The Silent Hill 2 Remake Looks Shockingly Bad 

James was a random dude with no combat experience or fighting know-how and the combat reflected that. The shit combat made the enemies way more threatening because fighting them was virtually always disadvantageous and it made even the most basic enemies a legitimate threat to you. Turning the game into a Resident Evil clone and making James a more capable fighter inherently ruins the vibe of the original game because monsters are inherently less threatening and combat is no longer something to be feared the way a character like James should be fearing it.

@@JoeFromSeattle I think they caught the idea that back then people really thought the combat was shit so they decided to amp it up I guess

Every protagonist from an actual silent Hill game have had zero combat experience and are awkward people. Combat was one of two things, a panic response to fear, or a last ditch effort

best example in 1 and i am pretty sure 2 if you turn your flashlight off and radio so no light or sound 99% of the monsters would just ignore your existence combat only became a major thing after 4 because konami is forever chasing the RE4 dragon and their endless pimping of the IP to anyone who will give them $$$

It's pretty easy to explain. The original team were not that experienced in certain areas of game creation but did their best in what they could. In this case they focused more on atmosphere then combat. They created the monsters to work with that weakness. The monsters were not always fast but those that were fast, were not that strong. The strong ones were not that fast, etc etc. The main "combat" of Silent Hill was to do your best to not engage in it, it was essentially a method of self defense then aggression. To show the remake of Silent Hill 2 as combat first, is like saying if Valve made a remake of Team Fortress 2 to play like Overwatch. No one who is a fan of Team Fortress would want that, even if Overwatch is a good game. So now people are seeing a horror game in a focus that wasn't the original intent of the game, making it more action focused.

A shitty resident evil game if that

Don't shit on my boy Resident Evil , most of the games are amazing.

@FreaksayTWD oh no do t get me wrong. I love resident evil. It's just not the silent hill game I want and love.

@@Worm.In.Waiting well it’s still going to have the psychological horror, you just don’t like the combat I’m guessing.

@Suprstitious I like this type of combat. Just not for silent hill. I'll try my best to explain, but keep in mind I'm stupid. I want silent hill to be own thing. I don't want its combat to just copy that of the resident evil remakes. From the looks of things so far, that looks exactly what the game is trying to do.

Seems like that's your trauma, lol.

I stopped caring when i saw "Bloober Team" I still pray to god to this day after P.T that konami goes bankrupt and closes its doors...

I knew this would happen. Not buying the game.

The most C tier studio of all time.

@@ZodiacEntertainment2it definitely looks better than Homecoming, downpour, Shattered memories

​@@kirak1561id hope it look better than a psp and wii game

@@holy9781 homecoming & downpour were games on ps3

They suck at copying other games. Calling them Mid is a compliment

Konami. That is all you needed to know.

@@CaptToiletright I have no faith in all the new silent hill projects as long as Konami is attached

Because they requiere that, like Konami said a lot of studios asked for a chance, but in fact this is a budget thing just like Disney, the key here is the license, the IP, if they want to make a game, let see what happen, after all, they will destroy if the game is a flop, they will remember that the studio that crushed SH2 remake. This a big challenge, because the studio could be over after this, happen the same in the past.

​@@CaptToilet konami should have hired enhanced edition team to get the first 4 games on new gen consoles and forget about remakes permanently.

They got rid of all of their in-house developers when they tried to pivot to producing nothing but pachinko machines.

@@ZodiacEntertainment2If only japan didn’t increase tax on pachinko

Same concept of Disney, they just give a license.

they don't even outsource within japan they sell licenses and outsource to the west...

Wasn't the the original RE4 footage where Leon was fighting ghosts?

Praying they go Bankrupt which will never happen but oh well a man can dream

Unfortunately you are correct. Same issue with the resident evil remakes. These games are not made for the older fans, in fact they are made to spite the fans and appeal to those who hate the originals. "Made for a modern audience" inherently means making something to exclude the classic fans

​@Chaso-1124 take your meds, not everythingbis a conspiracy 😂

News for you, Team Silent planned the idea of a soldier fighting monster into day light, and will be a shooter, so that's the problem, that we don't understand that every person is seeing a different SH, we think all has to be the same, which that's not the case.

@@LosMSR and there’s a reason they didn’t do it. Right? This is not the gotcha you thought it was. Fuck out my mentions.

