‘We proved people wrong:’ After Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team’s survival horror developers are no longer ‘feeling like underdogs all the time’
‘We proved people wrong:’ After Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team’s survival horror developers are no longer ‘feeling like underdogs all the time’
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I truly hope Chronos is great. Its their new IP. It looks great but we’ve been wrong before.
Please be good…
I feel like I’m the only person in the world who thought the remake was just… “Okay”. I never played the original Silent Hill 2 so it’s probably that it was just being faithful, but I kinda expected more from the gameplay. Like Resident Evil 2.
Instead it just felt like I was doing the same thing over and over; almost no enemy variety. Nothing really changed.
I expect to be downvoted, but that’s me.
To be completely fair to the critics… Every game they made before didn’t really inspire confidence in them leading this project imo. I personally thought Layers of Fear and The Medium were really bad. While Observer and Blair Witch were just okay. I am happy they found success here in the end.
Well they proved they can remake someone else’s game well, which is a useful thing sure.
As for putting out a good original game they have no precedent of that
I mean they took an existing game and remade it. They have yet to prove themselves with an original IP game…
Still want to play that Remake
Well they proved that they can be good at reusing an already good story and iconography, and putting in TLOU’s gameplay.
I bet Mercury Steam felt the same way…
I’d have probably waited for a few more successes before saying something like this.
Remake wasn’t very interesting imo. Will always pick the original (Enhanced edition mod especially) over it. Bloober to me is now a mediocre developer that happened to be put in the spotlight.
As much as I love the Silent Hill 2 remake….its well just a remake
If Chronos is really good then they definitely proved their skill cause that is a completely new IP from them
And hopefully it’s not only a good game but optimized. Bloober did a great job with SH2 but it was poorly optimized.
I mean, playing both Layers of Fear games and Observer was enough for me to have high expectations for SH2 remake. Many studios have mastered the scary, but Bloober nails the *eerie*. You don’t just brace yourself for jumpscares, you come to question the nature and longevity of practically everything you see.
They did a good job with the remake. I hope they learn from a few of what I’d consider minor mistakes (pacing, enemy variety, enemy number, and combat ease specifically)
Nice. Very good.
Now let’s see an original game with your own story. For as much shit as people (RIGHTFULLY) gave the medium iirc it was always praised on the technical side of things.
They definitely proved they can remake one of the most intently designed games with the mechanics of an already successful remake (re2)
I’d like their new game to be good, but I hope they don’t get big heads here
I think Bloober shines in technical part of horror. They should let someone write the games for them and then build around it.
They proved that they could make a good game if they put their mind to it.
The Witness and Layers of Fear are still mid at best, and that didn’t magically change once the Silent Hill 2 remake came out.
Observer was pretty great for me and layers of fear had some good moments. Bloober got shat on regularly from the echo chamber here and it was undeserved. Sh2 was a fantastic job well done. Looking forward to Chronos!
Some people here trying to downplay what Bloober did with Silent Hill 2 remake like it’s not something even more faithful to the source than what even Capcom been doing with RE remakes while still feeling fresh and new without compromising the experience and legacy of the original.
The Medium the as aggressively mediocre and I was extremely skeptical of their ability to modernize such a mature game like Silent Hill 2 but they proved they have the talent and maturity for stories like that.
Hopefully the care and attention to detail they had with the remake manages to translate well into their new game Chronos.
Damn , why are everyone here hate Bloober team? I thought layer of fear and observer is pretty good and it did go viral for a moment
Yep, I was a sincere doubter. I had played Layers of Fear, the sci-fi one, and The Medium and had really horrible times with them so my expectations for the remake were on the floor.
Then I played it and it floored me.