So what are everyone's thoughts on what has or hasn't been included in the upcoming HD Silent Hill Collection(which at this point is reported to contain SH 2 and 3)?

How essential is the quality of extras(i.e. interviews, artwork)? What is the importance of there being a PC version alongside the PS3/360 release?

edit: Here is a recent Destructoid article discussing the omission of SH4

The omission of SH4 did strike me as strange. Even if it wasn't originally planned as a SH title, it's still part of the series. Why call it a collection if it's not even complete? Now the original SH? I can understand it not being on there. I don't know how you do an HD version of it without doing a remake.

I have the first 4 SH games on disc already so I don't know if I would buy this when I get a PS3.

Speaking of bonus content like artwork and stuff, I think that HD collections should have this sort of thing so those who already have said games on collection would have more of an incentive to buy it. Just slapping the games in HD on a Blu-Ray disc and adding Trophy support isn't enough for me to buy the same games again, especially since I spent quite a bit of time tracking down complete mint copies of the SH games on the cheap a few years back.

I think more games in general should include interviews and artwork. That's one reason I was really impressed with God of War. All you had to do was beat the game to unlock this stuff (more stuff was unlocked after beating the highest difficulty section). No need to buy the uber ultra limited pre-order only collector's edition to see it.

I'm guessing that the value of SH4 is going to increase in the collector's market due to it's omission.

Speaking of Konami and HD collections...why does the MGS HD Collection not have the the first MGS? They could have just used the Twin Snakes version which is the original game with MGS2 graphics. Course I won't be buying this either since I have the games already (except for Peace Walker). And I bought the MGS Essential Collection when it came out. Plus I have two copies of MGS3 and I don't need a third one.

Now ZOE HD Collection? I'll bite since I don't have the games and the mint copies fetch quite a bit online.

@Manda - That's actually a good point about the director's cut of SH2, hopefully Konami doesn't drop the ball with that.

And you know what? I'll put on my Robbie shaped tinfoil hat and join you with that Henry/Murphy look alike conspiracy.. if it ever gains steam I'll make sure it's known that it was brought here first by you, lol.

@BSte - I will not even bother pretending that I won't still pickup the SH collection even if there were subpar special features in the end despite already owning mint copies of the originals. My SH whoredom aside though, I do agree that a decent effort towards padding the incentive to repurchase these games beyond the HD & trophies/achievements is necessary to reel in gamers who are on the fence. If Konami is going to cut out SH4, they better have something in place to fill that gap. (Collector quality packaging wouldn't hurt either)

Also, I agree about Twin Snakes being a good candidate to be included in the MGS Collection.. but I think the redux may have rubbed enough MGS purists the wrong way to make Konami shy away from that route. And yeah.. I'm not always a fan of having yet another series where I have 2-3-4 versions of the same game either, but I must admit that I am intrigued by the online features of MGS3 alongside Peace Walker being active with the new collection(something that wasn't the case with the Essential Collection).