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| Undead Fred 1703th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Silent Hill 4 first edition"
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The national living treasure... Ryzai Sadamizu ? something like this... Well, the ́!b4 has recorded a CD of frightening stories written by him that match with the general atmosphere of Silent Hill (with the soundtrack made by the composer-producer of the game), and the CD will be only available in the first edition of the game.
And in case you wondered, no, this won't be in any non japanese version.
EDIT : and even though he is not involved in any part of the game, I would love it if his stories were made canon to the series. After all, he's not some random mangaka that came and draw his thing without playing the game (cough cough It Junji cough cough), he's a living national treasure, now that's something.
THEN the braindead morons on Gamefaqs would have even more materials to build their totally insane theories upon.
Stiffed again... Man, why can't the rest of the world get in on some of the cool bonuses, too? At least we got the soundtrack to SH3 with the game.... that was awesome.
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| Undead Fred 1704th Post
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| "Re(3):Silent Hill 4 first edition" , posted Tue 15 Jun 16:08
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I'm sure the rest of the world gets cool bonuses with the game it produces. Like, I'm sure you got plenty of shiny things when Halo came out that no Japanese will ever have.
Well, I can see a reason to it, but...
Heh heh. Well, no, Halo was just Halo here. And Twisted Metal Black came out plain, too... so on and so on. There are bonuses for pre-ordering from specific game store chains, but those prizes vary and personally, I've had horrible luck getting even those. I've pre-ordered from EBX and GameStop a few times and never got any of the prizes I was promised. I'm talking about stuff that's straight from the game company itself- like the SH3 soundtrack, for example. That was nice of them, and I listen to it all the time.
I'm sure the Japanese get cool game-related stuff because of their culture. Over here in the US, video games are seen as only for kids or teen boys, and are all shallow, arcade-style, no-story games that you only play every once in a while. Or they're just Grand Theft Auto, which is all that anyone past their teens plays when they're not playing New Football Game 200X. But even then, they only play video games at a frat house in college while everyone's drunk. "Story???? Hit start, man! Start running over people!!!"
I'm sure if SOMEONE started researching, though, they'd find that at least half of the people that play games actually aren't like that. But they won't do that research, since Gross Generalization Monthly says that only kids play games, and they won't package the cool bonus stuff that people like us would actually want to have with a game. But, I'm sure we'll get those things some day. I mean, the games in the US used to have a hard enough time getting the real cover art for games instead of something the US distributors made some intern cough up between trips to get them coffee (you know, like the Symphony of the Night US cover). Now, that's slowly changing a little here and there, so maybe we'll start seeing more bonus items packaged in at some point.
I know I'D want that CD of stories...
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| Iggy 3561th Post
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| "Re(4):Silent Hill 4 first edition" , posted Wed 16 Jun 01:44
Ahahaha, now that's luck (or lack of, maybe). No, I wasn't refering to that thing in Halo 2, actually, I haven't even seen Halo, I only know its name and that's it's popular in the US. I could have said GTA as well (which I haven't seen either). Well, what I meant is "any american game", but as you said, there seem to be nothing in it anyways.
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(you know, like the Symphony of the Night US cover)
Ah ? It is different in the US ? How does it look like ?
これだけは主張しておく魂の叫び：
わたくしカエルの肛門にストローさしたり爆竹つっこんだりした経験はありません。
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| MrWhitefolks
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| "Re(5):Silent Hill 4 first edition" , posted Wed 16 Jun 03:26:
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...insane theories...
so, does anyone actually have the cannon to the entire Silent Hill series to prove that "all those insane theories" are indeed, insane?
cause i'd love to read it if someone has it. that's for damn sure.
-brutal honesty about the game industry and the people involved in it-
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| Undead Fred 1715th Post
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| "Re(5):Silent Hill 4 first edition" , posted Wed 16 Jun 14:14:
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(you know, like the Symphony of the Night US cover)
Ah ? It is different in the US ? How does it look like ?
Ugh. It's ugly. I can scan it when I get back to my computer and revive that "horrible video game box art" thread on the image BBS.
It's this ultra-boring silhouette of a castle with a crappy stormy sky behind it. When I say silhouette, I mean that whichever intern had to make it drew a castle, filled it in totally black, and put an ugly sky behind it. The sky's so dark, that the contrast between the two shapes is really bad. It would have had some value if the castle looked scary at all, but it didn't. Then they slapped the Castlevania logo on at the bottom. The reason I was told why they went with this masterpiece is that Alucard looked too feminine, so they'd rather have a badly-done uninteresting cover than use at least some of the original art to make something cool for the game. I mean, this cover's not Mega Man bad, but it's in the area. A game as interesting as SotN should have had a better cover.
Edit: Oops. Guess I hadn't looked at it in a long time. All of the above is sort of like what the cover is, except exaggerated. There is detail in the castle and there's this SPOOKY LIGHTNING in the sky behind it, but it's still ugly. Not the worst ever, but it's still bland and ugly.
[this message was edited by Undead Fred on Thu 17 Jun 01:29] |
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