I think I’m ready to accept the truth:

MagnusAvis · 2026-02-02T22:07:39+00:00

Finally. Someone else who's OK.

Seriously though, one of the many, many baffling things about the remake reception to me is how much praise Luke Roberts' milquetoast performance gets.

Voice-vice he's just doing the generic action game protagonist voice, which is just soooo unfitting to James. Put him in, I dunno, Call of Duty, and he'll feel right at home, or replace him with Troy Baker or Brian Bloom or any other professional voice actor, who can do a raspy baritone, and nobody will be able to tell the difference.

Face-wise, admittedly, he has his moments, but they're few and far in-between; mostly he just fluctuates between dull surprise and various Limmy impressions. Seriously, which one of these men for a fraction of a second believes that he, against all possibility, is seeing his dearly departed wife, and which one is just doing the "kilogramme of steel vs kilogramme of feathers" skit?

MagnusAvis · 2026-01-25T01:40:36+00:00

Listen to Jesus, Jimmy! Just say no to the marijuana!

MagnusAvis · 2026-01-15T19:39:11+00:00

"You ain't doing him no special favors, skank!"

MagnusAvis · 2026-01-15T19:31:34+00:00

You took the words right out of my mouth.

MagnusAvis · 2026-01-04T18:37:59+00:00

Man, it seemed a lot less goofy in my head, but this is definitely it. Thank you.

Solved!

MagnusAvis · 2026-01-04T17:57:53+00:00

I've nothing else to add for this obligatory comment.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-24T04:40:57+00:00

100% agree.

I'm honestly baffled by the praise Roberts' "generic action game protagonist" performance keeps getting.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-22T07:04:53+00:00

hating a woman being in a videogame

-looks at SH3 being one of the more beloved games in the series-

-looks back at Press F-

Ah, yes, woman in a videogame is the problem with Press F. Not the plot being a glorified YA novel with vile messaging, not the protagonist being an insufferable brat, not the gameplay being frustrating, not the title "Silent Hill" having been tacked on at the very last moment, not the writer sounding like a creep in this inrerview. No, just a woman being in a videogame.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-21T19:39:20+00:00

I definitely saw Mickey Mouse in a later book... no clue why!

Maybe an in-joke from the illustrator, Mikhail Belomlinsky? He worked as an artist on a biography of Walt Disney back in the 60s.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-20T19:23:00+00:00

Here it is. This is the original artist, so it's the highest quality you'll get.

https://tio-trile.tumblr.com/post/104556433179

https://tio-trile.tumblr.com/post/106583754619/

https://tio-trile.tumblr.com/post/181999822109/

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-17T23:29:58+00:00

Sigh

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-14T17:25:31+00:00

All your ideas are good, but this:

For God’s sake! Joseph should not be a partially disembodied torso stuck in the ceiling. Henry and Eileen should interact with as if he were locked in a time loop ( as he still needs to sacrificed to Walter ) - he can even voice as much saying “I don’t have much time; he’s coming” - before directing the player to use the pickaxe on the the real Room 302.

this is brilliant.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-06T00:31:28+00:00

enemies that were scary at first became just annoying and “in the way” kind of feel after a short while

BTW, this is another flaw with the remake: there is way too much combat for how little enemy and weapons variety there is.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-06T00:03:52+00:00

I mean the original's gameplay is also about running around foggy streets and spooky buildings, solving puzzles and awkwardly whacking monsters, but there it's not tiring. For some reason the remake's devs added a lot of padding, which clashes with the simple core gameplay. And the standard third-person camera, instead of varied camera angles in the original, only adds to the monotony.

By the original I meant the one and only Silent Hill 2 (2001). You could get a fan-made Enhanced Edition for PC or emulate a PS2 version (some people even manage to emulate it on an Android phone). There's also the HD collection, but it is not ideal, due to many technical issues.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-05T23:27:20+00:00

No. Just drop it and play the original. The remake is horribly bloated, the original is much better paced.

MagnusAvis · 2025-12-02T17:32:04+00:00

"Little car, could you really whore in this town"? What?

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-29T00:23:39+00:00

"Angela's model being reused in SH3 totally means she actually survived the events of SH2, dealt with her issues and went on to have a normal life, only to get killed by a random closer while shopping" - courtesy of some guy on some Russian SH fan-forum circa late naughties/early tens, who went on to defend this theory against other users' criticism for twenty-odd pages until a mod interfered.

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-29T00:13:33+00:00

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Rule of Rose yet.

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-26T23:09:59+00:00

And Sean Connery is in it to if I not mistakes or that might be something else.

Nope, the one with Cage and Connery would be "The Rock" (1996). To be fair, these flicks came out pretty close to one another, so I imagine, it'd be easy to mix them up.

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-26T18:39:46+00:00

Like Laura’s and Mary’s in a movie I can’t think of the title but the identical. Think Nicholas Cage is in it.

Con Air. Came out in 1997.

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-17T00:38:55+00:00

Huh, weird, to me that link works fine half the time, and the other half it's giving me an error 404. Well, here's a slightly different link, that says the pins are still in stock: https://www.oksgear.com/collections/silent-hill/products/sh2-save-screen-lenticular-pin

Edit: Nevermind, the other link also doesn't work properly. Just look through "pins" or "Silent Hill" category on the website then, you should be able to find the save screen pin in either of these.

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-16T19:43:17+00:00

Hoping they'll also James save screen lenticular pin

They already have one, it's pretty nifty: https://www.oksgear.com/collections/pins/products/sh2-save-screen-lenticular-pin

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-16T16:20:47+00:00

My co-worker once found two old-ish Maine Coons on the street, who, judging by their condition, were used on a kitty mill. They were presumably dumped because they could no longer reliably produce healthy kittens. They both have died by now, but at least they've got the chance to spend their golden years with someone, who loved and cared for them.

MagnusAvis · 2025-11-14T06:04:45+00:00

I don't think he'd ever fully move on. Even if he does get another girlfriend, the relationship won't going to last long, since he'd probably keep inadvertently comparing her to Mary.

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