Bloober Team Doesn't Deserve Silent Hill (The Jimquisition)
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Bloober Team is rumored to be working on a new Silent Hill, possibly a Silent Hill 2 remake. Fans are upset. I believe that upset is understandable, because Bloober is a real problem.
Bloober Team Doesn't Deserve Silent Hill (The Jimquisition) (YouTube)
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I'm reminded when a movie uses an accurate, but lesser-known, accent for a character and people flip out about it. There was a Will Smith movie that used an accurate accent for an African nation, but because he didn't sound like "a black man doing an English voice," people were literally mocking it. For being accurate. Just not accurate to THEIR expectations.
I liked Bloober Team's Blair Witch; it felt like a playable horror film. Yes, it didn't handle PTSD perfectly, but it did handle issues like toxic masculinity with good subtlety. The playable character's personal life backstory post-Gulf War is him being in deep denial about his PTSD and tries to start a normal life only to have his demons cause him to lash out and hurt himself and others around him. It also brought up how therapy dogs can be a real emotional balm for those who need them.
I'm always interested in these talks about neurodivergence, because while I absolutely agree that videogames, and popular media in-general, have a LONG way to go in their depictions, I find it frustrating that people often take their experience as "the default" and when a game doesn't match it, they declare it "inaccurate." I remember finding Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice incredibly empowering and effective, but half of the game's press seemed to want to crucify it for its "inaccurate" depictions.
Plenty of Silent Hill fans did in fact like the movies though Jim, so not really the best example to go on. I'm in agreement with TotalBiscuit on the first film(can't remember if he saw part 2 or not).
The problem is studying mental health doesn't make you a video game designer, it makes you a mental health professional. Studying tropes makes you a video game writer.
Exactly, and i'm tired of this expectation that EVERY single piece of fictional media that brings up mental health MUST be a 100% perfect portrayal of it or the dev is somehow "bad" or whatever.
There is so much misinformation regarding mental health permeating popular culture - so much so that OCD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychopathy... they are part of the vocabulary of everyone and their dog and they are thrown around wantonly to the point of completely devaluing if not altogether negating their clinical meaning and usefulness - and such an ignorant approach to the conditions themselves and those who have to grapple with them that I wish horror movies/games just skipped the subject altogether if they are not going to do it justice, at least until we are mature enough to handle them.
Speaking as someone with actual mental issues I have to say I do not agree with Jim that Bloober Team does not "deserve" SH2, I for one thought The Medium was written quite well and did not feel like it was sympathizing with pedos at all, just saying that abuse begets abuse, which is unfortunately true in real life, R Kelly for example was sexually molested by a family relative at a very young age and that no doubt played a major role in him becoming a predator towards young woman himself, one of his own victims even said on an interview in Surviving R Kelly that "he's a victim too".