What in the trailer specifies James is an expert at combat all I seen him do is generically shoot weapons like the original and any human on earth can use any blunt object if they’re strong enough. You dudes acting like he was doing flips leg sweeps and uppercutting monsters like slow down on all the damn reaching. It sound a lot of you are just shitting on the game just to shit on it because of bloober developing it

Hot take - I actually liked.downpour...

Silent Hill has already had more than a few "final nails," hell I think the coffin is mostly nails at this point.

Hopefully Konami will follow next.

I agree with the other things in the comment, but what wrong with being over the top when it comes to voice acting? Isn’t that the point in these types of games?

There has definitely been a lot of mixed messaging on this game, honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was a direction change during development or something. Like maybe it didn't start out as an RE2make clone but then changed into that at some point.

@@Suprstitious The dialogue from the original trailer felt more pretentious than over the top, it's like someone trying really hard to "act" like a person who has mental problems. In the original, every single character talks and acts weird but it feels more genuine because everyone apart from maybe Laura since she's a kid were voiced by people who didn't had that much acting experience. Team Silent were extremely specific in what they required from them and it made the dialogue feel really off putting and weird but also just enough emotional when it needed to be. It's a hard line to balance but unless you've played the first 4 games a lot, it's hard to pinpoint how to emulate that but that's just me.

But I'm not disappointed it doesn't look as good as the reveal trailer, I'm disappointed it looks like a crappier Resident Evil

@@corey2232 A combat trailer was certainly the wrong way to reveal the thing. I am willing to give it a chance though. If they nail the atmosphere and keep the themes untouched then this little combat snafu can be forgiven. Wait till more is revealed before we pass judgement

For me, it's probably the engine used for Metal Gear Solid 5 and Metal Gear Survive. I do believe it looks good from afar, but close up like RDR2, the engine shows its age.

No fixed camera angles, it's immediately shit

Rockstar games look better than the reveal trailers.

Not only should you do them in order but silent hill 1 is the only one that is arguably in need of a remake as it is the most dated. The others didn't really need a remake. The fact they started with 2, the most popular one, just tells us this is a cash grab trying to cash in on a popular franchise

​@Chaso-1124, i've been able to play every other silent hill on modern hardware. But holy fuck is it impossible for me to find silent hill 1 playable anywhere for me. Only game I genuinely wish a remake for, just to be able to get the chance to be able to play it without buying a console on eBay.

@@panzershreck8077 If you have PC you can emulate it

well that's what the original was made for it to copy Resident Evil success Konami even admits that so why wouldn't they do it here?

I'm going to defend Downpour a minute and then make a bold claim. Please hear this out before an instant laugh and dismissal friend. Downpour wasn't that bad. I always liked it and defended it and oddly retrospectively it seems to be more popular now than it was in 2012 (some good times in gaming). Outside of some lame enemy designs and the really bad idea to make the story's ending based on player choices; it wasn't that bad. It was actually a pretty solid game. So now for part two of where I am going. I fear this remake is going to suffer from the same issue the 1998 Psycho remake did. Because the ending is certainly no longer a shock, I am certain they are going to probably water some content and even if they don't - I played the original in 2001 putting something verbatim in better graphics with modern gameplay is only mild appeal because it was solely the story of the original games that made them everlasting as the combat was all clunky and I don't think anyone has ever said, "My favourite game franchise is SH because of combat." So with that said... Why didn't they choose to remake the less obvious but what would have been a more probable profitable choice? Remake Downpour. They could have corrected to a more static ending giving the game a better depth, the combat was already closer to modern combat in a lot of ways, they could make the enemies scarier, include the freaky bosses they left out, not cut the PC version in final stages of dev... Think about it a minute. Downpour was a good but flawed game that people are appreciating more in hindsight. I feel like in my gut it also would have been the safer choice for a team to tackle because how touchy everyone is over the original to begin with. At least remaking something that was never so beloved can give you a chance to make a memorable and beloved version. Taking fine art and sticking it in a higher res photo copier isn't going to make it any better just worse.

@@Pixel_Lobo I agree. However, games that could've been better aren't as lucrative as masterpieces.

