Which Silent Hill game is your favorite?

>>713239205 (OP)
1 to replay
4 because I like Henry the most out of all protagonists. Talk about shit luck. Worst apartment ever.

2 > 4 > 3 > 1

2

>>713239205 (OP)
3

>>713239323
Uh sweetie, you have that backwards.

Eileen shaving

>>713239205 (OP)
i know it's the mainstream answer but 2. it's one of the few games to make me cry. SH1 was pretty close though, Lisa's final scene is heartbreaking.

3 > 1 > 2 > 4
HM: Shattered Memories

>>713239205 (OP)
The one which has gameplay and better movements and camera, also directed by Lynch

2 is perfect.
1 was impressive for it's time.
Homecoming had it's moments, good try at reality or people being something. Too much. There is a lot of that, the too muchness to life. And the ending was bad in that it wasn't happy ever after. But seemed honest for me at the time. Wrong winning, but not victorious, or wrong established outside, but not inside. The guy you play as a person. The outside monsters. Going into hell. As soldiers do. Was a loop. But with memories maybe there was an escape. Maybe the memories meant enough to him that the same escape and return was worth it. Being young in that world. Like the past wasn't far away.
Love interest takes more importance in my life, story ended early, long story. And ironically neglected though kept in focus most of the time. Reason to go on. Heaven already known as man an woman, once water and being able to turn over was an extreme that seemed ungrrateful to move from. Hard chose love over water and food later. Stories and stories.

Something familiar in Homecoming, like the option to live was there, rejected.

>>713239560
Anon you should remake this webm but without widescreen stretching.

>>713239846
lynch was in sh?

>>713239205 (OP)
1 is my favorite game of all time. I think it is a perfect survival horror game, and the best silent hill game by a pretty significant margin. Although, harder difficulty options would have been good.

>>713240049
He still there

>>713239560
Anon you should remake this webm but in vastly different artstyles with AI.

>>713239205 (OP)
1

>>713239205 (OP)
1>2>3 and playing 4 right now. I've enjoyed every single entry a ton but silent hill 1 is my favourite. no nostalgia blindness either

Trying to play 4 and the gameplay is legitimately terrible. Like a drastic decrease in quality compared to the previous three. The hell happened?

>>713242145
The sales after 1 decreased with every game. And the pressure from Konami increased.

>>713242145
You don't get it bro... it's SUPPOSED to be bad *continues sucking cock*

>>713239205 (OP)
After some self reflection and general retrospec
>SH2 original, Laura end
>SH Homecoming, Good end
>SH3
>SH1
>SH4

>>713239545
>4 better than 2
Go to bed Cybil

>>713242145
extremely troubled production. a lot of key staff from past games left Konami and there wasn't enough new blood coming in, and the old guard who were still there seemed to be losing it. it's blatantly an unfinished game.

>>713243013
I was just jokin around.

>>713239205 (OP)
1 > 2 > 4 > 3
Heatherfags need not reply to me. I don't care she's UOOHHHH
only reason I put 1 over 2 is because it's still spookier.

>>713239205 (OP)
1>2>4>3

>>713243301
>>713243302

>>713243301
>>713243302
How could you possibly like 4 more than 3?

>>713243583
3 is the most derivative and the combat was at its most annoying. Heather is the most likable protagonist but that isn't enough.

>>713243635
3 is supposed to be played like a Resident Evil game, you are supposed to run past and weave through all of the enemies

>>713243635
How could you possibly think 3's combat is more annoying than 4?

>>713240136
I feel the same way. The intro is possible one of the best intros ever for a videogame.

It also reignited my love for videogames in 2015, when i played it for the first time. They just don't make them like that anymore.

>>713239205 (OP)
3>2>1>4, but i do enjoy all of them very muchly.

>>713243712
I mean that's the best thing to do in a lot of scenarios in 1 as well.

