Which ending do you like the most? Also, Silent Hill thread?

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>>385108501
>Which ending do you like the most?
in SH2? In The Water, closely rivaled by the Dog.
>Also, Silent Hill thread?
sure. Let's start by reposting the SH PC Guide + 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" fix works as a no-cd crack as well, and is included in the pack.
If you use the NEW widescreen fixes mentioned in guide, the sh2proxy's EXE works as no-cd crack too.

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.
You can now see fine emulator settings for SH1 in the guide. You may also try the newer PGXP emulator for wobble-free PS1 graphics.

>>385108501
Rebirth of course.

>>385108501
Maria. Got that one the first time I played.
It was a nice and dark way to end the game.

>>385109054
>Got that one the first time I played.
Now that's a rare one.

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>>385108680
What the fuck? Every damn time I see a silent hill thread I see this

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>>385109054
It was pretty good yeah.

>mfw "You'd better do something about that cough..."

>>385108501
Every ending is good (except Rebirth), but Leave and In Water feel like the most appropriate endings.

I actually finished it for the first time yesterday, been too scared to play it ever since it came out but I finally got around to it. Fucking great game, so happy I got around to finally playing it.
I got the Leave ending, which is the one I wanted to get, but I'd still argue that the In Water ending is the "actual" ending.

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>>385109193
Dedication and love, my friend.

>>385109557
That's the third "I just finished SH2 for the first time" post I've seen in the past week. What's going on?

Congraz I guess. How'd ya like and find it in general? On what difficulties did you play on?
And finally the biggest one: you did play SH1 first, didn't you?

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>>385109826
I absolutely loved it. Parts of the hotel felt like kind of a slog, but I guess that's because we played it in one sitting. It felt really eerie and hostile, but at the same time kind of calm, even reflective in a way. The music and sound design was fucking stellar and I have a hard time believing a game from 2001 really could look that good, Konami sure were on top that year.
Difficulty was on Normal for both combat and riddles - didn't want to play on easy, and hard seemed too scary.

I didn't play Silent Hill 1 first, but mainly because 2 and 3 were the only ones I had. I borrowed them from a friend a while back. I know 2 is considered "the black sheep" out of them all since it's less connected or something, but I won't let that get in the way for enjoying 1 when I actually DO play it, so don't worry about that.

>>385110549
Hard combat is not too bad, you can just outrun most enemies anyway. Hard puzzles on the other hand might expect you to know Shakespeare by heart.

>>385110676
That sounds fair. Mainly wanted to actually finish the game without it being super easy and without, as you said, knowing Shakespeare by heart.

>>385110676
>hard combat is not too bad
The Pyramid Head chase in the hospital becomes a chore on hard, since you have to shoot at him at every corner.

>>385110930
Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that part being pretty frustrating, because I think I was doing everything right, but he still caught up to me.

>>385110930
>>385111249
Did they make him way faster then, or what?

>>385110549
>>385110830
you really, really should NOT even consider playing SH3 before finishing SH1 for real. I can live with people popping their cherry with SH2, no matter that I consider 1 to be vastly superior introduction to the saga... but playing SH3 first will simply spoil both the original AND the 3 itself.

>>385111392
Alright, then I'll play 1 first. Thanks for the heads-up!

>>385111476
attaboy. Glad I was able to save your soul in this case.

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I always thought the Leave ending made for the most well-written story. The fact that James comes to Silent Hill to die, sees all the shit he sees and decides to go on living is a lot more compelling than him deciding to kill himself anyways.

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>>385109826
>That's the third "I just finished SH2 for the first time" post I've seen in the past week. What's going on?

Heather-fu posting keeps the threads up long enough for people to see it and gain interest in it. We will see more.

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>trying to install SH2 on Windows 10
>get some ikernel.exe error
>have to track down some post from fucking 2006 to find the file to fix Installshield
>the error disappears
>get this instead, even if I run it as admin

Jesus fucking Christ

>>385108501
In Water by far

>>385112116
I'd say the biggest flaw of SH2 is that Leave is the default ending rather than In Water. James came to Silent Hill to die, like you said, so him forgiving himself being the default ending makes no sense. It would've been better if you had to work for Leave.

>>385108501
In water. It tugged on my heart strings so fucking hard.

>>385112187
but all three also skipped SH1, and have threatened to start 3 next.

Either this is one freaky coincidence, or odd bump tactic.

>>385112425
>Windows 10
found your problem.
I was already annoyed to hell when having to deal with my relative's W8 machine for a while, with half the typical options being greyed out or demanding "admin rights", no matter that I was on one.

tl;dr: never ever "upgrade" to W10.

>>385112523
>I'd say the biggest flaw of SH2 is that Leave is the default ending rather than In Water.
How's that? The ending completely depends on the player's actions.

>>385112641
It's pretty much fine for everything else though. I'm not going to avoid an entire operating system because I can't get some 15 year old PC port to install on it

>>385108680
is 2+ playable on KB+M

>>385112782
Totally.
I mostly have played these games with KB only. The tank-controls fit both Arrow-keys and WASD like a glove.

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>Harry, please accept this third ressurection attempt baby version of myself as your responsibility.
>now remember, she is a 100% genetic version of me, so she is also literally dahlia gillespie's daughter, and short tempered crazy BITCH is flowing in her blood. It's in her very DNA
>also did i forget to mention she is already carrying a dormant demon spawn in her little womb tee hee?
>take care of her now, and don't feed her after midnight or she will start kicking off big time believe me
>and don't let her near cocky jock chads basically any time after she hits puberty. No, really, im being dead serious about that one.
>Or booze in general.
>Also she might carry knives, try to keep an eye on that.
>k thnx bai

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>>385108680
there will always be an anon ready and waiting with these. has been for years. thank you for your dedication

>>385112641
You get the In Water ending by really taking your time to explore the town and discovering various hidden secrets. You get Leave (the closest thing to a happy ending) by rushing past most of the extra content.

Not only is that shit from a game design standpoint, but it also clashes with the fact that Leave is what Mary wanted for James. You'd think that James doing stuff like listening to the hallway conversation and listening to the tape recorder would help James remember that, rather than it driving him to suicide.

>200 boolits
>0 medkits, 2 health drinks
>still only at the school
SH1 is fucking me up, send help.

>>385113112
you can look at it from the other way around. he was overcome by sadness and couldn't go on living after Mary was being so selfless and he so selfish.

