Silent Hill was never about graphics

[necri]

Game looks very good IMO
Yeah, some animations aren't perfect but they also weren't in the original

I think they really nailed the vibe of the original. this second trailer got me real hyped ngl !!

[klimat13]

Originally posted by Rambo McLonewolf:

I think what helped the graphics of SH2 and SH3 was the Noise Filter. Even today it helps to blur out how dated the polygons and textures look.

It was a combination of things:
1). Impressive character models with good designs and in case of SH3 with amazing facial animations.
2). Textures made from real photographs.
3). Great light and shadow effects for their time used a lot, hiding graphical imperfections is said shadows, which were sufficiently dark.
4). Amazing fog effects once again hiding imperfections with ever-moving fog, making the scenery look more rich and layered.
5). Animated textures like bleeding walls, animated blur effects like smears hiding monsters' faces.
6). White noise filters indeed adding fake resolution to textures across the screen for no real cost.

[Fatmagic]

That was one of the most impressive things about Silent Hill 1, in my opinion, using the hardwares limitations to its advantage. Masking the draw distance with fog and darkness only intensified the atmosphere.

[Maximizer]

Originally posted by klimat13:

SH2 was amazing looking for it's time and then SH3 blew it out of the water with graphics that easily held up until and all the way through PS4 era, SH3 really only started distinctly showing its age when PS5 came out. It is positively mind blowing how such a feat was possible to achieve on PS2 tech.
SH4 was never all that impressive though when it comes to graphics.

That said, SH2 Remake mostly looks amazing, I don't get the complaints. The environments are absolutely stunning and most of the characters look very good with amazing facial animations, so far I really only have complaints about Angela, since she's the only exception to what I said above.

They may have facial animations, but those animations do not hold up to what characters suppose to feel in the story which is Silent Hill 2. They're just wrong. No matter how you look at it. It's all wrong. Just look at Angela meeting James cutscene of original, for exam,ple think about it and then watch new one. Pay attention to every little detail and then tell me if those facial animation, however good the may be excuted on the technical level, correspond to what I described above. And watch the video of how Team Silent created those facial expressions, and why it matters how they were done. I have the feeling Bloober never saw it. But you should.