>>713243583
i found it too linear and too on-the-nose. i realized I was playing as Heather and just knew it would be all about pregnancy and rape. it pretty much was for the whole thing through, and Claudia comes in and says "YOu'll birth a God!" and that was it, the mystery was gone. Heather was kinda annoying at times, but it's been some time since i last played it, so maybe I just remember the worst parts. 4, despite it's issues, was more experimental and novel at times, but I really appreciate being stuck in someone elses' nightmare and the apartment itself added a lot of charm. I actually made a post about it in /vg/. wish I could find it

>>713239205 (OP)
2134

>>713243907
Yeah dude I played it for the first time in 2017 myself. I feel so lucky to have discovered my favorite game and know that it is not because of childhood nostalgia. And yeah the intro section is a masterpiece, it is such a primal fear that it taps into. The soundtrack for the alleyway is just incredible https://youtu.be/az5pX3sN_vo

>>713244053
>no mention of gameplay or level design
I guess we value different things.

>>713239205 (OP)
3=1>2>4
4 is too annoying with ghosts.

>>713244176
The "you only like a game because of nostalgia" is a bullshit argument anyway. Nostalgia by definition doesn't apply to shit that can be re-experienced like playing a video game again in present day.

>>713244191
i mean, there isn't much to say about either
its roughly the same between all of them. the levels in 3 I thought were too linear, you don't even get to Silent Hill until half way? something like that. And finding guns laying around kinda took me out of it. There are good levels in each Silent Hill game, even fucking Downpour, but it's still a small section
least favourite part of 3 was the running section down the corridor as a red light chased after you, and you just run into the wall every time the camera switches. really highlights where tank controls dont feel all too good. they could've had it so the camera smoothly shifts. they had that kinda power back in SH1

>>713243907
>>713244176
intro so good I put off playing it for 15 years because it scared me so much

>>713239205 (OP)
1 > 3 > 2 > 4

>>713239205 (OP)
2 > 4 > 1 > 3

>>713244176
>>713244489

For me, it's the first 10 minutes in Alchemilla. The way the game builds the tension is just pristine.

First there's no music at all, and you meet Kaufmann and all that. It's kind of comfy even, after running around in the town and being just done with the school. It's just your footsteps.

Then it stops being comfy because it's too quiet for too long. After that you realise that there's no power, and when you go to the basement and start the generator, the noise it makes becomes the ambient music, and everything is still dark down there. It feels awful. Then there's the elevator shenanigans.

It's just layer after layer of carefully crafted exploration and mystery.

>>713245770
I love that part too, Alchemilla and the Sewers are my favorite areas in the game

>>713245770
>the Sewers

Really? I have to replay it because for some reasons I remember the sewers like a pain in the ass.

>>713245971
Meant to reply to this. >>713245971

>>713245971
I think the way items are scattered throughout is very good (SH1 is really good at item placement). The tension of an enemy that doesn't register on the radio is incredible. The sewer monsters being able to attack from above and being so unpredictable is really scary. The music is eerie and puts you on edge with what sounds like the monsters calling out to each other through the sewer. The mad dash for the exit after you find the key in the bloodsoaked water and you are ambushed by the dozens of monsters is horrifying and makes me feel so tense and scared to this day. I think it is the scariest area in the game. Even though there isn't much to explore like in Silent Hill's other best levels, it still has great gameplay due to the tension created by the sewer monster gimmick. I think the game's combat system actually shines really well in that section also.

>>713239205 (OP)
Fuck you OP. I love them all equally.
Starting my autumn/winter marathon with 1 and ending with 4.

1 is the best video game
2 is the best art game
3 is the best horror game

>>713239205 (OP)
It pains me to know that poor fellows with the HD collection had to experience the terribad alternate SH3 voice acting.

>>713247972
Is it correct that they couldn't get the rights to use the original voice acting mostly because the actor for Douglas passed away?

