the right track.

I dont think they could recreate what made the original game so good. It was a great time for games and a lot of them felt new and fresh. Now everything is a remake or copying something else.

The cinematics and the atmosphere look fantastic. Animations a bit stiff, but that's ok 🙂

As far as animations go in Unreal, you have this thing called an animation blend space and when done correctly you can jam pack it with animations between animations based on velocity and direction. At the same time you can do per bone animations to split up lower body and upper. If they did it right they have at least one animation between walk and jog if not two. If you get it right it looks seamless and perfect. I've only glanced at the footage and it seems like the footage itself is scuffed (the camera movement had judder). I hope it's just that and not the game itself.

I'm still getting the game regardless because I enjoy horror games. It would be my first Silent Hill game I've ever played so I have no idea of the lore or anything

This guy needs a Ubisoft title or something to be impressed

Besides the usual things mentioned by everyone else.. i wish the fog was heavier and more of it.

Gotta say, genuinely a little upsetting to see so many people who don't care/ haven't played the OG Silent Hill games and expect this to be some huge Last of Us style blockbuster game or in the same vein as RE. This game is not for you guys lmao this is for people who want a version of silent hill that isn't godawful to play through gameplay wise.

I can't help but feel this game is getting so much unfair hate at the moment because it's under the Konami brand, which, to be fair Konami does suck but I'm sorry, this game looks pretty decent. I don't understand all the people whining about it. Obviously we need to see more of it to make a more educated decision but at the moment for a game that most likely has a fairly small budget because Konami are so stingy with spending, looks pretty good. There are clearly a few hitches that need to be worked on still like a few combat animations that need to be cleaned up some, particularly when hitting a downed enemy with the melee weapon but other than that it mostly looks pretty good for a remake most of us didn't even expect would ever be made until it was announced. The only legit issue I have is with some of the dialogue, not because it's bad per se, even OG SH2 has some awful dialogue and bad delivery (looking at you Angela), but some of it just feels a bit rushed or overused (fart-face). All and all though, people can hate all they want but this game now has my interest a bit.

I’m pretty mixed on it, it looks ok visually but man the character models look pretty rough to me and the movement doesn’t look quite right, i just can’t place it. Hope it turns out well

What makes silent hill work on the older consoles is that the graphics of those consoles helped create a more ominous atmosphere which made the game more creepy. I doubt you could make silent hill as scary with new graphics

The original game was so revolutionary at the time with its mature themes and unique atmosphere.

Why the sun is shining so bright through the hospital windows when there's no sun outside?

Thats why you don't understand the game. For all of us that Played back in the days. knows how this looks good.

Looks amazing, so hyped

only thing is I really like the old camera locked stuff, wish remakes stuck with that instead of moving to a modern 3rd person over-shoulder camera

The one thing I notices is for some reason in canada, the price point for pre-ordering the remake is like $4 more than the standard price of a new release (i.e. standard price for new AAA is 79.99/89.99, but Silent Hill 2 Remake standard edition is 93.49) not sure why this is the case, but I found it weird, especially for a game that visually doesn't look as polished as one would hope

This is the first time I pre ordered a game in 3 years

I think this is so hard to explain now. I played sh1 back in 1999. And when sh2 came out it was fucking mind blowing. The jump from ps1 to ps2 was crazy back then. And SH2 had the music, the awkward acting, the sloppy combat. But it all added to it being a masterpiece to me. But yeah seeing the jump from 1 to 2 was wild back then. I think this is looking pretty good so far though. When 2 came out a lot of people were like what the hell? Team Silent was lightning in a bottle. I'm so glad I got to play 1 through 4 when they launched originally. Ya just had to be there.

I’m a massive fan of the silent hill games (I replay them every few months) I am beyond stoked to play this remake

Immediately starts shitting on things to impress his chat. This is silent hill not resident evil and i guarantee you bloober team didn't even have a quarter the budget as any resident evil remake. Im sick of modern "gamers" trashing everything and campaigning for its downfall before any release and then whining that theres nothing to play. You literally didn't even play the original and bash everything they kept from the original. Next time at very least look at the original material before making a video where you "analyze,judge,and critique " something you clearly have no clue about.