>>385113112
>You get the In Water ending by really taking your time to explore the town and discovering various hidden secrets. You get Leave (the closest thing to a happy ending) by rushing past most of the extra content.
That's veeery extreme trivializing of the requirements. If anything, it's easier to get the In Water by rushing like a madman; heck, it's technically one major requirement.

>it also clashes with the fact that Leave is what Mary wanted for James
That is you assuming that James is a good man. Or that a man who committed such crime would want to live alone anymore.

>>385113425
Flashlight off. Move slowly.
Explore more, dammit.

>>385109193
Doing God's work.

>>385113629
>Flashlight off
But then I'll get fucked up even harder, I just won't be able to see it...

>>385113084
Didn't think I'd see buff James Sunderland today. /v/ always keeps me guessing.
Also what the hell? Did the artist not know how Silent Hill 2 was going to be?

>>385113782
>But then I'll get fucked up even harder,
on the contrary.
>I just won't be able to see it
you should see couple yards in front of you at all times even it total darkness. Check your in-game Brightness setting.

From my experience, modern computer monitors and TV screens are a tad too bright for these games, meaning that even zero brightness setting allows you to see everything just fine.

>>385113989
That artist has done lots of similarly goofy stuff for the mag's front in the past. But yeah, that's a fine example of how an American Silent Hill game would have looked like.

>>385112523
The casual ending is always the easiest one to get in both SH1 and SH2. Leave being the default ending in case the player just rushes through the game is very fitting, because James went to Silent Hill for redemption and if he leaves Silent Hill it means he didn't learn anything, much like the player himself.

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>>385108501
In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill.
That ending breaks me. Mary's tired voice, her slight cracking at the end, really trying to hold it together, really sells it.
James...you made me happy.

>>385114446
>Leave being the default ending in case the player just rushes through the game is very fitting
I still dare to say that this is totally false.
You NEED to rush like a mad man on drugs to get the In The Water.
My first playthrough(s), I took my sweet time, played extra careful, checked almost every corner, etc, and got the Leave.

>because James went to SH for redemption
I would argue about that as well. He most likely went there to die.

>>385114482
>character starts crying while narrating
Aside from SH2 and MGS3, I can't think of any other game that does this, which is a shame because it's a trope that I love.

>>385114621
I got In Water on my first play through and that was because I was being conservative with my healing items. Rushing doesn't even factor into it.

>>385114790
Yeah. If I see someone I care for crying, I'm not so empathetic to cry as well but seeing someone trying to keep it together and obviously cracking, that always breaks me.

>>385114362
It actually works, what the hell. Thank you, based anon.

>>385115003
Kind of true. The ends are more affected by things not yet mentioned ITT: How much time you spend with Maria, whether or not you check the Knife you get from Angela, how much you examine the Letter... etc.

>>385108501
Rebirth is the most spooky for me, so that one.

>>385115132
Np mate. Happy sneaking!

>>385114621
During my first playthrough i got in water because it kept examining and trying to use Angela's knife everywhere, lol.

>I would argue about that as well. He most likely went there to die.

In Japan, suicide is seen as a form to atone for mistakes or wrongdoings. By killing himself, James redeemed himself.

>>385108501
I'm not really a sucker for happy endigs, but Leave was my favorite because I felt that James deserved a second chance at life.

>>385114482
I always thought that letter and voice acting was cheesy as hell.

>>385116010
true that, but that's something that does not seem to sit well with the American audiences. "Redemption" in the west seems to equal "your sins are forgiven bruh. Just don't do it again lol! :^)",

>>385116195
>I always thought that letter and voice acting was cheesy as hell.
seriously now?
Hell, the Mary's VA literally did tear up while reading up her lines. It's no make-believe.

>>385116195
You're a broken man. I'm sorry.

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Is there ANY Anons around that would've played Silent Hill 1 for the very first time just recently-ish?

I know SH2 to be very smooth landing even for modern gamers, but I'd be fascinated how a total rookies would find the original psychological horror trip in late 2010s.

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My favorite ending s when he escapes the hallway and walks out into Silent Hill.

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>>385117165

>>385116356
>true that, but that's something that does not seem to sit well with the American audiences. "Redemption" in the west seems to equal "your sins are forgiven bruh. Just don't do it again lol! :^)",


James was in extreme levels of psychological pain to the point of developing dementia, hallucinations and delusions, so the suicide part still fitting even for Western audiences. Which is why the "Silent Hill is psychiatrist town" meme doesn't make much sense, hitting bags of meat with a 2x4 and shooting the rotting carcass of your wife in the face with a rifle isn't going to fix someone.

>>385117087
>recently-ish
Well, I played it 15 years ago and I liked it.

>>385117165
>there are fags who still think P.T. was related to Silent Hills in any way

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>>385117087
I played Silent Hill 1 for the first time in 2015. Was impressed. Then moved right on to Silent Hill 3 as i knew it was the true sequel and couldn't locate SH2 at thst time. I loved Heathee immediatly and SH3 is one of my favorite games ever. Im not one of these anons that loses context because a game is old.

>>385116195

how did you fuck up this hard?

>>385118242
Can't you see a troll post when it's right in front of you? We already know that PT wasn't related to SH

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POST SILENT HILL ART!

>>385118860
sorry, didnt do it for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>385118579
Nice to hear that.
Yeah, I do find the idea of someone being totally unable to play and enjoy SH1 this day and age very weird, even more so if one has already played the sequels or original RE games.

I had a few ~25yo guys and gals play the SH1 for the very first time just a few years ago, and the first 10 minutes alone spooked them to the very bone.

>Hooked up my ps2 to my Samsung 65 inch 4k TV the other day for pure shits and giggles via component CABLES and popped in SH3 just so I can see how awful it would look.

>Ended up playing through the entire game again in a single sitting because the game still looked fucking amazing

There is no reason it should have looked that good at all.

>>385119141
>There is no reason it should have looked that good at all.

I hate this fucking sentence. Really, faggot?

>>385119469
It holds up much better than any game from that time

>>385119514
I curious now, with that display you have, didnt you notice any aliasing or blurry textures at all?

>>385119141
SH3 had not only great art-style, but also has a dedicated LCD screen mode ("Sharp" mode), and 60hz option. Those alone help a lot.

>>385119596
I had a few settings on that helped out. There's a digital clean view setting that I turned on to help with blurriness and a motion rate setting to essentially simulate 60fps while playing and it felt smooth but was weird because I know that's how that game isn't supposed to be played.
But yes, the aliasing was jaggy and the textures were a bit blurry but it looked better playing on that TV then it does playing on my other Sony 42 inch HD TV. Of course for old games I still have my Sony Trinitron CRT that I mostly play all my old games that makes it look the best.

