[Multiplatform] Silent Hill: Homecoming. Now with HD fog effects

It somehow arrived a lot faster than I thought it would.
Though I fear it'll disappoint greatly, more so than 4 did.
I'm actually a very big fan of the series, but... Let's face it, the last truly outstanding iteration was part 3. Part 4 was trying too hard to do things diffrently, which worked in some ways and failed miserably in others. I haven't played Origins, but the reviews basically said that it was just lacking innovation, and while not being a really bad game it wasn't supposed to be good either.
So what about Homecoming? It's got the right looks, though it seems a bit on the not-so-pretty side in this day and age. Also it conjured up angry fanboi rage when it became clear that they used Pyramid Head without James being there AND not even the game version but the *gasp* movie version, which obviously means the game isn't true to it's origins and a total sellout. Also the transistions between misty Silent Hill and Nightmare Silent Hill seem more akin to what it looked like in the movie than to what the games did so far. SELLOUT the fans scream!
I for my part don't. Yes, Pyramid Head was closesly tied to James in SH2. But that doesn't mean that it can't appear in another context. And if it looks like the movie version... So what? It's not like the movie version looked BAD. It's still good old Pyramid Head.
There are much more important things to the game. Like... Having a real bitch of a narrative to show for. Like SH2. And wrapping that narrative in good gameplay, which hopefully is a modernized version of the traditional Silent Hill gameplay. Like... Having an apartment complex with no loading zones. That alone would be a pretty neat improvement I think.
Will I buy it? Sadly, I don't think so. Not right now anyway. But that's more of an personal issue, I don't have the time for it right now. Maybe sometime next year... This "christmas season" (=> mid October - mid November) is too tightly packed with titles which just interest me a lot more. But who knows, maybe overall praise by fans and critics alike will change my mind...

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I'd hope Team Silent did something entirely new in the same vein.
As much as I like Siren Blood Curse / New Translation, it doesn't really push the same buttons as Silent Hill. I'd want another game that ups the "exploration of a very creepy surrounding that represents the chraracters inner conflict / horrible past / psyche", which boasts modern technologies and shakes off the shackles of traditions.
Meaning the Silent Hill 1 / 2 level / loading area layout among other things. Meaning the inventory. Meaning most of the combat system, even though the focus shouldn't be on combat, but you shouldn't be nearly defenseless because of the combat system not working properly...
All those things are something Resident Evil managed to do gracefully, though RE4 of course didn't go down the psycho-angle as most Silent Hill games did.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want an "all new" Silent Hill to mimick RE4. RE4 is primarily an action game. That's not what I want Silent Hill to become. But I think it is time, Silent Hill as a series underwent the same kind of overhaul that RE4 did with the Resident Evil franchise.
IF there has to be more Silent Hill games that is. Like I said, I'd be perfectly happy if they did something new that fed into a similar vein as Silent Hill while actually being an entirely new franchise. I mean... Silent Hill 2 and 3 are pretty much the perfect executions of the formula. Either they pull of an overhaul, which essentially would be the creation of an all new game with some Silent Hill trademarks, or they leave the trademarks out, and create a new franchise, with new IP and all new ideas.
But I doubt that'll happen. It's far too risky probably. Unless SH5 is a tremendous flop...

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