Skele wrote:The series has been hit or miss with the fans since The Room.
I would go so far as to say since Silent Hill 2.
There are a ton of people that didn't like the dropping of the cult stuff or the treatment of the environments, and they loved the return to it in SH3.
The SH games are quite varied from each title to the next on their appeal. This makes it really hard for me to recommend a starting point to people because some people might really like the narratives of the earlier games but hate the tank controls. Some people might find that the newer games offer better controls and are on a platform they own, but maybe the narrative isn't quite their cup of tea. It could go any way, really.
My absolute least favorite silent hill game is origins, and when I actually met someone that had only played origins and loved it, I was torn. I wanted to tell them they should play the other games, but they weren't much of a gamer in the first place. Would it be wrong to tell them their high praise for what I viewed as such an awful game was erroneous? Would I turn them off of the series entirely by trying to sell them on a game I loved, but maybe they wouldn't like?
I just let it be, but told them they should maybe rent one of the other games some day if they were interested. I haven't seen them since, but who knows, maybe they have a more avid interest in them now? Maybe not.
I'm sort of rambling at this point, but I just don't get the absolutes so many people try to throw around about these games. There are so many people that have never touched one of the "holy trinity," and they love the games they've played. I think that's a good thing if the silent hill games are going to ever grow into something sustainable. They probably shouldn't and won't, but yeah.
Skele wrote:Nah mikefile, Shattered Memories just sucked due to it being a shitty game... and if anyone can't accept that, then they should probably blame their taste in games, because it appears to suck as well.
I hope this makes it into quotable notables because I'm dying laughing over here!