Thread 715581445

>cult Silent Hill is better!
>psychological horror Silent Hill is better!
It's big enough for both.

>>715581445 (OP)
Man, I hate this. They could ahve set each game on another location around the lake slowly filling it out. Look at how tiny the areas in Sh1-3 are ultimately?

>>715581546
its a small shithole tourist trap.

that's all its ever been in the grand scheme geographically

>>715581445 (OP)
I will admit, I’m looking forward to the silent hill 1 remake with morbid curiosity

>>715581793
an addendum to my post, while it is a small shithole tourist trap, realistically, as someone who has lived in, and near places like this (but in the Southern variant, so we have even less) there absolutely wouldn't be one Hospital, especially not a second one for Mental patients, the Hospital in SH is way too fucking big for the size of this small pit stop town.

it'd be in the city next door, the one in SH4 which is a proper regular sized city.

no way they'd have the greenlight to build that fucking thing.

>>715581919
I mean they only somewhat fumbled with SH2, it hit all the notes, added just a little to lengthen the game, and the game looked good.

sure the VA wasn't as good, but that' was to be expected.

Sh1 had awful VA work and was.. well they did what they could with the PS1's limitations and it being early PS1, its really all upsides with this remake.

>>715581546
>called Silent Hill
>wanting them to not set their second game in Silent Hill
Anone...

Anyone else disappointed that 2 set up these wonky historical events, then nothing happened? I would have made a game about the ferry sinking event. I feel like 2 was hinting that there were a lot of sketchy and spooky events throughout the town's history. I think there was more to explore. Oh but of fucking course we need a ghost game with Walter Sullivan of all things!

>man with his family on the ferry in 1918
>suddenly gets very foggy
>gets very horrifying, then starts to sink
>he comes to on the shore
>town appears abandoned, and he isn't sure if he's even alive
>desperately tries to search for his family
>finds the town is now populated by people from the ferry
>they too came too on the shore but don't know where the ferry went
>town full of monsters
>try to get out and find answers
>no one is sure they're alive or dead, and everyone panics, gets more religious, prays, and loses their sanity
>suicides, death by monsters, etc start to pile on
>father keeps on trucking towards the end of the game

I like setting things in other timelines.

>>715581793
Tens of thousands of people at least, maybe as high as 100K. Each game is only a few street segments. You could get 5 games just populating the map we see here.

>>715581965
I want to say SH has a population of about 100,000. A mid-sized town, but not tiny either. My town has a similar amount and we have a loony bin, 2 hospitals as well. Maybe I live in Sh?

>>715582418
buddy you have zero understanding of the franchise if you think they should make a game about some crisis event like the Ferry Sinking.

>>715582495
SH probably has a pop of like 20k, and that's really really pushing it.

its a remote, tiny tourist trap.

>>715582418
the idea of multiple people coming to shore and "Thar be monsters" is fucking retarded, buddy.

SH is defined by the loneliness of the town, each game has different plots and themes, but the core feeling the town gives off is constant.

its not like RE where the BOW's are a constant, looming, and swarming threat.

the monsters in Silent Hill are almost background noise, things to come out of the fog and go back into it like nothing happened, only when the town has its brief moments of chaos (Rustyville) does it feel oppressive and aggressive.

now throw 5-10 people panicing and monsters coming out of corners by the truckloads and.. you do not have a Silent Hill game anymore.

>>715582418
>>715582558
>game about ferry sinking
this is b8 there's no way you both don't know

>>715581965
I agree, Brookhaven is way too big and unsightly close to the resort area for a vacation town. However Alchamila is the perfect size for Silent Hill, a small 3 floor 30 room hospital that only has 2 rooms for surgery and 1 room for intensive care is actually perfect, more of an "i drank too much :(" daycare than an actual hospital.

