I usually try to put some effort into my posts, but I'm watching the season (series?) finale of Alcatraz and I love Sam Neill, so there just isn't time. Especially since my computer has a mind of its own and doesn't want to work correctly.
This news is a few days old, but Amazon has stopped selling the Silent Hill HD Collection (it's under review) and the other Silent Hill game that was supposed to be released tomorrow has been delayed indefinitely, with no real explanation why. What happened? This month should have been great for the series, especially since Silent Hill Downpour was such a great game. How did it go downhill?
I own the HD Collection, but I was so busy playing Downpour that I only found time to play ten minutes each of Silent Hill 2 and 3. From what I saw, it wasn't that bad. I've read about framerate issues...I did see some slowdown, but nothing worse than what I experienced in, oh, I don't know...Dark Souls. And people weren't outraged by that, they kept on playing it anyway. There are complaints about the textures and how everything looks "too clean." Admittedly, it does. But that itself wouldn't be enough for me to disown the game all together. And of course, there are the new voice actors. People have complained about them since the collection was first announced. I don't think they're that bad. I really like Troy Baker as James. I also liked Guy Cihi. And I think Laura Bailey (I'm assuming it's Laura Bailey) is a major improvement as Angela.
So imagine my surprise when I found out that fans were so upset with this collection that they actually got Amazon to stop selling it. Again, I only played it for ten minutes, so I really don't know the extent of the issues. But based on what I played, this was a huge shock. I'm still in a bit of a state of disbelief. How could Konami release the game if it had so many problems? Didn't they test it first?
I'm going to say something, and I swear it's not me being a Silent Hill fangirl because I would be the first person to point out any flaws in the game if I played through it and noticed them. Part of me does believe that the HD Collection has some issues. Many games do this gen, game developers have gotten lazy. But I have to wonder if maybe fans of the older games are exaggerating just how terrible the HD Collection is because of how angry they are about the new voice actors. They've had it out for this collection since it was first announced that the old voices wouldn't be in the games. I'm skeptical about their motives.
For Amazon to stop selling the game, I would think it would have to be so bad that it's completely unplayable. From what I've seen, however brief it was, that is not the case. I'm going to try to make time to play through more of the games so I can see for myself if it gets worse. If it is as awful as everyone has made it out to be, I'm really disappointed that Konami would take two games that fans of Silent Hill love so much and not handle them properly.
Respectfully, I don't think you can see how much lag is going on on the PS3 version until you've played several hours. It's bad in SH2 outside, but in SH3 it's gamebreaking in the mall sections. You take about 4 seconds to recover when Heather hits a wall and the game's lagging. Try it out.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the bugs, I could have dealt with those, but there are a lot of them. There are also many unnecessary and puzzling artistic changes. Different sounds in many locations. Different music, textures, etc. It's not true to the source material.
That's why I made sure to point out that I haven't played much of it. :) Because I really don't know the extent of the issues yet. I'm just really surprised. It baffles me that this game could be so horrible that Amazon has actually stopped selling it. I mean...Really. Think about that. It's unsellable. (I'm not sure that's even a word.) It's shocking that it's actually that bad.
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