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Alucard
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"First shots of Silent Hill 4" , posted Wed 7 Jan 01:38

Just follow the link :

The Magic Box

Seems to be taken from a magazine, and looks as creepy as usual... can't wait it ^_^

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Gojira

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"Re(1):First shots of Silent Hill 4" , posted Wed 7 Jan 02:02

quote:
Just follow the link :

The Magic Box

Seems to be taken from a magazine, and looks as creepy as usual... can't wait it ^_^

Yup, same as usual...

Am I the only person around here who finds SH extremely repetitive and boring? I actually had to motivate myself to play SH3 when I rented it last year; I ended up spending more time listening to the soundtrack CD than playing the game. -_-

OYashiroForever

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"Re(2):First shots of Silent Hill 4" , posted Wed 7 Jan 02:20

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Am I the only person around here who finds SH extremely repetitive and boring? I actually had to motivate myself to play SH3 when I rented it last year; I ended up spending more time listening to the soundtrack CD than playing the game. -_-

The Silent Hill series falls in to that ever growing collection of games that I'd love to watch someone else play, but I don't have the patience or desire to actually play myself. I played through the first one a couple of times, but never touched 2 or 3. I'm completely burnt out on 3D action/adventure/survival horror/platform games.

"Only two things are infinite

the universe and human stupidity

and I'm not sure about the former."

"Your denial is beneath you and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs

I see through you."

DarkZero

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"Re(3):First shots of Silent Hill 4" , posted Wed 7 Jan 02:34

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Am I the only person around here who finds SH extremely repetitive and boring? I actually had to motivate myself to play SH3 when I rented it last year; I ended up spending more time listening to the soundtrack CD than playing the game. -_-
The Silent Hill series falls in to that ever growing collection of games that I'd love to watch someone else play, but I don't have the patience or desire to actually play myself. I played through the first one a couple of times, but never touched 2 or 3. I'm completely burnt out on 3D action/adventure/survival horror/platform games.

If you're the type that likes to play games where you do nothing but explore locales and soak in their atmosphere and story, I'm sure the Silent Hill games are great. Personally, however, I was never a big fan of the old Sierra adventure games or first person exploration/puzzle games like Myst or Starship Titanic, so I found Silent Hill 2 (my first SH) extremely boring. If the Silent Hill games had something -- ANYTHING -- else to them, I'm sure I'd enjoy them a lot. But there's just not enough of a game in there. The Final Fantasy series, although practically bankrupt in terms of strategy or difficulty, gives me enough gameplay to be able enjoy what's basically a novel with a PS2 controller attached to it. The Silent Hill series just doesn't.

But the controls don't help, either. The survival horror genre really needs to get away from the idea of emulating natural human weakness through intentionally poor controls. Plenty of games have made their monsters exceptionally dangerous and lethal without forcing the player to control their main character like a cheap Radio Shack RC car. I don't see why the survival horror genre can't do the same.

Alucard
137th Post

Regular Customer

"Re(4):First shots of Silent Hill 4" , posted Wed 7 Jan 02:56

I won't debate here or start a fire about it.

All I can say is the reasons why I fell in love (really) with Sh are :

1/ oppressed atmosphere ;
2/ ugly graphics ;
3/ terrific sounds ;
3/sh games are the most insane games ever released ; various happy subjects are used (slaughter, rape, madness, euthanasia...)

SH2 has a very good story, and good endings.

No previous games offered me to slay down some zombie children in an elementary school, of jump into an dead corpse dwell of an hospital, or visiting some famous places of an underground prison...)

It's the nastiest serie I've ever played. I like it.

I wanna try manhunter soon, seems to be very sane too.

Gojira

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"Re(4):First shots of Silent Hill 4" , posted Wed 7 Jan 03:07

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If you're the type that likes to play games where you do nothing but explore locales and soak in their atmosphere and story, I'm sure the Silent Hill games are great.

That's just it... I DO like exploring locales and the like. I just find there's not much to explore in SH. You just go from one dark, blood-soaked, grimy area to the next and after a while they all start to look the same, with only minor differences in geometry or perspective. It totally destroys my desire to look around for anything, which is 80% of the gameplay.

That's the thing that a lot of people like about the SH series too: those mind-fucking areas of ugliness and how you end up in them. So I guess my complaint about the series is so firmly rooted in what the game is there's just no way I could ever enjoy the series.

Ammadeau

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"Re(5):First shots of Silent Hill 4" , posted Wed 7 Jan 03:16

There's more exploration in Metroid (the original) than a Silent Hill game. It's a matter of opinion, but the only thing I thought that was good about SH2 was the textures. The combat was terrible, the animations embarrassing, the story dully concieved and dully executed, but man the textures in the game were a work of art. I spent most of my time playing SH2 (which I beat btw not a very long game) staring at the walls.