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[AndrewDean84xX]

This up there with the bushes in Mario Bros being green clouds.

My mind is blown.

Wait.......what?!

 

[Imm0rt4l]

I'll never look at the game the same again.

 

[timetokill]

Hahahha wow! Great find. Some very compelling evidence there.

 

[Dark Schala]

Wow. Now I'm just going to think of Harry Mason as John Kimble whenever I replay SH1.

Mind is blown.

"Are these all your lunches?"
*boy shakes head*
"You mean you eat other people's lunches?"
*boy nods*
"STOP IT!"

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

Did Silent Hill just become the greatest game of all time?

Yup.

 

[Busaiku]

How are we just discovering this.

 

[I speel my dreenk]

The villain:

rofl

 

[water_wendi]

Most likely the team needed a reference for what an American grade school looked like so that was what they modeled it after. Still a really cool find.

 

[Levito]

How on earth would anyone even notice this? haha

 

[RagnarokX]

it's the number 7 on the bus in both the film and the game in the same place.

They're both Fords, too.

Time to watch movies and find out where other locations were inspired by!

 

[Hawkian]

holy what

 

[The Boat]

I need to lie down.

 

[Hot Coldman]

The addition of Sonic Youth references makes this the BEST GAME EVER. Fuck the sequel.

 

[SmithnCo]

Haha, this is hilarious! Does seem like they used it as reference to American schools.

Pretty wild.

 

[Septimius]

The 'reference' thing only falls a bit short by the fact that if you actually use it as reference, you would get the idea of what this school was doing, and then do it a bit differently. The door-way, sure, that can be completely the same, but when you go out of your way to make the same posters and place them in the exact same position, it feels more like some sort of strange homage than 'reference'.

 

[disappeared]

And it took 13 years for this to be found. Team Silent, you clever motherfuckers.

 

[Shig]

Arnold scwarzenegger should play Henry mason in a sh reboot

"VERE IS MY DAUGHTAAAHGHLARGHAGH???"

 

[Erekiddo]

Wait.......what?!

Clouds = bush.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232550

 

[SlipperySlope]

So... you all know what this means, right?

You can actually visit the real Silent Hill school! Get to the choppa! (yeah, yeah, wrong movie, but still...)

 

[Amagon]

I can't stop staring at it.

 

[Seraphinianus]

The addition of Sonic Youth references makes this the BEST GAME EVER. Fuck the sequel.

woah, what sonic youth references are in it?

maybe I should play SH1. Couldn't get into SH2 or 3 at all and haven't really tried the series out.

 

[RiZ III]

Keanureevewhoah.jpg. Mind blown.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

goddamn this is awesome

 

[Teknoman]

Might need to replay SH 1 really fast before the HD collection, and this is a good enough reason as any.


Especially since I got the coma ending on my first playthrough.

Then again it's Konami. Look at the Contra and Castlevania series, movie inspiration all over.

 

[a Master Ninja]

Incredible.

 

[Chris_C]

Whoaaaaaa. That's pretty compelling evidence. I guess their artists were just lazy and used it as reference, but wow, that's still pretty cool.

Using a reference does not mean an artist is lazy.

 

[Alexios]

Wish I noticed these when I was playing through it, might have made it less disturbing

 

[Mr. Enigma]

 

[Teknoman]

Wish I noticed these when I was playing through it, might have made it less disturbing

Or more disturbing if you were a kid who played the game and went to that elementary *_*

 

[Laughing Banana]

Arnold should quit whatever he is doing right now to make a sequel to Kindergarten Cop.

 

[Tylahedras]

The villain:

*Claps*

 

[ThisWreckage]

If they did that to subconsciously evoke the safety of having Arnold as a teacher that is pretty brilliant.

 

[Melchiah]

The villain:

Alternatively, you can drink health drinks you find on the ground outside.

 

[joetachi]

Bumping this because this needs to blow more minds.

 

[The Mana Legend]

I plan on playing through the Silent Hill games on day. I have to.

But this year is all about Resident Evil.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Whoaaaaaa. That's pretty compelling evidence. I guess their artists were just lazy and used it as reference, but wow, that's still pretty cool.

I think this comment pretty much hits the nail on the head. I can't see any other reason for any of this.

 

[Graphics Horse]

Whoa.

Bumping this because this needs to blow more minds.

Much appreciated!

 

[Y2Kev]

I'm surprised the textures are that clean!

 

[Garcia]

Whoaaaaaa. That's pretty compelling evidence. I guess their artists were just lazy and used it as reference, but wow, that's still pretty cool.

Ditto. Still, amazing find OP!

 

[CrunchyFrog]

This is pretty awesome actually

 

[Cheerilee]

Whoaaaaaa. That's pretty compelling evidence. I guess their artists were just lazy and used it as reference, but wow, that's still pretty cool.

I think this comment pretty much hits the nail on the head. I can't see any other reason for any of this.

Doesn't seem to be the case. They went out of their way to accurately re-create these things. Lazy artists would have taken easy shortcuts. Like no lamps beside the doors. Or no arches over the lamps. Or no windows inside the doors. Or no windows above the doors.

They used pixel art to recreate the length and spacing of unintelligible words on posters.

They did it because Kindergarten Cop.

 

[Graphics Horse]

They used pixel art to recreate the length and spacing of unintelligible words on posters.

Everything looks like pixel art at that resolution Doesn't mean they didn't create them at a decent size before downscaling.

I think that poster with the spiral is literally a video grab, the shading on the background looks identical. The white dog thing probably started off the same way.
Or maybe they remade that with a photo of a toy, I think I remember being creeped out by that poster. heh

 

[Soule]

Wow the bus one is so subtle they should've highlighted it because I was another person kinda thinking that there wasn't anything special until that post last page about the 7 and whatnot.

This is pretty cool.

 

[The Praiseworthy]

This is.... shocking to me :\

 

[KeeSomething]

Wow! This is... mind-blowing!

 

[GK86]

That is beyond awesome.

 

[astroturfing]

i've been wanting to finally play the original Silent Hill, but now i will not be able to take it seriously lol

damnit.

but still, what an awesomely bizarre thing

 

[AshMcCool]

Who is your doggy and what does he do?

 

[Eurocult]

nice find! and this is why I love GAF.

 

[Gen X]

Single best thread I've ever seen on Neogaf.

Just fucking awesome how bizarre this is.

Also:

These are the most evil characters in ALL OF FICTION.

I remember when the that guy used to be in some tv series called 'Hardball' and it was awesome. It was right up there with Hardcastle & McCormack and Riptide!