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Silent Hill HD Collection is a disgrace
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As I said earlier the HD remakes have issues, but I really don't get the pitch forks and torches attitude here and on the review sites, especially the review sites. Some of if not all of the pictures come nowhere near accurately representing the games, I don't know where they pulled them from.
Could be that as stills they look far worse then what you would see for a fraction of a second in game. Again as I said earlier I have seen or experienced nothing on the magnitude of having it take away from my experiences of the game.
To clarify I wouldn't consider myself a massive fan of the series, I loved the 1st game but everything after that was so so for me, so I have no fanboy vested interest in wrapping the games in kevlar vests to bulletproof them from criticism.
Yes they are not perfect but the massive backlash against them seems to have taken on legs to super exaggerated levels. I just don't get the level of hate levelled against them though maybe I had little or no expectations coming to them but that said I'd played the MGS ones just before these and we know how good they were and yet I could still accept these for what they are
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As I said earlier the HD remakes have issues, but I really don't get the pitch forks and torches attitude here and on the review sites, especially the review sites. Some of if not all of the pictures come nowhere near accurately representing the games, I don't know where they pulled them from.
Could be that as stills they look far worse then what you would see for a fraction of a second in game. Again as I said earlier I have seen or experienced nothing on the magnitude of having it take away from my experiences of the game.
To clarify I wouldn't consider myself a massive fan of the series, I loved the 1st game but everything after that was so so for me, so I have no fanboy vested interest in wrapping the games in kevlar vests to bulletproof them from criticism.
Yes they are not perfect but the massive backlash against them seems to have taken on legs to super exaggerated levels. I just don't get the level of hate levelled against them though maybe I had little or no expectations coming to them but that said I'd played the MGS ones just before these and we know how good they were and yet I could still accept these for what they areJust finished SH2 there. Worth the 30 bucks alone. Missing partial fog that only affects a part of the game and lip-synching aside, I wouldn't have noticed anything without these comparison images flying about the net.
Obviously, if you have the pc version or able to play ps2 version then go with that. The games fine, especially for the eu ps3 version that doesn't have framerate or lag issues. Ive seen videos of James stop/starting when running that didn't affect my version. That Pyrimad head rape scene was in there in full in my playthrough. And that weird metallic breathing noise isn't in there, although I only used the original voices.
I love survival horror, but I didn't think much of The Room or Homecoming, and SH2 was well worth it for me.
I really think you guys are over-complicating this.
Everyone already knows they are good games (SH2 in particular) but they are asking us to pay another 30-40 euros for a game we have already played and rather than making a decent graphical update, or even accurately represent the original - they have actually made them worse.
They are offering worse games than the originals, 10 years later and for 30-40 quid.0 -
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The HD tag to me anyways always ment just getting the games in widescreen and sharper picture. We are getting that in this collection.
Not really. The game is upscaled and in high res but the overall visual quality is dramatically reduced. Looking at the eurogamer article and it's really desperate. It's a game that relies on atmosphere and the visual presentation and it's ruined by this collection. The shadowing is completely absent in SH2 or else looks awful when it is present in a few cutscenes. The game is now over bright and less oppressive because of the lack of the heavy fog effects. Also the low light level filter has been completely dropped giving the game a really sharp unnatural look, made even worse by the lack of anti-aliasing while the old game with the filter had a very grimy look and the filter helped cover up the lack of anti aliasing so it looked more natural.
Basically the artistic vision that the visuals were meant to portray and the atmosphere is completely ruined in this remake as far as I can see and for a game which is very visual focused it's a disgrace. It's much worse for SH2 than SH3 but even SH3 has issues. The Fog is gone but it's not as important to the visuals as in SH2 but there's inexplicable stuff like how the shadowing on the models manages to look much worse than in an old PS2 game.
People would be giving out if a Blu-ray release was handled so badly. Your paying good money for a product that is really sub par when you compare it to Sony's HD collections or even Konami's own MGS collection.
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How is it ludicrous? The game probably does play the same as before but I can see from the visuals that it's far too crisp and unnatural looking completely ruining the more natural and therefore immersive visuals of the original. I does have a negative effect on the game, I can't see how you could argue otherwise. You might think it's overblown criticism but to me it's a very disrespectful and terrible treatment of what could be considered the Citizen Kane of videogame with regards to Silent Hill 2 and it's narrative (a lot of which is told through the games use of visuals). If a blu-ray of Citizen Kane was threated with such disrespect you can be sure there would be just as big an uproar.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »How is it ludicrous? The game probably does play the same as before but I can see from the visuals that it's far too crisp and unnatural looking completely ruining the more natural and therefore immersive visuals of the original. I does have a negative effect on the game, I can't see how you could argue otherwise. You might think it's overblown criticism but to me it's a very disrespectful and terrible treatment of what could be considered the Citizen Kane of videogame with regards to Silent Hill 2 and it's narrative (a lot of which is told through the games use of visuals). If a blu-ray of Citizen Kane was threated with such disrespect you can be sure there would be just as big an uproar.
Like I said earlier I'm not the series biggest fan so I certainly wouldn't call it the Citizen Kane of games, it never was nor never will be.
It really does play the same, but really using terms like "disrespectful" and "terrible treatment" are overblown. If you are telling me that the narrative of this game hung on a few shadows and thicker fog than what we got with these games then you need to cling to that ps2 for dear life. Ok I can accept the "cheek to call it HD" point of view.
Overall it really doesn't lack to the levels of which you think it does as to take away from what it was originally. My experience of it having just got the rebirth ending is the same as what it was 10 years ago with less fog 0 -
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