>Game the community calls "deep" makes literally

If Silent Hill 2 made no sense to you, then you might have brain damage

>>381761470
The overall plot makes sense and is literally babby's first thriller, everything else doesn't.

>>381761729
What doesn't make sense to you?

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>>381761312

picture of OP

>>381761729

Why don't you begin researching occult symbolism on your own instead of expecting an israeli bagel recipe board to spoon feed you like a widdle baby? It would help you understand a lot of other things as well, indeed you would get more out of practically all the other entertainment you consume. It's pretty much the ultimate redpill.

>>381761729

Ok, list a few things that confuse you

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>>381761729
>everything else doesn't.
bait or not, that just means you've either not played Silent Hill 1, and/or you've not stopped to think what you're actually witnessing.

The fanbase has constructed a pretty solid and clear picture of what's going on in the series, long time ago.

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>Silent Hill thread
Neat! Time to re-repost the SH PC Guide + the DL links:

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

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.
The SH1 is a PS1 rip that you gotta emulate.
The "sh2proxy" is a all-in-one fix, that works as a no-cd crack as well. It is included in the pack.
If you use the NEW fix mentioned in the guide, you can use the sh2proxy's EXE as the no-cd crack!

In case you experience issues saving the game / not being able to edit the disp.ini, make sure the files aren't set to "Read Only", and run the game as Administrator.
If SH2 gets stuck in a black screen upon launch, close it and re-start it again.

SH2-4 do not support Xinput gamepads. Either use Xpadder, a DirectInput pad, or just play with KB+M.
You can now see some decent emulator settings for SH1 as well in the guide. If the image of the game does NOT fill your entire screen in fullscreen mode, check your plugin AND GPU control panel's image scaling settings!
Also give the new PGXP emulator a shot for a lot less wobbly PS1 graphics.

>>381762163
>The fanbase has constructed

None of which has any basis in the actual game. It's all fanfiction.

>>381762135
Honestly I don't even know where to begin. I get the overall plot but literally nothing else makes sense and to me it just seems like the writers thought "horror trope #132" looked cool and slapped it into the game.

>>381762243
Based Silent Hill poster, even more based than the pusy poster

>>381762279
stop

>>381762279
What about Angela screaming "Daddy noooooo!" and being attacked by a monster that looked like a larger figure humping a smaller figure on a bed made the themes unclear to you? Silent Hill's is a representation of the anguish people who are inside it feel.

Granted the confusing part is that it's completly unconnected to the rest of the franchise, both cannonically, thematically and tonally (ignroe the autists who try to paint the "bigger picture"), but on its own it makes perfect sense.

>>381762279
Do yourself a favor and jump off from a high bridge

>>381762279
most of what the fanbase constructed was based on interviews with people who worked on the original games and cut content. its not like the ruisecruise fags who just make up anything and insist that it's cannon because ruse

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>>381762279
>None of which has any basis in the actual game
On the contrary. ALL the evidence is based solely on A) what you find in the games, B) what the devs have said themselves, or best of all: C) both of those.

It just seems like you're either baiting for sake of spawning a thread, which has already worked, OR you just literally haven't even tried to dive deeper into the series lore and discussion.

As outdated as it might now be, Konami even released a quite thorough physical book explaining most thing SH1-4 related, the Book Of Lost Memories, over a decade ago. That used to be the bible to which all fan-theories were compared to originally, though later research has indicated that no original dev really worked on the book, so some statements in it are a bit questionable.

>>381762279

Then pick something randomly. We'll help you assuming you're not a trolling faggot.

Signs aren't too good thus far

>>381762818
Is the city real or is it a nightmare?
If the city is not real but a person's nightmare, where is the person experiencing the nightmare while it's all happening?
What caused the nightmare to begin with?
Why are there multiple real persons in the city sharing the same nightmare?
What's the deal with Angela and the door man?
What's the deal with the little girl? Why is she in the nightmare?
Why does Maria keep coming back after being killed over and over?
What's the deal with Pyramid head?
What's the deal with the holes?

>>381763082
>>381763082
BRAH ITS ALL METAPHORICAL LIKE THE HOLES ARE METAPHORICAL
YOU JUST DONT GET IT BRAH

>>381763082
>Is the city real or is it a nightmare?
Doesn't matter

>If the city is not real but a person's nightmare, where is the person experiencing the nightmare while it's all happening?
Doesn't matter

>What caused the nightmare to begin with?
The character's respective trauma.

>Why are there multiple real persons in the city sharing the same nightmare?
They don't share the same nightmare, they all have different monsters unique to them.

>What's the deal with Angela and the door man?
It's not a door, it's a bed (do you have horizontal doors in your house Peter Pan?), a visual representation of her trauma steeming from being raped by her father.

>What's the deal with the little girl? Why is she in the nightmare?
Little girl who befriended Mary while she was dying in the hospital.

