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There's no Halloween in Silent Hill!

RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
edited November 2008 in Social Entropy++
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Everyone's favourite nurse-murdering sim is about to make a comeback in the form of a fifth installment, Homecoming, at the end of the month, and anyone unfortunate enough to have communicated with me at all since 1999 knows that any release of any Silent Hill game is a sacred time for me

I don't need GTA, I don't need Halo

But I need Silent Hill

Let's watch this preview and speculate

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39968.html

Will it be another spiritual clone of Silent Hill 2 that fanboys will bitch about even though they all say they want every game in the series to be like Silent Hill 2, thereby stunting the creative growth of the series?

Thoughts?

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i've never played a silent hill game

    but i now own a 360

    does this mean i can play one now?

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The trailer didn't give it a proper scary feel. I really dislike the gametrailer videos with that guy narrating

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So, is this some kinda video game or what?

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  • JohnHamJohnHam Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    can you guarantee that the controls are not old-RE-style retarded?

    I would play it then, maybe.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    can i hump the undead nurses in this one

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    also
    should i play the old ones first or just assume i know everything because of the movie and just play this one

    potatoe on
  • JohnHamJohnHam Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    also
    should i play the old ones first or just assume i know everything because of the movie and just play this one

    just read the wikipedias for all the old games and then buy this

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    also
    should i play the old ones first or just assume i know everything because of the movie and just play this one

    If you can, please play the old games, they're great

    Silent Hill 4 has awful gameplay but it has one of the strongest stories in the series

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    JohnHam wrote: »
    can you guarantee that the controls are not old-RE-style retarded?

    I would play it then, maybe.

    The controls look like they're RE4ish

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Combat training?

    I dunno, it makes me a bit wary

    But I've never properly played any of these games, nor will I properly play this one

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Redeemer wrote: »
    JohnHam wrote: »
    can you guarantee that the controls are not old-RE-style retarded?

    I would play it then, maybe.

    The controls look like they're RE4ish

    if this is true, i'll buy it

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  • JohnHamJohnHam Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Redeemer wrote: »
    JohnHam wrote: »
    can you guarantee that the controls are not old-RE-style retarded?

    I would play it then, maybe.

    The controls look like they're RE4ish

    if this is true, i'll buy it

    samezies

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I will be buying this regardless of the controls. Having only ever played Silent Hill 2, and that a long time ago, I've been waiting for something new in the series so I can finally get into it. How are the Silent Hills on Gametap? Anyone ever tried them to see if they run well?

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

    I remember playing a demo for a game a long while back where at that point in the game, you had nothing but a heart problem. The game had such a creepy atmosphere. It was in some spaceship future setting and there were ghosts or something. Your light source was limited to the helmet-mounted light

    The main mechanic you were playing with was that you were in a horrible physical state at the time and if you got too worked up, you would croak. You had the option to run from things, but it was a dangerous balance. There was this constant pulse and heart monitor thumping in the speaker

    that game demo scared me more than any other game I've ever played ever. It somehow also managed to give me a feeling of claustrophobia

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    deemer I'm very happy for you and Silent Hill and I'm sure you'll have a lovely life together
    why did I even bother buying a gift? they'll just be separated within 5 years

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  • JohnHamJohnHam Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/16/joystiq-hands-on-silent-hill-homecoming/

    HMMM

    I wish there was a more recent hands-on but I can't find one.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I love the opening song from Silent Hill 3. And if I watch some of the silent hill stuff while in the right mindset oh maaaan I get the fears.

    Also I liked the movie. It's just so bleak & hopeless. I hope they make a sequel.

    Weaver on
  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Bongi was telling me that he was worried this looked too much like Silent Hill: The Movie: The Game

    Honestly, that doesn't really bother me. The movie's production values were superb, and their Pyramid Head design is far superior to SH2's

    I just wish they'd give the god damn nurses an upgrade, this is the third time we've had the bobbleheaded ones (plus the movie, which makes four times). I thought SH3's black hair and lipstick smeared nurses were scarier, anyway

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Futore wrote: »
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

    I remember playing a demo for a game a long while back where at that point in the game, you had nothing but a heart problem. The game had such a creepy atmosphere. It was in some spaceship future setting and there were ghosts or something. Your light source was limited to the helmet-mounted light

