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Twin Perfect has posted some of the most well researched Silent Hill analysis videos on the internet and now they have put their magnifying glass to Konami's much maligned HD collection. If Konami paid close attention to the Silent Hill franchise as much as these guys, reviews for the abysmal Silent Hill HD Collection would read a lot different, including our own.
Reviews hit on things like the lack of fog, frame rate, and other technical hiccups, but these guys manage to find major flaws in almost every aspect of the game. Everything from music to movement is closely analyzed and found to be inferior to the originals, with assets misused or missing entirely.
The sirens are sounding again, beckoning you back to the foggy ghost town as we rank all the Silent Hill games, from the chilling classics to the misguided missteps.
I mostly disagree with Downpour's position. Yeah, the game is not amazing by any stretch of the imagination but is much better than the HD Collection and Homecoming. The main issue is the performance, but that was mitigated by the patches, especially on the PS3. Personally, I put it a little behind Origins and The Room.
Having Restless Dreams as a different entry from Silent Hill 2 is also a choice.
Normally, we would not consider it a different game (Restless Dreams), but since it had a very different critical reception and had new content, it was allowed. As for Downpour, I would agree, but since that one is subjective, we let him make his case for the placement.
silent hill 2 is definitely the best one out of those.
for me personally, the whole ritual/cult stuff was always so weird to me in all the other games.
No disrespect but I put SH2 over 1. 1 is fantastic, but 2 took it all up a level.
GF365: "Silent Hill 2 is the sequel to 1999's Silent Hill, and it was released in 2001 by Konami. Here's why Silent Hill 2 is one of the best survival-horror games of all time."
i played a couple of months ago for the first time.
i agree that its a great survival game, but i think the minute u realise you can "kill" them, its takes alot of the initial fear out of it.
the same thing happened to me in Siren Blood Curse.
but its definitely one of the best games, when you start looking into the lore and the symbolism
Never played it. I had moved on from PlayStation since then. So looking forward to the remake. Hope it’s not too cheesy tho.
I've just brought the silent hill collection for the ps2 and absolutely loving it
Here are five worst video game remasters that ruined its original material or at the very least, contributed to tarnishing its good name.
Did people not like the Mafia 2 remake? I got so into it. Thought it was amazing. Never played the original.
Some of these are fitting but I can't help but feel like the author just has nostalgia for the original Mafia 2 here. Dmc Collection on PS4 is fiiiiine its just a collection of PS2 games and the PS3 performance was not amazing. The point is to just have the PS2 games for a new gen of people. Crysis Remastered is also totally fine and has been patched and updated to death since launch. The original version essentially ran on one CPU core and they couldn't fix it let alone get that running on console/switch so they had good reason to do what they did to boost interest in Crysis before the Crysis 4 announcement
Lots of way worse remasters out there lol GTA, THPS HD, that Mario 3D All Stars trash, etc
That's the issue, you haven't played the original.
The new one is slightly better looking but it's bugged af by comparison.
What's worse than the SH HD Collection? Twin Perfect.
Seriously, as much as the HD Collection was a disaster. These guys are much worse off, they told everyone to not buy the collection but then asked others to give THEM money so that THEY can buy and rip apart a product people already knew was of bad quality. It's hypocritical. Plus their documentaries on Silent Hill are filled with inaccuracies.
Fans of the games were unamused about their ridiculous theories on some elements of the game and they claim some of the developers of the games (including team silent devs) are wrong about other aspects.
The overall Silent Hill fanbase consider these guys as a joke. To put it plainly, they are not fans of Silent Hill.
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i regret i bought it, really!
I am so disappointed with what Konami has done with the Silent Hill franchise.
The western games weren't my cup of tea to be honest and I was so excited to get the old games in HD on my PS3.
Then I started hearing about changing the voices and only 2 games being included in the "collection" and when it was finally released it was a buggy mess with bad framerate, no fog, messed up sound and replaced textures for a cleaner look.
It sucks watching your favourite franchise being butchered with each new instalment. An Devil May Cry fans think they have it bad, at least they didn't f*** up the HD collection.
I was severely let down with this release... thank god I got a 60gig PS3 and the old PS2 classics!