Well even less return with games specifically designed to cater to new people. Nothing so far is catering to Silent Hill Old Heads like me, and the online communities for Silent Hill are extremely hostile to us.

Feels like being in a nice place, then a bunch of tourists show up, make a bunch of changes to the place, and then when you complain they throw you out. Then in a few years the tourists are all gonna leave and their trash will be all over the place as they move on to their next location.

> Make a SH2 remake so bad it would be customary to commit suicide as a apology
> Make a new SH game that just isn’t a SH game at all except in name
> Complain gamers don’t like your games

What is this strategy called?

What is bad about the silent Hill 2 remake?

Basically everything. I haven't seen a single thing I thought was as good or better than the original. They made fancier graphics but that's about it and I don't care about that. The combat is fucked, the character models look like they were made by someone who only played SH2 once on a bad acid trip and had to remake them from memory.
And why is the game suddenly twice as long?
The deluxe edition pyramid head costume is Konami literally laughing at you for being a dumb fuck.
Why is Maria censored? Last I checked SH2 wasn't rated E for Everyone.
And of the 7 or 8 mainline games (depending on whether you count shazam as mainline or not) the only one that actually deserves a remake is 4: The room. 1-3 still stand the test of time, and Origins-Homecoming-Downpour do not deserve the remake treatment.
Why remake 2? Because Konami holds one thing sacred over all: Money. Ever since the Kojima incident it's been money over everything for them. Art doesn't matter, artistic intent gets in the way.
Remember, they yanked SH from the original devs and gave it to americans, then shelved it when they pumped out low numbers.
Kojima was going to revitalize the franchise but they fired him and shelved the entire thing.
Then they smelled ~~blood ~~money in the water. Gave the game to Blooper Team, who couldn't make a decent game if their lives depended on it, and laughed all the way to the bank.

I wouldn't have minded all the changes if they had added it to the game as an "Arrange" or "Remix" mode, like how Resident Evil had them in the Deadly Silence remake for Nintendo DS. One mode which recreates the original very faithfully and accurately, and a second, new mode which changes it up.

Instead, they want to put forth the idea that the new one is "better" than the original, which is categorically false in every way (except graphics fidelity which is different from art style, nearly any new game will always win graphics fidelity over an old game except Minecraft). They effectively replace the original in search results online by using the same name, and no longer offer the original for sale outside of the horrendous HD collection.

What they did to the character models is awful. Look how they murdered my boy Eddie.

Argh them overriding SH2 with this crap is so frustrating. They didn't need to do much. SH2 is already on PC, just do some small improvements for the modern day (ultrawide support, keybind remapping etc) and release it on Steam. But no. Can't have nice things. You gotta have the ultra realism mode with 4k pbr textures for a soda can you can see for 2 seconds. You can't call yourself a modern game if it's not 100GB at least.