Comment on How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I like Silent Hill 2 (the original, not the remake), and consider it the best Silent Hill game, but let’s not kid ourselves. It was only mildly received when it came out, getting an average score of 6 or 7 out of 10. It only very recently came into vogue.
I loathe its ability to spawn the millions of YouTube video essays about it. This is the pain of a franchise you love going mainstream and then all the new people completely change it. Tale as old as time.
Don’t let your hobbies go mainstream people. Its a two edged sword. Sure, you get more interest and more money into the sector, but it also permanently changes forever, and almost never for the better.
ourselves@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Maybe it didn’t get glowing reviews from IGN and similar websites back then but I remember it being extremely popular when I first played it as a kid 20 years ago. I actually rented it through GameFly after I saw it in a list of the best video games ever made.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People, especially the Japanese players, wanted a sequel that continued the story of Harry Mason. That’s why Konami forced Team Silent to change Silent Hill 3 in order to incorporate all the elements to force a connection to Silent Hill 1. Silent Hill 2 had so many complaints about not being connected to Silent Hill 1 that it permanently disfigured Silent Hill 3.
I guess back then we didn’t fully understand the concept of a sequel with a 2 in the title not directly continuing the story from the original. Whatever the case, the fact remains that Silent Hill 1 was immensely more popular than Silent Hill 2 for a good long while. It wasn’t until recently (maybe within the last 10 years or so) that Silent Hill 2 came into the spotlight.
ourselves@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Ahhh, I was still a bit too young to remember much about the first game. Mostly just memories of my father playing it. I do remember watching a video explaining that Silent Hill 2 did kinda fuck up the lore between all the games. Since it was so self contained and specific to James’ experience, any reference to Silent Hill 2 in the later games didnt make any sense. If Pyramid Head was created by James’ guilty conscience, he shouldn’t have appeared in later games.