Luipadre
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Silent Hill 2 is the best remake of all time.
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ThisIsMyDog
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Lucifers Beard
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Played the first few hours of it and thought it was pretty good, although the technical issues have put me off a bit. Greatest remake of all time though? No, sorry that belongs to RE4 or RE2.
KaiserBecks
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Resident Evil 4 has a fantastic remake that's also completely playable in VR, so it wins by default.
delfrickintree
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I totally forgot about Mario RPG. Makes me wonder if a game has to be noteworthy or controversial in order to get praised. Instead they just go under the radar?
Boss Mog
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Persona 3 Remake is fantastic but putting The Answer as a separate DLC for 35 bucks is not cool at all.
Team Andromeda
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Like I said before, never got the hate Bloober got.SH2 remake is awesome. My fav remake is still Conkers Bad Fur Day mind.
GudOlRub
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I never really hated them, but I was expecting the game to be mediocre at best because
A. Bloober's extremely mediocre release history.
B. All the trailers and gameplay footage looked meh at best, quite bad at worst.
Glad to have been proven wrong though.
But I still think the asking price for this game is too steep though. I bought it full price and would do it again but I'm curious to see if it sells will with such a high entry price...
Team Andromeda
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I have a lot of respect for people man enough to admit they called it wrong. I really liked Blair Witch and for me The Medium was like a love letter to SH.
I do get that if a new Silent Hill game was to be made, fabs would like the original team to make it .
balls of snow
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Its equal to Re2remake. The two franchise are eternally locked together now.
Markio128
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I meant a remake for consoles, like the Orange box.
squidilix
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Silent Hill 2 is much more respectful to the original and is a much more fear-based game than Resident Evil 2
On the other hand, the progression in Resident Evil 2 (or 3) is much more fun and the action gameplay is better.
SH2 remake is very too long and gameplay gonna boring at the middle/end (too many ennemy).
Which is a problem since the game has 9 endings, but if the first run is already irritating, then there is no incentive to get the other endings.
On the other hand, the progression in Resident Evil 2 (or 3) is much more fun and the action gameplay is better.
SH2 remake is very too long and gameplay gonna boring at the middle/end (too many ennemy).
Which is a problem since the game has 9 endings, but if the first run is already irritating, then there is no incentive to get the other endings.
thatJohann
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I don’t think so. RE4 Remake is better.
Bartski
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you can easily get all endings on one NG+ save made before the tape.
squidilix
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This is non-sense, I mean.
In the original, if you want "In Water" ending, You need to be between 75-50% health in game, ignoring Maria, looking Angela's Knife sometimes, read the note on the roof of the hospital, listening the doctor tape at the end of the hotel and listening Mary at final corridor.
For Maria, you need to respond or check sometimes Maria and protect her, also ignoring the letter or knife, the audio tape or the Mary audio in the final corridor.
And for Rebirth, you needed some extra object in the appartement, Historical Societal or Hotel and only avalaible on NG+.
I don't know how they do for the remake, but this is more disapointing if all ending can be unlocked with just one choice.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
This is what the kids like to call recency bias.
Chuck Berry
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Bartski
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No, it's not. It works exactly like it did in the original. You can play the entire game smart to meet all conditions, so all the options are open till almost the very end of the hotel.
saintjules
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To be fair though the initial reveal did look pretty stiff. I wasn't even convinced about it until I started playing. It's great.
Griffon
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Front to back, back to front for years back in early 00s, it's one of my absolute GOAT. And yes what they did to Mary/Maria feels like a personal affront.
Those DEI fucks are making a mockery of our culture and you people are just laying down and letting it happen.
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fart town usa
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Visuals or dialogue?
Try playing with Japanese voices. I was worried that the english voice acting would completely sour the game like it did to me with The Medium, playing with Japanese voices has been a great experience and they did a great job with matching the facial expressions/tone, especially with Maria. Highly recommended.
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Gamer_By_Proxy
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I'm experiencing SH2 for the first time with my 4090. So pretty. Puddles everywhere.
I think I rented the first silent hill for 2 days back in the day, that's all I've ever played of SH.