The first silent Hill two was heavily influenced by Twin Peaks. And so there was this abstract, dark Americana creature for the world to digest and emulate. I think culturally, Silent Hill had a wonderful combination of absurd Lynchian horror mixed with Japanese sensibilities.

The only Silent Hill game I've played is the one where you're trapped in your own home and you can't get out the front door, but at some point there's a hole in the bathroom and you get to something from there. I thought it was a pretty scary game and a good and challenging game at the same time. If anyone remembers what it was I would be grateful.

As a hardcore SH fan I’m impressed compared to the combat trailer. The walkthrough has a few parts I despise like James getting the radio in a random house. But the environment is stunning and the cinematics were great and eerie. I hope a few things like combat jank is fixed before October but I’d give it a 7/10 so far. A RU-vidr who I’d say is a SH expert is Max Derrat he made a great critique earlier I highly reccomend it

I was a fan of Silent Hill as it was coming out. In general, those games were famous for being the scariest games in existence, which was easier than nowadays (PT did it, but we know how that turned out). Silent Hill 2 especifically was the first psychological horror game, and depicted the darkness of the human mind in an accurate and not-fetishized way, which no one had done before in a videogame. Now, that is an expected standard in a script, so it's hard for this remake to be groundbreaking in that aspect. The game also has some crazy plot twists that nobody saw coming back then. Still good plot twists today. The characters are also very interesting and likeable yet hateable, and have a depth that didn't exist in the media at the time

This is going in the right direction. I hope work gets done to improve the walking/movement. It's so plain & stiff. Like he's floating across the ground not interacting with his surroundings. I just gotta say this whole trying to be realistic concept is drastically backfiring & ruining a lot of games. They are better off going an unrealistic artistic route. The realism Destroys any character or soul to a game. It looks off putting & unappealing. I miss older game designs SO MUCH all of that didn't have to just go away just because things are "progressing" It sure doesn't feel like progress.

Eh, hope it turns out well. I'd be nice to play a remake of SH2.

I have a bad feeling about this game 😢

I really want to be excited for this, but it just gives me too many bad vibes. The original is genuinely one of my favorite games ever, but I always wanted them to do some sort of remake to update the mechanics as I always felt that was the one bad part of the game, but this doesn't look better, it looks bad in a different way.

Bloober Team is definitely pushing above their weight. I'm rooting for them to revolutionize their typical formula

The movement is so stilted that if you mash buttons it’s probably like having a slow computer. The more inputs you put the more queue up and the longer you have to wait

At first I said “there is no way she said fart face”, then she doubled down. Fuck me dude

4:49 👀

Played Silent Hill 2 on the original Xbox when I was about 15. It's one of a kind. There really is nothing like it. Psychological horror in it's best and purest form. I really hope this remake captured the mood from the original. It's really hard to capture the mood and atmospere in a trailer.

Looks great my only gripe is some of the animations

"Games go to gamepass as a last resort" Palworld, Lies of P, and Starfield say hi

A friend told me it’s a pocket dimension that manifests your guilt

can confirm its EXTRA GHETTO here in Philly lol

I like Luke, but he seriously needs to stop shitting on games just because they’re not a common genre when it’s pretty obvious what the intention of the game is.

I'm still mixed about how I feel about it...but looking forward to the end product

The silent hill community is the worst people will whine about anything and everything. I would largely ignore them.

This honestly looks like a last gen title.

There are already people hating on it for the sake of hating on it. Like, they say oh, it will flop because it is full of DEI crap and whatnot. It is ridiculous!! For me, i´m actually not that impressed by this trailer. Maybe they should just put it straight to the game pass.

