We were kind of worried about the new voice acting recorded for the upcoming Silent Hill HD Collection. It might have been fine, but it could have gone very wrong. Thankfully, Konami has announced that there will be an original voice option for Silent Hill 2 in the HD collection. A Facebook post from Konami says that the instrumental voice cast was instrumental in making this happen.
Yes. A double yes for that cover art.
Unfortunately, "due to factors both technical and logistical," Silent Hill 3 will only have new voices in the collection.
No.
Well, I'll take what I can get. I'm now excited to get back into one of my favorite games of all time, now with the original audio.
Are you feeling better about this collection now?
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9:00 PM on 11.22.2011 | 
And yeah, that box art is pretty fantastic. Much better than the usual split art of all the original covers for the games in the collection (while they're still there on this one they aren't the entire thing).
And make that a triple yes for the cover art!
also:
-i am Claudia.
-So what?!
Still, I have a feeling this'll be like the MGS HD Collection, in that Silent Hill 2 alone may be enough to justify it.
@Jim
I'm more of those people who enjoyed SH3 more than two. Dat corgi ending...
:( feels bad
ohh come on if you manage to keep SH2 why not SH3 also???
i love Heather's voice. pretty disappointing to see how this turned out :(
it's gonna be the same as MGS HD Collection.
you'll get pretty much 90% of the content.
i hope they don't remove the secret endings.
@Jim Sterling
oh yes Silent Hill 4 is a must to be honest.
god damn it konami why do you always fucked up these things.
The box art is nice though. One day they may put the Room, Origins and Shattered Memories in a HD collection.
Purchase=no
I still have the original games so I see no reason to pick this up. I don't feel the need for HD releases of what are supposed to be ugly, grainy games in the first place. The lack of the original voices in SH3 (arguably the best acted game in the series) is just another knock against it.
Not that it matters. These Konami ports look like ass. Woopdeefriggin' doo, you can render the game at 720 now, and see how crappy the textures we haven't updated at all are. Oh wait, maybe we can have ACHIEVEMENTS NOW TOO. Congratulations, James killed himself! ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
Anyhow, options are always great. This is what they shoulda done from the start. Though I wonder what the 'technical' aspect of the old voices would be. Seems really weird.
Why no polished 1 is the real question.
now lets get 1 on there too.
@pukota
i hate you. =-(
I must be taking crazy pills.
Has it been clarified which version of Silent Hill 2 is being used for this collection? I do hope it's the Greatest Hits release for PS2/Restless Dreams release for XBOX since that version included both the Born from a Wish scenario and the additional UFO ending.
As for SH4, it will be missed but as stated SH2 is worth the price of admission.
Way to disrespect Richard Grosse's memory, Konami. Not cool.
I didn't know they were also gonna replace the SH3 voices even though there was nothing wrong with them (actually I thought it was great) but I guess all the copyright and contract stuff gets in the way. I really wish they would've kept better track on that kind of stuff.
Thumbs up on that cover, even though it doesn't feel... Silent-Hill-esque.
4 wasn't just plain bad, but it did get a lot of negative reviews. Probably because it didn't really fit in the Silent Hill Franchise (and because they didn't know what horrible things happened after 4...), so the exclusion is ok.
And Jim complains about there omission but in the MGS Collection he stated that the games beside MGS3 where pointless since they were no where near the quality of MGS3. If they included 1 and 4 he would probably say the same. Besides, PS1 Game are already playable on PS3.
did you play 1 at the time of its release or later? when it first came out, it was the bee's knees. but yeah, ive gone back to play it and... it hasnt held up so well. i still dig the story and the acting, but the gameplay and graphics arent quite up to snuff.
I was absolutely fine with it in the first place.
Seriously, who really gives a damn about voice acting anyway?
I think the people who complained about it are the type of people who own the originals anyways, the old voice acting casts aren't going to rope any new fans in.
Also, sucks about no original SH3 voices. Heather's was pretty much the one voice in those two games I thought was actually good.
And the new voice acting casts are going to rope new fans in? You can't just make a statement like that.
People are going to pick the collection up for the atmosphere and storyline. The voice acting thing was a superfluous move by Konami who have notoriously missed the entire point of Silent Hill lately. If you start replacing things, it ceases to be an "HD update" and becomes more jackass George Lucas tinkering.
Anyway, this is a buy for me. And if Silent Hill 4 was included, I'd ignore it like it wasn't, anyway. I respect that other people like it, but I can't fathom why. Made myself it finish it just because I can't let a Silent Hill game go unbeaten, but it was SUCH a disappointment compared to SH3.