>>385120165
Sh3 actually DOES run at 60fps, and the 60hz allows you to see that properly as well. Sure, it drops to 30s from time to time, but it's still impressive for PS2.

Many TVs also have this "Movie mode", that kinda mutes colors and makes things bit less sharp, which I've found to work wonders on older SD-era games. Together with the native Film Grain effect, it can result very tolerable visuals even on modern HD TVs.

On my old 720p only flat screen, most PS2 games looked very nice, partly thanks to there being less to upscale from 480p.

Leave was my favorite ending and the first one I got. I thought it was satisfying.
I see why people like the in water ending but that one was a bit too dark for me.

>>385117087
Damn good
Played it a year ago on night winter days on my psp
But, sadly, I'm still trying to continue my SH2 playthrough and it's hopeless stopped at hospital area with Maria btw

Is silent hill 2 worth playing through even if I've had a lot of what I imagine are important story bits spoiled?

>>385120972
the first few silent hill games are always worth playing

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>>385108501
Seriously, FUCK Silent Hill 1 - 3 circlejerking.

Let's talk about the best SH game, Homecoming.

I think Leave was the best ending in the game, and one of my favorite endings in any game period. The thought of a broken man getting redemption and the spirit of Mary forgiving him and understanding why he did it is a beautiful concept imo. And the fact that you can "earn" it through in-game mechanics by focusing on finding Mary, listening to the hallway conversations and avoiding distractions like the knife is a cool way to go about doing it.

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>>385121205
>Harry Mason
>survived Silent Hill
>lives alone in a small flat with a beautiful 17 year old girl with freckled bare skin who HE ISN'T EVEN RELATED TO
>he never remarried
>he never met another woman
>he just lays awake at night
>staring at his ceiling
>listining through the thin walls to the beautiful girl in the next room panting and grunting as she masturbates
>this is almost every night for the last few years
>she suddenly, quite audibly, reaches orgasam.
>He never imagined his Heather could make such savage noises
>silence now
>he continues to stare at the ceiling

A BETTER MAN THAN US HARRY. F.

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>>385109294
>mfw Troy Baker's god awful version of "You'd better do something about that cough..."

Pyramid head looked too cool to be scary. There I said it.

>>385108501
>which ending do you like the most?
>Silent Hill 1
I like the Good+ Ending the most, but the UFO ending is a close second
>Silent Hill 2
In Water or Dog
>Silent Hill 3
UFO ending
>Silent Hill 4
Good+ Ending

>>385108501
Rebirth, obviously. SO romantic.

>>385108501
I wanted to play the games because of the plot but I do not like to get scare. I should try it?

>>385121770
Yes.
Play it with the lights on or something, if it gets too spooky.

>>385108680
Based Silent Hill copypasta poster.

Also 3's main theme is underrated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCktKqHBGQ

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>>385121525
>it's just a Silent Hillfied executioner
>looked too cool

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>>385120972
Certainly.
While the story elements are kinda important, the good ol' "it's not the destination, but the journey" saying fits these titles damn well. It's not only about what you can SEE in the games, but what you EXPERIENCE yourself while playing.

For best results, play alone, in the dark, with loud volume. And obviously you should start with SH1, if you already haven't played it.

>>385121770
Yes.
SH games have been THE gateway titles for many chickens like you, partly because they do not rely on jump scares, but rather build up disturbing atmosphere. There's also so much of story, symbolism, and audio-visual glory to be found in these games, again giving something for everyone to enjoy.

If all else fails, just play on Low action difficulty, and increase puzzle mode for some challenge of different sort. You can also try playing in short bursts, like from a save-spot to another, or so on.

As much as I love and consume these titles nowadays, I ain't ashamed to admit that on the first playthroughs, I only could play around 30-50 minutes at once, before needing a nerve calming break.

>>385121205
What the fuck were they thinking.
I mean, the other world's atmosphere is decent compared to the other western games, but including pyramid head in the game and even having Alex become pyramid head in one of the endings was unforgivable. The only decent thing about homecoming are the bosses designs and the ending where his dad drowns him in the bath tub.

>>385120972
It's still a good game, not to mention it's more about the delivery and emotional impact of scenes that makes them good.

Hopefully you haven't had the ending spoiled, because goddamn is it good.

>>385122562
>Someone becomes Pyramidhead
Please tell me that this is a joke.

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>>385117087
I played it around the end of last year, I liked it and will probably get around to playing 3 this october

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

>>385122027
>>385122532
thanks guys
i will start SH1 now

>>385121683
Romantic until you realize that Mary was going to come back as a zombie.

>>385122989
Attaboy.
I do suggest taking things slow, little by little.
I know even the controls have turned off many new players in recent years, but if ya have played the original RE games or anything similar, you should be right at home with SH's moves.

>>385122808
>Please tell me that this is a joke.
Look at >>385121205
or watch the ending video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDfirpIok10

The only reason I played those abominations was because I was starved of silent hill horror. Some parts of the game were decent though, like the part where Alex's mom is executed.

>>385122808
But Pyramid Head is already someone.
He's to James what Maria is to Mary.

>>385108501
Im playing the game for the first time and I have no idea what triggers each ending, I'd rather not know.

Just left the Hospital, Maria didn't make it to the elevator and supposedly ""died"", I jumped down a hole and got stuck on a tiny room full of cockroaches, didn't know how to leave and died.

>>385117087
I played around 5 years ago. I'm still scared of its satanic imagery. I don't even know why, since I lurk /x/ and am used to it, but Silent Hill makes demons scary as hell.

>>385124029
Enter the correct code and open the door.

>>385122808
If you choose to kill every character during the moral choice parts, you get the ending where two Pyramid Heads attached the metal pyramid to the protagonist's head and he turns into a 3rd Pyramid Head. The idea is that by executing everyone for their sins, the protagonist becomes an executioner of the otherworld. Which just shows how little the Western devs cared about the source material, in the movies Pyramid Head is Alessa's guardian and in Homecoming he is just an executioner.

>>385122808
it's not.

Similarly, UFO ending is a completely NORMAL ending in HC, which you can acquire on your very first playthrough, just by playing relatively normally as well.

>>385124163
Team Silent's idea of combining the satanic occult stuff with industrial environments was simply genius, in my opinion. I know that Eraserhead and Jacob's Ladder did the "nightmarish industrial environment" thing first, but the way the otherworld is designed in SH1-3 is simply amazing, it feels genuinely claustrophobic and frightening but also interesting at the same time.

