SILENT HILL THREAD

[Anonymous No.6838974]

Discuss the series

[Anonymous No.6839014]

>>6838974

[Anonymous No.6839028]

>>6838974
Liked 1, though the second half kind of dragged a bit and the input delay was annoying.
2 is the reverse, didn't like the first half but enjoyed the second half, still prefer 1 overall.
I got tired of 3 after a couple hours and haven't finished it. The intro was awful.

[Anonymous No.6839061]

>>6838974
>White female

[Anonymous No.6839085]

>>6839061
She's Spanish.

Think deeply on which continent Spain is located retard.

[Anonymous No.6839112]

>>6839085
Spanish are only white in crime statistics, otherwise they're oppressed PoC.

[Anonymous No.6839117]

>>6839112
based

[Anonymous No.6839119]

>>6839112
You really don't understand the concept of a minority at all.

[Anonymous No.6839185]

>>6839119
and what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

[Anonymous No.6839257]

>>6839061
Yes.

[Anonymous No.6839323]

I'd still beat it up, fuck it

[Anonymous No.6839325]

>>6839028
>2 is the reverse, didn't like the first half but enjoyed the second half, still prefer 1 overall.
Same for me. First half almost just feels like filler content but the historical society, prison, and hotel are all great.

[Anonymous No.6839352]

1>4>2>3

[Anonymous No.6839414]

>>6839028
Yeah, SH2 drags big time in the beginning. Took me like four attempts to go past the hospital. Didn't enjoy my time with it that much.

[Anonymous No.6839910]

SH1 NTSC DDL:
https://mega.nz/#!bVUCTJzD!PmnPw4S7fWGyvTjw9S0-RQdk7rRp2BQNuXJqRkZCZvk

SH2 DDL:
https://mega.nz/#!rFcj1SIJ!47JH9M4OrzmQKuaiJ6IqUgmgz_SVNtk4LIYNSa-D-_8

SH2 torrent:
https://mega.nz/#!bYcEnbhC!rYnhvcJiRC46T6yExS0Y61JHZ-5N3WxFvfZMI8xbyhE

>SH2 PC fixes site:
http://widescreenfix.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/
>tl;dr how to install this shit video tutorial:
https://youtu.be/fFVwI487ORo

SH3 DDL:
https://mega.nz/#!2JNkgJ7b!nfPf5cIs6I5K-sdAs7RcnHvGA2hAvIGdpQuIoBhF3iE

SH3 torrent:
https://mega.nz/#!GVVGRLpD!SyklVbuLIkc38ZYji5QL3sWHKtHt9-Bto700My8pH7c

SH4 DDL:
https://mega.nz/#!Us1XTaII!cglH0dZOaH5yQEm4cnEh3eyUz4bIf6rACQqcVzkb4Hc

Mount the ISOs of 2 & 3, and then run their installers like always.
DON'T use W10's own virtual disc app! Don't install under C:\Program Files\ !
The SH1 is a PS1 rip that you gotta emulate.

Follow the SH2 widescreen fix site's instructions to the teeth, and you should be fine.
For 3 & 4, check the Guide.


>Protips
-Play in the release order
-Never play below Normal difficulty
-Replaying them all is recommended
-Turn down the ingame Brightness setting
-Don't try to kill everything that moves, especially outdoors
-Turning OFF the flashlight can really help

[Anonymous No.6839926]

>>6838974
Kino soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo65v1kTRZA

[Anonymous No.6839947]

Do you think team silent had exhausted their ideas by the 4th game?

[Anonymous No.6839970]

>>6839947
No. The 3rd game was going to be godlike and then it was culled by Konami.

[Anonymous No.6839973]

>>6839947
No, SH4 was really creative. It was unfairly shit it for being different.

