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It looks like the lock is broken, I can't open it - SILENT HILL 5 FOOTAGE, LINK IN OP
SimBen
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UPDATE 2!
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/14542
UPDATE! Check post on page 4 for pretty scans.
Here is a thread dedicated to the Series of a Thousand Broken Locks, the very scary, very surreal, very Japanese Silent Hill!
THE MAIN SERIES!
1999, PS1
The original tale! Harry Mason is always looking for little girls and tends not to notice dogs when they're right in his face. Featuring short draw distances, lots of fog, creepiness ahoy and no less than 5 endings, it was a true classic for its time. The once-impressive graphics now look like they were regurgitated out of a Freudian nightmare creature's orifice, but we still love the game. It was the first true competition Resident Evil had for the survival horror crown, and it was debatably better than all REs that had come out up to that point.
2001, PS2, XBox, PC
Called by some the Scariest Game of All Time, Silent Hill 2 is the one that turned all of us into blabbering pussies. Bearing little connection to the original, plot-wise, besides the setting, the game still managed to feel entirely coherent and was actually a well-told, self-contained character study. Join James Sunderland as you progressively realize he hasn't told you everything about his past, and the illusion that he's the sanest guy in town soon starts chipping away. Features a butchery under a graveyard next to some sewers under a morgue under a prison under more sewers next to a well under a museum, all of that somehow contained within a couple floors. But it's not like anything in the series really has "makes sense" as a requisite. Also, this is still the only game to feature the series' most recognizable monster, Pyramid Head. This is the game that turned Silent Hill into serious business and that made people start thinking of it as the Sonic to Resident Evil's Mario (except that the series hasn't gone down an irremediable slope of suck so far). And did I mention it's scary?
2003, PS2, PC
We now return to our scheduled 'splainin'-what's-go'n-on with a direct sequel to Silent Hill 1. Might possibly be scarier, and maybe an overall better game, than Silent Hill 2, but the jury's still out on that one. Still a remarkable entry, and the series finally fulfills that one sacred survival horror trope: you play as a little girly-girl. Because see, girls are more vulnerable than boys. That's science. :rotate:
2004, PS2, XBox, PC
I say old chum, there seems to be some manner of a creepy face on your door. This game started off as being not a Silent Hill game at all, and it probably would've been better received if it had stayed that way. It has kind of a Star Fox Adventures-ish way of shoving the Silent Hill references in there in a way that might come off as hackneyed (it doesn't even take place in Silent Hill). The game is generally disliked and considered the weakest in the series, but if you think of it as just its own game, it does introduce some pretty awesome concepts (the room itself), as well as some others that are considerably less awesome (breakable melee weapons). Gotta love those Konami executives. "That there room game, is one of them survival horrors, ain't it? Well why don't we call it Silent Hill to sell lots of it?"
2007?, PSP
Spell it with a zero or the corporate spelling police will find you and sick Pyramid Head on your ass. As you might guess, this is a prequel, taking place during and following Alessa's initial freak-out. Its combat seems to have gotten the RE4 memo, which isn't a bad thing. Otherwise, it seems like all that good ol'-fashioned Silent Hill stuff we've grown to love, except on the PSP. Survival Horror on a handheld is kind of a "buh?" concept to me, but I guess with the new PSP's video output you can make it considerably scarier. Time will tell!
SILENT HILL V
2008?, PS3, XB360
A soldier comes back to Silent Hill and presumably finds out that yo, shit's screwed up. There really isn't a whole lot we know about this one yet, except that the thought of current-gen SH freakiness kind of makes me uneasy. In that good way.
THE SPIN-OFFS YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED!
2001, GBA (Japan only)
This is a retelling of the original Silent Hill, done in... guess which genre. Guess! Okay, it's a text adventure. With all the riveting interactivity of a choose-your-own-adventure book, it's no wonder this one never crossed the pond. You do get to see what happened to Cybil while Harry was off figthing
things in the school, hospital, and all those other wonderful places he was alone. If you speak Japanese, that is.
2006, PSP
Remember how Konami slapped all the Metal Gear comics together on a UMD? Well, they did the same with Silent Hill. Barely a game, more like a bunch of DVD extras, this one exists solely to promote the movie.