Resident Hill 2

@@judexmars4214 Hill Biohazard 2

Bio Hill toooooooo

@@Gabbagool86 silent biohazard 💨💨💩

But they also did to Demon's Souls what Saber Interactive did to Halo Combat Evolved by missing the point of the art direction and just make things pretty just for the sake of it and they would have done the same thing as Blooper but prettier.

Homecoming and downpour proved Silent Hill games worked the best with fixed camera angles.

What should he was trained please elaborate I say a regular guy firing a gun and swinging blunt objects stop pretending we say a solider putting down monsters like it was nothing you dudes are reachers and are just mad bloober is developing this game that’s the real fucking issue a lot of you all have and are just bandwagoning off each others bullshit 🤦🏾‍♂️ a bunch of grown man cry babies

This is psychological horror like Jacob's Ladder, RE is Aliens 2, why is so difficult to understand this, action is not gonna damage anything, check the movie Mouth of Madness, the plot is what created the feeling, not if you can fight or not. Seems to me that some people wanted a walker simulator, and fight the enemies with puzzles. WTF

@@LosMSR Well since the combat is supposed to feel like someone someone who doesn't know how to fight I got to disagree. Also don't know why you commented on my comment and not the actual video but you do you.

@@m0ejo324 Because real video is pure clickbait, the trailer is called combat trailer, happen the same with the OG back in 2000, lol, but people forgot that suddenly.

@@LosMSR Well I guess I should mention in my original comment. I was in elementary school when he played it and it was after it was released.

That’s all you guys really issue it isn’t because of combat or graphics or any other shit y’all whining abt its because bloober is making it and yo guys really hate that that’s the real damn reason

Unless you have deep pockets, use an emulator

The HD remasters on Xbox are inferior to the ps2 but still pretty good, not sure what hardware you use but it's something lol

Ps3 , silent hill 1 may still be on the store and u can get the hd collection for like $10 to play 2 and 3 but those versions are just ok …. Pc I think gog has silent hill 4 for like $6

Play the remasters, who cares about the nit picks. Anything is better than this dogshit

You can get the roms from CDRomance

To be fair, I think it has more to do with Konami than Bloober itself. They even made a tweet a couple months ago saying that Konami is the one in charge of what gets shared to the public.

And they're giving "pyramid head a back story" ... I'm sorry what

@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 He’s a manifestation of James’ guilt & his belief that he needs to be punished. That is the backstory! 🤦 Joe is right. Blooper Team really don’t get Silent Hill.

@@annegrey6447 So Masahiro Ito didn't get SH2 either, a member of Team Silent, gee that's a strong statement for just a fan.

How the hell do you know these things as just a fanboy? All you dudes are getting information whiny ass content creators nothing for either trailer gave me the impressing that their not preserving what made silent hill 2 great it’s a remake its updated everything isn’t going to be exactly the same stop crying abt it. Everything wasn’t the same in any of the RE remakes 🤦🏾‍♂️ you dudes are crybabies

Where in the trailer gives you the feeling James is a fucking trained soldier type the guy it’s literal a minute of him swinging blunt objects and shooting guns same exact shit he did in the original you dudes need to stop lying and just say you don’t like it because bloober is making it 😂😂😂

@@montgomerydeante90 You did not read my comment. I said James is NOT as soldier.

Callisto looks like a masterpiece of game design in comparison lol

This looks far better than CP

So the can call it a dead space skin 😂😂😂 you can’t please the silent hill fanboys we don’t even know how shit is going to look in the other world but hey go off abt a 1 min trailer focused on combat

Could you elaborate on what you didn't like about the ff7 remake? And how it does the origibal a disservice? Surprisingly haven't heard of anyone that's criticised it. But i've also only played the remake once and stopped playing halfeaythrough, so I never got invested into the series or knew much about it

@@panzershreck8077 It's just not a faithful recreation, it takes liberties with the story and goes in a different direction, and it's basically a sequel where the orginal happened in a "different timneline". it's dumb, if something like that were to happen to silent hill 2 fans would revolt.

I never got into SH when I was younger because it didn't have the gun play like RE. I would buy a collection on a heartbeat.

​@@rabbyd542 easily my top 10 games out there...the OG one not the remake.

@rabbyd542 see ppl like me who has played them and love them would buy and ppl like u would also who wants to give them a go now, it wouldn't cost much to port 1 to 4 add trophies sell at a fair price its free money for Konami