[Anonymous No.6839975]

>>6839973
*on

[Anonymous No.6840004]

>>6839028
The only good parts in 1 were the school and hospital (including the remixed hospital at the end). Everything else was annoying filler that required a walkthrough (at least for my zoomer brain) to get through. Silent Hill 2 was a lot better with less filler overall, and better quality filler in general. There's no denying that the apartment complex in SH2 is the worst "dungeon" though. They only get better from there, unless you qualify the weird underground maze thing as a dungeon. That sucked and was easily the worst part of the game. The hotel at the end was absolute kino. By far the best part of any SH I've played (only 1 and 2 so far)
>>6838974
By the way, what's the best version of the SH3 in you guys' opinion? I have both a PC and PS2 iso and I'm unsure of which to play. I was having a bit of trouble getting the PC version working (again, zoomer who's not used to installing old PC games). I've heard the PC version has some perks like better lighting and 60fps. Is it really that much better? Should I stick to tinkering with it until I get it, or just settle for the PS2 version?

[Anonymous No.6840019]

>>6840004
>Everything else was annoying filler
u wot m8

[Anonymous No.6840023]

>>6840019
The outdoor street sections in SH1 sucked. I guess there were a few decent things outside the dungeons, like the caterpillar/giant moth boss fight, but generally speaking I found those sections pretty annoying. It's basically just run for your life until you get to your destination with a bunch of enemies following behind you.

[Anonymous No.6840034]

>>6840004
The PC version of SH3 looks incredible, a Japanese PC game from 2004 with native 4k internal resolution support. But its a clusterfuck to set up. The widescreen fix is a must, even if you intend to play at its intended 4:3 because otherwise the game has stuttering. The controls are also a bitch to set up, if you want the authentic experience with a control, with zoom-in controls and proper side-stepping. You have to install DirectInput and use a 360/XB1 controller, a ps4 controller doesn't register the analogue buttons properly.
tldr; ps2 is perfectly fine. pc looks better if you're willing to spend a day jumping through hoops.

[Anonymous No.6840041]

>>6840023
I liked them for the exploration and unique setpieces, and was disappointed to see them dropped. At least there are people who prefer the dungeons-only approach they took though. There's RE still around too for anyone who enjoyed the more open exploration gameplay of SH1.

[Anonymous No.6840063]

>>6840034
Do you (or anyone else) have links to the widescreen fix and directinput fix? Any good tutorials on setting this all up?

[Anonymous No.6840264]

3>4>1>2
that's the only objective true ranking, and SH2babies can go and fuck themselves

[Anonymous No.6840392]

>>6840264
>6th gen comes to the board.
>Contrarians find new series of games.
Are Silent Hill threads going to be the new Castlevania threads?

[Anonymous No.6840832]

>>6840392
no one is just now discovering silent hill

[Anonymous No.6840890]

>>6840063
This has everything you'll need.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Silent_Hill_3
You don't have to install all this shit, I just use the Widescreen Fix by ThirteenAG, and then follow the "Controller Support" steps further down.

[Anonymous No.6840913]

>>6840264
3 was shit.

[Anonymous No.6840927]

>>6840264
here's (you)r dopamine fix, degenerate

[Anonymous No.6840931]

>>6839910
Thanks

[Anonymous No.6840935]

>>6839323
Maybe it's Maybelline

[Anonymous No.6840951]

>>6840264
(You)

[Anonymous No.6841950]

>>6840004
Cancerous take.
The lighthouse docks and the Indian Runner optional quest in SH1 were Kino.

[Anonymous No.6841968]

>>6840004
I wish this fucking underage heather avatarfag would get fucking banned already.

[Anonymous No.6841989]

>>6839973
>>No, SH4 was really creative. It was unfairly shit it for being different.
It was shit on for the game going to complete shit in the second half. It's an objective fact that there's a huge quality downgrade there and you trying to cope with
>p-people just didn't like that it was different!
Won't change that,

[Anonymous No.6842034]

>>6840264
>3 as your fave
Fair
>4 as your second fave and below both 1 and 2
No. 4 is a crap half-assed game.

[Anonymous No.6842042]

someone post the screencap guide pls

[Anonymous No.6842052]

>>6839973
You aren't wrong. It really was creative and has some of the most unsettling content in the series, but it definitely deserves some of the shit it gets. 50% of the game being pasta is too obvious, so let me focus on the sound design: SHIT. Burping nurses, stock sound effects all over the place like the generic horror scream.wav right at the beginning, and the splat effects as the ghosts come out of the walls in the following cutscene. For how based Yamaoka is when it comes to the tunes and most of the sound throughout the series, he really phoned in the SFX here.

