Picked up my copy and tried to play SH2 with the new voice over option; i don’t like it. The voice actors sounds like their trying too ‘hard’; I don’t get that sense of paranoia/hysteria/subtle fear and lunacy like the original. I’m just glad we have the option to use original voice-overs.
Sucks, I loved the Silent Hill series.
I did play and beat 3, didn’t care much for it. I did play and beat part 4, and I will say you’re not missing much.
However, I will say Silent Hill 4 has the best final boss in the entire series. It’s too bad the game literally became a huge escort mission half way through. And damn, was that annoying. Did not want to touch that game again.
Better than the new Resident Evil.
Pyramid Head Rape Scene Edited Out of Silent Hill 2 HD?
**"**fans of the game have noticed that an iconic scene has been edited out of this release. When James Sunderland stumbles through a hallway door, he encounters the infamous Pyramid Head engaging in the rape of a pair of sullen female torsos. However, in the HD Collection version, the scene allegedly simply opens up with James stepping into the frame and cuts out the rape scene almost entirely."
oh now it’s a problem? how can it be rape? it’s not like the things said, “no glove, no love”.
Fuck Konami.
I guess I’ll just have to go to Gamestop and find a PS2 copy of SH2
You’ll be tripping over them. Be sure to get the Greatest Hits version instead, it has stuff added to it.
The extra stuff like Maria’s side story eventually made it’s way to the PS2 version? Great to know.
I picked up SH HD Collection on release day (360 version). I did a quick run through SH2 just to see how it fares. I’ll post in-depth impressions later, but for now;
- The game is WAY too bright (playing via VGA cable with Expanded color range), I had to turn it down immediately. Unfortunately this doesn’t affect the FMVs so they look washed out as fuck and contrast terribly.
- New graphics are great except for the boat scene. Remastered sound is great too.
- WTF #1: There’s a very noticeable bug where the music skips during cutscenes. Sloppy port confirmed, yes, I mad.
- WTF #2: There’s a bizarre delay when exiting the inventory screen where the screen is still black, but the game is unpaused, meaning enemies can hit you for free during that second or two because you literally can’t see them. You have to be careful not to check your inventory when fighting, or at least only check it when they’re clearly not about to attack you. That’s right, SH HD has strategic pausing. What in the actual fuck.
- The achievements look hard, lots of “this achievement is one of the requirements for a 10 star ranking” stuff. Will take several playthroughs to get 1000/1000.
- Disappointed that there is zero bonus content. No concept art, no developer commentary, no promo stuff, nothing. They could have at least thrown the Fukuro and Usagi videos on there (which would have been awesome).
- New SH2 voices are fucked. They’re all trying way too hard to be dramatic and end up coming off like soap opera actors.
- Why wasn’t SH4 included?
- The FMV quality is a total mixed bag, some look great while others look grainier/blockier than YouTube videos filmed via iPhone.
This shit already needs a patch for observations 1, 2, and 4. Haven’t tried SH3 yet.
Waiting on this from Gamefly, they sent me Ninja Gaiden 3 instead ffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Seems like everyone that’s not retarded like IGN is happy with it so far. Shocking that anyone on SRK would go to IGN at all, it’s like getting your game reviews from Maxim lol.
Are all the achievements hard to get? I’m hoping they are as I’m sure the achievement notation would kill all immersion.
Played a little SH2 on ps2…that damn nurse was either retarded or high on something. She didn’t notice that she and the main character seemed to be the only people in the damn town, and was talking about other people (you probably meet them later in the game, Idunno) like she was living in a regular city with people everywhere. Wtf? You go to her hospital, and the place is fuckin abandoned. Anywho, I hope the Vita SH is decent. I liked Origins on psp.
Sure you weren’t playing SH1? You know the one with the Nurse character…
[media=youtube]4qW76u_IQTY[/media] they cant make a good silent hill game. Now book is coming out it looks like crap also
Downpour would be excellent if not for the technical issues. Personally, it was way less offensive than Silent Hill 4. It’s a legit SH game.
The only reason I’d give Book of Memories a shot, is because of Wayforward being absolutely gdlk.
Destructoid blasted it too, and I agree with most of the complaints: aside from the upscaling and texture decompression, it’s a pretty messy port. The good news is that the original games were so amazing it doesn’t really matter.
Most of the achievements can be tough if you aren’t familiar with the game since they’re based on the requirements for a 10 star final ranking, e.g., pick up 150+ items or kill 75+ enemies with gunfire. My first run I only got six, one for beating each boss, one for getting an ending, and one for picking up 150+ items.
Sorry for double post, tapatalk needs multiquote.
Started Downpour last night. Combat kind of frustrating so far (which isn’t unlike any of the silent hills), but the visuals and voice acting are pretty excellent so far. Stopped last night when i got into what appeared to be the town proper and it’s huge and open just like the town was in 1/2. The effect of using the lighter and the way you open doors now are really freaky. Who opens doors face first???
No, the controls and graphics sucked too bad on that one. I’m sure it’s part 2. Drove to SH to meet someone by a lake, they never showed, walking through town, crackheads scurrying around under cars like cockroaches…shit…I think I might be in the projects. looks around for baby on the corner selling weed…spots him OH SHIT, I AM in the projects!!
The combat and the game play was better the Res evil 1