>Why does Maria keep coming back after being killed over and over?
She isn't real, she's part of James' imagination.

>What's the deal with Pyramid head?
Representation of James' ultramasculine sexuality, which is partly involved in his guilt.

>What's the deal with the holes?
There's one hole, and it's probably just to weird you out, don't put too much stake in it.

You have a mind like a pleb, educate yourself, then return.

This nonsense = deep lore bullshit always goes on in video games. The worst offender in 5th gen was Silent Hill, in 6th gen was Souls, and in 7th it's bloodborne which is 99% nonsensical lovercraft memes thrown together just because they (undoubtedly) look cool. The rest is reddit fanwanking over trying to piece together what is literally impossible to piece together because it has no rhyme or reason to begin with other than "the devs included it because it looks cool".

>>381763082
>Is the city real or is it a nightmare?
It's real, it's not so much an ethereal nightmare as it is a nightmare realm.
>What caused the nightmare to begin with?
There are two ways of answering this, it's either a cult or the "town" is already an embodiment of evil.
>Why are there multiple real persons in the city sharing the same nightmare?
Because they are guilty and suffering from anguish.
>What's the deal with Pyramid head?
A physical manifestation of the acts of murder James has committed

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>>381763082
>Is the city real or is it a nightmare?
It's real
>If the city is not real but a person's nightmare, where is the person experiencing the nightmare while it's all happening?
it's not a "nightmare" per se, but a twisted projection of stuff from a person's psyche altering our reality, in real time.
>What caused the nightmare to begin with?
The mis-use of the area's native power in the Alessa incident, which sort-of "cracked" this power and left it on a weaker autopilot.
>Why are there multiple real persons in the city sharing the same nightmare?
They're not. Except in SH1, in which all the stuff you see are alpha projections from Alessa, a natural-born psychic with a manifested monstrosity feeding her more nightmares.
>What's the deal with Angela and the door man?
A rape figure. Pic relatd.
>What's the deal with the little girl? Why is she in the nightmare?
She's not. To her, the town's just empty.
>Why does Maria keep coming back after being killed over and over?
Because she's a James' manifestation. Born from a dream, literally.
Just like Lisa was for Alessa.
>What's the deal with Pyramid head?
manifestation of James' guilt and desire for punishment. Also a "reminder" for him, trying to wake him up from his delusions.
>What's the deal with the holes?
methaphor for jumping deeper and deeper into James' own skull.

>>381761312
>please explain the game for me, Im too stupid to understand it
See how easy it is OP?

>>381763082
most of those questions wouldn't exist if you bothered to play or at least read about the first games' plot you fucking pleb and if you paid any attention to what you were playing instead of running through it like a mindless zombie
instead you come to /v/ and make a shit thread where you expose what a retarded faggot you are

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>Game that's supposed to be really good but it's ruined by artificial difficulty out the ass

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>>381761312
This should explain all you need to know:
https://exhentai.org/s/bd14d12f13/798065-2

@381764839
you dont even deserve a (you)

>>381762243
Thanks to you I played the first three silent hills.
2>1>3 of course. Haven't touched 4 and apparently I shouldn't.

>how does indiana jones hold his breath while clinging to the submarine? raiders of the lost ark is shit because it doesn't explain every little thing that doesn't fucking matter

>>381761312
Writing in this game is so bad it's impressive

>>381766416
Autism is one hell of a drug.

>>381761312
The entire MGS franchise.

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It makes sense but it's tumblr-tier story is extremely shallow.

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>>381766416
>how did Bill Pullman turn into Balthazar Getty
>not "why?", but "how?", as in "What are the physical processes involved in this situation?"

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>how does gregor samsa turn into an insect? this book doesn't make any sense

Anyone who replied seriously to OPs obvious retard act should be ashamed

>>381763082
so what you're saying is you didn't understand the game at all

>>381762243
i'm playing silent hill 2 on a ps2 emulator because fuck you

>>381766819
this, how it takes advantage of the medium is cool enough but the story is underwhelming to say the least and so is the combat

>>381766707
>mgs makes no sense
or you've got the iq of a chimp, brainlet.

>>381766990
This is pleb but triggers me less than the retards pretending he doesn't transform into an insect.
>haha it was all in his head

>>381769273
he literally turns into an insect, but the entire narrative is an allegory

>>381769273
>>381766990
Both are equally as awful and both are examples of the same UTTER inability to actually properly understand text or more precisely narrative.

I blame parents who don't read to their children. Seriously, I think this is an underrated issue. Both clinging to the idea of "it was all a dream" and "a story is bad if it describes a strange notion but does not explain it literally" are products of people who were not faced with classical and older forms of narrative until they were teenagers.

>>381766242
Give it a try. It's not great but you might enjoy it. There's some good stuff in it