Why is Silent Hill 4 so disliked?

Escort backtracking

Its number four

I liked it

>>381457575
glitch in the human brain where e hate anything going beyond 3.

>>381457575
Eileen's head was too spoopy.

>>381457575
I never finished it, the ghosts were annoying and I think backtracking was why I put it to the side and forgot about it.

>>381457575
Escort. Backtracking.
Personally, I want to try it some day, but I don't trust emulating and don't have a PS2 copy.

>>381458243
>glitch in the human brain where e hate anything going beyond 3.
RE4

>>381458797
Could just play the PC port.

>>381457575
I really, really, like the ideas behind it, but some of the mechanics (those fucking ghosts, the limited inventory, etc) didn't translate well into fun gameplay (although it isn't supposed to be fun)

the best horror games are frustrating, but this one might be too frustrating

Why do you think Silent Hill 4 is disliked?

>>381457575
It has a lot of good ideas and great atmosphere, but at the same time it's obvious that it wasn't supposed to be a Silent Hill game from the very start. The game feels clunky for some reason and the main character is not very likable nor interesting because of how emotionless he is, he seems high 90% of the time.

>>381458797
The PC version is okay and seems to work even on modern systems.

>>381457782
This compounded by Eileen's AI attacking pinned enemies.

>>381457575
Whats the context of that giant head?

>>381459450
Devs put it in a side room purely for fucking with the players.

>>381458243
Uncharted 4

>>381458243
re4 is arguably one of the greatest games ever made and liked by 99% of the people who have played it, checkm8

>>381457575
bbecause it's literally nothing like SH1-3 to the point they literally just slappd SH title months before release

>>381457575
Because it wasn't made by the original Team Silent A team, but rather their B team. In fact, SH4 was being made on par with SH3, and it had nothing to do with SH per se, just the assets. But Konami thought a brand new IP wouldn't make the cut, so they stamped the Silent Hill label on top of that and shipped it.

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Did it get you?

>>381460391
this

Silent Hill 4 is to the Silent Hill series like Vagrant Story to Final Fantasy Tactics/ffxii.

Ghosts are annoying, not scary. Also, they are literally dead people - some clerk nigger, redneck with bottle or some garden instrument and so on. Only fun ghosts appear at very fucking end of game, and they don't just float around and attack, but have actual design behind them and interesting mechanics (like that slut who just slithers along the floor away from you to recover). And then you just plop them down with saved up swords.

Breakable weapons are pure shit - you just store them in chest, and then find out that it's just idiotic to take them with yourself when you have limited inventory and has to carry gun with ammo for emergencies. Even with limitless pockets such mechanic just pushes you to outrun most enemies (SH: Origin demonstrated it in much brighter colors, in that game fighting anything was a chore, since your fucking crowbars kept breaking from hitting fleshy monsters).

Honestly never had problems with escorting.

Also, my own gripe is that when you revisit locations, they are fucking same 99% of time. In old SH games (and some of future ones) revisiting implied new paths, new interiors, different design of locations. In Room, it's just same places, new pack of monsters and Sullivan tailing you.

>>381461949
a crappy spinoff

>>381458797
>>381459068
See this thread and post for the PC ports:
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>>381463325
*Teleports behind you-*

>>381457575
For me it is the most scary of the whole series. Too scary for me that it makes me very uneasy and is hard to play it fpr more than 40 minutes. SH1 is still my favorite though

>>381463325
Dude, Richard's death scene was intense, now that you reminded me of it.

>>381457575

Escort shit, weapon degradation, annoying enemies, forgettable set pieces.
Being stuck in an apartment without knowing what is going on, the stuff about travelling into another areas and your world slowly turning into a nightmare was great, the execution was flawed

>>381462626
Yeah I really wanted the zombie goasts to be more individualistic, gameplay-wise.

>>381464762
>all these people mentioning breaking weapons
did you fucks ONLY use the Wine bottle + Golf clubs?? NO other weapon breaks!

Axe is OP