[Anonymous No.6842083]

>>6841989
>le second half sucks meme!
It's not really backtracking if you're going through different parts of the worlds you're re-visiting...

[Anonymous No.6842085]

>>6840063
Just emulate the PS2 version. By the time you have the PC version all jiggered to be HD and xinput'd you'll be done with the game already. PCSX2 has ez widescreen patches for it, it'll work with your xinput pad with with force feedback, and rendering it in HD is a breeze so long as you have a semi-respectable PC. It'll be in 30fps and lighting won't be per-pixel but big whoop.

SH2 and SH4 are even worse regarding modern PC futzing.

[Anonymous No.6842087]

>>6842083
>apologetics
I like SH4 too but shut up...

[Anonymous No.6842092]

>tfw this series gave me a grimy damaged goods fetish at a young age

[Anonymous No.6842094]

>>6842087
>I like SH4 too but
Stop being argumentative for the sake of it. The game is fine.

[Anonymous No.6842106]

>>6842094
It's one everyone should play but more actual content would have been nice, and babysitting Eileen sucks dick. Luckily you don't really have to do it. You'll just get a shitty ending.

[Anonymous No.6842119]

I was replaying majora's mask the other day and I suddenly want a silent hill game inside a timeloop.

[Anonymous No.6842136]

>>6842083
lmao it has a shit load of issues beyond just the lazy as fuck backtracking
>annoying as shit ghosts
>forced escort quest
>shitty aspects of said escort quest like the weapons you can give her that are just traps that lead to her taking more damage and the final boss being harder
>shit sound design ruins any and all attempt the game had of being scary and any seriousness it had went flying out the window with enemies like the nurse which are set up so that there's almost no way to avoid them slamming down the staircase and burping like crazy
>crap final boss
>overall bad OSt compared to what came before it
>even if you don't want to hear it reusing the same themes from before for the next section of the game IS crappy
And here's junk that's not even about the second half but flaws with the game itself
>a stupid and nonsensical story even for SH
>horrible gameplay changes
>limited inventory that forces you to go back to your room which either makes the game too easy since you get fulled healed at first or annoying since you just start taking damage due to the possession stuff either way going back to do invo stuff is annoying at best
>stuff like the doll item that is just 100% a trap for newbies that fuck them over

[Anonymous No.6842149]

>>6842136
>>6842083
Oh and Henry is easily the worst SH protag and I'm even including later SHs in that as well like Travis who is literally just crappier James and Murphy who suffers from Schrodinger's backstory

[Anonymous No.6842158]

>>6842136
Oh wait, there's more I forgot about.
>Also no flashlight at all thus making everything too well lit

[Anonymous No.6842167]

>>6839947
SH4 wasnt even going to be a SH game in the first place.

[Anonymous No.6842178]

>>6842106
Eat dicks. Rubbish game that forces you play every level twice and has no darkness, fog, or abandoned streets. OST is better than the game - but all the best tracks don't even appear in the game.

[Anonymous No.6842221]

[Anonymous No.6842232]

>>6842167
Fake news

[Anonymous No.6842239]

>>6842232
He's right though you stupid secondary

[Anonymous No.6842310]

>>6838974
I think the ost to 1 is extremely underrated. I always judge a game's soundtrack based on how well it adds to the game rather than it having bangers you can listen to while walking around. 1's industrial chaos added so much to the horror in that game I honestly think it's the best in the series.

I mean this is just unnerving. The only other game that I think approaches this is Kane and Lynch 2.
https://youtu.be/mb3PAx-E-Uk

Or when your wandering around in the otherworld and this is playing.
https://youtu.be/vpExfM_pVjM

2 and 3 don't really have anything comparable.

[Anonymous No.6842412]

>>6842310
Each game went softer and more triphop. Guess it might've been for the best anyway if Yamaoka thought he wouldn't be able to top that harsh industrial noise he did for 1, but it really did add to the horror atmosphere amazingly well, even though it's hard to listen to it when not playing.

