{"id":14430,"date":"2011-10-04T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"silent-hill-hd-collection-gets-original-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14430-silent-hill-hd-collection-gets-original-voices","title":{"rendered":"Silent Hill HD Collection gets original voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">In a <a href=\"http:\/\/lytherus.com\/2011\/10\/01\/ndk-2011-interview-with-anime-voice-actor-and-director-mary-elizabeth-mcglynn\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Interview with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn\">recent interview<\/a>, voice actor and director, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, revealed Konami&#8217;s wishes to re-do the character voices for the upcoming Silent Hill HD Collection &ndash; a move that upset Silent Hill fans greatly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">&ldquo;We had to re-voice all the characters because the original guy who played James [from Silent Hill 2] asked for royalties that weren&rsquo;t in his contract&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">That &ldquo;original guy&rdquo; is Guy Cihi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">In a rare twist, however, Cihi waivered any and all rights to Konami in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/guy-cihi\/open-letter-to-konami-digital-entertainment-inc\/10150291872944259\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guy Cihi's open letter to Konami\">open letter on Facebook<\/a>, saying that he actually wants a new generation of Silent Hill fans to enjoy the games as they were originally conceived, without all this legal nonsense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">What a Guy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">This picture popped up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=441361&amp;page=12\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NeoGAF forums\">NeoGAF<\/a> showing Cihi and Dave Schaufele (the voice actor of Eddie) signing waivers, with other voice actors said to follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Silent_Hill_original_cast_372760046.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">That means the only thing preventing the Silent Hill HD Collection from being true to its original forms is the huge corporate machine hating you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">The compilation is expected to be released in early 2012 for Playstaion 3 and Xbox 360 and features Silent Hill 2 (including the extra Restless Dreams scenario) and Silent Hill 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18454-Silent-Hill-HD-Collection-will-feature-original-voices\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Silent Hill HD Collection gets original voices\">Silent Hill HD Collection gets original voices<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you Silent Hill fanboys can put your pitchforks down now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}