^ This is ill. Thanks homes.
Auto fail for labeling yourself a “True Gamer”
That means you only play one type of game and are only good at that ONE game.
I picked up Silent Hill 2 at the buy 2 get 1 free EB Games promotion and am playing it now. It is the first SH game I have played. I had to change the controls around a bit at first but now it is going pretty well. Nothing scary yet and the camera is a real bitch but hopefully things will get interesting.
i never played through all of silent hill 2 but what i did play through was rediculous…have you gotten to the first boss fight yet??? cause around that time shit starts getting interesting…at least for me it did…
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2 is awesome. And it’s the one that’d make a very good movie IMO.
I downloaded/saw No Escape about a year and a half ago, thought it was very, very well done for a fan side project. It had a lot of the psychological spookiness of the games with a few jolt-the-crap-out-of-you moments thrown in(those of you that have seen it and remember the homeless/mystery person from the first part know what I’m talking about). Definitely worth it if you’re a fan and can view it objectively.
I know everybody that plays the games hated the 4th one, but I saw a lot of positives about it to balance the negatives(primarily the fucking ghosts). The inventory system was nerfed but the focus on firearms was all but removed so that you didn’t really have to worry so much about item slots.
They took time to actually explain parts of the story, also taking a seemingly insignificant news article from part 2 and making a whole background story for the game.
The first game takes the prize for most unsettling hands down, but my favorite is still the second because of the storyline(and, well…Pyramid Head. Everybody loves fucking Pyramid Head). Part 3 was a little bit of a letdown for me, but only because they were continuing the first game’s story and part of the plot was ruined for the player if they knew the first game well. Otherwise it was every bit as good the rest imo.
I also think the second one would make the best movie. Hopefully Christopher Gans thinks the same way and doesn’t go off course when they shoot the second film.
I have played through all of them except SH4: The Room. I read where this was not going to be an actual SH game but they changed their minds during development. All of them have had their scary moments but 4 just creeps the shit out of me. It also irritates me to no end.
The ghosts were a bad development choice. They work in the apartment itself but in the “Other World” they just feel like a cattle prod to the player instead of actual antagonism. I think if they’d left out the “standard victim” ghosts and just dealt with the ones that die in-game the game would have been much more enjoyable, both to fans and casual players.
i started teh series on three, so i was really lost when it came to the story. at first it was one of the only games that creeped the crap outta me enough to want to return it. but eventually after playing it and getting used to the pace, its acutally a really well developed game. i went in expecting to be blasting goblins away(dante style) but i settled in with the whole “watch your back and the corners” theme. really great game
the movie is definitely one of my favorites.
It’s kinda lucky for you that you started at #3. The whole plot was a complete mystery when you would have started out, as well as the creatures. I think 3 also had the best supporting cast, pro- and antagonistically speaking. Plus there was a flamethrower, and any game that has one of those gets bonus points in my book.
:arazz: 2 u :looney::bgrin::xeye:
Will they ever re-release these, or make an anthology? I always wanted to play these games, but I didn’t get my PS2 until it was too late and they weren’t selling them anymore.
So I’ve played the first half of 1 and all of 4. Sounds like 2 is where I need to be. It’s gotta be pretty cheap too nowdays eh?
2 is the yin to part 1’s yang. The fanbase is pretty evenly split over which is the favorite, but you can’t go wrong with 2 imo…you can probably get it for under $10 easy…go for it.
Silent Hill 2
Where? Oh I heard that the greatest hits version had more features like an added sidegame. Any info on that?
^^ Yeah for real.
I’ll pick it up later today. Ain’t got shit to do.
I was thinking Amazon or someplace like that for a new one, I know you can get them used under 10 bucks most anywhere. The GH version of 2 had a side story where you played as Maria, I didn’t get it myself but it’s still on my to-do list.
The SH collection was released in Europe a couple years ago, but I never saw it over here. Getting 2-4 together probably will run you under 40 bucks, but I understand the 1st game is harder to come by these days, it might run you close to that much by itself.
Favorite game in the series is part 2, Pyramid Head is definitely the most memorable character if you ask me, but yeah the first comes in a close second.
The movie was actually good, check out my review:
Now that 5 is coming + that PSP one (zero?) They have to start collecting them or re-releasing them. C’mon, Resident Evil did it! Hell, do you know how many versions of RE1 there are?
Oh, and it/they better not be for PS3, cuz, then I can’t play them…