I think I rented the first silent hill for 2 days back in the day, that's all I've ever played of SH.
Jayjayhd34
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Grabbed my ps from my flat to play this currently in rehab. Just finished hospital bit it's fucking awesome.
Madserb2023
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I still think Resident Evil 1 still is the best remake. There is nothing it doesn't do better than the original. There are still elements of the original Silent Hill 2 I prefer.
fart town usa
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Barry is better in the OG. Too much of a bastard in REmake, really sullied his character for that particular entry in the series. His internal conflict is handled better in OG, remake is like he's fully on board and has little to no qualm with sabotaging STARS. Rev2 confirms this too, Canon Barry is OG Barry.
Madflavor
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I wouldn't say he's "better". He's just unintentionally hilarious, which I guess makes him more entertaining to watch than the Remake version.
NeverYouMind
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The dialogue is milquetoast in the remake instead of hilariously cheesy like the original. Standing, walking, and running animations look better (and are more effective) in the original while in the remake characters stand and move around like they have sticks up their butts. Also, the gasoline flask management and Lisa Trevor interruptions in the remake are a nuisance. Crimson zombies were in the original in the B3 Lab area instead of being a punishment for not using a shitty mechanic. The pacing is pretty bad in the remake as well. The lack of consistency in shotgun headshots decapitating is also annoying. Only real improvements are models, textures, and shark tank area redesign.
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fart town usa
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That's Barry though. Lovable goofball but reliable as they come when it counts. OG vocal direction aside, his portrayal in Rev2 absolutely solidifies Barry's personality within the series. That's why I say OG is better for Barry because his portrayal in remake is essentially null and void because of rev2, which is an extension of his OG portrayal.
fart town usa
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I won't go as far with some of the things you listed but I am 100% in agreement with movement. Controls are better in OG, much snappier. Remake is too floaty, like you're driving a boat.
I also prefer the dialogue as a whole in OG. Yes it's bad but it is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be, it's just the most prominent example because most people are familiar with it.
Deep Fear on Sega Saturn is infinitely worse than OG RE, but few people played the game.
Grildon Tundy
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I haven't played the original SH2. But I can't think of another remake that I was more impressed by than SH2.
It does in some brief sections. Nothing like Mr X's constant preying, though.
Chuck Berry
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All these threads, all of the time, are just this one clip over and over again
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Sooner
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I don't necessarily disagree, but I still want to fight. Where can we meet?
TGO
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You think Born from a Wish is going to be free?
HeWhoWalks
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Parazels
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When I saw RE: Remake screenshots back in 2001,We could do this exact type of comparison for SH2.
I couldn't believe it was possible. Even considering the prerended graphics.
Silent Hill 2: Remake? Is it that different from Resident Evil 4 or Alan Wake 2?
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HeWhoWalks
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It’s different from the game it’s remaking, which is the point of it. It also looks better than both AW2 and RE4R.
Lack of other games like RE:R at the time doesn’t mean other games couldn’t be made that looked as good. And the best offline visuals in 2002 absolutely blew away RE:R.
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HeWhoWalks
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The issue with these comparisons is how different the games are from one another. There is no 1:1 conclusion that can be drawn outside of preference.
On the technical side, SH2 looks a bit better and didn’t suffer as many bugs, but what you prefer comes down to the game itself.
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JimmyRustler
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Nonsense. Both RE4 and (especially) AW2 look better.
Badlucktroll
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Sega should remake deep fear in the style of Resident Evil 2 remake or i would like to see a remake of Carrier
Kokoloko85
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RE1 Remake is number 1 for me
RE2 was decent, but too many changes ruined it for me, especially Mr X following you all the time. First hour was amazing
RE2 was decent, but too many changes ruined it for me, especially Mr X following you all the time. First hour was amazing
Negotiator101
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The Dead Space remake also.
tommib
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Games of Today
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And I'm over here just praying god this happens to Uncharted: Drake's Fortune one of these days.
nnytk
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So does it features mind bending level design and transformations of walls and floors turning into hellscapes or does it stay as grounded as all of the footage I've seen?
HeWhoWalks
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My favorite of all the Uncharteds! Hell yeah!
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