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It's hard to get a feel for the whole atmosphere of the game and especially how different it is from a short little walk through an old beaten up cemetary with dogs in it and one cutscene that seemed very Silent Hill to me.
The dogs looked a lot more SH1 than it did any of the subsequent games, but SH1's monsters weren't quite as out there and were a lot more standard monster fare.
But I'm kind of just glad to see a woman in a SH game that actually doesn't look like Cameron Diaz. It's amazing!
SH1 had pterodactyls.
That graveyard in the video remind anyone of the graveyard level in the Buffy TVS game? It's the same developers (or company). I have to see that the graphics are very underwhelming, the animation of the actors is stiff as shit, but at this late in the game (no pun intended) they are not going to fix any of that.
I will probably rent it, either way.
Not to say I haven't enjoyed games since then, quite the contrary I found even The Room to be decent at times. But when the series starts bringing back the above, I'll take the next game more seriously. In fact, if they could give SH1 the REmake treatment, I'd buy two copies.
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And the death sequences are among the most disturbing I've ever heard in my life (Game over screen, but you hear what happens to the girl
Anyway, I'm cautiously optimistic about this. I loved how SH4 approached the game but towards the end it was really tedious and really lost what was special about the clastraphoia-enducing room at the start of the game. Bring back the SH2 days
What the fuck are you guys talking about when you are hating on the graphics? They look fine. There's like one shot that doesn't look like it has AA. Man, tough crowd to please.
They're not bad. There's just a couple of times where it doesn't look any better than its predecessors. And the dogs, man, the dogs look horrible.
You make it sound interesting, but these youtube videos make it look like total fanservice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OKMSC7ka4s
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It was a bad version of Clock Tower.
I mean,come on ,she is wearing a bikini top with the German flag on it and cowboy clothes?
Not even the Japanese design something like this,as long as it's not for an oneechanbara game.
But I rather enjoyed Haunting Grounds, enough to see it through to the end
I'd only recommend it for big fans of the genre as there is a lot of backtracking however. The dog mechanic puts a great spin on it
Has anyone noticed that recent pictures of Homecoming look quite nice, but ones from about 2 months ago looked decidedly last gen? Blocky and poor texture work? And before THOSE pictures, it looked very nice... What the hell happened 2 months ago? I'm at work so can't really track down the pictures at the moment, but I have a feeling that the last-gen looking pictures could actually be a PS2 or Wii version of the game. Would make sense to me... especially a PS2 version, considering all other versions (except 1 of course) have been on PS2.
Kind of hoping for more from Climax aswell now... they did a good job with Origins as I said, and with that game under their belt and the experience gained from it, I think they could make an even better SH game. Perhaps they could do a remake of SH1? As someone else here said, if they did a remake of that, I would buy multiple copies.
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I would much rather games that feel less like the previous SHs and do things we haven't seen before.
I wouldn't have liked it as much on the PS2, though.
As for the series moving forward... I agree to a point. SH4 proved that moving too far away from the tried and true formula of the series can have bad results. I'm not saying don't try new things, but at least stick to some of the elements that have made previous games so good. Origins is a much better game than 4 so far, and that is because it treads familiar ground.
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Every other change to the "tried and true" formula was a welcome one.
I didn't mind the ghosts TOO much... they were interesting and a bit creepy, but they did get annoying after a while. The breakable weapons were alright, and inspired Origins, but Origins did a much better job.
I don't know, I just felt SH4 was really weak, and not really a Silent Hill game. Origins feels right to me, even if its not got the best story. It does everything else very well I feel, and for a game not developed by Team Silent and originally for a portable console, it does much more right than SH4 ever did.
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Is it worth buying a PSP for? Because I already have a PS2, and there's not really anything else on the PSP I'm interested in (except Metal Gear Portable Ops, which I borrowed a PSP to play) that isn't getting a PS2 release as well (Ratchet and Clank).
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That's what I thought. At one point I was happy to hear that the PSP Slim (or whatever it's called) was going to have AV out because I would just plug it into the tv to play SH0 anyway. So PS2 port sounds like a no-brainer for me.
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But I did like some much more than others. SH2 > SH1 > SH3 >SH4 = SH0
This was the only reason I couldn't beat the game.
Oh hey I need health, I'll head back to my apartment. OH SHI!
Oh man, I love being scared while I play a game. I don't get scared watching movies, so this is the only thing I can do to get that rush.
But yeah, you're not alone. I have a friend who is exactly like you. He won't play any of the Resident Evil games, none of the Silent Hill games, and I'm sure he won't touch Condemned with a 10 foot pole.
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I liked all the first 4 and haven't played Origins.
I just have a suspicion I'll be disappointed with it.
Silent Hill 4 was the scariest one, I felt. Not the slow feeling of dread and creepiness that you get from SH2, but the more immediate pants-wetting fear you get from inevitable scares and surprises.
Yes. I loved SH2. And I'll Defend James Sunderland to the death.
Still wanna pick up 2 and 3 though. I have them both for the pc, but surprise, surprise, 2 no longer works. Let me know if you guys know where to find these two at reasonable prices.
I have a feeling SH5 is going to be mediocre, hopefully I am proven wrong.
Hey, you're not friends with that red... pyramid thing, are you?
The Silent Hill games make me long for a mute protagonist.
Edit: Again, not to say I think the games are bad, they're anything but. But they really go out of their way to either make the mains uninteresting or give them really weak dialog.
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