>>385125380
I agree, now that you point that out. You tend to imagine Hell as a wasteland with fire, which some might even interpret as badass, but industrial environments feel impossibly dead. You could even think of the ice and the fire worlds, but you have nothing like that in this environment. Add to that the goddamn demons. There's no warmth, no comfort, you're fucked.

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Literally did nothing wrong

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Leave without any doubt.
I feel like people pick the In the Water ending because it's the most tragic ending and I get why they like it, but the entire game is about people who can't move on from the past and Leave being about being able to forgive yourself and let go ties with the main themes and plot so much better.

>>385125756
His face and voice annoy me to no end. That's already big enough deadly sin.

>>385125825
>Leave being about being able to forgive yourself and let go ties with the main themes and plot so much better.
...or it goes completely against the entire theme and plot of the game. It really is how goody-goody optimistic your own world view is.

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>>385108501
Making of Silent Hill 2:
https://youtu.be/KSku98HqIHU

Some of dark magic behind the scenes explained:
https://youtu.be/nna2yt1c9gI

>>385125825
>but the entire game is about people who can't move on from the past

And also about people who are mentally scarred beyond the point of no return.

>>385125957
James was hunted by Mary and his last actions with her, we spend the entire game learning about him, Mary the other characters. The Mary that shows up in the endings isn't really she or a ghost it's James's subconscious the "...then why do you look sad?" shows us how much he loved her and how despair driven he actually is and we finally get to read her letter in wich she tells him to live, go on with his life and be happy.

>>385122562
Konami decided to disband Team Silent and they hired western devs for Homecoming and Downpour. Fucking faggots.

>>385125957
>you don't to let go: you fucking die like Angela and the fat fuck.
>you learn to let go: you get to live, adopt a kid and live in Canada

>>385123190
That is acceptable only in SH2 due to him/them being James' creation

>>385126963
>"...then why do you look sad?" shows us how much he loved her
That's if you get such ending.
It can be literally "Enough is enough, James", with very judging tone.

Also, no matter that I've played the game dozens of times, I do not recall the LETTER mentioning anything about wanting James to keep going and be happy. Instead, it's all Mary being thankful for the time they had together.

>>385127198
>accept punishment for your sins and get to be together with your true love
VS
>killing people just to get rid of mental and physical baggage is alright!

this stuff can be rotated around and around for all eternity.

>>385127198
>you get to live, adopt a kid and live in Canada

I give two months until James snaps again, chops Laura to pieces, cooks her body parts in the microwave and then eats her.

Pyramid Head is what James becomes if he leaves Silent Hill: basically a drunk deranged rapist that has sex with corpses.

>>385127520
>That's why I want you to live for yourself now.
>Do what's best for you, James.

>>385127303
Yeah I know, I wasn't really serious.

>>385127520
>accept punishment for your sins and get to be together with your true love
How's the 17th century treating you?

>>385128098
How's that Arkham asylum treating you?

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>>385119141
This is a 2003 ps2 game lads

>>385128291
i would give up my left nut just to put my dick inside father vincent delicious hot asshole.

>>385125957
James did nothing wrong.

What did Team Silent do after getting disbanded? I know Akira Yamoka kept composing music for other Konami series as normal. And another thing, all the Silent Hill games, excluding the first one, were directed by people with no prior directing role.

Like, you can barely find info the on the SH2, and SH3 directors, which is weird. But even then, you can barely find info on a lot of Konami employees, except for the really big ones (like Iga, Akira Yamoka, Hideo Kojima, Masahiro Ito). I wonder if Konami didn't want its employees stating on their resume that they worked with them.

>>385128492
Don't stick your dick on crazy anon

>>385128493
He killed Eddie.

>>385128493
Yeah, he just hugged his wife's face with a soft pillow for few minutes, and then became a drunkard. That's alright, just a prank bruh!

>>385128540
Some became freelancers, some merged into other Konami's teams (like KojiPro), or joined other studios entirely.

Konami in general is a total fascist town with extreme "Big Brother's watching" mentality going on these days. If anything leaks out, it's a world of shitstorm for all the people working in there. Sometimes, for people NOT working inside any more.

>>385128743
it was self-defense

>>385114482
and "Hollywood" loser "actors" keep saying that those were totally amateurs and they would be doing a way better job

Silent Hill at the Opera

"You'd better do something about that cough, bro"

fuck Tomm, Troy Baker and fuck
McBitch

>>385108501
Silent Hill 1 Bad was the weirdest shit. I hadnt thought they could top the game but it went really the insane route albeit, very abbrupt.

>>385128802
>or joined other studios entirely
Yeah, I remember reading that Good-Feel (a Nintendo first party), has some talent that worked on the Goemon games.

And I think Akira Yamaoka has been with Grasshopper for a while now, but he also composed some songs for Konami while being a Grasshopper employee. The Silent Hill 3D movie has some tracks by him, and that was when he was with Grasshopper. I think it's cool that he still decides to make some tracks for the series if given the chance. Same with Elizabeth McGlynn, I know all the Western titles have a vocal song by her. That might not be the case with Downpour, I have never played that one, so I'm not sure if there's a vocal track of her.

>>385121421
>The distant resignation is Cihi's voice, because James recognizes it for what it is

>>385128540
>Like, you can barely find info the on the SH2, and SH3 directors, which is weird.

This is because SH2 and SH3 were developed like a group of friends making a game. They had almost complete freedom. for example the famous "There was a hole here, it's gone now" writing was added randomly by a background designer, it has no meaning or purpose, it wasn't an idea by the director, writer or Masahiro Ito and still fans love it and try to find meaning in it.

>>385128540
Probably ended up in the Konami pachinko mines, or mobile division.

you know what bothers me in these threads, there are so many people failing to realise that Downpour is the worst game in the series

I'm a fanboy and finished all of them except this one, it's unplayable and laughable

On the other hand Homecoming gets shit on too much, if you don't take it too seriously it's worth a playthrough. Of course 1-3 are in another league, but this really triggers my autism for a reason

>>385130075
Nah, it's not unplayable. I derived some enjoyment from Downpour and I think it has some good ideas and the story isn't terrible. But you are right that it's the worst game in the series.

