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Silent Hill HD Collection is a disgrace
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The thing is the game was made to look grainy and grimey. Polishing it up is a major injustice to the overall tone of the game imo.
True, the game uses a lot of low light level filters that simulate the coloured cones in the eyes switching to the black and white cones in low light levels. It deteriorates the image quality in a very realistic manner.It's not even that people want better graphics, the quality of the image just deteriorates quite a bit for the older consoles. A recent example is the Wind Waker on the GameCube. It looks nice but nowhere near as nice as it used to on my older TV.
A big problem is people playing old consoles on HD displays which make the games look awful. They look an awful lot better on a CRT. The colours are better and TV's have scanlines and a natural antialiasing effect so the games look gorgeous on a CRT but really blocky on a HD screen. Recently got a Neo Geo MVS arcade system and it looks absolutely stunning on a CRT but the image quality deteriorates on a HD display.
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To be fair their reviews have improved dramatically over the past few months in terms of content and writing but the way they operate is still very questionable.
They merged with 1up so there's some cross over there but there's still the old staff left that are useless especially compared to the 1up guys. I'll just say I can't wait for the Eurogamer review and tech analysis, Richard Leadbetter will tear it to shreds.
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Yeah cause THAT'S how it works :rolleyes:
Retro how you know so much about SH2s development, like the low light levels etc? Are there articles around?
Check out the Jeremy Blaustein interviews on HG101, there's loads there. There's also a good podcast up on youtube about the work he did on the localisation of Snatcher and giving out about Kojima and Yu Suzuki. He also mentions the work he did on Silent Hill 2 since he was heavily involved in how the narrative progressed.
Here it is, pretty much essential listening for anyone interested in games:
As for the low level light filters, just play the game and you'll see it. You can turn the filter on and off in the options to see the effect it gives. It's just an alpha post processing effect put over the camera but it's very effective and has been used in loads of games since. It just adds some subtle grainy noise to the image that simulates how your eyes react to low light levels.
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Oh Jesus it is! I must have blocked this out when I was a young fella. I remember him just stuffing it down a sink. What a disturbing vid. The 2nd top comment is brilliant
yeahah that's the stuff.. that's the sort of warped shìt I fell in love with , nevermind the nurses I remember shuddering in awe / shivering with delight that this sort of thing was in a video game. I thought here we go, forecasting a slew of mature depravity but it's obviously still to edgy for the games industry.
SH1 port is a mess too, But that never asked nor claimed to be HD0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sx7yttJm0I
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