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Silent Hill

AgentZero

AgentZero

Through that door, is a seperate reality.
Okay, so this is probably my second favorite video game series. (The first being RE.)

Silent Hill follows . . . Well it's really hard to tell any of that because you don't really know what's going on until the end LOL.

I'll just give you the story's of the ones I've played.

Origins: Origins follows a truck driver named Travis. He's making his way through Silent Hill, when he has to stops his car, almost hitting a girl. He get's out of his truck to go find the girl, and after walking we found ourselves looking for the girl in a house that's on fire. After we grab the burnt girl, we get out of the house, we pass out, and we wake up in the middle of Silent Hill trying to figure out how to escape the town.

****tered Memories: This one follows Harry Mason. He get's in to a car crash in silent hill with his daughter, and he has to go through Silent Hill trying to find her . . . But the ending has something in store that completely twists everything.

The Room: This follows Henry Townsand, a man that is trapped in his apartment with chains on his door, and the windows don't open. Our only way to get out is a hole through our bathroom, which leads to Silent Hill.

Homecoming: I can't say much on this, I haven't gotten very far, but what I can remember, is that it follows Alex Shepherd, He get's home to from what I think is the Military. But we can't find his brother, and of course, we have to go through Silent Hill to find him.

Downpour: My favorite in the series. This follows Murphy Pendelton, a guy in Prison. I can't tell you why he's there because of spoilers, but he's getting transferred to a prison, and his bus crashes in Silent Hill, and he goes through a fight with monsters . . . And his past.



So, what do you guys think of the series?
 
I love Silent Hill too. My favorites are 2, 3, The Room and ****tered Memories. Downpour and the original Silent Hill are tied for my second favorites. I felt that Origins and Homecoming were the weakest of the series, but still very good.
 
My favourite is and will always be the first one. I have very fond memories of it. 2 was almost on PAR with the first one. definitely didn't like the room. it just got sloppy towards the later games, and felt like they didn't care for the monster design or even the setting for the matter.
 
I've only played silent hill 4: the room
And silent hill 5: homecoming.
I've watched playthroughs of the first 3 also.

Silent hill 4 legitimately scared me.
I loved it and had a lot of time for it.
I enjoyed the story and liked to read into the back story of some characters. The haunting and escort missions made it scary aswell.
Also : Cynthia - nuff said

The second game has one of my fav cutscenes in a game. The burning staircase scene - such a powerful scene.

The 3rd game, I really enjoyed the continuation storyline from the first game and thought it was really well done. The scene where Douglas explains his regret for his deceased son was quite saddening too and I respected him in the game after it.

The 5th game was quite fun to play, but I wasn't crazy about the story
 
Oh, lovely memories... My Silent Hill addiction started with the third game back in 2003/04. I was not at all familiar with the franchise, I knew nothing about the story or the characters or the first two games, I just saw some little girl in a fancy outfit fighting monsters at a shopping mall, and I thought: Why not? (This is, by the way, exactly the same way RE caught my attention: A woman in a tube top and a skirt fighting zombies, I thought it was a good idea. And I was right.)

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the game actually had a story, and a good one at that, great characters too (I loved Heather and, although it took me a while to really appreciate her, also Claudia eventually), and it was scary. Not "scary" as in "big, ugly monsters will violently rip your character to shreds if you don't pay attention all the time, and if that doesn't disturb you, we will make the monsters even bigger, uglier and more violent", but... you know, actually scary, with primal fears so cleverly used against the player like I had never seen it done in a game before. The queen mother of all creepiness for me was the hospital's optional mirror room, especially considering that Heather is implied to be eisoptrophobic, and what happens after that is just as horrible... But I won't spoil it in case anyone here is not familiar with the game's story.