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Why people are even mentioning games after 4?
I don't even consider them canon.
Also 4 is the spookiest

>>385130257
the story IS terrible and it doesn't have ANY good ideas

it's 100% trash

>>385130075
>1-3
No 4?
The room is the underrated masterpiece

>>385130075
People who like Downpour are usually the people who like the exploration and Silent Hill being portrayed as purgatory. Honestly, Downpour is an irredeemable piece of junk.

>arguing about western nu-Silent Hill "games"
they are all trash
except for the Wii one.

>>385130380
4 is the shittiest, it's as bad as the Western Silent Hill games.

>>385130380
Henry a cute even if he isn't the protag of his own game.

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>>385129571
Waifu.

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>>385130380
>4 is the spookiest
Absolutely not. Pic related was the only spooky part. There were some scary moments at the apartment, but they weren't enough.
Overall, the horror was ruined by the dozens of monkeys, burping women and, best of all, the angry wheelchairs.

>>385130747
>Pic related
Meant Eileen's head, naturally.

>>385130380
It's the only SH4 is the only SH I beat once, and didn't bother to get the other endings. I even enjoyed SH:SM more.

SH3 i replayed almost daily, best one in terms of gameplay and replayability. i want to get into speedrunning it.

>>385130595
SM was nice I really liked the side stories way more than the main plot.

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>>385130747
Pic related is spooky as fuck
>>385130885
How can you speedrun a silent hill game?

>>385130380
I never finished 4 because I got stuck on a puzzle that was about rotating a lighthouse or something

I think SH4 has amazing story, music, atmosphere, environments and atmosphere

but it's clunky and the gameplay sucks

there's a great game in there but they fucked up

>>385130682
you shut your whore mouth

4 had some great ideas, but is quite flawed
still compared to western nu-Silent Hill it's a mastapiece

"Leave" is preferred but "In Water" is more realistic

>>385131065
>Pic related is spooky as fuck

Only during the first encounter. As you soon realize he is weak as fuck and a common enemy instead of a immortal pursuing ghost he become silly and the rest of SH4 is literally comedy.

>>385131065
>how can you speedrun a silent hill game
The same way you speedrun a resident evil game

>>385128743
>fat
>autistic
>gets bullied by a little girl
>his ultimate breaking point was shooting Chad in the knee

Was Eddie /ourguy/?

>>385131065
>How can you speedrun a silent hill game?
They're short as fuck. Strafe sprint your way through the game avoiding all the enemies. And use that item that gives you unlimited stamina (forgot its name), in the right situations. exploit dumb bosses with the right weapons.

My best time on SH3 was like 45 minutes (and that's without looking up the optimal strats), which is nothing compared to the WR. It's really fun. But that's just for SH3.

I don't like SH2 that much.

I'll probably get back into it after I find a way to connect my ps2 to my monitor, and a way to track my time, because I really don't know much about speedrunning. I also want to speedrun another game, in which I think I can be a top 5 runner.

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>>385131385

>>385131385
> Killin' a person ain't no big deal. Just put the gun to their head... pow!
yes, he is
wait
he didn't shoot the little brat
so no, not our guy.

>>385131385
>killed a dog
No, he's not. He's the scum of the earth.

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>>385131385
>Do you know what it does to you, James? When you're hated, picked on, spit on, just cause of the way you look? After you've been laughed at your whole friggin' life?
yes

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>>385130713
This

>>385130257
I thought Origins was already near-unplayable, and that it could not be topped, but Downpoor proved me wrong, very quick.

>>385130747
>Pic related was the only spooky part.
everything happening in your own Room are way spookier than anything outside.

>>385133112
How can one look so cute and real at the same time?

>>385131445
>a way to connect my ps2 to my monitor
You could always buy a TV and use it as your computer monitor. I know people who buy like 24" TVs for little money and use the HDMI for their PC and those TVs always have at least one scart port.

>>385134235
10/10 character design. In an old interview I read when the game was new they basically literally said that they wanted her to look both cute and real.

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>>385117087
Glad you asked and I literally finished it a couple of days and now I am playing SH2 for the first time. Really liked it, the atmosphere is topnotch with how oppressive it is. The PS1 graphics makes it look extra creepy.

>>385136193
Nice to hear it.
Any specifics you'd like to mention, like did you have any real problems with it? Something that surprised or impressed even? How did it all click with your prior expectations?

Would also like to hear what ending ya got on which difficulty.

They look like monsters to you?

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>>385121697
>CAHMAAAAWN~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRVv72ic9U

>>385121697
I started shaking uncontrollably when i saw him for the first time.

>>385117087
I played it a couple of years ago and liked it, although I did shamelessly look at a guide for the piano puzzle and I had a feeling something bad would happen to Cybil, so I looked up how to save her, I would have never though about throwing that thing on her, although it made sense after seeing that other man throw it at the final boss.

I'm currently playing SH2 for the first time and It's actually making me miss the visuals of the first game, the fog and the "snow" made the city more comfortable and pleasing to look at, especially after you just got through some fucked up version of the world. The city in the second game looks like shit at all times (as in dirty).

>>385135162
>portable ass laboratory
>cancelled
What a shame.

>>385137980
>I'm currently playing SH2
Pls don't spoil yourself nothing

>>385136530
Well I expected it to be really spooky and it was. Didn't have any trouble playing it in terms of controls, I was playing it on Hard and got the GOOD ending. What really impressed me is how graphics actually looked and it worked in its favor to bring out that gritty look, with how everything looks busted and rusty etc. Pretty impressive for a PS1 title.

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>>385137980
it's quite shame that people these days grab a guide so easily. Partly because online guides are so easily available.

I always got Bad+ ending on the first few times, because I'd gotten spoiled of the Aglaophotis via some game magazine's hint section, but never realized to check out the places in South Park. Figuring that shit out later on by myself was mindblowing and exciting.

>>385135162
it's amazing how much stuff people attempted to jam on the tinyass 8-bit system the GBC was. RE and that thing obviously were canceled, but AitD of all things actually did come out.

Makes me wonder what a skilled team could've gotten done with the GBA tech. There was that short RE2 tech demo done for it, which is prolly a good indicator.

Rather than portable SH1, I would've prefer to see an N64 port. With the entire game being in full 3D instead of pre-rendered, having relatively little voice acting and FMVs compared to RE2, I'd guess it would have worked just nicely.

>>385127198
>live in Canada
Oh God the horror

>>385138721
>it's quite shame that people these days grab a guide so easily. Partly because online guides are so easily available.

The internet really fucked games with puzzles. I remember being stuck in a Parasite Eve 2 puzzle for three months. These days the solution to all puzzles is just one click away.

