I disagree. The voice acting is good. It's not "worse". You're just so used to the original voices from the PS2 and OG XBOX versions of the game. The voice actors are doing good job as far as I'm concerned. Lets not blind ourselves to nostalgia. The originalSH2 has plenty of unintentional awkward, stilted, or bad voice acting moments.
That's probably true. A lot of the voices and line deliveries of the original are absolutely burnt into my brain and I don't think anything will ever replace them. The voice acting and voice direction working as well as it did was one of the greatest "happy accidents" in video game history. Where somehow the fact that it was nonprofessional voice actors being directed by non native english speakers resulted in an awkwardness that added to the forlorn atmosphere.
Trying to replicate that and casting people without voice acting experience again would probably result in a disaster, I'm not saying the new voice cast is bad or anything, they're doing fine.
Fair enough, but most people don't have a PS2, XBOX, or pirated/emulated version of the PC release on-hand. Not to mention, SH2 is crazy expensive, even though the game sold great on both consoles. Especially on PS2.
Which is a damn shame, honestly. The PC port of Silent Hill 2 with the "Enhanced Edition" mod is probably the best possible way to play it now. Would be great if the game got a release on GoG with the improvements of the mod included some day. I think as of right now, the only SH games that are digitally available are 4 and Homecoming.
I actually have a physical copy of SH2 laying around somewhere that I bought for about 50€ a good 10 years ago. Wonder what it'd be worth now.
Yeah, I played Silent Hill Origins which I enjoyed, but I can't find my copy anywhere. I never played shattered memories. I heard it was bad? Maybe just the wii version.
That’s the only one I haven’t played (well, aside from the mobile/chat crap that was just released earlier this year), but would like to someday. I think a long time ago
@BrawlMan said good things about it doing something different with gameplay mechanics that made it stand out somewhat.
Shattered Memories is my favourite Silent Hill game but I know that's an unpopular opinion and and I get why most people don't care for it very much.
It's not really a survival horror game, it's mostly what we'd now call a walking simulator with some chase sequences that are fun enough in the early game but somewhat overstay their welcome in the late game.
But it really shines in writing and atmosphere. It's basically what you get if you put SH1 and SH2 into a blender. The basic outline of the first games story with the melancholy mood and emotional themes of the second one. It's pretty much about grief the way SH2 was about guilt. I really love it. There's a scene that feels like it's right out of a David Lynch movie in the middle and a monologue at the end that is one of the few things in a game that consistently manage to make me tear up a bit.
It's probably not the best game in the series by any objective measure but, by all means, don't sleep on it! God, that's another game I wish got a PC port already. Emulating Wii games is a hassle and the PS2 version has worse graphics.
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