Why did they use a 60 year old woman's face for Maria?

[Cruna]

The game looks great but I'm completely at loss here about the character design choice. She looks like... Twice James's age. He looks like a confused little boy next to her. Some developer wanted to use his mom as a character in Silent Hill 2?

Wasn't she supposed to look young and pretty? She really was on OG Silent Hill 2. Why did they make her look like an old bag? Otherwise the game is fantastic, but I just don't get it why they had to change the look of a very important female character in this game.

Lately in remakes there is some rule to make the wives or other support characters old? Dead Space Remake had an old bag for the wife also. It's so weird lol

[@R+5]

"they" (dei) believe the "modern audience" likes grandmas in the wrong way...

at least the mods to fix characters havent been removed from nexus, as they usually do.

[Cruna]

Escrito originalmente por @R+5:

"they" (dei) believe the "modern audience" likes grandmas in the wrong way...

at least the mods to fix characters havent been removed from nexus, as they usually do.

They believe that? Grandmas have a generally larger aesthetic appeal in front of an audience than young and pretty girls have??? They must be crazy!

Well poor modders do what they can. I saw the mods. But they have a quite hard time to completely fix her as I see. Besides. I made the mistake of buying this for PS5. Because of a stupid voucher. So the best I can hope for is for the devs to fix this ugly woman. It's hard to look at her and not feeling chills down my spine when she tries to be attractive, sexy, giving James some tongue in cheek insinuations.

If even better mods come out later, I might replay it on PC, not gonna buy this again!

[Ricback2]

Kill me

[KLM]

Too much nude main character mods everywhre on each modding sites pages lead to that, it's their fault ,and making nonsense mods of the such is just rubbish no matter what.

[XΞИOΛLIΞИ]

Does this look like a 60 year old woman to you?

https://images.app.goo.gl/CxBqYRXi7dusuuzYA

[phildor]

Sir, this is the discussion board for Silent Hill 2, a game you don't own. If what you've posted about is what you're looking for in a game, you might be better served by Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball.

[Milkdust]

They're still iterating on Maria...

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1850911120803954919

[Cruna]

Escrito originalmente por XΞИOΛLIΞИ:

Does this look like a 60 year old woman to you?

https://images.app.goo.gl/CxBqYRXi7dusuuzYA

No, she doesn't. But the ingame character does look like a 60 years old woman with a larger head than James has. And she's uglier than the monsters that are supposed to scare us :))

[Siege Aeterna]

The actor James is modelled after is 47. Salóme Gunnarsdóttir looks to be around 40.

[Cruna]

Escrito originalmente por phildor:

Sir, this is the discussion board for Silent Hill 2, a game you don't own. If what you've posted about is what you're looking for in a game, you might be better served by Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball.

Yes I do own it, and it's a PUBLIC discussion, and I'm welcomed to say anything I want in it. Regardless of how you feel about it.

[KillStealKing82]

Oh fk off OP with your BS. Nothing wrong with the characters in the game.

[Cruna]

Escrito originalmente por Siege Aeterna:

The actor James is modelled after is 47. Salóme Gunnarsdóttir looks to be around 40.

Well probably they should have chosen a young and pretty model for animations instead of chosing the face of a mid age woman who already hit the wall and looks even older in the game. Look at James. He looks half her age lol

Have you seen how ugly most voice actors are in japanese games for male characters and females too? Yet in the game the characters themselves look very attractive and sexy. This is what you get when you source the game out to a POLISH company where the devs might have some sort of grandma fetish.

[Noobie]

She looked fine and still looks fine. Just because YOU dont find her attractive doesn't mean much of anything. Beauty is subjective

[Cruna]

Escrito originalmente por Noobie:

She looked fine and still looks fine. Just because YOU dont find her attractive doesn't mean much of anything. Beauty is subjective

That's true. But if we make people chose between OG Maria and this 60 year old grandma, I'm quite sure she would win in popularity in a 100 to 1 ratio :)) So I'm quite sure it's not just me. You like old women?

[Siege Aeterna]

I think she's rather pretty personally, but to each their own. How old are YOU that you think a woman who is visibly in the 35-40 range looks like a 60 year old?