[Anonymous No.6843153]

>>6838974

[Anonymous No.6843291]

What's your personal favorite track from the series, /vr/?
There's something about this one that makes me feel really emotional and nostalgic.
https://youtu.be/8TCkdcrEeHU

>>6842310
>I think the ost to 1 is extremely underrated.
It truly is. It's one of the many reasons why I consider the first game to be the best one, the OST/BGM is extremely well done. Even just listening to the simple faint ambience that plays while walking around the town makes me uneasy.

[Anonymous No.6843336]

>>6843291
It depends. The way the tracks are used in-game gives an extra feel to them from just listening to the CD. The catchy ones stand out on CD the most, but like someone above said the atmospheric ones have a strong impact too in-game. Still, my favorites change all the time. Theme of Laura is probably the best opening song of any game though next to Snake Eater. Using a song like that for a horror game is genius, I don't know how he came up with it.

[Anonymous No.6843796]

>>6842085
what the fuck are you talking about?
SH2 was easy to install, all you do is drag and drop files from the enhanced edition website into the main install directory.

[Anonymous No.6844501]

>>6843796
http://enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/install.htm

8 mods man. 8 fucking mods to get it where you want it in 2020. Why the fuck hasn't this been batched, or hasn't someone just put the whole done deal on archive, torrented, or whatever anonymous?

Yeah, I *could* do all that faggot shit to get it looking and sounding like the PS2 version in HD or I could just throw the ISO into PCSX2 with a 10th of the futzing.

[Anonymous No.6844610]

>>6838974
I don't remember her tits jiggling like that.

[Anonymous No.6844613]

>>6842092
That's not a fetish.

[Anonymous No.6844880]

>>6839112
this and that

[Anonymous No.6845135]

>>6842167
Fake rumors.
Fukin zoomer.

[Anonymous No.6845172]

>>6839947
They were bored of making the same game sequel after sequel and decided to do something different. Having different ideas doesnt mean you are out of ideas, dumb zoomer.

[Anonymous No.6845181]

Why hasn't nip Silent Hill been topped, or even matched in 16 years? I can't think of anything else that pulls off its particular brand of grimy US-by-way-of-Japan locales, what you'd get if you threw only the good parts of The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Boards of Canada, and Massive Attack thrown into a blender, that particular Lynchian-stilted dialogue, and that monster/room design.

Siren just sucked. I hate the gameplay of that series so goddamn much and it lacks so many of the other essential components of retro SH games. Burgers made something original and interesting with Shattered Memories, but it was ugly compared to SH3 and 4 and was an interactive movie more or less. All the other round-eye SH games sucked complete shit. Will we ever see games like these again?

[Anonymous No.6845217]

>>6845181
>but it was ugly compared to SH3 and 4
wtf? it's a really good looking game

[Anonymous No.6845227]

>>6845217
It did some neat shit on the Wii I guess but those models weren't on nip Silent's level and you know it.

[Anonymous No.6845265]

>>6845217
It was also a LITTLE heavy and clumsy with the themes, even by series standards.
>dude there's more cleavage on the characters and monsters if you choose/look at the obviously sexual stuff
>audio logs and notes talking about slutshaming
Just felt a little more obvious about that stuff in a garish, western sort of way. The bed monster and dick-piston room in SH2 were on the nose but they didn't have to expressly SAY shit as much. Not to be too hard on the game. I did like it and think it's worth playing.

[Anonymous No.6845297]

>>6845227
come on you can't be serious you can argue for SH3 for sure that one is incredible and they couldn't reproduce animations in that game for SH4 but SH2 and SH4 are absolute BTFO by SH:SM more SH2 than SH4

[Anonymous No.6845338]

>>6845297
I somehow knew you'd come back with 2, and great cherry pick too. Yes. The burgers made a better looking game on hardware a gen ahead 8 years later. To be fair, though, I think they made it with PS2/PSP limitations in mind, sadly. Whew, don't even compare those fucking versions to SH2.

