Larson, please be patient. I'll address your points in the near future. It will take ages to write it out and I don't know about you but I have a proper job. I’ll go over them briefly
In brief, the combat is poor. When you learn how to dodge, anything can be killed with ease. It didn't really know what it wanted to be with regard to combat. It was caught in the middle of older silent hill titles and the new style of resident evil. If you compare it to the later, look at how resident evil revolutionized its combat and moved into the realm of action rather than horror, granted Homecoming didn’t want to do that but I don't think it knew what it wanted, and Resident Evil 4 revolutionized many aspects of how combat is made in similar types of games. If you look at Silent Hills piers on the PS3/XBOX360 it falls short of a lot of other games (in terms of combat). If you simply compare the combat to the first 4 games, it's a stupid comparison. Silent Hill was made in 1999 and much less advanced technology. However, at the time it was made it was one the better in its genre. (clock tower, resident evil, hard edge, alone in the dark, the thing, fatal frame). Not just in terms of combat but every aspect. Can homecoming say that? Compared, to the likes of Resident evil 5, Dead Space, Dead rising or (dare I say) Siren.
In terms of bugs, you can find people having many problems from saved data, to crashing games. The PC version is meant to be a terrible port. I bought the American one for the Japanese Playstation, you had to reset the config every 15 minutes, if you didn’t do it before a puzzle you couldn’t leave the puzzle and would have to restart. You might say it wasn’t made for the Japanese Playstation 3? But why should I not be able to play the game of a series I love because I choose to live abroad. I play American games all the time and they work perfectly. I'm worried the same will happen when I order my copy of G.I. JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA, I hear that's another gem from Double Helix.
In addition, why should a person owning only a PC have to suffer from bugs and major problems, if they or I pay the same ammount of money for the game to play it Double Helix should have the common courtesy to iron these problems out. Anyway, this game wasn't even released in Japan, probably because it got bad reviews and sold very poorly. You have been a member here a long time, you will have read about many bugs and problems people have had. If you cycle through many of the reviews loads of reviews mention bugs?
"has stuff from SH1 and SH2 and some movies", I must be really fucking blind not to see the oh-so-obvious copying of the first two games and a movie series that I love. The story was fresh so where's the unoriginality? "
Don't really understand what you mean? I didn't think it was original at all. There is a picture flouting around which sums it up nicely, I think it is on this thread. Theres is a different between "copying" and "referencing". IN MY OPINION, the first silent hill games referenced a lot of material and Homecoming merely "copied".
I'm not alone in thinking Homecoming is a bad game, just look at the title of the thread. If you don't want to change anybodies minds and believe an opinion is an opinion, why come into a thread of this nature? If you think about when Silent Hill first came out, it was a revolutionary title. It’s nothing to do with who made it or anything like that. It was an amazingly deep and well made game. It surpassed its piers in many ways, changed the way people thought about gaming. It was at the top of the genre. Does Homecoming really bring anything new to the genre or series? Silent Hill is debated and discussed 10 years after its release, will Homecoming? Doubt it. That said I am not living in the past, I look forward to SH:SM and notice they are trying to revolutionize the genre and series. I did actually like Origins.
You say I only bring up three problems. Combat, Lack of Originality, bugs. They might be three but there pretty big flaws and if given the time I'll go into these deeper. It terms of symbolism and depth to homecoming I could go on for hours, I will at a later date. BTW, I loved the use of Phead
As for Symbolism etc. check out some of SPRINGS02's posts, that guy talks alot of sense.
I apologize I hold the Silent Hill series in such high esteem. Since it was the first release on the next generation of consoles, I expected so, soo much more.
Btw I'm sure I made other posts regarding this topic, are you just picking and choosing parts.