I have a theory that Laura us Allessa

Don't know why people are saying it looks horrible.. Looks completely fine

Do not listen to anyone saying the remake looks fine. They either never played the originals or failed to understand them just like this dev team. I played 1-4, beaten them multiple times for multiple endings, hidden secrets, and lore. People who say Silent Hills story is open to interpretation only say that because they didn’t bother to pay attention, there is a very deliberate and carefully crafted story. Everything you see in the environment, the character design, anything you read, has a purpose. Just looking at the world and characters it’s obvious to anyone who knows what they are talking about that this is going to be a disaster.

I think this demo was meant to soothe expectations from fans of the og, that’s why I feel Luke doesn’t really see the appeal. Sadly I doubt he will play the original.

I just want this game to run well .. given the graphics seem just okay to me

I'm not sure why people are upset about the combat, I'm pretty sure their was a pipe weapon and a shotgun in the first and second game. the only thing that needs work is just polishing the gameplay, making it look dirtier and more fog.

Oof i just have beef with the animations, im a sucker for those

Game looks good. Idk why he hates on games all the time.

The game looks amazing and the gameplay looks good too some of the hitting animations look meh but besides that the game looks really good I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be a classic 9/10 once it releases I’m sure I’ll be coping day 1 but I’ll wait till I see more

Wtf is with his movement man? It doesn’t matter what’s going on around you if the character walks like someone trying to hold back an apocalypse exploding from his asshole

My god, looking at your chat replay makes me finally understand why so many people hate the internet. People are negative and toxic just to be negative and toxic without even giving anything a chance. They're not even processing any of the visuals, just instantly crapping on everything. It's really disgusting. I have to point something out that so many people are ripping on: the combat. Have you actually...PLAYED the original Silent Hill 2 anytime recently? Or at all? It was god-awful. And this is coming from a huuuuuge Silent Hill 2 fan. Literally anything is a step up from what it was with the old tank controlled combat system. Again, people are just crapping all over it just to be negative and toxic. It's not bad. The quick swap between weapons is actually a pretty big quality of life improvement. You just can't please everyone. People had an issue with the SH2 HD Remaster. Honestly, in that case, I agree with them. Playing the original Silent Hill 2 game with new voice actors is like watching Back to the Future with, I dunno, Jesse Eisenberg dubbing the voice of Marty McFly and Bryan Cranston voice acting the part of Doc Brown. I feel original artistic creations shouldn't be changed. That's when people particularly get pissed off. But for this? I consider this remake to be a completely separate entity. Therefore, I don't mind if they take more liberties with the game, especially if it makes it at least subjectively, if not objectively, better. I feel that changing the combat is a change for the good. I honestly feel horrible that you have such toxic people in your live stream community. I would ban the lot of 'em.

I like it - they transported the monster designs extremely well into current gen graphics. Part of the grotesque effect on the original monster designs was the low poly models and low res textures turning the monsters into blobs in parts, making them HD now and still look that good and scary is a real feat. Especially having pyramid head's head now actually morph around victims looks insane - back then it was just a few polygons expanding in an awkward way. My only critique with monsters is that the erratic movements peppered between their attacks and movement are missing now. Especially the nurses had spasms every time they stood still and never had several moves and attacks in a row, giving them planty of chance to spasm. I get it, Bloober Team always had a bit of their own unique way of directing voice actors, animators and yeah, you can totally call it jank, like an original national broadcasting network TV production is jank. But i find it still very immersive and it doesn't bother me. I think this is the first game by them where i see actual expanded combat, and i think they are doing a solid job for a survival horror game's combat judging from the trailer. The only part where i'm a bit on the fence still is that Bloober Team never really made a survival horror game to my knowledge, at least one where resources play a big role - item placement for Bloober Team always was about narrative design and puzzles but not about combat resources. So, either they will stuff the maps with items or place them too sparcely because their play testers probably won't need a lot of them anymore after the 100th test playthrough. We will see, i'm looking forward to it.

It doesn't look horrible by any means, but something is clearly off. It's no RE2 remake for sure, that game has an insane level of polish, but it's fine. The atmosphere seems intact and the voice acting is great and that's what counts for me.

