Silent Hill Art Director Unimpressed by HD Remake

<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;thecontrolleronline&period;com&sol;wp&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;03&sol;Silent-Hill-HD-Collection&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Silent Hill HD Logo" width&equals;"623" height&equals;"341" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A member of the original development team for the <em>Silent Hill<&sol;em> trilogy has expressed his disappointment of the upcoming HD re-release of <em>Silent Hill 2<&sol;em> and <em>Silent Hill 3&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;destructoid&period;com&sol;silent-hill-designer-unimpressed-by-silent-hill-hd-224421&period;phtml">Destructoid<&sol;a> reported that Masahiro Ito&comma; who was the art director of the first three <em>Silent Hill<&sol;em> games&comma; was asked via Twitter to comment on screen shot comparisons of the PlayStation 2 original and the new HD versions&period; In the images&comma; missing textures of fog expose the unfinished sections of the environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Left side is HD&comma; isn&&num;8217&semi;t it&quest; It&&num;8217&semi;s poor&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Ito wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s really a released version&quest; Really&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After receiving confirmation that the image was from the retail disc of the game&comma; Ito’s simple reply was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;OMG&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ito later added that Konami needed to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;release a patch for HD collection&comma; I think&period;” He later speculated that the texturing issue may lie within the technology of the PlayStation 3&period; &&num;8220&semi;I guess that it was a problem of PS3&period; PS3 has a weak point for using &&num;8216&semi;translucent texture&&num;8217&semi;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;But PS2 has no such a weak point&comma; and original SH2&sol;SH3 use so many &&num;8216&semi;translucent texture&&num;8217&semi;&period; Example&comma; for fog&sol;mist&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The <em>Silent Hill&colon; HD Collection<&sol;em> launched earlier this month in the United States and will release in Europe on March 29<sup>th<&sol;sup>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Below are the screenshots in question&period; Take a look and let us know what you think&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dualshockers&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;03&sol;silent&lowbar;hill&lowbar;HD-Comparison-405x332&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Silent Hill HD Screen Shot" width&equals;"405" height&equals;"332" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-03-23-original-silent-hill-developer-disappointed-at-poor-hd-re-release">EUROGAMER<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;