I really like 1 & 2, but I just couldn't work up the enthusiasm to play any of them after that. I kinda want to get back into them, maybe I'll play 3 HD or Downpour.
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Look at that trailer. Silent Hill 4 looked incredible. It's too bad the game was bogged down by so much padding in the 2nd half that it couldn't live up to what it promised to be. A creepy ghost story. Still, it was a good game. The 1st person room segments were fantastic; both creepy and creative; bringing a new experience to PS2 gaming. The soundtrack, again, was godly, and the story was interesting even if a little far fetched. Still a good SH game that I'd be down to replay at some point, but it deservedly got a lot of flak because there's a lot of flaws in the game design aspect of it. Also the last Team Silent game.
Silent Hill 2 is doodoo as fuck. You fight maybe 3 enemies. Boring.
loved the first three, and zero was good if a little stale. the series was great but went downhill as soon as the developers felt compelled to stick to things they thought defined silent hill. predictability does make for good scares. a town that's affected by nightmares of it inhabitants should have been the only thematic element that carried over. instead teams just started recycling sh1's "otherworld" and got bogged down in fleshing out a stupid backstory on cults and everything turned into straight-to-video territory.
siren was (unsurprisingly) the only other game i felt actually pulled off what sh1 was trying to do - make a stealth-horror game. i LOVE that shit and wish there more good examples of that out there.
personaly i never was into survival horrors but a friend of mine was,i remember some real bullshit puzzle with a piano... i don't even remember the solution
obligatory dog ending video
Silent Hill 2 is doodoo as fuck. You fight maybe 3 enemies. Boring.
you are a bad man. yeah the gameplay is weak as fuck, especially coming off of 1, but THE ATMOSPHERE
Bebpo, you gonna play this turd?
Liked SH2 and loved SH3. Mirror scene in SH3 was the scariest shit I had ever seen in a videogame. I never tried SH1 cuz of the fug visuals. How's the remake on the Wii?
Never tried SH4 either cuz I heard it wasn't a real SH game.
Bebpo, you gonna play this turd?
No. Book of Memories along with Silent Hill Arcade goes in the dark corner of videogames we like to forget exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpxzgZlOCE
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Look at that trailer. Silent Hill 4 looked incredible. It's too bad the game was bogged down by so much padding in the 2nd half that it couldn't live up to what it promised to be. A creepy ghost story. Still, it was a good game. The 1st person room segments were fantastic; both creepy and creative; bringing a new experience to PS2 gaming. The soundtrack, again, was godly, and the story was interesting even if a little far fetched. Still a good SH game that I'd be down to replay at some point, but it deservedly got a lot of flak because there's a lot of flaws in the game design aspect of it. Also the last Team Silent game.
Dude, game has been out a month and no word on any patches. I wouldn't hold my breath. This game has the budget of a Denny's meal.
Finished up the sidequests. Most weren't worth it. Took me 5 hours to do all the sidequests, which is as long as the main game length until the pre-final dungeon. Mostly just running back and forth around the small town at 15fps with constant stuttering and loading. Game is a technically nightmare.
Worth noting for your achievement hunters out there (demi, sceneman, etc...), the game is currently bugged and there is a random possibility that a key quest item will not appear in a game run. If it's not there, there's no way to make it appear during that game. This locks you out of the achievement for finishing that quest AND the achievement for finishing all sidequests in one playthrough. So if the bug hits you (it hit me), you might get pissed off.
I wish there was a way to tell stories like this and themes like this but not in such a gameplay format these games have. I hate to say it but I think the approach of something like Heavy Rain is where I would like to see these games go. Not that heavy rain isn't without a whole slew of its own flaws but it removes that high barrier of entry of feeling like playing this archaic style of survival horror. Maybe something that blends the two somehow...
Just random thoughts after being really impressed with SH 2. Not the gameplay of 2. But the themes and story of it. It would be nice to have more of that in gaming.