I still think SH2 compares favorably to SM during indoor/dark cutscenes especially employing the flashlight with soft shadows. SH3 blows SM away in about every way. 4's environments aren't all that impressive, but the models are still fantastic and way better than SM's.

[Anonymous No.6845374]

>>6845297
I dunno man. Starting to take back my concession. Let's look at that the aliasing, shadows, obvious polygonal edges. Yes, SH2 is looking more dated here but the scene seems cleaner somehow even in this less than flattering shot from the game.

One technical thing that was cool about SH:SM, though? The snow. It's crazy how many particles it has and how they're all shadowed at ~60fps on that potato. Someone autistic and very talented made that happen.

[Anonymous No.6845453]

>>6845338
>burgers
I'm pretty sure it was made by bongs

[Anonymous No.6845462]

>>6845181
Silent Hill is just something unique. With things like this I've just started hoping to be able to play them in virtual reality someday because it seems like we won't get sequels that can top it. There are other things that can hit on that feeling you get in a different way but end up being just as satisfying though.

>US-by-way-of-Japan locales
Earthbound is pretty great for that. DMC1 is more European but still does the same thing.

>what you'd get if you threw only the good parts of The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Boards of Canada, and Massive Attack thrown into a blender, that particular Lynchian-stilted dialogue, and that monster/room design.
VtMB and American McGee's Alice have some of that too. They all give me a similar feeling in a different way but are all just as satisfying. I'd really recommend playing those four if you haven't already.

[Anonymous No.6845464]

>>6843291
Heather looks like a fucking ape

[Anonymous No.6845484]

>>6845453
You are correct. I checked some of the staff and I think the production side was more American, but the developers and directors seem to be British.

[Anonymous No.6845742]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIxv4nmpz4&list=PLzhtbUhsjYllRF-OYYiueCgF6ESITQJI7
I cared about this album's release more than any other contemporary music of the time, thanks to this franchise. it's alright I guess

[Anonymous No.6845828]

>>6845464
She's just tired you big bitch

[Anonymous No.6846117]

Do the 60fps PCSX2 patches break anything for sure? I'm feeling a replay of the series coming on and they seem to work okay anyway. May just use'm til they break because seeing SH2 and 4 in 60 is surreal and cool. Played SH3PC on period hardware in 60fps back in the day.

[Anonymous No.6846132]

yesterday i figured out what the message in the cafe means, the one with the hole. It means that there arent many customers.Please give me a (you) or two

[Anonymous No.6846136]

>>6844501
so you are just too lazy to Download 8 Files at once and extract them all to the same directory?

[Anonymous No.6846209]

>>6846136
I've done it before, I even compared the two today. The results are adjacent to just running the stupid ISO in PCSX2 with everything cranked. It's just more work unless you can find it all premade for you. The real question is WHY, since you're restoring all the PS2 shit to that lazy port anyway. Why not just emulate the PS2 version which has all the shit you need to make it look and play right with less steps?

[Anonymous No.6846213]

>>6846117
60fps doesn't break anything in SH2 but it does in SH3. I played through SH2 with the 60fps patch and widescreen patch and had no problems. Aside from occasional pop-in at the edge of the screen since widescreen expands the FOV beyond what the engine was designed for. It's not really that much of a problem though. It's not like you could see that area anyway in the original.

[Anonymous No.6846218]

>>6839014
>no you can't just sit there and eat pizza

[Anonymous No.6846219]

>>6846213
Noticed some slight culling in hallways but seemed fine to me too. What am I in for with 3 in 60fps? Is it just a moment that needs a toggle or complete fuckery?

[Anonymous No.6846223]

How do you guys feel about SH2's Lake View Hotel?

[Anonymous No.6846226]

>>6846223
The part right before the ending and 'that' discovery where it floods is extremely depressing and eerie to me in a way unique to that game. That fucking ambient droning adds to it as well.

[Anonymous No.6846238]

>>6845464
Humans are apes

[Anonymous No.6846247]

>>6846219
I actually don't know for sure because I haven't tried it for myself, but I remember reading it fucks some things up. I found the code on this website
https://www.gamerebel.net/ps2-60fps-codes-list/

With this caption:
Silent Hill 3 SLUS-20622 0x2498951B 60 fps
2013058C 00000000
Some things remain double speed.