>>385138904
Ok granps

>>385138904
There are many options on how to deal with that problem though, like having mobs and puzzles slightly randomized a la RE3 way, or having the world and events way more open and varied, so that there's numerous ways to approach and solve them. Zelda:BotW is a fine, if not a bit surprising example of this, with different people finding totally different kinds of solutions, having problems with different sections, and finding different places in different order (or not at all).

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>>385108501
The ending where Maria reads her letter, only game ending that has made me cry.

>>385139390
"she" reads it on all endings tho'...

>>385114482
>James...you made me happy.
This almost made me cry, no joke.

>>385139287
>like having mobs and puzzles slightly randomized a la RE3 way,
I was so fucking disappointed RE7 did not have any randomization whatsoever.

>>385140384
RE7 was disappointing trash in general.

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>Started SH4 several times and got about 3-5 hours in
>Then just drop it
The constant spawning ghosts are too much for me, it's too stressful.

>>385140638
shut the fuck up.

>>385140762
Why would I? It's the truth.
Trash game. Zero replay value, terrible gameplay, totally linear and scripted, shit bosses, complete joke "puzzles", annoying as fuck MC.

>>385140715
That is kinda their point, though they are not "spawning". Rather, chasing you.

>>385140971
Oh yeah, let's ignore the amazing graphics, amazing atmosphere, amazing art, amazing level design.

>>385140971
Everytime I replay SH2 or SH3 I wish both those games were in first person. Those beauitful levels and detail wasted from awkward camera angles.

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>>385128540
Some Silent Hill people made the Siren games and now Gravity Rush.

>>385141076
Photoscanning is the auto-tune of the vidya graphics nowadays, and the whole world is 100% static, lacking any and all interaction. Atmosphere is very meh, and the level design is a complete fucking joke.

>>385141206
>Everytime I replay SH2 or SH3 I wish both those games were in first person.
>awkward camera angles
jump of the bridge please.

>>385141206
how come there's no fps mod for sh

>>385141315
because not everything is as moddable as Doom. And ruining the beautifully crafted static camera-angles would greatly diminish the overall atmosphere.

>>385141206
Your wish has been granted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EL1tmg89AI

>>385141849
Fuck Konami

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>>385141260
How are the siren games?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvt2cNSOaM
GOAT ost. Doesn't even sound like a vidya

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Leave is the best ending. Maria and In Water suck assholes. James has suffered enough for what he's done.

>>385142379
Like a more clunky SH1 with no characters that you particularly enjoy.

>>385142457
Can you play them on a toaster?

>>385142568
If the toaster is 2012+.

I bet heather gives the sloppiest blowjob and licks your cock clean afterwards

>>385142772
heather is a virgin

>>385142831
no, she was impregnated by the demon when she was a fetus, making her the biggest slut in all vidya.

>>385108501
Leave, it always confused me why people thought in water was the most appropriate. James, angela and eddy are all going through their own silent hill experiences. Eddy gives into his vices and goes crazy(which reflects the maria ending), angela offs herelf(which reflects in water), therefore leave should be james ending, in water just seems redundant if the endings are supposed to represent different ways that people deal with past traumas.

>>385142379
I was very disappointed by them.
Each have their own sets of problems.

>>385142568
PS2 emulation is VERY NOT toaster-friendly.
3+ Ghz multicore CPU is pretty much required to even play most games at native res, and many titles just don't work right.

silent hill has some of the best music to come out of the medium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qalGezr76o

>>385142831
Of course she is, she begs you put it inside her every time and you tell her maybe net time if she's a good girl and cleans up quick, but she can't help but lick and slurp over your cock, loving the taste of it in her mouth

>>385142772
>>385142948
>>385143049

stop

>>385142772
>>385142831
>>385143049
God, fucking kill yourselves, you disgusting faggots. Just can't have a normal Silent Hill thread without you creepy ass Heather waifufaggots invading and acting like fucking freaks.

>>385125380
>nightmarish industrial environment

funny you mention that, because the Silent Hill otherworld always reminded me of Freddy Kurger's nightmare worlds.

>>385142657
>>385143009
>my toaster can't even play DMC4
Next time then

>>385114482
The weird part is she had such an awkward delivery of the lines but the crying seemed genuine.

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>>385142980
James himself doesn't agree

>>385132378
>>385131385
It's weird Eddie was in Silent Hill in the first place.

James and Angela were both murderers. But as far as I can tell Eddie only shot a dog and wounded some football player's knee.

Evidently killing a dog is reason enough to send you to the nightmare realm. Dog ending confirmed canon.

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>>385143212
>>385143274

>>385144262
Troy Baker is better

james was a dumbass

>>385144401
Anybody with a mental health disorder can enter Silent Hill. The power of Silent Hill is not religious in nature, it's just worshiped by religious people(and natives as well), it's not good or bad and it's not judging anybody.

is it true that there's an elder god sleeping deep in toluca lake?

>>385108501
Dog. Leave.

>>385145086
>Anybody with a mental health disorder can enter Silent Hill
Well, anyone can enter Silent Hill just in general.

>>385108501
In water. It seems the most logical choice for James. He's clearly heavily depressed, and while he accepted what he did to Mary, the crushing guilt of that acceptance would push anyone to the brink of taking their own life.

But I'll always have a soft spot for the ending where he leaves with Laura. That's the ending Mary would have wanted for the both of them.

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>>385145064

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Tank controls are bad and make this game worse. Discuss.

>>385108501
In The Water. I got it every time I play it.

>>385145962
It could use a quickturn action, but other than that it's fine.

>>385146946
can't you quickturn by pressing both L1 and R1, in SH3? And I'm pretty sure you could do it in SH2 too.

>>385145962
There's an option to turn off tank controls, lad.

>>385147192
We tried it two days ago, in 2, but didn't find it. Might've been there though.

>>385145162
This must be the Lovecraftfags's favorite theory. There is an article in the game that says that a ship disappeared in the lake and that an even stranger event happened a few decades later, which is why there is this theory that the lake is from the power comes from, plus the player find the article in a place that is supposedly inside the lake and it's where the weirdest stuff in the entire game happens.

>>385108680
>If SH2 gets stuck in a black screen upon launch, close it and re-start it again.

I'm getting the black screen and re-starting isn't working. As far as I can tell I've followed the guide properly but it just doesn't want to work.