SILENT HILL: THE ARCADE
2007 (Japan only)
The Japanese continue to prove that they'll make arcades out of anything. This one is a light-gun shooter set in Silent Hill. That's really all there is to say about this one.
THE MOVIES!
2006
You know when a movie isn't really good, but also isn't really bad and just turns out to be depressingly average? Bingo. This one completely nails the setting and atmosphere and really feels like Silent Hill most of the way. In fact, you could easily be fooled into thinking it's a straight adaptation of the first game for the whole first half of the movie. Then you can see the point, around when they enter the church, where Roger Avary fucked the series lore's dog and then nailed it to the lore's front door. The movie devolves into a semi-preachy witch-hunting parable, Pyramid Head is never seen again, the bad guys become good guys and vice-versa, Cybil's skin melts off and it all ends in a barbed-wire tentacle rape orgy. If you're gonna see the movie, I recommend just stopping it right after Pyramide Head totally rips that chick's skin right off, because it's a very good movie up to that point.
SILENT HILL 2
2008? 2009?
Yes, they're making a sequel. We know basically nothing about it except that it's being made. It'll either be an adaptation of Silent Hill 2 (which seems to be what most people are hoping for, assuming they don't screw it up), or a tangential continuation of the fucked-up aborted fetus that was the ending of Silent Hill 1 (which is way more likely). It seems to currently be in development hell, so we don't even really know if it'll end up coming out at all.
Annnnnd that's it! Let the discussion begin.
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/14542
UPDATE! Check post on page 4 for pretty scans.
Here is a thread dedicated to the Series of a Thousand Broken Locks, the very scary, very surreal, very Japanese Silent Hill!
THE MAIN SERIES!
1999, PS1
The original tale! Harry Mason is always looking for little girls and tends not to notice dogs when they're right in his face. Featuring short draw distances, lots of fog, creepiness ahoy and no less than 5 endings, it was a true classic for its time. The once-impressive graphics now look like they were regurgitated out of a Freudian nightmare creature's orifice, but we still love the game. It was the first true competition Resident Evil had for the survival horror crown, and it was debatably better than all REs that had come out up to that point.
2001, PS2, XBox, PC
Called by some the Scariest Game of All Time, Silent Hill 2 is the one that turned all of us into blabbering pussies. Bearing little connection to the original, plot-wise, besides the setting, the game still managed to feel entirely coherent and was actually a well-told, self-contained character study. Join James Sunderland as you progressively realize he hasn't told you everything about his past, and the illusion that he's the sanest guy in town soon starts chipping away. Features a butchery under a graveyard next to some sewers under a morgue under a prison under more sewers next to a well under a museum, all of that somehow contained within a couple floors. But it's not like anything in the series really has "makes sense" as a requisite. Also, this is still the only game to feature the series' most recognizable monster, Pyramid Head. This is the game that turned Silent Hill into serious business and that made people start thinking of it as the Sonic to Resident Evil's Mario (except that the series hasn't gone down an irremediable slope of suck so far). And did I mention it's scary?
2003, PS2, PC
We now return to our scheduled 'splainin'-what's-go'n-on with a direct sequel to Silent Hill 1. Might possibly be scarier, and maybe an overall better game, than Silent Hill 2, but the jury's still out on that one. Still a remarkable entry, and the series finally fulfills that one sacred survival horror trope: you play as a little girly-girl. Because see, girls are more vulnerable than boys. That's science. :rotate:
2004, PS2, XBox, PC
I say old chum, there seems to be some manner of a creepy face on your door. This game started off as being not a Silent Hill game at all, and it probably would've been better received if it had stayed that way. It has kind of a Star Fox Adventures-ish way of shoving the Silent Hill references in there in a way that might come off as hackneyed (it doesn't even take place in Silent Hill). The game is generally disliked and considered the weakest in the series, but if you think of it as just its own game, it does introduce some pretty awesome concepts (the room itself), as well as some others that are considerably less awesome (breakable melee weapons). Gotta love those Konami executives. "That there room game, is one of them survival horrors, ain't it? Well why don't we call it Silent Hill to sell lots of it?"