All Bloober Team's games are Polish... ed ;P

I don't care what anyone says, Laura sold me on the remake.

It’s going to be the best PS3 game. Ever.

Looks like a DEI shitshow with SBI at the helm

silent hill 2 will DEFINITELY be divisive among the hardcore silent hill fans, especially cuz SH2 is the most deep Silent Hill game. But I doubt it'd penetrate to make the mainstream audience hate the SH2 remake unless if the game is a bad product.

It’s nothing like the original intent of the game, this is like Disney Star Wars or 343 halo it’s not the same.

Play SH from 1 to 4. Huge fan back in the PS2 era, specially SH3. The thing is, SH was always clunky, with slow and scarce combat. This remake already has good gameplay for SH standards... SH was about mistery Atmospheric Horror, the music, the fck up world and the bizarre creatures. This new trailer already looks better than the previous one, maybe that's a good sign. They already confirm Akira Yamaoka is back at the music. I want to see a bit more before making a conclusion, i feel the whole look is not as strong as the originals, i feel it a bit bland, SH were a very grunge looking games, maybe they can tweak it a bit since the game is not gold yet. Also, they haven't show any of the other world yet, i need to see how they present that part of the game.

i find the original had allot more suspense and it wasnt all combat it had the scare factor this looks like resident evil sorry to say more resident evil 4

It feels way off.

What about this game could possibly be button mashy dude?

If this is Bethesda and CDPR. Yey great game!! Hahaha

And to think that I said this could be the game that makes me buy a PS5…I’d be better off holding on to the toaster that is the switch

Looks okay. Looks like re4. Why are people crying like graphics mean shit.

Am i the only one getting resident evil vibes. I never played the original. Am i supposed to be getting these vibes?

games aren't more expensive than ever, snes games cost 70$ + inflation = we get more game for less money now. resident evil 4 remake is 40$

It's been a long time. I don't remember the second one. Only the first one and harsh reviews of "the room" one. Sirens, it was the sirens! Fog, crowbar, similar streets and no map was the gameplay loop hooking people. Konami games are available in my region at least. That's a W for one of the worst gaming companies.

Honestly, this all looks good to me except a couple little nitpicks I have. There's something about James's face that kinda bugs me. Something off about it, but I can't pinpoint what's wrong. I think because he's essentially Leon Kennedy but with a much older face. Still, I can let that slide. I do wish that Maria was still in the very revealing outfit though. Before you think I'm being a misogynist, I'd like to clarify that I'm a woman. This isn't some 'but I want to look at the sexy lady' argument. The entire point of Maria is that she's a construct of what James wished his wife could be and so much of the things you see in this game are products of his pent up sexual frustration and disgust at what was happening with his wife at the end of her life. Everything in the base game was designed with a deeper meaning in mind. I still like the design of her though, and honestly, Angela is spot on imo, but they definitely seem to be toning down a lot of the imagery for the remake. I'll admit I'm fully biased though. The making-of documentaries on Silent Hill 2, 3 and the first Silent Hill film are fascinating, and as someone that loves writing and design, I hung on every word when I was younger. I'm not sure a remake and redesign of something so creatively genius could ever get me as hyped as the original.

Their games are polished because they are polish xD

Shame on me, but I rarely buy games anymore on day one and usually wait for a sale. Largely because recent titles just can't make me that excited, also there's no publisher/developer whose word I trust and confident that their next release won't turn out to be dissappointing. I don't really fancy the recent political/ideoligical trends either - they're often presented way too agressively and I'm pretty much allergic to the smallest dose at this point. Me being not the richest person, my experience is that it's better to watch a few hours of post-release gameplay in order to to make sure purchasing is right for me. My second biggest argument for waiting is that the games I'm interested in are usually in better shape the older they are; by the time a game is a few months old, many of the issues get ironed out and often more content is added. Simply put, it's better value for the money

LMFAO! I was 28 in 2002. 😂☠️

Where is the music?, the music was what sold the original to me, specially in the trailers.