>>385108501
Dog and Alien ending are cannon

>>385108501
Leave. I think its overall the best ending and likely the canon ending, it's never been explicitly stated which ending is despite everyone believing its In Water because its been implied by 1 Team Silent member. I find Leave is the most complete and wholesome ending.

James tone between the two endings is a lot different. And the exchange in Leave between Maria and then Mary left a lasting impression on me. It was also kind of poetic that Maria tells James that he deserves to die, but Mary, who questions James selfishness when he admits his guilt, instead asks him to do something for her, to live.

>>385146946
>>385147192
>>385147291
You can quick turn in SH1. Why would they cut it out of SH2?

>>385143850
According to the other anon, the VA actually was crying. The occasional pause worked, it gave that image of her trying to find the right words.

>>385149638
On the Xbox version you can quick-turn.

Goddammit why won't they just make another silent hill game with akira yamaoka

they don't even have any other franchises besides MGS and castlevania so why not?

just reboot this shit or whatever, I want another one

>>385150197
They were making one circa 2013, even Masahiro Ito was involved, but it got canned for unknown reasons.

>>385150197
Honestly they should just sell the fucking ip already. They fucking raped the canon with the games after The Room and that fucking hd collection

>>385150197
You know what games had Akira Yamaoka?
Origins
Shattered Memories
Homecoming
A trinity of shit games that Yamaoka made music for. Team Silent made Silent Hill, not the fucking sound guy. He made good music, but he can't design a game or monsters for shit

dog ending.

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What other games remind you of Silent Hill? These sort of intense horror experiences, amazing ost, great art direction, great story.
>>385150589
They're too stuborn for that. They'll squish their IP's until they can't get a literal cent from it.

>>385150883
>that collarbone

hnng

>>385150883
>What other games remind you of Silent Hill?

Condemned is the only one. But I still haven't played those fatal frame games.

>>385128540
The real silent hill is the konami offices
Vincent is inspired on Kojima

>>385150589
Konami still uses their IPs to incorapte the OSTs into their music games (Beatmania, Dance Dance Revolution, Pop'n Music, etc.). And also to re-release OSTs to the Japanese market. Also, pachinko and as references in other games, like Bomberman. Also, for licensing their games to Nintendo (NES/SNES classic). And re-releasing games digitally. Mobile and all that other shit.

They still use them, probably not the way anyone would like, but they still use their IPs. I don't think they would sell them unless for a really good price.

>>385150883
>What other games remind you of Silent Hill?
Condemned
Fatal Frame
The Suffering
I know there's more, but I seriously can't think of them right now.

>>385150883
The Yahtzee point and click games, but he was directly influenced by the silent hill games, specially in Trilby's Notes.

>>385127761
Why? James didn't kill Mary for fun, he killed her because she was suffering, and because watching her die slowly was killing him.

>>385150883
Spec Ops the Line. Not even kidding. It's pretty much the best western Silent Hill, despite the massive difference in gameplay.

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This is still fucking hard to watch after 3 runs of the game

>>385152780
imagine that after 40 replays.

who /tooingellegent to solve the puzzles on his own/ here?

>>385147593
The play novel has the missing pages:

>In 1938, an even stranger incident occurred. Unlike the Little Baroness, this ship was found. Or rather, only the ship was found. Not a single soul was found on board. With the vessel completely undamaged, there was no reason for anyone to have jumped overboard. Much like the Mary Celeste in 1872 and the Carroll Deering in 1921, the passengers vanished as if they were never there. At the time, the prevailing theory was that a mass suicide had been carried out, but this seems highly unlikely considering it was nothing more than a tourist boat.

>More recently, another unexplainable event happened only six years ago. In order to verify the truth of the legend surrounding the lake, in an act that was in actuality nothing more than a dare, two students went missing after venturing out onto the lake in a small boat. We’ve had the good fortune to have met with a young man who is familiar with this incident, being a classmate of the missing high school students. He claims to have been present on the morning the two set off. However, he believes that the boat was capsized.

>“Either way, that lake really creeps me out." He shared with us one of the ghost stories he’d heard about the lake.
>“People say that if you try to go out on Toluca Lake at midnight, your engine will die and you’ll be stranded until morning.”

So the "stranger events" are basically the entire crew and passengers disappearing, probably being swallowed into the otherworld. People were disappearing way before the events of the Alessa ritual.

>>385152942
Yeah, I just looked for the solution to the coin puzzle on normal difficulty

no regrets.

>>385144262
Im aware that he and the director think that, but i dont agree with either of them

>>385150883
>What other games remind you of Silent Hill?
Afraid Of Monsters: Director's Cut, and the Cry Of Fear. Both are pretty blatant tributes to both RE and SH games, just in first-person.

People tend to bash 'em by calling them "jump scare fests", but it was always the absolute nightmarefuel atmosphere + truly dangerous enemies that made them so disturbing for me. Shows that a truly depressed emo teen head can cook up quite twisted stuff.

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>>385152881
>James... wait... please do-
Off to the final boss I go for the 40th time. Tra la la!

>>385151795
All the symbolism in the game is about James's frustration of having to endure Mary's illness. Plus Pyramid Head's existence shows that he feels guilty for killing her because he couldn't handle her bullshit anymore.

>>385152780
I can't physically replay this game. I wish I could but just hearing Mary breaks me.
My mom had cancer, forced to be bed-ridden when it got too bad. Only had me to help her. I remember being so frustrated, having to stop my own life for the sake of helping her, wishing she'd die so that I could move on.
I miss her.

>>385114482
Fuck people who think the voice actings bad. Her performance might just be the greatest in all of video games

2>3>4>1>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>shattered memories>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Homecoming>Downpour>>>>>origins
Fight me

>>385154149
nigga I've only played 1, 2 and didnt even finish 3, which is what I'm gonna do tonight.

>>385152628
I saw that thread the yesterday. I enjoyed the attention to detail they put into it, from what I did learn about that game. I might pick it up some time.

>>385154216
Good boy, play 4 too and don't listen to plebs

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>>385154303
It's a good descent into madness.
Ignore the 4th wall stuff if it bothers you. It still works amazingly well just as Walker's personal story.

>>385154149
Nah, fuck Shattered Memories too. It's a poorly designed trainwreck.

>>385152628
>Le silent hill is a game about a guy feeling guilty about killing one of his relatives
Stop this meme people like you ruined the brand

>>385154525
man we need more military horror games.

>>385153009
The "Alessa corrupted the town" theory is stupid anyway.

so, /v/, what haunts you the most? death of daughter, death of wife or death of father?