>>715582627
>"It is a small town with a population below 30,000"
https://silenthillchronicle.net/shkgb.htm

Its weird how America has all these small towns. Like why do people even live in all those places instead of big places like California and New York where all the things happen

>>715582558
Just the setup for the mystery. This is like saying "buddy, you can't make a Sh game about a crisis event like a car crash!" when that's what got SH1 kicking. It's just the ontological event that kicks things off and sets up the mystery. The game would start waking up on the shore, thinking you just survived a standard ferry sinking, then finding out it's much, much worse.

The other notes talk about the entire town being settled once, then suddenly being abandoned, and it's likely another event. ie people settled, it seemed nice, whoops nightmare worlds and monsters so the people all died in the otheworld or they got up and fled.

>>715581445 (OP)
Wait North SH is like where the locals live and South SH is the tourist area right?

>>715583002
SH is a town of like, 8 city square blocks total, the rest are residential (the town is so small that half of it are fucking houses)
the one and only Grocer is like a 3 lane "slightly bigger than a quick stop" building.

it absolutely wouldn't have a 3 story hospital, it'd be in the bigger town over.

>>715583126
>
BOOOOM

I win, like I said, around 20k.

>>715583178
because they were born there, and some people leave the big city to go there, because they stop enjoying the presence of Niggers and Jeets, and the filth around them.

>>715583271
Old SH is the older brick buildings, looks like they stylistically date to the 20s. European style surburbs.

South is more modern, and has a few big apartment complexes, gas stations and so forth. Has a lot of townhouses. So it's a mix of commercial and residential.

Residential and commercial architecture in the south.

>>715583178
i live in a town exactly like silent hill (right down to the mental hospital, general hospital, amusement park [carnival, gone for 20 years or so now but it counts], massive lake separating 2 distinct districts, historical area on the waterfront, thick fog rises off the lake on warm mornings after a cool night) it's just very comfy
i moved to a city for a bit, all the cars, the people, the general atmosphere, noise, smells, quality of the air, it destroys the soul
being in a small town, where everyone knows each other, you're still close to nature, a town where you can do whatever you want when you want but you're still close to your friends and some stores, that's what life was meant to be

>>715583882
does it have the cult and hallucinogenic flowers

>>715582280
>sure the VA wasn't as good, but that' was to be expected.
James, Eddie, and Angela are all better in the remake. Laura is worse by virtue of not being an actual child VA like the original, and Maria is just too flat and monotone and almost totally lacks the bipolar emotional whiplash of OG Maria

>>715582418
I’m pretty sure they covered the ferry in the light gun Arcade game but it’s been a while

>>715581445 (OP)
Lore wise is Silent Hill an Abaddon town or the protagonist from each game teleport to the evil version of Silent Hill?

>>715584836
catholics and wild cannabis of course, even got the big ye olde stone church in the middle of town

>>715581445 (OP)
Hot take, none of what the cult did anything. Anything that looks like they did was just the town messing with them just because.

>>715585393
dont worry, there's a clear and concise answer and people haven't been viciously arguing over that question for decades

>>715584851
James VA is one of the most lightning in a bottle VA work ever put to video games, get the fuck outa here buddy.

>>715584976
they did.

HIT THE LEVER

a lightgun House of the Dead battle against Pyramid Head was a complete shark jump moment.

>>715585393
There's no evil version of the town, the Otherworld manifests itself in the real world, so the only question is what happened to the people there

>>715585393
its a normal, if completely in a downturn, town, that some people get pulled into a copy of it that's fucked up.

to be clear, a ton of people got pulled in and killed in SH1, when you bring Cheryl back to the town.

>>715583178
Mmmm why yes I do love hordes of violent niggers and non americans surrounding me while I pay over 4 times the cost of living. But hey the place is BUSSIN THO NO CAP BRUH!

>>715585895
there absolutely is, unless you think the real town suddenly has massive infinite pits to nowhere tearing through it.

>>715586012
yea that's exactly what's happening, a world of someone's nightmarish delusions are coming to life
i can already tell you're esl so i'm not going to engage beyond giving you that exact quote from the game and hoping you can parse english enough to understand what the game itself is telling you outright

>>715585774
His performance is mostly good, but Mary and Maria's performance is perfect.