Well, I got carried away a little and I actually want to replay this game now. But even though I probably sound like a Silent Hill fanatic at the moment, I have to admit that I've only played half of the games at most. I played The Room, which I didn't find very appealing, especially in comparison to 3; I started 2, but eventually got bored after a looong introduction scene that just features running endlessly through a foggy forest and then through a foggy town with no idea where to go; later I also played ****tered Memories and, unlike many other fans, I actually kind of liked it (even though the psychiatrist's notes about "me" at the end weren't accurate at all).

However, while I still consider Silent Hill the pearl of the videogame industry, I think its repetitiveness, both gameplay- and story-wise, will eventually be the death of it, and that's why I stopped playing it. In the end it's always the same.
 
Hel said:
Oh, lovely memories... My Silent Hill addiction started with the third game back in 2003/04. I was not at all familiar with the franchise, I knew nothing about the story or the characters or the first two games, I just saw some little girl in a fancy outfit fighting monsters at a shopping mall, and I thought: Why not? (This is, by the way, exactly the same way RE caught my attention: A woman in a tube top and a skirt fighting zombies, I thought it was a good idea. And I was right.)

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the game actually had a story, and a good one at that, great characters too (I loved Heather and, although it took me a while to really appreciate her, also Claudia eventually), and it was scary. Not "scary" as in "big, ugly monsters will violently rip your character to shreds if you don't pay attention all the time, and if that doesn't disturb you, we will make the monsters even bigger, uglier and more violent", but... you know, actually scary, with primal fears so cleverly used against the player like I had never seen it done in a game before. The queen mother of all creepiness for me was the hospital's optional mirror room, especially considering that Heather is implied to be eisoptrophobic, and what happens after that is just as horrible... But I won't spoil it in case anyone here is not familiar with the game's story.

Well, I got carried away a little and I actually want to replay this game now. But even though I probably sound like a Silent Hill fanatic at the moment, I have to admit that I've only played half of the games at most. I played The Room, which I didn't find very appealing, especially in comparison to 3; I started 2, but eventually got bored after a looong introduction scene that just features running endlessly through a foggy forest and then through a foggy town with no idea where to go; later I also played ****tered Memories and, unlike many other fans, I actually kind of liked it (even though the psychiatrist's notes about "me" at the end weren't accurate at all).

However, while I still consider Silent Hill the pearl of the videogame industry, I think its repetitiveness, both gameplay- and story-wise, will eventually be the death of it, and that's why I stopped playing it. In the end it's always the same.
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Exactly. It's not the big monsters that scare me. It's the psychological crap that messes with your brain and makes us ask, "Are We All So Innocent?" That's what scares me. . . It also gives me headaches LOL
 
It scared the crap out of me cos I was 7 and was used to things making sense as a kid and used to say to myself "You want me to hit a creature no knowing where it came from and not knowing how strong it is with a wooden plank?!" and it just seemed stupid to me that a little girl would run away from her father (I understand it now, no spoilers lol)

I didn't play it again until I was 16, it was The Room and played it for 10mins at my friends house until I ran screaming out of the room and locking the bathroom door.

Last year I finally got the HD collection and finished both 2 and 3. Even though Silent Hill 2 was the most terrifying game I've ever played, it was also the best because every single choice has a consequence (I usually hate games with multiple endings because one of them is usually not canonical). Three wasn't that scary because since Heather's the main character of the series, it felt like she could quickly grasp the situation but I love how people to this day don't know who the birthday caller is. It also said SH2 was inspired by a book called Crime and Punishment so I decided to read it.

I guess what I loved about the games is that it molds your own concept of the biggest things you fear (like with the characters of SH2) and then to have the tables turn and make it look like it never happened/someone tells you it doesn't exist (you have to have a sharp sense of reality/truth and observation to outwit it most of the time). It's different from other games because you like they said on the psychological warning on ****tered Memories:

"This game plays you as much as you play it."
 
That's exactly why ****tered Memories is my second favorite in the series. That message that says, "This game psychologically profiles you as you play." And then seeing that message at the very end telling you how you acted in the situations given to you . . . The writer for series must be a genius.
 
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