I don't know what "some things remain double speed" means. Whether that's just some obscure thing or basic animations that will fuck up the game.

[Anonymous No.6846303]

>>6845181
You should check out a game called Lost in Vivo.
It's heavily inspired by the classic SH games. Some like to call it derivative, but think of it as more of a homage.

[Anonymous No.6846343]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW1v9duEBy8

[Anonymous No.6846347]

>>6846247
I will say that I just tried the SH4 hack and it doubles the walk and enemy speed despite it saying that there are additional patches just for that. Not sure what I could have fucked up as I at least got it running 60 from that same set anyway.

[Anonymous No.6846379]

>>6846303

[Anonymous No.6846397]

why was she so happy?

[Anonymous No.6846441]

>>6846397
Looks like something out of a david firth cartoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDhz5kanYk

[Anonymous No.6846458]

>>6842167
this has been confirmed to be false. it was always silent hill. i hear one more person say this

[Anonymous No.6846527]

>>6838974
I dont consider 4 a true silent hill game (because it wasnt supposed to be) I just stick to the original trilogy.

[Anonymous No.6846674]

>>6846226
Enemy encounter music becoming the final pyramid boss theme is extremely cool. Everything is culminating to this moment, James is done with it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8nRn2yoBQs&ab_channel=TaintedTownMusic

[Anonymous No.6847181]

>>6846303
Whoo boy this sure does look like some amateur league Unity shit, not at all in the same class as the best artists in the Jap gaming industry of the 2000s, but I'll gonna just run it and see.

[Anonymous No.6847189]

>>6847181
you're just being a hater, Lost in Vivo is great.

[Anonymous No.6847214]

>>6847189
Suppose I'll see.

[Anonymous No.6847314]

>>6845464
A cute ape!
I want to see Sophia Lillis cosplay as Heather

[Anonymous No.6847318]

>>6846527
I actually enjoyed Origins, limitations of being a game made for the PSP aside. 4 was good too, but I do agree that 1-3 are the series in its prime.

[Anonymous No.6847363]

>>6842092
Mary is so fucking creepy holy shit

[Anonymous No.6847369]

>>6844501
>8 mods man. 8 fucking mods to get it where you want it in 2020
Someone has never actually done serious modding, I see. I think the last time I did a serious Baldur's Gate modded game I had something 60+
>>6845181
Siren was held back by the game being way too obtuse for it's own good. A real shame since it's fairly scary. Shat Memz was a firm okayish if you only played it once so you didn't see how actually heavily flawed it was. Should have just ditched the stupid ice shit and made a full adventure game instead since that was the best part

[Anonymous No.6847584]

>>6844501
I think it's because it's still not "finished" yet and it's probably easier for them to update each part individually as it gets worked on. It's not hard but it is kind of tedious and pushes some people away, would be better if they could just include it all in one.

[Anonymous No.6847623]

>>6847369
Oh fuck off with this. Fuck's sake I mess with PCem on the regular, build DOS-98 machines for fun, and looked past Retroarch's flaws for years. I know how to goddamn mod a game and read pcgamingwiki. It's nothing new to me. What I'm trying to say is that there's no fucking point when PCSX2 saves your time and gives you more or less the same results. Probably better results, as I'm sure they still haven't reached 100% parity with the PS2 version despite all the autism poured into fixing the PC port over the years. Fuck, they only just recently fixed soft shadows. They're still fixing sound cue issues as seen in recent logs.

Glad you spent all that time fucking with BG, man. I've had my autistic rabbit holes as well, but who cares?

[Anonymous No.6847629]

>>6847623
>I know how to goddamn mod a game
So why the FUCK are you bitching and whining about 8 fucking mods that probably takes 30 mins at most to install?

[Anonymous No.6847643]

>>6847629
BECAUSE THE OTHER ONE IS LESS WORK SIMILAR RESULTS fuck's sake read. Less space too, I might add.

