Whats your opinion on the Silent Hill Series?

[zombinater007]

Hey guys I just ordered Silent Hill Downpour from Amazon and im excited to play it. Im a fan of both Resident Evil and Silent Hill but what is your opinion on the series? (sorry if this is already up somewhere) I believe that the first four (though four techinically isnt a silent hill game) was good and the new ones made by an american company are pretty decent but not like the originals

 

[Some Nights]

I can say that I have loved each game except for Homecoming. Downpour is a real return to form in my opinion. There is a lot of exploration and fantastic atmosphere which made 1-4 so great.

 

[Leon_Redfield]

I haven't played one, though I would like to.

 

[KennedyKiller]

They are great..Although, I seem to be among the minority that thought Homecoming was great..

 

[Aleck]

I played Homecoming and I enjoyed it alot too. I thought it was very good.

Not very familiar with the series to be honest. I played The Room(?) and maybe a couple of others. I would like to catch up with the series sometime.

 

[KennedyKiller]

Can someone fill me in...I played one for the PSone back in the day, but I'm not sure which one it was...It had the scariest scene in any video game I'd ever played though...I'll describe it, and maybe someone can help me out...

You run into a closet like room, and at the end of it there is a manikin...A very creepy lifelike manikin...And after you turn around to leave, you run a bit, hear a scream, so you run back to the manikin ...And it's head is gone and it's all bloody...Which SH is this cause it was so cool!!

 

[sbr999]

Silent Hill remained more-or-less true to its' origins(, unlike RE, which sacrifised the horror for more action.)
However disbanding Team Silent was a bad move from Konami.

Vatra Games tried the best they could, to make Downpour a good Silent Hill game. And -in my opinion- they did a great job, concidering, that they are a relatively rookie developer team. Downpour had very good ideas, but it lack the twisted ideas Team Silent brought into the franchise. (For example the creatures in SH1-3 were so grotesque that scared the living hell out of me, while in Downpour many of them look too anthropomorph/humanoid, and that made them less scary....at least that's what I think)
Daniel Licht also composed a nice soundtrack. So he was kind of a good subtitution for Akira Yamaoka.

The best entries in the series were -I think - SH1,2,3. The Room was horrible, with its' ridiculously easy puzzles, and dull control system. I haven't played Homecoming, but from what I've heard, I didn't miss out much.

 

[zombinater007]

The best entries in the series were -I think - SH1,2,3. The Room was horrible, with its' ridiculously easy puzzles, and dull control system. I haven't played Homecoming, but from what I've heard, I didn't miss out much.

Homecoming you did not miss out on. It was ok but it seemed like a movie game since some of the stuff was taken from it and for fans that like inverted controls did not like the game because they did not add inverted controls

You run into a closet like room, and at the end of it there is a manikin...A very creepy lifelike manikin...And after you turn around to leave, you run a bit, hear a scream, so you run back to the manikin ...And it's head is gone and it's all bloody...Which SH is this cause it was so cool!!

You are thinking of SH3 on the PS3. There was no mannequin in the first SH which was on the PSone only

 

[Storyofmylife]

One of the scarier game series out there. I'd say as far as horror goes it ties with RE. It really scared me as a kid and I love the series, and the movie was actually good too!

 

[aintnoscrub]

you'll definitely enjoy downpour as it does feel like it's heading back towards it's roots in terms of game play and scares.
however on the question about whether i enjoy the series. i feel it has been on a downward slop ever since 3, the original 2 were great, intense experiences that i would love to play again, and can do thanks to HD collection, however ever since then it seemed to lose it's values just like RE did, however downpour does get some brownie points.

 

[KennedyKiller]

Homecoming you did not miss out on. It was ok but it seemed like a movie game since some of the stuff was taken from it and for fans that like inverted controls did not like the game because they did not add inverted controls

You are thinking of SH3 on the PS3. There was no mannequin in the first SH which was on the PSone only

Was it really on PS3? I mean...I'm not saying you're wrong..In fact, you're probably right...But, graphics wise it DEFINITELY wasn't up to par with most PS3 games...That's why I figured it was PSone...I figured it could've probably been PS2, because I forgot SH2 was for PS2, not PSone...But if you're sure...

 

[Storyofmylife]

Anyone else here think Cybil is a hot ass lesbian cop? Anyone? No? Just me? Oh... Okay.

 

[Pancham Cutie]

I am a huge fan of the series ever. I've been a fan of the series since 2009. I don't hate or even dislike a single game in the series. I've pledged to myself that I would play ever game that came out after ****tered Memories, and so far I have and I am currently trying to save my money up so that I can buy a PSVita and play the upcoming spin-off Silent Hill: Book of Memories (It looks like I won't have enough time to raise the money this year to get a PSVita and Silent Hill: Book of Memories due to the amount of games released since I'm still saving my money up for Yakuza: Dead Souls, [Prototype 2], Max Payne 3, Lollipop Chainsaw, Dishonored, Sleeping Dogs, Resident Evil 6, Hitman: Absoultion and if it comes out this year then The Last Of Us and all together that is about $540 or more which isn't a lot for many people, but it is for me since I don't have a job since I am still a teenager and I don't have my driver's license.). But all in all, I love the series and I don't, and I never will, dislike any of them.

 

[Hoady]

After Team Silent left, i am done with the series. It was good up to Silent Hill 4(and that wasn't even decided to be Silent Hill till halfway through production) but after giving it to the new company, its just like them saying "Hey this is Micheal Jacksons Thriller, we're going to record over it and still claim its Micheal Jackson". I feel the only incentive they have is profit, not the original intended design.

You think of these people in all areas of life and art whether it is music, film, painting, philosophy, poetry, gaming and so on..i think everyone has the life experience to pull out something uniquely talented in there own way and share something to the world. And some things can't possibly be recreated in the same ways ever again.

http://www.officialplaystationmagaz...tedly-forced-back-to-mgs-because-of-problems/

Just my opinion but I feel much the same for Silent Hill. I have played a bit of Home Coming and really didn't enjoy it, as well as watch some walkthroughs on other SH spin offs. I will look at a downpour walkthrough at some point.

 

[zombinater007]

Was it really on PS3? I mean...I'm not saying you're wrong..In fact, you're probably right...But, graphics wise it DEFINITELY wasn't up to par with most PS3 games...That's why I figured it was PSone...I figured it could've probably been PS2, because I forgot SH2 was for PS2, not PSone...But if you're sure...

I meant to say PS2 though it was later released as a crappy port in the HD collection. even the patch they released for it didnt fix things.

you'll definitely enjoy downpour as it does feel like it's heading back towards it's roots in terms of game play and scares.
however on the question about whether i enjoy the series. i feel it has been on a downward slop ever since 3, the original 2 were great, intense experiences that i would love to play again, and can do thanks to HD collection, however ever since then it seemed to lose it's values just like RE did, however downpour does get some brownie points.

you are right i did enjoy Downpour alot, though i do have problems with framerate. other than that, the game works like a charm. Although when i went through my first time i wasnt trying to go for this ending but i wound up getting the Reversal Ending (thought i was gonna spoil it? think again )

 

[ChrisRedfield1994]

I've never played Silent Hill, but judging by what I saw from The Room and 3, I should sometime.

 

[Coma Black]

It's dope, haha. I've played 2, 3, and Homecoming, and I really want to play 1, 4, and Downpour.