2007?, PSP
Spell it with a zero or the corporate spelling police will find you and sick Pyramid Head on your ass. As you might guess, this is a prequel, taking place during and following Alessa's initial freak-out. Its combat seems to have gotten the RE4 memo, which isn't a bad thing. Otherwise, it seems like all that good ol'-fashioned Silent Hill stuff we've grown to love, except on the PSP. Survival Horror on a handheld is kind of a "buh?" concept to me, but I guess with the new PSP's video output you can make it considerably scarier. Time will tell!
SILENT HILL V
2008?, PS3, XB360
A soldier comes back to Silent Hill and presumably finds out that yo, shit's screwed up. There really isn't a whole lot we know about this one yet, except that the thought of current-gen SH freakiness kind of makes me uneasy. In that good way.
THE SPIN-OFFS YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED!
2001, GBA (Japan only)
This is a retelling of the original Silent Hill, done in... guess which genre. Guess! Okay, it's a text adventure. With all the riveting interactivity of a choose-your-own-adventure book, it's no wonder this one never crossed the pond. You do get to see what happened to Cybil while Harry was off figthing
things in the school, hospital, and all those other wonderful places he was alone. If you speak Japanese, that is.2006, PSP
Remember how Konami slapped all the Metal Gear comics together on a UMD? Well, they did the same with Silent Hill. Barely a game, more like a bunch of DVD extras, this one exists solely to promote the movie.
SILENT HILL: THE ARCADE
2007 (Japan only)
The Japanese continue to prove that they'll make arcades out of anything. This one is a light-gun shooter set in Silent Hill. That's really all there is to say about this one.
THE MOVIES!
2006
You know when a movie isn't really good, but also isn't really bad and just turns out to be depressingly average? Bingo. This one completely nails the setting and atmosphere and really feels like Silent Hill most of the way. In fact, you could easily be fooled into thinking it's a straight adaptation of the first game for the whole first half of the movie. Then you can see the point, around when they enter the church, where Roger Avary fucked the series lore's dog and then nailed it to the lore's front door. The movie devolves into a semi-preachy witch-hunting parable, Pyramid Head is never seen again, the bad guys become good guys and vice-versa, Cybil's skin melts off and it all ends in a barbed-wire tentacle rape orgy. If you're gonna see the movie, I recommend just stopping it right after Pyramide Head totally rips that chick's skin right off, because it's a very good movie up to that point.
SILENT HILL 2
2008? 2009?
Yes, they're making a sequel. We know basically nothing about it except that it's being made. It'll either be an adaptation of Silent Hill 2 (which seems to be what most people are hoping for, assuming they don't screw it up), or a tangential continuation of the fucked-up aborted fetus that was the ending of Silent Hill 1 (which is way more likely). It seems to currently be in development hell, so we don't even really know if it'll end up coming out at all.
Annnnnd that's it! Let the discussion begin.
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Silent Hill is the reason I got a PS2.
SH 1-3.. I wouldn't say they're the greatest gameplay-wise, but the atmosphere, sound and visual design is just sooo good. Three of my favorite games. 4... meh. No atmosphere + super backtracking.
RE5 and SH5 may finally make me go 'next gen'. Though I may put up with downgraded wii ports if they go that route.. cause damn RE4 wii played so fine.
Yeah the silent hills are a big horror-movie ripoff collages, so what I say, so what.
I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Also Silent Hill 2 was fucking awesome
My OCD means I have to check every single door to completely fill out my map, and there's like a billion of those cells, and there's creepy whispers in the background and the radio flaring up... guuuuuuh.
At least it's not too long...
Oh god, I'm just the same.
I'm freaked out about exploring in these games, but I have to do it.
woo coming out in november
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
I have said this in every Silent Hill thread and am going to keep on saying it, damnit.
I agree. Silent Hill 1 relied much more on the unseen than the following sequels, and is still a spine-chilling game. The limited technology made it hard to have truly scary monsters in it, so I find the game used its audio a lot more to convey the scares.
That being said, the graphics haven't aged well at all.
