Silent Hill 2: Remake - James Goes to Jail (Full Stream) (Part 7)

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Published on October 24, 2024 8:08:14 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4sXF0YbBF4

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Silent Hill 2 (2001)

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Originally streamed to https://twitch.tv/sonicthehedgegod

NOTE: This upload may be in 2k resolution, but the game is running at 1080p. The 2k is just so that when the whole canvas is visible, the game footage does not lose fidelity.

Previous streams were running the game and recording in 2k, but I decided to keep it to 1080p due to performance issues.

The optimization guide I followed can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/1fy1exu/silent_hill_2_remake_performance_guide/ - it seemed to work fairly well for me here, though there are still handfuls of performance issues when I'm streaming unfortunately.

This stream covers The Historical Society to the Labyrinth. Also, I have opinions.

Actually, since this stream deals with some heavy topics, there's some things I wanna mention here in the description.

First of all, I want to add a disclaimer here that since playing this I have 100% come around to the abstract daddy sequence. Not only seeing how the rest of the game is paced making it feel like less of a spectacle, but also just paying attention to more and more small details and just piecing everything together, I'm understanding every choice more and more. An important thing to note as well is that when I played this, I wasn't sure how much longer the abusive dialogue from Angela's father would go on before you smashed the TVs, and I felt that giving the player the option to listen in on more and more explicit abuse was distasteful - however, watching other playthroughs, I know that what I heard is pretty much the gist of it, which is good. Anything more explicit would've come accross as really distasteful to me. I also had heavy, HEAVY reservations about bloober team with that subject matter, and the exact same content from someone I trust better would hit me a lot differently. And with that said, they certainly earned a LOT of trust back with this game and how the rest of it played out.

Also, I mentioned while talking about how I think morals are always somewhat relative to existence among other people and the shared experience, and I did say something to the effect of "People being affected by slurs is what makes them slurs" - this isn't quite how I meant to say it, because that's not how slurs work - when I said that, i merely meant, like, in the abstract, as just a collection of phonemes and sounds - things like, "not using" vs. "not saying," the specifics in how we address and acknowledge the existence of slurs, how we refer to them, what's acceptable to reclaim - etc.. What makes them slurs is the function of how they were created and used as tools of subjugation.

I also feel the need to mention when talking about how the original handles abuse and how it's discussed, I need to stress that the original game, in no way, ever depicts James as justified or correct. He is always an anti-hero, his actions are always wrong, the game simply never stops to hold your hand and say "MURDERING YOUR WIFE IS BAD AND JAMES IS BAD" - but when I was discussing this, it would've been more accurate to say that I hammer in on the misogyny present because of the way the original game is discussed, and the readiness with which people accept and sympathize with James - he isn't completely unsympathetic, but there's an ease and readiness with which we culturally downplay or justify the actions of violent men, and in that sense, the way we talk about the original, and in some ways even the way some of the original devs and writers talk about it, that kind of has that sort of misogyny baked in. As we discussed in the video - how much power could Mary REALLY hold over James when she's on her deathbed? How much can James be expected to be there for someone when he likely has no resources to help him work through it? Point is, it's a complicated topic and I don't mean to overly moralize the original game - it's not the game's job to tell us that murdering your fucking wife is a bad thing to do and they do not have to assure us they don't condone it just to explore the themes of it. That's baby brain media literacy. I love Silent Hill 2. It just makes me think about how I'm willing to engage with the complexities of horrible situations, and as I get older, things like misogyny become more and more prominent in how I understand those complexities.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB VRAM
Intel Core i7 10700K
DDR4 32GB Ram

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