    The main mechanic you were playing with was that you were in a horrible physical state at the time and if you got too worked up, you would croak. You had the option to run from things, but it was a dangerous balance. There was this constant pulse and heart monitor thumping in the speaker

    that game demo scared me more than any other game I've ever played ever. It somehow also managed to give me a feeling of claustrophobia

    that is rad! raaaaaad

    reminds me of Anchorhead.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    deemer I'm very happy for you and Silent Hill and I'm sure you'll have a lovely life together
    why did I even bother buying a gift? they'll just be separated within 5 years

    Me and this entire town are in it together for LIFE, thank you

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    SH3, the twitchy guys that just hang there on the walls or ceiling turning those cranks?

    ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffflksfhfs987y^&^*&%*&dfg

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Weaver wrote: »
    SH3, the twitchy guys that just hang there on the walls or ceiling turning those cranks?

    ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffflksfhfs987y^&^*&%*&dfg

    Valtiel, man, he ruled

    Now THERE was a good way of implementing an ominous background character ala Pyramid Head without actually being a transparent clone of Pyramid Head (ahem, The Butcher)

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Someone call Redee... oh.

    Carry on.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    was anyone else creeped out by parts of killer7?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtYtQ6BwQVU

    3:17

    also, the entire curtis blackburn chapter

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Futore wrote: »
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

    I remember playing a demo for a game a long while back where at that point in the game, you had nothing but a heart problem. The game had such a creepy atmosphere. It was in some spaceship future setting and there were ghosts or something. Your light source was limited to the helmet-mounted light

    The main mechanic you were playing with was that you were in a horrible physical state at the time and if you got too worked up, you would croak. You had the option to run from things, but it was a dangerous balance. There was this constant pulse and heart monitor thumping in the speaker

    that game demo scared me more than any other game I've ever played ever. It somehow also managed to give me a feeling of claustrophobia

    that is rad! raaaaaad

    reminds me of Anchorhead.

    Even though I've never played horror games much, I know it can be such an immersive experience that would probably be so much fun to write

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    ps play anchorhead

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    can I download it from that site? I was just about to try downloading the demo

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    dammit orik
    between that video and cloudman's av/sig i'm going to have to play through killer 7 again

    potatoe on
  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Futore wrote: »
    can I download it from that site? I was just about to try downloading the demo

    either play it online here: http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.phpz?cat=&game=231&mode=html

    or download the .z8 file from that link and use one of these

    http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/

    http://ccxvii.net/spatterlight/

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    dammit orik
    between that video and cloudman's av/sig i'm going to have to play through killer 7 again

    I'm a cleaner. Dead bodies mean nothing. To me, they're just cold, rotting flesh.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

    so is this worth the download? i tried out the demo, and liked it well enough, but $40 is a lot. i'm basically asking if its worth the money to download the whole shebang.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

    so is this worth the download? i tried out the demo, and liked it well enough, but $40 is a lot. i'm basically asking if its worth the money to download the whole shebang.

    i hear that it is, but i'm too broke to have tried it myself

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

    so is this worth the download? i tried out the demo, and liked it well enough, but $40 is a lot. i'm basically asking if its worth the money to download the whole shebang.

    I was looking into this the other day while trying to find something horror'ish to occupy my time. Apparently it's quite good, but I'm passing on that information from a third party. I haven't tried it myself. So a cautious 'yes, it's worth it' with the caveat that I haven't tried it myself.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ahh, ok, everything sounds positive about it, but man, i feel like since its split up into chapters, i'll be playing for a few hours then be done with the thing. also, while the escorting of the young lady wasn't too bad in the demo, i usually hate having to escort people in games, and it seems to be a big part of the actual game. cmon, if i'm gonna have to carry your ass, at least be useful for something.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    when i played the demo, she helped attack zombies with me, so she isn't helpless

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    who cares, go play siren: blood curse instead

    so is this worth the download? i tried out the demo, and liked it well enough, but $40 is a lot. i'm basically asking if its worth the money to download the whole shebang.

    i hear that it is, but i'm too broke to have tried it myself

    Tsh, so you're undermining my thread with a game you haven't played?

    Tssssshhhh

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    well, most of team silent hill is now on siren, so yes

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I'll probably rent this around Christmas time, when I rent RB1 so I can import songs

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Team Silent are a bunch of ship jumpers

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