Relied on the unseen = OMG FOG EVERYWHERE! It was brilliant. We can't put out a decent draw distance, so we'll just put a bunch of fog all over the place and call it "atmosphere".
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
They are wonderful things.
I still have not quite finished 3, but I'm not seeing where it's poorer reputation comes from. Game is full of great ideas.
Origins may yet sell me on the PSP.
Silent Hill 5 is, frankly, currently my only reason to want a 360 or a PS3. I'm really hoping it comes out on the PC like the last 3 did.
I'd also love to see a Wii port of Arcade. The gameplay videos I've watched were, yes, horribly shooty, but the atmosphere was still there.
And the second film will come out, and may even still have Gans directing. The first made quite a lot of money.
When I woke up it was dark outside. I heard some music coming very quietly from the direction of my window. I walked over to it and as my face got closer and closer to the glass the music got louder and louder, and as I looked out the window I realized that the entire town was covered in very thick fog.
The seconds between then and discovering the headphones was probably one of the most distressing moments of my life.
I'm a bit on the edge about Origins. I don't own a PSP, but I really want to play it for the story elements, at the very least - apparently the main character is the guy who rescued Alessa from the burning house. The early screenshots looked like gobturd, but the newer ones look pretty good.
God, I don't want a PSP
I also really liked SH 4. The story was fantastic, and the only part that really bothered me was unkillable monsters. It's such a great premise, too, and scary as hell.
I haven't finished it yet, but I will.
And I enjoyed the SH movie for what it was. The story and acting needed work, but the atmosphere(visually and audibly) was perfect.
I feel the opposite about it: the film would've been twice as good if it had skipped the first five-ten minutes and just started with them driving to the town.
Needed less
here plenty of reasons to get a psp
Killzone: Liberation
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
PoPoLoCroiS
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
Final Fantasy 1 & 2 (remakes)
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend
Dissidia: Final Fantasy
LocoRoco
Puzzle Quest Challenge of the Warlords
Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Metal Gear AC!D
Metal Gear AC!D 2
Valhalla Knights
Dungeon Siege Throne of Agony
Me and My Katamari
+ the new pspslim is coming
now you can enjoy SH origins
Not that I am disagreeing about the psp having good games.
edit: speaking of which, I should probably see what they go for around here for when Origins does come out.
SH4 has an undeserved bad rep. Does anyone remember coming back to the apartment after the half-way point in the game, and how RAPED they felt? Giving the player a safe haven and then stripping it away in pieces after 10 hours of play was genius, and made me feel truly paranoid from that point on. NOTHING was to be trusted anymore.
0rigins (along with MG: Portable Ops) is the game that could sell me a PSP, but I don't want to get burned like when I got my phat DS (don't get me wrong, I love my DS, it's just that they announced the DS Lite a week after I got it...).
I have that exact problem, it drives me nuts having to check every damn door.
yes
yes i do
oh, ok then.
edit: I should not just guess at these things.
yes
that's what the new pspslims will have
and i am so mad i bought one like 10 months before this happened
I knew I would be wrong
Though I don't think it's coming to Europe, so tough luck.
Also, Akira Yamaoka makes awesome music. Both the "real" music and the industrial/noise tracks.
Every time I think back on the game I go "Man, such an awesome story, cool setting, scary as hell, but then I remember slow keyboard turning, shooting into walls and just plain running past monsters because they were not dangerous enough to hurt me but too annoying to kill.
Though I guess that was mostly because I suck.
1. Put game in console, turn on console.
2. Play for about 10 minutes
3. Get really nervous
4. Shut game off and promise to play again later
5. Return game to BB.
I'm such a pussy.
it's one of those games that is scary simply playing it, even if there isn't anything happening
I am constantly amazed about the number of people that complain about "tank controls" in Silent Hill games. From 2 onwards, there is a different control scheme in the options menu. And then in 4 they take out the up-goes-forward, left-and-right-steer controls entirely.
Of course you're talking about the PC version which might be different so I could be wrong...
The audio cues for monsters without actually seeing them first... *shudder*.
I did, however, watch a speed run of SH3. Looked like a pretty solid game.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
nope, you can activate 2d controls in the pc too
This is suddenly very very tempting.