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Which Silent Hill should Bloober remake next?

Which game?

  • Silent Hill (1999)

    Votes: 118 69.0%
  • Silent Hill 3 (2003)

    Votes: 22 12.9%
  • Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004)

    Votes: 14 8.2%
  • None (let them make an original SH game)

    Votes: 17 9.9%

  • Total voters
    171

Killer8

Member
I feel like you can't remake 3 without first remaking 1, since it's a direct sequel. You're then all aboard the series remake train like Capcom is at that point.

A remake of the first could be interesting given the 25 year leap in graphical fidelity required to go from PS1 to PS5. It would have to be radically remade, which would give Bloober more artistic license than they had with the remake of 2. That may or may not be a good thing, as SH2R is seemingly so good because it sticks so closely to the original. There's a surreal corniness to SH1 that might get lost in translation if they try to remake it through a lens of SH2-tier seriousness.

A remake of 4 with its ideas fleshed out would be much more interesting and would give Bloober some more experience doing their own thing. That's important because out of all the Silent Hill related shit Konami has being chucking at the wall hoping to see it stick, Silent Hill 2 remake has been the most successful since the original trilogy. Grooming Bloober with Masahiro Ito and Akira Yamaoka into a sort of Team Silent 2 should be the goal.
 

ANIMAL1975

Member
So Silent Hill 2 remake reviews are in and they’re good.

Despite a few niggles, the consensus is that Bloober were the right choice to bring back this great series for a new generation.

The question now is, which game should be the next to get this treatment?

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Where's Remake Konami
 

Azelover

Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I want a serious attempt at a new one.

But other than that, I guess the first one would be interesting..
 

Bloobs

Al Pachinko, Konami President
I believe the best course of action would be to create a remake of Silent Hill 3 and release it within a relatively short timeframe. Following that, full attention should be devoted to a remake of the original Silent Hill, which would require substantial technical work and a modern overhaul of certain gameplay mechanics and dynamics.

Let's do 3 then 4 and save 1 for last because that makes the most sense lol.
 

Arachnid

Member
Silent Hill 4 and it's not even close - 1 and 3 will just mostly be built from the bones of 2 and are objectively not as interesting, especially 3.

But 4....

If they expanded on 2, imagine 4 modernised where it's actually released feature complete, is improved and expanded upon. It'll be the closest thing to what P.T could have been.
Agreed. 3 may be the fan favorite after 2, but but both it and 1 were never impressive in terms of story. Everything else was A1 though.

The Room, meanwhile, has the second best story after 2. It just had the most frustrating gameplay design of the main four, so a lot of people bounced off (half of it is an escort mission backtracking through areas you've already been through; annoying invincible ghosts; combat even more frustrating than the first three, somehow). It would benefit the most from a remake just to fix the gameplay.

I'd like a remake of that, and then an original game. I don't want them doing remakes for the next two decades, so one more and then move on. I also wouldn't mind going straight to an original game.
 

Bartski

Gold Member
I just beat Silent Hill 1. Perfect timing. I have to say for a game released over 25 years ago omfg... it did age gracefully, especially with some help of emulator tweaks. And how is it still so much scarier than SH3??? Easily the one to get reworked next IMO and if so, I hope Bloober gets a lot of creative freedom, at least enough to rewrite all dialogue
 

StueyDuck

Member
did SH townfall officially get cancelled? I remember it kind of being up in the air cause of Annapurna.

i want the next SH to actually be terrifying, so yeah give me townfall, or maybe that weird SH f or whatever it was called
 

nial

Member
Silent Hill 1 makes the most sense (also being the only other good game in the series), and then 3 should be fairly easier.
Grooming Bloober with Masahiro Ito and Akira Yamaoka into a sort of Team Silent 2 should be the goal.
It will never be the same, but I guess it's the next best thing. Certainly much, MUCH better than every other Western effort in the past.
KDE should acquire Bloober, honestly. Their internal workforce is pretty sad when you look at it.
 
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Caio

Member
Let's do 3 then 4 and save 1 for last because that makes the most sense lol.
I didn’t particularly enjoy Silent Hill 4: The Room; I consider it the weakest of the series, and frankly, I wouldn’t recommend a remake. After the remake of Silent Hill 3, I would move straight to remaking the original Silent Hill, with a release aimed at Next Gen consoles and PC. Of course, this is just my whimsical and overly sentimental idea.
 

JimRyanGOAT

Member
I didn’t particularly enjoy Silent Hill 4: The Room; I consider it the weakest of the series, and frankly, I wouldn’t recommend a remake. After the remake of Silent Hill 3, I would move straight to remaking the original Silent Hill, with a release aimed at Next Gen consoles and PC. Of course, this is just my whimsical and overly sentimental idea.

Personally I loved it

2 has the best story (From what I played)

3 is the scariest

Never played 1 tbh

I think 3 makes sense in terms of profits
 

OrangeSun77

Member
Making a remake of Silent Hill 1 would be redundant again in the city and the fog, etc. I think a remake of The Room would be more interesting because of the concepts it handles.
 

TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I'd like to say the first but they already said "we at Bloober were always fans of telling personal stories about people's experiences, people's feelings and how they go through them. Not so much about, you know know, occultism and things from other worlds, right? So I think that was the main reason, basically." Regarding why they didn't make SH1 first.
 

Jordoon

Member
Enough with the fucking remasters/ remakes.............
Yeah I agree. Why can't we all just let the games we loved live on fondly in our memories? And if we must indulge, emulation is always there.

Instead companies keep regurgitating old games because it's cheaper, safer, and nostalgia is a helluva drug. Kind of blows mind that most people wouldn't rather have a new experience, new story, etc. The poll results are very surprising to me.
 
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