The Silent Hill HD remake for consoles is among the most well-known muck-ups in gaming historical past. Konami rushed the venture out the door, regardless of not telling shoppers that they’d outsourced the up-rez’ing and — most upsetting of all — labored from incomplete recordsdata. Somehow, Konami misplaced the completed code for the unique video games, so it was left as much as an understaffed workforce to interchange artwork property for 2 of probably the most beloved survival horror titles of all time; with a fandom that actually, actually notices when issues aren’t carried out proper. Mistakes like… forgetting to incorporate fog in Silent Hill 2.
Our associates over at Rely on Horror have an interview they printed immediately with an nameless supply about what went fallacious within the HD remake. We even have some hyperlinks to sources for HDifying the PC variations, if you wish to do Silent Hill proper.
The interview itself is a mixture of pretty stunning lapses in judgment and pretty commonplace issues that come up from being over-budget and under-staffed and under-…. what’s the phrase for if you don’t have massive chunks of the code that you simply wanted?
The takeaway is that Hijinx Studios (who had solely made a slew of licensed titles based mostly on the TV present Glee) have been out of the blue thrust into rebuilding Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3. They have been lacking artwork recordsdata and sound recordsdata and did their finest to fill within the gaps as finest they may. It’s mainly the Mr. DNA sequence from Jurassic Park. Immediately after the sport’s launch, the studio went beneath.
It is value it to learn the entire interview here.
So why not simply run the PC variations of the unique Silent Hill titles? Well, they stopped receiving official help a decade in the past, however fortunately the modding neighborhood has provide you with just a few easy wrappers that maintain these classics working superbly on fashionable techniques. If you’re firing up these video games once more, or going again to dive in for the primary time, right here’s some sources for doing it proper.
You can obtain the mods from GitHub: Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4. Be certain to maintain updated on any new mod developments for these classics by bookmarking the NeoGaf thread devoted to the subject as properly.