[Anonymous No.6847678]

>>6847643
>less work
It requires you to grab a PS2 emulator and likely a rom, which is 100% more work considering. Not everyone likes to mess around with those

[Anonymous No.6848467]

>>6846303
>>6847189
>drops frames at 4K on a 2060 despite looking like Quake with shinier textures
>le jump scare first person Unity game #20981
>graffiti and posters everywhere referencing other 'spooky' indie games
>really shitty models
5/10, got me to jump and music's decent. Silent Hill replacement? I think not, Kira.

[Anonymous No.6848469]

Fuck Orgins
Fuck Homecoming
Shattered Memories was good
Downpour was great
Silent Hill 3 was overrated
Silent Hill was awesome
Silent Hill 4 was underrated
Silent Hill 2 is the best game ever made.

[Anonymous No.6848472]

>>6848469
If only 2 had 3's production value.
Correct opinions, but 2 as the best game ever made? Best horror game, probably.

[Anonymous No.6848478]

>>6848469
Never played Downpour. I have a feeling it's one weirdos say is good because hardly anyone's played it to call them out. I just doubt a bunch of eastern bloc 3rd world cases made a game worthy of the name.

[Anonymous No.6848584]

>>6847678
>>6847643
not to mention the inaccurate sound emulation of PCSX2.

[Anonymous No.6848605]

>>6839185
get off of 4chan dad

[Anonymous No.6848607]

>>6848584
Inform me on what you mean by this please. I played SH2 and didn't notice any sound issues. I thought the sound design was quite good actually. I liked the footsteps especially. What exactly is the problem?

[Anonymous No.6848664]

>>6839119
perhaps you can enlighten us on that?

[Anonymous No.6848745]

>>6848478

Downpour would have been good if:

>no affiliation with Silent Hill franchise - on its own, it's a solid horror game, but can't live up to classic "silent hill" expectations
>A little more effort into monster design, please
>Konami had hired bug testers - game was buggy as fuck on release and one major quest (homeless subway guy) didn't even work
>Konami had allowed dev to FINISH THE GAME - game was supposed to get deeper into Annie, female cop - eventually a comic, Annie's Story, was released and it completes the story in a big way

Overall, Downpour is solid, but the good parts of it make the bad parts/unfinished elements more frustrating. Like a D-minus student who "could have had an A if you tried harder". Homecoming is the F kid that no one expects to do well. Downpour showed hints of greatness.

Still worth playing, if you can mentally convince yourself to see it on its own merits, free from franchise expectations.

[Anonymous No.6849014]

>>6848469
2 is the overrated one and you just prove it.
Isnt even scary or tense.

[Anonymous No.6849271]

>>6849014
Doesn't matter, it's still the best.

The Historical Society descent and the Hotel are KINO, and the peaks of the entire franchise.

[Anonymous No.6849340]

>>6848469
>Downpour was great
>Silent Hill 3 was overrated
>Silent Hill 4 was underrated
>Silent Hill 2 is the best game ever made.
What a bunch of shit takes

[Anonymous No.6849358]

How many of the post-4 releases are playable on PC? Might run through them in case any are actually decent

[Anonymous No.6849535]

>>6849271
Damn, Rich Evans let himself go since Origins.

[Anonymous No.6849551]

>>6849358
All of them.
Origins: PCSX2
Homecoming: PC port or RPCS3
Shattered Memories: Dolphin, but you'll want a Wiimote and bluetooth adapter. You... coulllld, you play the PS2 or PSP versions but they look distractingly dogshit.
Downpour: RPCS3

[Anonymous No.6849616]

>>6849358
homecoming has a native port that you can run at 240fps with fan fixes
downpour is playable with RPCS3 iirc with better performance
origins is completely playable on PCSX2 tho only in software mode (480p)
shattered memories is AWFUL the only emulator that emulates well requires the stupid motion control shit i had to bruteforce that shit multiple times i binded the buttons to 1234 on keyboard and spammed until it fucking worked what a pain
sh play novel is completely playable
sh the arcade is completely playable tho you need a very specific setup

[Anonymous No.6849665]

>>6849271
>The Historical Society descent and the Hotel are KINO
They really are absolutely fantastic, but like 75% of the game before that isn't nearly as good.

