>>719176567
Because SH fans are fucking retards and this has repeated itself again and again and again and again.
>Homecoming reviews come in
>Journos say "Yeah it's a clunky piece of shit with bad combat and a worse story"
>SH fanboys delude themselves by going "No, the game looks great, and maybe the story isn't as good, but SH1-4 have the best stories evar!"
>Game comes out and sucks ass
>Everyone pretends they agreed with that from the start

>HDC reviews come in
>Journos say "Yeah, these are the worst ports possible and this sucks ass"
>SH fanboys go "No, the games needed new voice acting and that HD look is DIVINE"
>Game comes out and sucks ass
>Everyone pretends they agreed with that from the start

>Downpour reviews come in
>Journos say "Runs like shit, plays like shit, and it feels like it's not even finished"
>SH fanboys go "No, see Murphy's actually pretty cool and the game looks great, we always wanted a more open Silent Hill game"
>Game comes out and sucks ass
>Everyone pretends they agreed with that from the start

And so on and so on.
We'll be here 30 years from now when SH still only has 3.5 good games and about 50 bad ones, and people will still be going
>trusting journos
When a bad game is a bad game. I could've told you SHf was bad based on previews from half a fucking year ago, I could've told you it was bad when they announced the dev team was a Chinese support studio and it was being written by a massive hack who is only beloved thanks to a shit anime and trannies.