Huh, didn’t realize that Team Silent was even in the picture as far as the remake design in concerned. Wonder what they would’ve done differently, and why they didn’t end up taking on the project in the first place. Guessing it’s just a handful of them lending consulting efforts since the full team has been disbanded for good.
Well, yeah. You're supposed to get the creeps from her the first time you meet her. It's the particular way the eyes look and move, and how the mouths animate that add to the weirdo factor in the game. There's a reason Silent Hill characters look the way they do compared to Resident Evil or Final Fantasy characters. Even Eileen in Silent Hill 4, who's supposed to be the pretty girl next door, looks eerie.
Technical scrutiny most certainly was relevant back then. Comparatively bad graphics have been getting balked at for decades. And nobody back then was thinking 'Well, this is all they have to work with', they were thinking 'Holy shit, look at how real this looks now. Games can't get any better looking.' What wasn't revelant back then was the amount of time and effort needed to make realism look realistic the way it is now. Shit sticks out more now when it looks off due to how close we are to photorealism.
Angela's face, which I don't really care for. There's a derpiness to it that might befit an NPC that hands you a quest, but not a prominent character in the story. James' face I'm not a fan of, but it feels finished at least. Angela's just, I don't know, something's wonky there. Eddie's face looks like it's veering a tad too far into the 'psycho fat guy' look, but again, it looks finished. Maria and Laura look fine.
Mission accomplished. That is the clear intention when Eddie goes off the deep end.
I never got much derp from her. Rough looking in the beginning, but they obviously polished her up.
James works fine for me either way.
Same. They look good.
Point is, if they were able to pour more detail into facial modeling back then, would it look 1:1 like that, only more detailed? Probably not. People were always blown away with visuals back then even if they were pre rendered, but you’re correct about the reasoning too. It’d have been kinda paradoxical to be gushing back then about “teh realism!!” but in the next breath being, ”Although…” Which is what these *same game* comparisons conjure up to the utmost.
I wouldn't so much mind the cool, collected mastermind tone of voice if it wasn't the same exact dialoge. Maria in the original is (in that scene) a Mary puppet. She sounds and acts exactly like her, but we know she isn't, she's Maria, she's an extension of the town trying to be Mary. And the dialoge is written to reflect that. Remake Maria has the same exact dialoge, but there's this vindictive apathy to her voice now. Maybe this could work as a different spin on that scene to play with player expectations, but that's only if I'm willing to give Bloober the benefit of the doubt, which I'm not.
It would've been generic by virtue of being Star Wars. I'm at a point where I find it nearly impossible to believe that even Star Wars fans don't feel complete apathy at the prospect of new Star Wars movies, shows, or games. Never before and never again shall there be a more hollowed-out, corporate husk of an intellectual property.
There's interesting things to explore in Star Wars, just look at Kotor 2.
Maybe that's just what Star Wars is though. I'm not saying that as an insult, maybe Star Wars is just a simple story about good guys versus bad guys, the rebels versus the Empire, light side vs. dark side. And maybe all it needed was those three movies.
I'm sorry but that's literally the coldest take.
Whenever I see one of those old style Hershey bars from the 1800’s or maybe early 1900’s I get a couple. I swear they taste / are made better than the new ones.
Yes tbf Hershey bars are pretty garbage but for some reason it was the first thing that came to mind when I needed an example of something popular but not great that we all know isn't great.
I can't comment on MHW since my recent second attempt to get into it failed before it really even got started but I think part of what you're experiencing is also the nature of "helpful" internet commentary.
