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[Killer8]

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.

 

[Griffon]

How about no.

 

[Revolutionary]

Book of Memories

 

[supersale88]

The original, of course.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Shattered Memories

 

[ANIMAL1975]

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?

Where's Remake Konami

 

[Badlucktroll]

I have no doubt now that Bloober and Yamaoka and Ito can crank out an original Silent Hill title that bests their sh2 remake

 

[Hydroxy]

I don't care as long as they keep making good remakes. We need more Silent Hill games for sure.

 

[RPCGamer]

Siren

Yeah. That got you

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Silent hill 1 and 3.

The charm of Silent Hill 4 is the technical section... Which is funny...

 

[Kacho]

I love SH The Room. It’s so unique and unsettling. But zero chance it gets prioritized over 1 & 3.

 

[T-Reks]

They should remake their awful studio name

 

[Azelover]

I want a serious attempt at a new one.

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

 

[rkofan87]

they have raped it enough leave sh alone

 

[rkofan87]

The game is not even out yet for anyone that does a deep dive into these things. It might be a one off.

i hope so they raped sh2

 

[Kacho]

R rkofan87 in here dropping nuclear bombs. Jesus Christ’

 

[mdkirby]

Parasite eve

 

[Big Baller]

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.

 

[Big Baller]

i hope so they raped sh2

Come join the party pal

 

[rkofan87]

R rkofan87 in here dropping nuclear bombs. Jesus Christ’

I'm referring to This is a big down. Grade thread from a few days ago with those videos. But the videos are now gone. Sadly, but that's what I'm referring to when they, when I said they raped it.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Enough with the fucking remasters/ remakes.............

 

[Arachnid]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[kiphalfton]

Remaking hits is one thing, but why not remake something that could use a second chance? Silent Hill 4.

Yeah, I don't understand why they would only focus on remaking the most popular entry/entries? Real head scratcher.

 

[Badlucktroll]

Imagine the grey children, split head, puppet nurses and doctors, those weird ghost things, the cat in the locker, lisa, kaufman ect redone with modern graphics

 

[ManaByte]

New to the series... which one is considered the most loved after SH2?

SH3’s old man was a GAF meme 20 years ago.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Played SH2 & SH3 and a tad of 4

Never played SH1 (blasphemy I know)

Would love a remake of that.

 

[JimRyanGOAT]

The best one in the series


4

 

[Caio]

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]

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]

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.

 

[paolo11]

Silent Hill 1 Ps1 for sure. Then do part 3 and 4

 

[TGO]

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]

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.

 

[NeverYouMind]

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

No.

 

[rkofan87]

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

this i want townfall and shf

 

[RetroGamingUK]

 

[fart town usa]

I'd like to see The Room. Game has so much potential but has a few fatal flaws that really drag it down.

I'd prefer if the OG SH was never remade. The game is fine as is and all the tech limitations work in its favor. Sharted Memories doesn't count and is an abomination.

I also think SH3 is perfectly fine as is. Bloober can make their own entry but I still don't trust them with their in-house narratives.

 

[fart town usa]

They should remake their awful studio name

The literal origins.

 

[MiguelItUp]

After remaking 2, it really makes sense to do 1 and then 3. Maybe even 4. We're getting original games from other devs at the same time, so I certainly don't see an issue with it.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I'd like to see The Room. Game has so much potential but has a few fatal flaws that really drag it down.

I'd prefer if the OG SH was never remade. The game is fine as is and all the tech limitations work in its favor. Sharted Memories doesn't count and is an abomination.

I also think SH3 is perfectly fine as is. Bloober can make their own entry but I still don't trust them with their in-house narratives.

I want to see those annoying ass floating zombies with modern graphics/sensibilities

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

P.T.

 

[fart town usa]

I want to see those annoying ass floating zombies with modern graphics/sensibilities

Lmao. You are a glutton for punishment, Sir.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

As much as I like SH3, I'll want SH1 Remade first.

 

[The Saint]

The first one. Can't do the 3rd one because new players will not care as much for certain scenes in part 3 if they do not play the first game first.
1,3,4.
or 4,3,1 if only because one of the characters in 4 is related to one of the characters in 2. but my pick would be the order of 1,3,4

 

[EverydayBeast]

People are all over silent hill how about we play the first one? We haven’t seen silent hill on store shelves, it’s always interesting silent hill trailer, they should follow the yakuza format. I don’t trust silent hill.

 

[Saturn Dragon]

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.

I agree that the most complex remake would be the first one. BUT, I only see one output If you can't replicate the weirdness of a 32bit gen survival horror: MAKE IT DARK AND GRITTY AS FUCK.

Anyway, the reasonable thing to do for them now is, either remake the first one with a very hardcore dark and gut wrenching style, or do something new.

 

[Big Baller]

People are all over silent hill how about we play the first one? We haven’t seen silent hill on store shelves, it’s always interesting silent hill trailer, they should follow the yakuza format. I don’t trust silent hill.