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New Silent Hill Announced

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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Angela Hotel Scene​




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911 Jumper

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Good grief. Her face reminds me of the actor Colin Farrell. How can anyone think she's even mildly attractive?
 
Necrensha

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So now that some bald guy played the beginning of the game, we know that:
-The combat is absurdly fast, Harry can switch between melee and ranged faster than Leon Kennedy
-The game is filled with memberberries about Silent Hill 1
-The apartments are filled with barbed wire, because they must reference Homecoming for some reason
-There's several times more combat than you think, enemy density easily doubled, and now is more involved by having to constantly dodge the telegraphed attacks left and right
 
Zlaja

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The switch to constant over-the-shoulder perspective completely ruins this game for me on its own. The original had regular 3rd person view, mixed with fixed camera angle (sort of) segments, which added to the tension and immersion. In this version you're constantly staring straight ahead of you, while player character covers large portion of the screen. Worse possible solution for creating tension.

After watching that entire video, the image of PC's fucking jacket was imprinted in my head, because his back covers almost half the screen and is so IN YOUR FACE.
 
JC'sBarber

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The remake is drastically better visually, with the exception of the characters. But they seem to have nailed the environment, and the fog effects are modernised as well. There is something to be said about the PS2's limitations leading to a more abstract sort of horror, but I'm willing to give this remake a chance since I'm not married to Silent Hill 2. I always thought the first game was vastly superior. I'm not a balding millennial who'll start sperging out like the Nostalgia Critic because they made the wallpaper a different color in Room 202.

I think for horror games, the first-person view is best, by far. It's the most immersive, the least cumbersome, and brings you directly in front of the monsters. The disconnect a third-person view enforces doesn't lend itself as well to scaring you. If you made P.T a third-person experience, for example, it wouldn't have been nearly as effective. It's why the move to first-person with RE7 and RE8 was a wise decision, it's just a shame everything else about those games shat the bed and ruined the series.
 
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randir14

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Pre-ordered the deluxe edition on GMG so I can play early on my two days off. I think it looks better than the original in every way, other than James now looking like a blonde Asian.
 
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