>>713239205 (OP)
Downpour is kino

>>713244053
I find the femininity interpretation of SH3 to be a little nauseating. As you said it's too on the nose for it to be an actual "deeper meaning". I personally experienced it as a familial revenge story coupled with a coming of age finding identity story, those elements are right on the surface and where the depth lies. Yes there's the blood and birthing imagery, but I viewed that as representing bloodline, lineage, and vengeance ("blood for blood"). Heather's body being used to birth "God" is a corruption of her family line and destroying it is a vindication of her trve father Harry. This is my masculine interpretation I guess.

>>713239205 (OP)
Silent Hill 2 Remake is the best one. (REMAKE)

1 and 2 are god tier; 3 and 4 are trash, worse than some of the western ones.

>>713249393
fag

they all have terrible gameplay, some of the worst of any game

>>713239205 (OP)
Opinion on the PSA game? I never got to play it because it's PS5 only

what would you like the next Silent Hill game (after f) to be about, remake are excluded so it's only for a brand new game.
What would be the story? What main character would you like to see?

>>713249862
Soilent Hill
A town full of Redditors and you’re the only 4chan

The true patrician taste is
3>4>1>2

>>713249975
I know all of you rating 4 over any of the other three are just trolling.

>>713250045
you can stop seething now

>>713239205 (OP)
i like 1,2 and 3 equally. they are a bit different in atmosphere and i like it. 4 was strange and not in a good way.

>>713243301
>1 > 2 > 4 > 3
>Heatherfags need not reply to me. I don't care she's UOOHHHH
THIS. SH3 as it is should have never existed

>>713239205 (OP)
2, 1, 3, Origins, then 4. Don't count the rest.

>>713239205 (OP)
4

>>713248639
based

Shattered Memories did some extremely unique things with the psychological profile feature, I wish this would return for a new game
well it was going to but that game got canceled due to Kojima starting Silent Hills

1 and 3
FUCK EVERY SINGLE RETARD THAT ONLY PLAYED 2 AND COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTANDS SILENT HILL.
these faggots really thing it's all about "WHA I'm so sad about shit happening in my life uwu" while in reality it's about a psychic girl WITH REAL POWERS being impregnated BY A REAL RITUAL that puts a embryonic god inside her THAT HAS REAL POWERS. In interviews it was literally confirmed that they used rituals used that were being fueled GOD to kill people. And they work. People have literally no idea what they are talking about.
>But its just hallucinating in silent H-
HEATHER IS CREATED BY THE INCUBATOR. IN 1 ITS LITERALLY CREATING A PHYSICAL BODY TO OUT A SOUL INTO. THAT ONE EVENTUALLY BECAME HEATHER.
I'm going fucking insane 98% of the "fanbase" literally likes out fanfiction about silent hill that is completely obvious IF YOU WOULD HAVE PLAYED ANY SILENT HILL BESIDES 2

>>713250875
>Don't count the rest.
>counts Origins

>>713239205 (OP)
unironically 1. I doubt the remake will live up to the original's potential and vision though, it will probably become a misinterpretation of sh1 through the lens of "the only good silent hill is 2" that the majority of people seem ot have.

>>713251129
According to some interview, Bloober actually wanted to remake SH1 from the start but Konami asked for SH2 because it was more popular

>>713249862
40 year old Cheryl Mason is plagued by nightmares foretelling of her reincarnation into yet another body after she dies, and foresees the cult reappearing and using her next reincarnation to successfully birth God. She returns to Silent Hill to find a way to break the cycle and destroy the cult for good by bulldozing the town over

>>713249807
It will always be funny to me how she looks exactly like the psycho femcel who convinced Chris Chan to molest his mom

>Downpour original plot was that the main character truly was a terrible person and a serious criminal, said to be like "patrick bateman but in silent hill"
>Testers apparently hated him (which was the point), but it backfired because they would even refuse to continue playing the game
>Due to this, the entire project got a reboot

Would you like to see this idea back?

>>713251252
That still doesn't guarantee that they'll capture the original's vision and horror. I hope I'm wrong though, it's not like sh1 is perfect so a good remake could really make it shine.

