Silent Hill

[Noizgul]

Any fans here? My favorite game ever is Silent Hill 2. Surrealistic transdimensional horror at its best. I haven't got to play Homecoming yet and it'll probably be ages from now before I can even get a new console, unfortunately. I love the rest of the series except for SH4 (which I don't even consider to be a true SH game). I also love the movie.

[nitsuJ]

SH4 was never meant to be a SH game, but they made it one at like the last minute, from what I've read. I have SH:Homecoming, it's pretty cool.

[slayer]

I've played SH homecoming, and I didn't like the storyline too much. Could have used a bit more "realism" in the characters, but other than that, I thought it was a pretty good game. Just wasn't scary or gorey enough...

[Noizgul]

SH4 was never meant to be a SH game, but they made it one at like the last minute, from what I've read. I have SH:Homecoming, it's pretty cool. Exactly. That's one reason I hate SH4. It wasn't even supposed to be a SH game, but it was turned into one so it would sell. You never even enter Silent Hill. The inventory system sucks. The controls suck. The main character sucks (he's the Keanu Reeves of the Silent Hill series). The redneck ghosts and Grudge ghosts suck. Having to pin them down with a type of sword that seems to weigh several tons sucks. Having to bribe an inbred devil worshiper with chocolate milk is ridiculous, and it sucks. Walter is the lamest ghost ever; he looks like a Creed roadie and walks around with a pistol, and he sucks. The eight foot tall burping nurses suck. The squeaking, bouncing monkey demons suck. Did I mention that I think SH4 really, really sucks? LOL. What I've seen of Homecoming looks like fun, but like it might not be as dark or disturbing as it could be. I haven't played it though, so I can't say too much.

[JET73L]

I liked whichever it was i first played part of, the first or second. I wanted to rerent one of them, but ended up getting 4 because they had stopped renting the first three. ...wrong answer. I could not stand it, but I also could not stop playing. I liked the first one I played, though, and it wasn't near as... sick, from what i recall. And you do enter the Silent hil area, just not the part of the town where living people are. The part of the town that exists at right angles to where the people live, where only dead people go. (yeah, i thought that was a cop-out, too).

[slayer]

I really think they should completely remake the first Silent Hill. Keep the characters, the storyline, the dead bodies that you would find in body bags or just chopped in half on the walls or fences, but give it life-like graphics. The only thing I think some of the newer Silent Hill games lacked were puzzles. They seemed way too easy in Silent Hill: Homecoming.

[Lëzen]

The first game is the greatest Silent Hill of them all. Actually, it's quite possibly THE best survival-horror game out there - very much preferable to Resident Evil due to the facts that: A) Silent Hill games usually involve Average Joe (or Jane) protagonists with little or no combat experience, while with Resident Evil it's always a friggin' militarily veteran; and B) the circumstances in Silent Hill are more occult (and thus more interesting) than they are in Resident Evil (a virus that turns people into the living dead? Please.) SH4 was never meant to be a SH game, but they made it one at like the last minute, from what I've read. That explains why the game sucked so hard. It seems that's always happening somewhere..."Dinosour Planet" became Star Fox Adventures and "SaGa" became Final Fantasy Legend. It's just morally wrong, I think, to con people into buying a crappy game by making it a part of a popular franchise. I really think they should completely remake the first Silent Hill. Keep the characters, the storyline, the dead bodies that you would find in body bags or just chopped in half on the walls or fences, but give it life-like graphics. That sounds like a good idea. It'd increase the playability value for all them graphix-whores out there, while at the same time giving us veterans that oh-so-nice feeling of nostalgia we thrive on. And if they were to do that, they'd sure as hell better keep the original characters - the fact that they took Harry out of the Silent Hill movie pissed me off to no end.

[tnemrot]

That explains why the game sucked so hard. It seems that's always happening somewhere..."Dinosour Planet" became Star Fox Adventures and "SaGa" became Final Fantasy Legend. It's just morally wrong, I think, to con people into buying a crappy game by making it a part of a popular franchise. Oh, that explains that...

[Noizgul]

The first game is the greatest Silent Hill of them all. Actually, it's quite possibly THE best survival-horror game out there - very much preferable to Resident Evil due to the facts that: A) Silent Hill games usually involve Average Joe (or Jane) protagonists with little or no combat experience, while with Resident Evil it's always a friggin' militarily veteran; and B) the circumstances in Silent Hill are more occult (and thus more interesting) than they are in Resident Evil (a virus that turns people into the living dead? Please.) Yeah, I've always liked Silent Hill better than Resident Evil. I do like Resident Evil; it's fun, but not really scary. Startling at times, but not scary overall. Silent Hill is disturbing in ways that really mess with your mind. It's a much deeper level of horror, in my opinion.

[Lëzen]

Silent Hill is disturbing in ways that really mess with your mind. It's a much deeper level of horror, in my opinion. Precisely why it's gotta be the best of the survival-horror games. I lent it to a friend a while back, and he gave it back to me before he even got to Alchemilla Hospital...told me that the extremely suspenseful atmosphere made him rather paranoid, looking over his shoulder and hearing footsteps, etc., whenever he was alone. Now that's the trademark of a good horror game.

[AmazeO XD]

Gotta love Silent Hill. I personally like 2 and 4 the most. Beat Homecoming twice. Once on normal and one on Hard. And technically, Homecoming isn't 5, it's 6. Silent Hill Origins is 5.

[Noizgul]

Gotta love Silent Hill. I personally like 2 and 4 the most. Beat Homecoming twice. Once on normal and one on Hard. And technically, Homecoming isn't 5, it's 6. Silent Hill Origins is 5. Well, Origins is the fifth installment, but it's really Silent Hill Zero, heh.

[AmazeO XD]

Well, Origins is the fifth installment, but it's really Silent Hill Zero, heh. SHUTUP./

[Noizgul]

[LucidFlanders]

Never played it but the movie sucks.

[AmazeO XD]

Never played it but the movie sucks. As does 100% of all other video game movies. Heh.

[blahaha]

The first Silent Hill is awesome. I've only played one other, I can't remember one. You start out in a room with chains on the door, and you crawl through some tunnels or something.. it's been awhile since I played. Anyways I didn't like that one as much. That guy with the triangle head and the huge sword is the shit.

[LucidFlanders]

As does 100% of all other video game movies. Heh. Not Spiderman.

[dahitman474747]

silent hill 2 is one of those great stories that can be interpreted many ways, this is an interesting interpretation i came across http://faqs.ign.com/articles/498/498604p1.html

[AmazeO XD]

Not Spiderman. ... *sigh*. Spiderman was a comic-book movie. They made a video game off Spiderman. Please tell me you were being sarcastic.