[Anonymous No.6849796]

>>6849271
> The Historical Society descent
Ehhh not so sure about that. The "maze" part really was terrible. Legitimately the worst part of the game. There are kino SECTIONs of the descent, like the encounters with Angela and Eddie, and of course Tocula Prison if you count that, but the more abstract sections were kind of shitty. The hospital is pretty underrated imo. Even the apartment complex wasn't as bad as people say it is. It was just longer than it needed to be. If they just would have kept it to the first section and not had the section after you cross through the window it would have been better.

[Anonymous No.6850086]

>>6838974
calm your tits puta

[Anonymous No.6850117]

>>6839061
>>6839112
We're not talking about jews here

[Anonymous No.6850608]

>>6849616
I reiterate, don't even bother going into Shattered Memories unless you can use a Wiimote.

[Anonymous No.6850634]

>>6850608
The PSP version is the original version & PSP emulation is good.

[Anonymous No.6850652]

>>6840264
cringe

[Anonymous No.6850660]

>>6850634
It looks so fucking bad, though. The improved textures, ice refraction, shadow casting snow particles, reflections, and lighting actually give it a sense of place instead of "I sure am playing an iPhone game, time to get spooked!" ISHYGDDT

Just play the Wii version however you have to.

[Anonymous No.6850669]

>>6850634
>>6850660
and inb4 "muh graphics", half the point of an SH games is the atmosphere, which the graphics deliver.

[Anonymous No.6850690]

>>6848469
SH2 rewarded you for playing the game in whatever way you wanted, at your own pace, based on your subconscience choices, unlike the others which were based on how many times you saved, how fast you played the game, etc. This alone gives SH2 an edge over the others, but the unnerving movements of the monsters, awkward and slightly offset voice acting, and motivations of the characters is what makes it the best SH game. Also, Harry and Henry were both just blank slate characters stuck in awkward positions, where James had character development and a reason to go to Silent Hill, not just "stumble on it". I'll give you the lore of SH1/3 was pretty good and SH4 had good scenes in it, but overall SH2 was the best in the series.

[Anonymous No.6850717]

>>6849796
Wasn't angela in the hotel?

[Anonymous No.6850770]

>>6850717
She was in both. The encounter during the descent is the one where you find out her dad molested her and encounter the abstract daddy for the first time. The encounter in the hotel is the final one where she walks up the stairs into the fire.

[Anonymous No.6850876]

>>6840264
based
i love how you made those SH2fags seethe
they are cancerous as those niggers who claims FF7 and OOT are the best in their series

[Anonymous No.6850897]

>>6850690
>SH2 rewarded you for playing the game in whatever way you wanted, at your own pace
no it doesn't you faggot
they even give you a rank for how much it takes you to do that awful boat level

[Anonymous No.6851613]

>>6850897
Your ending isn't affected by how many time you save dipshit. there isn't good+ or good-.

[Anonymous No.6851631]

>>6851613
>Your ending isn't affected by how many time you save dipshit.
Neither are SH1s or 2? Or even 4, origins and homecoming. What point are you trying to even make here

[Anonymous No.6851643]

>>6851631
Meant that neither are SH1 or 3. No SH ending is affected by how many times you save, actually. Unless maybe Downpour did that. I don't know, I don't play garbage.
The only thing that effects your ending in 1 is rather or not you find and use a certain item and a small side-quest you do.
3 has 1 ending that you always get until NG+ and then it's just based on how many monsters you killed. 4 is just rather or not you let the escort lady die during the final boss.

[Anonymous No.6852723]

>>6845181
The closest I got to a Silent Hill experience, the only downside is that this game is plagued by some awful hitboxes,
It will require some time to get used to.

[Anonymous No.6852807]

>>6850690
The monster design and variety in SH2 is awful. Easily the worst in the original series.

[Anonymous No.6852836]

>>6852723
Rule of Rose's whole atmosphere/story is just so heavy and strange that it's worth playing just for that.
It's just a shame that the actual gameplay is tedious and total shit.

[Anonymous No.6852851]

>>6852836
no isnt. its shit