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New Silent Hill Announced

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These controls, my god...
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Pick Silent hill 3
Here we go

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No direct camera control is terrifying.
You're a real faggot.
You think Overwatch and Resident Evil 3 are exceptional shooters. Don’t ever speak to me again.

It’s been awhile since I played 3 but I think the “2d” controls worked somewhat better than 3d. Both have pros and cons with a fixed camera.
I’ll give the 2D controls a try. There’s always a 1-2 hour adjustment period when you play older games. You have to unlearn modern muscle memory like the X button being reload.
 

TheHeroOfTime

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I don't remember fully, but I think Angela is around 19-20 years in the events of the game. In the full lore she doesn't only suffer sexual abuse by her father and brother, but also she did on her job as a waitress.
16 or 17 is what the "making of" video claims. However, she looks older on purpose. So both the mod and the remake fail to deliver on what the original intent was.

Very much recommend watching the video if anyone here is even slightly interested in Silent Hill 2 (and has finished the game). The parts with Takayoshi Sato in particular.


That is what the making of says... But later Konami released the "Book of memories" on 2003. An anexus that came with the SH3 guide made by Team silent, where they explain in detail lot of stuff about the games and its universe. And it states that Angela has 19 years old during the SH2 events.

https://gracz.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Silent-Hill-The-Book-Of-Lost-Memories.pdf

(page 14)
 

Morenatsu.

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I know it's easy to shit on SH2 because a bunch of poseur secondaries have been parading it around as the greatest game ever made for the past 15 years, but it's honestly still a great game and I can't agree with the SH1 hipsterism. SH1 is still far far inferior to any classic RE game in terms of mechanics and satisfying challenge.

Gotta clear some things up:

-Gameplay-wise, SH1 is a little inferior to classic Resident Evil overall, yes. But what is probably overlooked here is its hardcore puzzles and navigation, (the latter of which was partly lost in SH2, among other things). Silent Hill 1 is not a complete wash when it comes to gameplay, though it could have been better for sure. Whatever the case it is far more meaningful than what is in the sequel. And gameplay ties into the story, atmosphere and horror in a major way. Often another overlooked truth.
-It's not about Silent Hill vs Resident Evil. That's irrelevant. It's about Silent Hill vs Silent Hill 2 and beyond. SH2 is not a great game. Lay down the pipe. Maybe you personally like the dumb story, sure whatever. As a game it's hot trash. A horror game that isn't scary, ammo and health in excess, hardly any enemy types and they're all slow as snails, easy to decipher and navigate world...The gameplay is a downgrade over the original (which was already not the best as you acknowledge) and undermines the entire experience. As a follow up to Silent Hill 1 it is just a dumb rehash of concepts from the first game in a spectacularly poor way. If your introduction to the series was here, you're probably not going to notice this, but many things don't make sense. Why is there an apartment complex level to overcome? The point is to get to the other side of the town but it just doesn't make sense why you have to go through this complex and its arbitrary puzzles. In the original, it was very believable. The town was forever shifting and had collapsed roadways, so you'd cut through a house briefly for example. The school had all the motivation in the world to be a dungeon of sorts, as we were searching for our daughter inside the school, not for an objective on the other side of it. In which case you could just climb out a window, hop a fence, or simply walk around the building? That's the questions the apartment complex raise.

If you think SH2 is a good game, you're no true gamer. No logical fallacy here, as the play experience is trash and on top of that butts heads with the horror/atmosphere/story. If you think it's a good horror game, you really need to play more horror games. If you think it's an interesting story, that's kind of fair I suppose as it is unique for games, even if I personally think it is dumb and that you play as a retard (the main character). But don't get it confused. Shit game, shit horror experience. Play more games. Better ones. And not what Reddit recommends.
Try System Shock 2, Darkwood, classic Resident Evil (originals not remakes), Silent Hill 1. Good starter pack to be set on the correct course.

Resident Evil got decent remakes because they took old games and improved upon them.

No they didn't. They got the exact same treatment as your beloved slop hill 2. Whatever nuance, artistry, intelligence and soul that was present was now gone. Standard remakes of modern times.
Nobody cares about your made-up standards, you know. SH2 is interesting and good. It's not meant to be superficially 'scary' for retards. Despite the name horror does not equal survival and SH isn't really a series about 'survival horror'. It's an action-adventure game for people who actually like stories.
 
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I wouldn’t trust Bloober to make an original Silent Hill game, not with their writers. Let them remake games people care about, they’ll probably learn a thing or two about making good games in the process.
 

Beastro

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Gamers are like "this sexual abuse victim should be sexier"
Being attractive increases your chances to be raped tbh

No, being previously sexually abused does. It's the largest predictor above all else and a very complicated issue.

If it were the case as you say, then all the burn out homeless prostitute types that look like they'll give you a disease by just looking at you would be the most unmolested of women, but they're the most sexually abused of all.
 
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Forgot Konami announced a ton of SH games a while back.

Townfall, f, and there’s evidence of an internally developed game within Konami, im assuming the same team that did the recent demo. Never played that because I ain’t go no PlayStation.

Pair that with Bloober Hill and we’re eating good.
 

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This Masahiro Ito guy is so annoying, all he did was doing monster design, clown acts like he was in charge of SH2 -.-

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Machocruz

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Get ready to control a tank turret once again. I'd settle for third person with the character in the middle of the screen, like in the good old days before RE4 gave everyone a trend to mindlessly chase and make worse and more boring, including Capcom themselves. Who knew this would be the future of action-adventure horror:

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