>>713239205 (OP)
4

>>713251437
If they had actually executed the idea correctly then testers probably would have liked the character and wanted to continue playing. The fact that they didn't tells me that the devs probably went overboard with the edginess

>>713251476
1 probably offer the team more freedom than 2, but they also need to not have too much freedom, it still need to be SH1
They did a pretty good job with SH2 though so I think it will be fine

>>713251485
She absolutely has some great puffy nips I just know it

>>713251541
careful with the sh2r praise, you might summon you know who

>>713251510
Apparently, a majority of people were simply against the idea of playing as a really bad person
so Murphy end up being made as a tragic man instead

>>713251009
2 is occult but in a much more subtle way, psychology is inextricably linked to occultism because occultism posits that’s one’s inner world is a reflection of the outer world and vice versa

>>713251485
If they butchered Maria (a character who's entire existence is to be sexually appealing) in 2's remake, imagine what Bloober will do to Eileen in 4's remake.

Should I play SH1?
Had it as a kid and I got as far as the school.

>>713239205 (OP)
3>4>1>2 in that order
4 is seriously underrated despite its issues.

>>713251772
I mean remake Maria still was designed to have "sex appeal", I think they just wanted to reference her original concept design which was similar to it

>>713251826
kill yourself

>>713251803
>should I play the best survival horror game ever made?
gee I don't know

>>713251891
Okay bro, I hope you’re right.

>>713251641
The point is that the leftover energies from Silent Hill 1 are the reason for Silent Hill 2. The dude is basically just manipulating, through his subconsciousness, the energies that were left over from Silent Hill 1. Silent Hill 2 has multiple relations to the gods. In one ending, he specifically straight up says, there are still the gods in this place, and they can literally rebirth people. And that is definitely Valtiel, as seen in sh3 and stated by ito himself. Next, you also have the founder of the religion, which was burnt. The religion and cult are still extremely important. They were in 1, 3, and 4. Only in 2, they are only alluded to. And for some reason, the entire fanbase is stating that the cult is just some minor background thing, despite being the very core reason for the entire plot in 1, 3, and 4. In 4 specifically, Valtiel is imprinted upon the psyche of Walter, wanting him to rebirth God. But I guess people just need to play Silent Hill, and sadly they have not done that except for 2. Almost all of silent hill is about god and the cult, only 2 is about the personal life of James.

What are your expectations for f?

>>713240380
Someone made an AI version when gen AI vid was booming. It was hilarious but I don't think I downloaded the webm

>>713252047
I am not sure if I will play it because I don't like Japanese schoolgirls, I want to use guns, and the melee combat looks too arcadey

>>713252047
Pretty hyped for it.
Expecting something like Fatal Frame in atmosphere.
Some Ryukishi meme story ofc.

>>713252114
the focus on melee weapons reminds me a little of 4,I guess it will be an experimental title like it

>>713252047
A feeling of nostalgia for Fatal Frame

>>713252150
>>713252176
I don't think it will feel at all like fatal frame

>>713251924
Don't play it if you don't like fogshit.

>The game's main character.
A teenage girl struggling under the pressure of expectations from her friends, family, and society.
Cheerful and energetic as a child, she's grown to become much more restrained, and now hardly smiles

>>713252238
In really broad strokes, as in J-horror.
Maybe the Siren games are a closer fit, but I havent played those.

>>713252290
Big qt.

>A childhood friend of Hinako's, they still call each other "partner," just like when they were kids. Forward-thinking for the time, he doesn't see anything wrong with friendships with the opposite sex, and treats everyone alike. His family have been physicians for generations, leaving him knowledgable about various medicines and treatments

>>713243583
4 is more interesting of a game, senses to challenge the player and make the game genuinely feel more oppressive while also shaking up the formula which was much needed after 3.
I dont think SH3 is a bad game. But out of the first 4 its definitely the weakest and carried by how much people like Heather. SH1 is my favorite game in the series and I thought I'd enjoy 3 more than I did after the hype considering its a followup, but it feels more like "Greatest Hits of Silent Hill" rather than its own definitive standout thing

>One of Hinako and Shu's friends. Tends to be a stickler for rules, and somewhat of a busybody. Quick to pick up on the latest rumors and gossip, and well-versed in matters of romance. Has developed a bit of a crush on Shu.

