Do Not Expect Silent Hill 2 Remake to Fully Copy Original

Bloober Team has recently revealed that the upcoming Silent Hill 2 Remake is a whole new journey.

[Orchard]

Well that's worrying, it's Bloober team after all. This game should just be a copy paste of the original with better graphics and improved gameplay mechanics.

[-Foxtrot]

Yeah, like remember when RE3 removed stuff...

I just don't want these guys using this as an excuse to why there's things missing in the remake.

[Eonjay]

"Kacper revealed that the whole town of Silent Hill has now been reworked with the use of state-of-the-art technology. All of the creatures involved in this game have been recreated as well with more eerie visuals. To make the game challenging, the team has changed the AI to keep them on their toes."

I think this is exactly what people would want to change. I don't see any reason for concern from this statement? Can we stop the fake concern and save it for things that are actually concerning.

Also stop reacting to clickbait titles.

[shinoff2183]

That's all I wanted with ff7 remake. Id like the same here tbh.

[CorndogBurglar]

FF7 Remake was such a disappointment for me simply because they changed the combat.

[ManMarmalade]

The resident evil 4 remake is adding features to combat, such as the knife being more useful in situations. I'm not fully sold with this being done by bloober though.

[Vits]

Honestly, I feel that is for the better. There is no way Bloober Team or any other developer would be able to recreate the original. So going with something a little bit different might be for the best. Or so I would say if the original wasn't so bloody annoying or downright impossible to get for modern platforms.

So Konami let's keep the good things coming and announce a port of the original already.

[shinoff2183]

Re create. How not it's all laid out for them literally everything

[Vits]

Because it's not easy, Silent Hill 2 is a PS2 title. Its design from the visuals to mechanics was created around the limitations of the hardware and what was common sense back in the day. Trying to make a 1-1 copy of that to modern platforms that do not share the same limitations, with a public that does not share the same sensibilities will simply show how things are not the same. New fans will be disappointed by how this legendary game behaves and older fans will also be disappointed because it does feel like it used to.

[ANIALATOR136]

The game is best these days on PCSX2. It's a shame we don't have a proper remaster but playing the original through an emulator is best we can get if we want higher resolutions

[Vits]

Yeah, and that is sort of the problem. The ways we currently have to experience the game is by either hunting down the original hardware, emulating it on going through some hops to get the Unofficial Enhanced Edition working on PC.

And look I'm not even asking for a remaster, just give us a port of the original, one that doesn't suck so we can play on other platforms officialy.

[Flawlessmic]

Why re invent, just give us current gen graphics, make some QOL improvements and bam, you have an instant classic remade for us oldies to enjoy and for for a new generation to enjoy exactly as it was, just looks prettier.

[BrainSyphoned]

One of many signs that this will be a Do Not Recommend. No chance at game pass bailing out this exclusive failure either.

[shinoff2183]

It's barely had anything shown beside some dope small trailer. Game pass maybe a few but it's hardly the knight in shining armor some of yall xbox people make it out to.

I think your hating more cause it'll be on ps5 first if I remember right.

[Flawlessmic]

Yea there will be a lot of hate and downplaying on here simply for the fact it's exclusive so the salty ones who don't own a ps5 will downplay it at every turn.

I'll wait till it's out before judge it, hope they knock it out of the park though.

[isarai]

Oh no...

Having an already defined structure to follow was the only hope i had for Bloober Team to finally hit the mark with this game where they always fall just shy of great in every other attempt/game in their track record. Them taking the reigns on that, i dont have much hope for this game. Hope i'm wrong but their track record is working against them here. It'll just be another "ok" game with a bitter aftertaste.

[Thundercat77]

It worked on FF 7 Remake. It was amazing.

I'm open for the same treatment on SH.

[CorndogBurglar]

FF7 was good. But I was really disappointed the combat was different.

[-Foxtrot]

The whispers of fate bullshit man, some Lomgdom Hearts storyline right there

They spent such a big chunk making this reimagining canon to the “new” story in world wasting time rather than just stating it’s a reimagining during lead up to launch and we’d have gotten it

If they called that one FFVII Rebirth rather than giving that name to Part II it would have worked more

[shinoff2183]

That's debatable. I like ff7r but I wanted a more true version. Not the action game we ended up with. Again I liked remake but wanted truer

Corndogburglar, foxtrot. Agree 100 percent

[wiegraf]

Mediocre action game with fan-fiction level story. Naah, I pass.

[MadLad]

Lol.
I was saying the same thing for the FF7 "remake", when I criticized it for feeling very disconnected from the original experience, and got chastised up and down for it.
Now we get an article about how SH2 might not be a 1 to 1 retool of the original, and now we need to respect the source material as much as possible.

If anything, I actually trust Bloober to give us something that actually resembles the original release; even if some creative liberties are taken.

[shinoff2183]

I'll down vote you for alot of stuff madlad. Not about criticizing ff7r

[CorndogBurglar]

Same here. When FF7R was being made most people were all about it being different and having an action combat system.

"Why do a remake and make it the same? Just play the old one if that's what you want."

Blah blah blah. As if playing the old game from the 90's is in any way the same as playing a remake with updated and modern graphics.

Some people are ridiculous.

[TheColbertinator]

Don't know why they insist on the remake then.

[jznrpg]

Only time will tell . Doesn’t have to be an exact copy to be great . We will see

[shinoff2183]

It would be nice though. Maybe at most add a few things but please don't change anything.

[jznrpg]

They can’t change the story or their chances of f’ing it up go way up .
They will most likely to add to combat and level design but don’t f with the story

[CrimsonWing69]

Ugh, so we tease fans wanting a Remake and now you’re telling us Bloober is making a “different journey”. I mean, you had one job…

[generic-user-name]

I wouldn't mind them expanding on the exploration of the town itself, adding some more enterable buildings, maybe find some unique 'side quests' like Downpour did. The original is a fairly short game, there's room for more.

[jznrpg]

Agreed . If they add on to it I don’t mind . Level design and combat need some updating for such an old game but they need to keep the plot , if they add on to it that’s fine but hopefully they don’t take things away . From the sounds of it it will be graphics , level design , possibly some quality of life stuff for combat but I don’t expect the story to change

[OhReginald]

Resident evil 2 did the same thing and it turned out to be a success and a excellent remake. People need to chillllllll

[SouljAx360]

This is a little scary to hear honestly. When it was announced they were talking about how Konami was watching them carefully and that it doesn't deviate much from the original game.

They said something about making the game more challenging. Silent Hill was never a challenging game, it was a fun game where you beat enemies with a pipe and solved puzzles. It would really suck if they made it so that you can barely kill the enemies and have to run away most of the time. Oh, and please don't add those hide and chase scenes from The Medium.

[Eonjay]

You have to read the article to get through the clickbait. Never once did they say they were changing the story. So I'm reading a whole bunch of comments from people mad that they are updating the visuals? You guys can't be serious. I don't want to play a replica of the PS2.

[wiegraf]

Oh shit, here we go again...

[mastershredder]

Just needs properly to respectfully recreate the nurses AND a fat guy horrifically puking his guts out and into a nasty toilet. Then we good.