>>385154575
Well at least didn't screw up with the canon like the other Plus is a fucking wii game

>>385144824
He really is not.

>>385154590
What?

>>385150883
Shadowman video game

>>385145962
They don't. They make it better.
Evidence: 2D controls are awful.

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>>385147291
There has been 180 quick turn ever since Silent Hill 1, mates.

>>385154687
>>385154687
>blocked in a room that becomes haunted
That scares me the most

>>385154590
Every SH game is about someone's demons being reflected onto the world, it just isn't always the protagonist. It's very much what SH is about.

>>385153148
That was me on the FIRST playthrough, after taking a few running steps and only then slowing down. And by the time the door arrived, I thought it was over, only to hear "James... don't go...!" during the loading screen. Felt awful about it.

SH2 is overrated and SH3 is underrated

there's nothing more nightmarish in vidya than SH3

yeah even those grey corridors at the beginning are great

>>385154756
man, I love shadow man, but that's nothing like silent hill, except maybe for the playrooms bit.

>>385153009
The idea of the ship disappearing together with the crew sounds creepier anyway, plus it's ambiguous and mysterious that way, so it's a good thing the pages were missing in the actual game.

>>385151102
>It looks unfinished to you?

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>>385154820
In SH1 it's just a backstory, it has no relevance to Harry or anybody else. Alessa liked insects and Harry has to kill a giant moth in the game, so it's not just negative things.

In SH3, the otherworld is it's own place, Harry's notepads are still there 17 years later and Valtiel truly is God's servant.

>>385154596
Agreed.

Descents into violence and madness in dehumanizing hellscapes of our design. I'm surprised there's no WW1 horror games about mud, corpses, trenches, barbed wire and the effects of increasingly modern and bizarre warfare on old world minds who still charged into battle. The looming sense of a great and terrible change in the world. Just the absolutely epic scale of death.

>>385113989
At the time they didn't really know what to expect from SH2, but also, that artist has a penchant for that kinda art, and you want something eye catching on the front of your mag.

>>385113084
>MGS 2 demo

>play SH1
>nothing scary just unsettling
>get to the school
>scared as shit but still managed to finish it
>get to the hospital
>got too scared and stop playing

These games aren't for me

>>385157954
how old are you nigga, it's just pixels on the screen

>>385156241
>In SH1 it's just a backstory, it has no relevance to Harry or anybody else
it directly related to Alessa.

>in SH3, the otherworld is its own place
not necessary. It is just literally originating and forming around you at all times.
Harry's Notepads are where they are, because he was mostly walking in places just "infected" with the projections. It's safe to bet that they were restored to original-ish state afterwards.

Everything else's also somewhat up for debate. Valtiel may be merely an image of an idea Claudia envisioned, with Heather's ya-know-what and past reading it like a script. There's also the "memory of Alessa" that's clearly partially playing tricks on the area.

>>385158032
How does it feel like to be a soulless robot?

>>385157954
>only up to the hospital
top kek! You've not even seen a thing yet!

>>385158032
I'm 21.

>just pixels
I don't like to think like that when playing video games.

>>385158405
you can imagine my face when playing the game for the first time when it came out, at the age of 11.

But yeah, don't give up now! There's nothing to be ashamed about having breaks to calm your nerves. I doubt I played more than 30 to 60 minutes at once, at any time, during my first playthroughs.

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>tfw this will never happen in our life time

My first silent hill memory was way back in the early 2000's when I stayed at my neighbor's house to play videogames all day.

At the end of the day another kid brought silent hill 1 to play on his PS but I had to go so I just watched him play the beginning. I remember the dog remains stayed with me for a long time before I played it myself like 5-8 years layer. That really creeped me out.

>>385151042
Condemned Criminal Origins is one of the greatest horror games in recent memory. Even if it did come out ten years ago.

>>385158405
You'd give up 3 during the first minutes if you are so scared of one. Finish the game and play the others

>>385159141
Condemned deserved such a better legacy than Bloodshot. Fucking hell.

>>385158303
>It is just literally originating and forming around you at all times.

Outside of Silent Hill and by Claudia. SH3's otherworld is like a combination of Satan's hell and Hades's underworld. The Splithead dogs basically represent Cerberus to symbolize that Heather is entering the otherworld(Hell/Underworld), the closer(appears in SH2 too, so he is not James or Claudia's monster) has "Like Lotus Sutra" written on his forehead, Valtiel can revive Heather just like Book of Memories from SH2 claims. In SH3 the mythology is just too real to be merely mental projections.

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>>385159045

At least use the superior PAL box art

>>385161392
>Superior
Nah m8

>>385159045
If Konami ever makes a comeback to games, I doubt it would be with Silent Hill. I'd put my money on a Castlevania game. That, or some bigger Hudson title.

I gonna bump this thread, and I want to see it alive when I get home. See you later.

>>385161864

it works better for the game's industrial hellscape aesthetic

>>385108680
>PC
the definitive way of playing the SH games is on playstation 2

>>385163326
Luxury that many cannot afford or simply cannot perform this day and age. The PC ports are however almost on par with the Ps2 versions.

>>385163326
Playstation 2 is dead, PC is forever.

>>385156241
>Alessa liked insects and Harry has to kill a giant moth in the game
shit
now I can't hate Mothra in that game

>>385157954
I'll give you this though: after the hospital, you kinda get used to it and start thinking "oh boy, here we go with more demon shit". School and hospital are legit scary because you're starting to see weird shit yet the town is still normal.

SH3 UFO = bestest end.

>>385162618
I halp. :)

>>385108501
>Which ending do you like the most?

For which game?

>>385165145
All of them

>>385117087
Played it two years ago for the first time. I think it's the best SH though I did play HD Collection for the first time too, so that could affect my opinion, I think.

>>385165501
>SH1
The best ending. The one where Cybil lives and you run with the baby.

>SH2
This one is hard for me since I feel the endings were all effective for different reasons. However I think the one that seems to make the most logical sense all things considered is the resurrection ending where James wants to revive Mary. You can only get that one after beating the game once though. Besides that ending I actually like the ending where he leaves with Maria. All the endings are very effective and I'd pretty much consider them all to be almost equal besides the joke endings.

>SH3
The best ending.

>SH4
The best ending...again

SH2 had the best endings in the series. The other games it feels like you got cheated if you don't get the best ending. I especially felt this with SH4 since I got the worst ending in that game first playthrough.

So I mount SH3 and the Launcher plays, play game does nothing and I've already installed it... eh...