New "Silent Hill" videogame

Druidic said:
Of course, guys, the pc games often came with a secret hidden game for free.
Your participation was mandatory.
It was called "Try To Get This Damn Game Installed And Running."

Yes, desperately editing config files, trying to find another human being on the Net that had managed to achieve the impossible, just wanting to know that somehow it was possible to get the blasted thing up and running without waiting days, weeks or months for a patch that might never come...
It was one hell of a Game. And it was Free. All it cost was frustration and your sanity.
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:)

Funny how I somehow look back upon those days with sense of joy.
 
Druidic said:
Of course, guys, the pc games often came with a secret hidden game for free.
Your participation was mandatory.
It was called "Try To Get This Damn Game Installed And Running."
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I know that game too well. It sometimes became a fetch game: you need to download these dll files, this patch, then a program to convert your international version to the Japanese edition, then that other patch (and good luck finding a mirror that works!), then a compatibility mod that was coded by a single Russian guy over a couple years... gotta catch 'em all, and that might do the trick :drunk:
 
I'm one-hundred-percent CS: 1.6, Source and GO addict, I shamefully admit it, my one and only game-love.
 
Quote Originally Posted by Druidic
It was one hell of a Game. And it was Free. All it cost was frustration and your sanity.

Tyger

That sounds like my life...

Mark S.
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Mine, too, Mark. I think there's a reason we can find beauty, awe and wonder even in the Dark Side.
If Lovecraft were a Happy Camper who knows what he might have written? I don't want to think about it.
Next stop, Night Vale!
 
Thanks for a truly horrible thought, Ramonoski. I'm ready for the euth coaster now.

Hey, what happens if the damn thing breaks down and you get stuck at the top? What happens if the shock drastically changes your mind? What happens if, despite all your screams to be rescued, no one on the ground wants to know? They're too busy trying to get it working...
What happens then, eh?
 
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Initially, I posted on this thread about P.T. (the Silent Hills demo), then realized that it ought to have a thread of its own. Although P.T. is by Kojima and del Toro, it's only tangentially related to the game you're discussing.

Even so, it's ethereal, free, and out since last August.
 
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I'm a big fan of the first two but they are the only ones I played. I'm sure a lot of the later ones were good (I hear that 3 and Shattered Memories were good) but I feel like they should have been called something else and just broken away from the franchise because with 3 the style changed quite a bit, which is probably why I didn't go further. I believe the fourth game actually started out as a separate title but they ended up making it a Silent Hill for money reasons.

It is a shame the new game got scrapped but I think after this unfortunate loss, it's probably for the better that the series dies. Less so with other Konami properties which very possibly have no future. You may have heard Konami has largely lost interest in console gaming and is focusing on other things they own which make easier profits for them. Metal Gear Solid is the only videogame series they think makes enough money to continue.

Some people found those ghosts in 4 so irritating that frustration overwhelmed the fear.
 
The second game is a Poe-esque emotional nightmare and one of my favourite pieces of weird fiction. The first and third are great also but the cult plotline isn't quite as interesting as the psychological journey of the second game. The fourth game is highly underrated, but people are starting to reevaluate it in light of what we've had since.

I've no real interest in the rest of the series, which aren't made by the original team.
 
Even the original team changed significantly. Sato left after 2 and that changed the look quite a lot.
With 3, Yamaoka stopped trying to milk the extremely specific sound of the first two (I have all but two of the soundtracks). I cant blame him because I think he probably hit a brick wall and wanted to try other things but nothing beats those first two soundtracks.

Although the second game is far better conceived and executed, I still prefer the first game; the backstory about what was happening in the small hospital room is pretty horrifying and I really love the location designs.
 
I agree that SH 2 and 1 were the best in the series, but I also liked 3 and 4 (esp. the claustrophobia of 4). I even liked playing SH Origins on my PSP, but perhaps what remains most memorable about that game is the place where I played it: in a building overtaken by insects; living alone there and largely in darkness. Playing felt like entering the cellar just beneath my life.

Then again, I also liked Rule of Rose, Fatal Frame, Clocktower and Eternal Darkness.

I miss the intensities of passive nihilism in older survival horror games; the somber machinery of self-negation. Everything led you downward -- toward spiritual annihilation or the kind of disillusioning zoetrope that believers mistake for eternal life.
 
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The Dark Eye (Game) - Giant Bomb I really don't have the time nor the desire to play video games at this stage of the game, but the only ones I would consider are horror themed games for PC, mostly. Anyway, slightly off topic, but this game was one that I really enjoyed back in the 90s that was based on the works of EAP. And of course as a kid, when I discovered his writing back then, I was instantly sold and Poe became a central focus of my life as an early reader. At any rate, I know I am older than many here (or at least I think so), but anyone remember this? It was less a game and more of an homage to Poe, more Myst-like by virtue of it being a series of puzzles, if you will, but for its time was quite cool.
 
Mad Madison said:
It's finally happening... Silent Hill returns (officially).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRvRWBQNrSI&t=788s
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I'm really excited about this. I don't play very many videogames these days, but any new entry in the Silent Hill series will always be a must play for me. I'm sure it's far from an original observation, but I've always felt the atmosphere of Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 in particular, had more than a touch of Thomas Ligotti about it.
 
I never played the video game, but I liked the movie. The setting was very nightmarish. The movie must have quite a following because they have produced some high-end statues of some of the characters. You can see them on eBay. I like Radha Mitchell and see she is still acting. But I haven't seen her in anything since the film High Art, which I liked.
 
bendk said:
I never played the video game, but I liked the movie. The setting was very nightmarish. The movie must have quite a following because they have produced some high-end statues of some of the characters. You can see them on eBay. I like Radha Mitchell and see she is still acting. But I haven't seen her in anything since the film High Art, which I liked.
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As far as video game adaptations go, the first Silent Hill movie is one of the better ones; although that is, admittedly, a pretty low bar. One of the main contributing factors to the relative success of the movie was the use of the actual soundtrack from the original game. That immediately ensures the correct atmospheric tone is set.

I've always found it somewhat ironic, given his propensity for dying on screen, that Sean Bean survives both Silent Hill movies. :D
 
This news is huge. October 2022 has been a crazy years with all of my favorite works returning in some form or another. Some I have waited for 4 years and some I didn't even know I was waiting for.
 
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