Silent Hill Heaven

^Yeah it's sad that in general Games fall into obscurity a lot quicker than movies (not always, most of the time) and they can become obsolete a lot quicker when sequels are released (again, not always). Certain types of games are more susceptible than others. I'm a pretty hardcore gamer though and ...

^I see where you are coming form with the tank controls. If you were a fan and player of survival horror at the time it didn't matter, most people were not bothered by it. Illustrated further by the fact that SH4 overhauled and got rid of the 'tank controls' and it failed to add anything to the game...

Postcode wrote:Masochist, surely?

I think you can be both =)

Not a world of difference between them anyway.

I really really really wish that Konami would just sell the Silent Hill license to a company that would give a shit.

Maybe he likes being choked? It is Silent Hill after all. =)

Sadist.

He's obviously not played that many Horror games, can't see why he would call the scares in SH2 'cheap' if he had. Besides that he is reviewing a game that is 14 years old, so he should be reviewing it as if it were 2001 as far as I'm concerned. Of course certain aspects of the game come up short wh...

It is still one of the best games ever made for me, easily in my top 10, maybe even top 5, as far as Horror Games go, it's at the top with a few other notables.

A little late to add to this debate I fear but I have to say this: The graphics not as good as Resident Evil? Don't make me laugh. Now don't get me wrong I like the first Resi, but it used pre-rendered backgrounds that don't move, SH had fully rendered polygons that reacted to your flashlight, a mec...

phantomess wrote:Wtf happened to this thread's title?

AlmostHam wrote: the monster cop cars are the stupidest thing I've ever seen in game.

I think the prisoner enemies were at least equally ridiculous.

I'm with you. The whole prison section at the end was very linear and probably my least favourite part of the game.

I don't know about you guys but I got lost a lot, the town never really had any characteristics that poked out to me to where I could say "oh I know where I am." A lot of this game feels very unimaginative and the monster cop cars are the stupidest thing I've ever seen in game. Yeah all t...

Del Toro probably wont bother with games anymore, Every time he has tried to get into making a game it goes awry or gets cancelled, that would be enough to put people off putting their valuable time into something.. He has indeed officially stated that he doesn't want to get into another Game again,...

^ May be an idea to ask on Gamefaqs or neoseeker or somewhere like that. I know a lot of people have had trouble with the PC version, my guess is they must just have been lazy when porting it because pretty much everyone who plays the PC version has some kind of problem. I'd just stick to the origin...

I also wanna throw out there that a salaryman's existence being utterly miserable is a very common trope. You say that but surely it depends on the Salary? a salary as low as $20,000 (which isn't that much) is still more than working full time on minimum wage, so I think the "working" Man...

There was a feature on the DVD, I think it was called Path to Darkness or Path of Darkness or something like that. It mentions the outfits regarding the colour change. Although I cannot remember how much detail it goes into, you can most likely find it on youtube.

^ Team Silent didn't develop Homecoming, so any Ideas they had for a potential SH5 died when they stopped making the Silent Hill games. SH2 and 4 were made by the same people and they may well have thought about using Walter as a character when they wrote the newspaper clipping about his "Death...

SH4 Camera hacks seem to be hard to find.

The video in the link you posted is the only SH4 hack that I can find, google search is only giving me a bunch of 2 & 3 hacks.

Nobody else seems to have uploaded anymore, I would have thought there would be quite a few but apparently not.

Yeah, looking at the rumor again, and it sounds like total bullshit. What company would pay billions of dollars for a niche franchise? Maybe I'm being too overly optimistic here and at this point I don't really care, but billions is not a whole lot to a huge company like Microsoft and they could pe...

Book of Memories was alright though. One thing that most of our fandom needs to understand is that horror doesn't mean "scary". That word is only one of the things that the genre triggers. The ResEvil people need to put that inside their thick skull. Well said. The definition of Horror is...

^ Konami can't stop anyone using the initials PT in a title, especially as PT is now done. Though I'm not sure how important the letters P and T are to anyone anymore.

^ It's true they love a bit of shame in Japan, some people are shamed for things their great grandparents did.

Saying that though I doubt he'll have trouble getting work. Even if he couldn't in Japan there are plenty of American and British devs that could use a bit of eastern flavour.