Silent Hill 2 or Silent Hill HD Collection?

The very first PS2 game I ever owned was Silent Hill 2. I was very young when it was first purchased by my family and I refused to play it but my mom did. Just watching my mom play it kept me from sleeping for nights on end. I don't know what ever happened to my copy of the game to be honest. To this day I still want to go back and play it. But here's where I can't decide what I want to do. I can either just try to find a copy of Silent Hill 2 on PS2 at my local Gamestop (since I own the older PS3 model which has backwards compatibility) or I could wait for the Silent Hill HD Collection to come out which features both Silent Hill 2 and 3. I've never played Silent Hill 3 either and I've heard it was great also so I don't think I would mind buying the collection that contained both. Plus since I never played through either games the whole voice actor change-up won't bother me. By the way the only Silent Hill game I own at the moment is the first one. What do you guys think?

If the change of voice actors doesn't bother you I'd say go for the HD collection. You will get two HD remastered games with that so at least the quality would be better.

The original version had a Making-Of DVD bundled with it but that was only in Europe.

I'm going to get the collection myself.

Every Silent Hill game has a jump scare.

The original had a corpse in the locker that fell out.
Number 2 had a scream if you knocked on a bathroom stall in the prison.
Number 3 didn't have a jump scare.
The Room had a painting of the antagonist that damages you if you aren't careful.
Dunno 'bout 0rigins.
Homecoming had... Asphyxia, I guess.
Dunno 'bout SM.

I'd personally go for HD collection, if you don't care about the VA's.

The Knife wrote:

Every Silent Hill game has a jump scare.

The original had a corpse in the locker that fell out.
Number 2 had a scream if you knocked on a bathroom stall in the prison.
Number 3 didn't have a jump scare.
The Room had a painting of the antagonist that damages you if you aren't careful.
Dunno 'bout 0rigins.
Homecoming had... Asphyxia, I guess.
Dunno 'bout SM.

I don't think it's good saying every SH has jump scares as you mentioned 3 had none and you don't know about two of the games Asphyxia wasn't a jump scare. She was the easiest boss in the game.

Mass Distraction wrote:

The Knife wrote:

Every Silent Hill game has a jump scare.

The original had a corpse in the locker that fell out.
Number 2 had a scream if you knocked on a bathroom stall in the prison.
Number 3 didn't have a jump scare.
The Room had a painting of the antagonist that damages you if you aren't careful.
Dunno 'bout 0rigins.
Homecoming had... Asphyxia, I guess.
Dunno 'bout SM.

I don't think it's good saying every SH has jump scares as you mentioned 3 had none and you don't know about two of the games Asphyxia wasn't a jump scare. She was the easiest boss in the game.

Oh really? She is a BITCH on either difficulty. Period. 3 didn't have any jump scares that I can remember.

The Knife wrote:

Oh really? She is a BITCH on either difficulty. Period.

But... How? :O She doesn't even have much health.

I'm almost finished with SH1. I'm at the final boss. Does anyone know the release date for the HD collection? And can you buy them both physically and digitally? It just looked like you'd have to buy them bundled together physically on a single disc.

I'm editing this post as the release date for the game is out now: The Silent Hill HD Collection will be releasing on January 24th.

Also on the news, Silent Hill 2 HD will contain the original voices now! You'll have an option to choose between the new and the old. Silent Hill 3, on the other hand, will only have the new voices. This was originally announced on Silent Hill's facebook page.

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Mass Distraction wrote:

I'm editing this post as the release date for the game is out now: The Silent Hill HD Collection will be releasing on January 24th.

Also on the news, Silent Hill 2 HD will contain the original voices now! You'll have an option to choose between the new and the old. Silent Hill 3, on the other hand, will only have the new voices. This was originally announced on Silent Hill's facebook page.

[Source]

I saw that too. I was still considering checking it out. Especially now that they have the old voices back.