director's office

[nur_ein_tier]

If you look at the concept art of the hospital director's office from the Art of Silent Hill DVD, you'll notice it's quite a different angle than what you see in the game.

This is the last room you go to in Brookhaven, where you find the lobby key and you see Laura outside the window. It's possible they wanted you to be focusing on the window so you'd see Laura more easily, but it's still weird that all these decorations and paintings are in the office and you can't see them.

Here's the same view with the level viewer. In the game, you can't make the camera go in this direction no matter how hard you try.



The paintings.

[emma]

interesting though!!O.O...i didn't get the paintings!! what they meaning !?..o.o

[NarooN]

I can't even tell what the paintings are supposed to be, not even gonna attempt to figure them out lol. But that is indeed interesting.

I suppose this room had other purposes in an earlier version of the game. From the way it looks, it seems the player might've been able to examine the items on the bed or something.

[emma]

a bed!?...o.o i thought its a big table.. you know...
and which items?!...o.o all i can see is lots of books and notes!!...

[nur_ein_tier]

a bed!?...o.o i thought its a big table.. you know...
and which items?!...o.o all i can see is lots of books and notes!!...

It is a table. It's where you see the map and get the key, and then you see Laura out the window. Later I will take a comparison in-game shot showing the only view you see in the game, but in the game, you're pretty much looking at the table and the window, and you can't see the back walls with the paintings on them.

[Purramid_Head]

The first one looks like something out of 3. A monster? It reminds me of the elevator monster in 3.

The second one is a two head person?????? The back ground on this one looks like the otherworld church in 3.

[nur_ein_tier]

Do you see the soldier in the first one? It took me years to see it, lol. There's a helmet and face, and one arm below it. Maybe a bizarre Jacob's ladder reference or something?

Yeah, #2 does remind me of SH3church. the woman's face in silhoette makes me think of mary or maria. i don't know.

[Purramid_Head]

Yeah he looked weird. I couldn't pin point what culture he was from.

Now that you mention it..... Maybe the two headed person is Mary + Maria.

[nur_ein_tier]

In the texture files, the painting is rotated so I never saw it. lol.

By the way, the views you can see in the game (you can't look around, the camera is fixed):



Can't see the two faces at all, just the silhouette.

[what]

Laurence Monneret really needs to contact an interior decorator.

[Purramid_Head]

The middle shot is as far as I got in the game and I don't recall ever seeing the twin heads either. In fact I didn't even know they were there until this thread and they fasinate me.

They could also be a conjoined Mary x James because of marriage. But the background in the picture is totally SH3, so they had obviously had these concepts already.

[nur_ein_tier]

He's too busy "Running Hospital," or whatever the book is called there.

The middle shot is as far as I got in the game and I don't recall ever seeing the twin heads either. In fact I didn't even know they were there until this thread and they fasinate me.

They could also be a conjoined Mary x James because of marriage. But the background in the picture is totally SH3, so they had obviously had these concepts already.

Yeah, I don't have a precise memory of seeing it in the game until an hour ago when I made those screencaps.

I didn't pay much attention to it before. In fact, I thought it was one face with a pan-looking fellow with horns until i looked closer.

[emma]

oky im waiting for more shots from the out side the window when james was looking at laura! ...interesting founding really ^^!...i enjoy this~:)

[nur_ein_tier]

Well, I'll try but I've never had much luck getting the camera to move around right during cutscenes. I couldn't even get a shot of the back wall in-game this time (I know I did a long time ago, but I can't find it. )

[Mercury]

I love the body motifs behind the desk. They remind me a lot of those decorations you could get in the Sims 1 of the dead bodies in the cages. haha It's really a shame that you're not allowed to view that part of the office; it seems like wasted atmosphere.

[emma]

Well, I'll try but I've never had much luck getting the camera to move around right during cutscenes. I couldn't even get a shot of the back wall in-game this time (I know I did a long time ago, but I can't find it. )

i see!! o.o..its alright then ^_^ you didn't have to..... i just was wondering about what will be there in Lura's cut scene that's all XD!

[nur_ein_tier]

Ah, now I want to go back and try. ^_^ Well, I might post more later...

@Mercury: Yeah, I want a couple of those for my room. ^_^

ETA: This is all I could get:

[emma]

woo~sure its dark there !lots of darkness !O.O...Lura got the guts to go out there... crazy little girlXD!

[SvarteVinter]

This is great, never knew they were there. Actually at first glance I thought this was an image from SH3 and was posted in the wrong thread. Crazy stuff. I wonder what the meaning is?

This game is ridiculous when you think about it. So much detail and hidden things. I remember coming on SH forums around '05 and I never even saw this. The fact that people are still finding stuff like this 10 years after the game is released is astounding. /joyous silent hill fanboy rant