>>713252047
blatant references

>One of Hinako and Shu's friends, and a dreamy, laid-back, head-in-the-clouds type. Her family manages the local Shinto shrine, so she helps with some of the ritual duties.

>>713252047
>scare crow
>farming tool weapon
S Y M B O L I S M

Monster type: Kashimashi

Monster type: Ayakakashi

Monster type: Oi-omoi

>>713251019
Yes, Origins wasn't perfect, but it was okay and I enjoyed it. Some of the monsters were brilliant and Grady was an interesting protagonist. The Asylum boss and Motel boss were pretty on brand.

Monster type: Ara-abare

Unknown boss monster

>>713252709
Im a fan of the other designs but this guy looks pretty silly

>>713252648
as a stand alone horror game its ok. but it literally changes the lore of the SH1 and for that it can never stand next to the original four games

>>713252629
>>713252580
>>713252524
>>713252047

>>713252047
The story could be a 10/10 because Ryukishi writes god tier psychological horror. The atmosphere will be good as well. Not having any guns probably makes the experience scarier.

>>713252709
>>713252764
>>713252629

>FROMSOFTWARE

Yeah no interest in F, I might play it but it doesn't look like something id enjoy.

>>713252648
Origin releasing the way it did already is a big achievement considering it was pretty much entirely rebooted and done in 6 month with a lesser budget, Climax US were going to make it and did a terrible job, so when they closed down, Climax UK took the project and pretty much decided to entirely redo it (the director said it would have being "an insult to silent hill if the original project was the one that released") while salvaging assets, but the gameplay, the entire story and a majority of the game was different.
Climax UK then did Shattered Memories, which had much less issues in the development. It was deliberately different because it wanted to aim for a new market and not just regular Silent Hill fans.
They were going to make a third game in 2013, but it got canceled due to Silent Hills-PT.

I'm not sure if the studio still exist

>>713252927
>Not having any guns probably makes the experience scarier.
this is stupid and disproved by the wave of "run away and hide in the locker" games that released in the early 2010s. Horror games are more intense when you the tension is compounded by the stress of having to manage limited combat resources

>>713253010
Well f still has combat, just only melee weapons (it's Japan in the 60s so it make sense for guns to not really be there)

>>713253002
They do, a friend of mine used to work for them before he moved to Supermassive. I got a look at one of the few manuals made for the first game called Cold Heart it was no loss. They did good work with Origins for what they had been given. I never played the PSP version, only the PlayStation 2 port.

>>713253225
Maybe they will return to Silent Hill one day, they definitely were getting better at it the more they worked

>>713251603
The Golem get ye gone troon?

I still seethe that Downpour never got a PC port when it was almost finished because the studio closed down after the game getting poor sales
It wasn't a perfect game but the potential were there

>>713239205 (OP)
1>4=2>2r>3>sm>dp>hc>o>bom

>>713239205 (OP)
1 is amazing and 2 perfected the genre. Every other sh game after those just tries to recapture their magic but instead feel empty and have annoying bad gameplay. And fuck bloober team too

>>713239560
Thank you for your service.

>>713253543
>2 perfected the genre by making every game mechanic from the first game worse and making the difficulty laughably easy
ok

>>713253543
2 only "perfected" the graphical capability, mechanically its a huge step back from 1

>>713253865
no one gives a shit about gameplay on survival horror games they are all bad and have barely evolved past resident evil 1

>>713254054
filtered, unironically

Seems like f will also have alternate outfits

>>713254874
I hope for school swimsuit.