4th April 2024, 2:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 4th April 2024, 2:29 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
(31st March 2024, 8:15 PM)Weltall Wrote:Quote:Heck I'm utterly terrified of what Bloober is going to do with Silent Hill 2, so I can only imagine what your worries may be there.
I'm not worried one bit. The original Silent Hill 2 is more than a game to me. It was an obsession. I wrote my own novelization, which I completed 18 years ago, but still gets likes and follows to this day. I traveled the world. I met my wife, got married, moved to Kentucky, with a career and a passion, all because we both moderated a Silent Hill forum together real sexy like, and therefore, my entire life for the last 12 years would not have happened the same way, at all, if not for Silent Hill 2. Nobody could ever remake that.
The god-emperor of Dune could, by finding and replicating behavior patterns over generations to reproduce the experience dozens of times over. That sort of diminishing of the human soul is kind of why he's the villain of the later books. Wow that was an out-there response no one asked for... sorry there.
Back on... sort of topic... The remake of Alone in the Dark is pretty amazing in fact, even if I was very wary of it's decision to turn the old mansion into an asylum, they were far more subtle than most western "psychological horror? That means we should have psychiatric reports and straight jackets right?" interpretations of the genre go for. No straight jackets, no padded rooms or audio tapes of deranged patients, just a few people who are sick or mentally tired in some ways staying in what amounts more to a rest home and who are portrayed as actual human beings and not dangerous murderers. The real madness is the Lovecraftian horror underneath it all and it puts the focus there instead, WITHOUT silly sanity effects or a "sanity meter".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)