Topic: Konami HD collections

[idolminds]

Just announced.

Metal Gear Ssolid 2, 3, and Peace Walker

Zone of Enders collection with ZoE and ZoE: 2nd Runner

Silent Hill collection has 2 and 3 together.

[sirean_syan]

These should be awesome, although I am saddened that the first Metal Gear (well, first PS one) and Silent Hill aren't included. It'd make it something really special if these showed up in the collected with at least high resolution images.

[Xessive]

These should be awesome, although I am saddened that the first Metal Gear (well, first PS one) and Silent Hill aren't included. It'd make it something really special if these showed up in the collected with at least high resolution images.

Especially since they had already done a remake on the Gamecube called "MGS: The Twin Snakes."

[iPPi]

Sweet.  I've never played MGS 2, 3, or Peace Walker so I'll probably pick up the collection when it comes out.

[sirean_syan]

Especially since they had already done a remake on the Gamecube called "MGS: The Twin Snakes."

Yeah. That sucked. They redid a lot of the voice work and overdid the action in the cutscenes so it looked like a bad action movie. I would just want something with the PS1 era graphics, voices, and cutscenes with just the resolution bumped up (maybe texture filtering, but I'm not sure I'd even want that); it'd be something like that PC port that came out.

[K-man]

Probably way too much trouble to clean up those textures enough to make it presentable in HD.

[Xessive]

I grabbed the PSP port of that from the PSN Store a while back. It basically runs in an emulator and was pretty sweet on that tiny screen. That game is awesome regardless.

[MysterD]

Silent Hill Collection HD will have different voice-actors.

Konami has announced that it would be recasting the voice actors for Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 on the HD collection. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the decision, but James Sunderland's original actor, Guy Chihi, has already formed an opinion -- and accused Konami of trying to duck out of paying him.

"Konami knows that they owe me residuals for all previous unauthorized re-uses of my mocap and vocal performances," he alleged. "It would appear Konami is seeking to avoid further liability by changing the voice in their latest re-use of the SH2 materials. However, if any of my mocap appears in the new release, Konami will be liable for unauthorized reuse of my performance. Like Gump’s Momma said, 'Stupid is as stupid does.' It would have been much better for everyone had Konami simply made me a reasonable offer ...

"I’ll get around to seeking compensation through the courts one of these days. I simply don’t have the time for it right now. I hope this doesn’t bum out any fans ... It’s just business as usual on the production side of games."

This news is pretty crazy and has certainly dampened my excitement for the collection. Whatever one thinks of the voice actors, they were part of the original charm and I can't say I'm fond of having them cut out. I just don't know what Konami's damage is when it comes to Silent Hill lately.