>>715586146
>guess i gotta go through silent hill on my way back home in beautiful $STATENAME, America
>what's that? the road is out? blocked by a 50 foot wide sinkhole that goes so deep nobody can see the bottom?
>...
>oh well i guess im gonna turn around and not tell anyone about this

>get filtered by the puzzles on Easy Puzzle difficulty
feels bad man

>>715586012
yes, that's the power of the evil god manifesting in the real world

>>715586146
yes and I believe its another world entirely, a completely gossamer one held together by whoever's tugging on the Power of the town.

first Alessa, then the Cult fucking with Alessa/Heather by proxy, then it just going wild on its own since no one is holding it.

>>715586616
it already showcases it can create ficticious temporary worlds with the Darkness variant, why can't the Fog variant also be just another fake world.

unless your implying the Otherworld/Rust ville is also real and the Power transformed the entire earth into a void of pits and chainlink.

>>715586890
Everything is real. Just play the first game and it literally spells it out for you

>>715581445 (OP)
Apologize.

>>715581445 (OP)
It's big enough for a lot more. Silent Hill should just be a name. The town layout, lore, theme, everything else should change with each game, like Final Fantasy or something. Repeating the same shit over and over is how it got boring and died.

>>715587236
Downpour has some decent stuff but even as someone that thinks that, nobody owes it anything. It'd be one thing if it wasn't attached to the series.

>>715581965
Lots of explanations, maybe some rich fucko from the town got into psychology and built it or donated to the town to have it built. Or maybe it was a government grant to just have a hospital in that sector of the country. Or there's a college nearby with a really good psychology program. Or someone from the town won an award for therapy and they're trying to lean into that being their "thing".

>>715587187
it can be real, and also a pocket dimension or "otherworld".

like I said, unless you want me to believe that in the real world, the Power flipped the entire world, or at least thousands of miles, into a black abyss of nothing with chainlink and rusty bloody metal floating over it.

>>715587236
never, its the worst game in the series, its so bad I try every day to forget I spent money on it.

>>715581445 (OP)
There isn't room for either considering the series is dead and/or never going back to the town.

>>715584976
>>715585831
Yep, they wanted to make the PS2 games light gun as well.

>>715587808
I don't want to go back to the town, Silent HIll Forte is the best possible outcome.

keep the themes and "vibes" of the franchise but take it elsewhere.

it was barely contained to Silent Hill Proper as it was in the OG quad games as it is.

by the time the Westoid games came out everything lost any consistency anyways, Downpour's town is now bafflingly New England, complete with olde tyme skyscrapers and a fucking Clocktower and also Tocula lake is now more of a fucking Sea bay than a lake.

>>715587236
I kinda like the spoopy atmosphere but it's a horribly boring and not at all scary game. Murphy sounds hilarious when he's yelling.
The ancient Two Best Friends Play series on this is a classic at least.

>>715587236
this game is so poorly written that one of the ending outcomes will have Murphy be INNOCENT OF EVERYTHING calling into question why he's being hounded by the Town's "Silent Hill 2 torment apparatus".

in other endings he's "guilty" of assualting.. a child murderer? not even killing said child murderer.

only in half the endings is he even guilty of hurting the Good Cop.

>>715587649
>unless you want me to believe that
Not me, the developers. The Otherworld invades the real world, that's what the first game says it does. The events are confined within the town because of the spiritual power and so they need to birth a god.
SH3 shows it can happen outside of the town because Heather is carrying god. If it was a pocket dimension Harry wouldn't have been killed in his apartment outside of Silent Hill

>>715587929
not to mention its written by people who have the loosest grasp on the franchise.

its legit about fucking hauntings and ghosts now, someone took a cursory glance at SH2, failed to understand it, and just went with that general direction.

>>715588143
pretty simple explanation, the Pocket Dimension extended to Harry's appt.

he had no idea he was drawn into it, then he got shanked.

like I said, if this were the case, hundreds of mall employee's should be in the Mall with Heather, they aren't, its.. almost as if Heather and Detective dumbass alone were drawn in.. to another dimension!

>>715588201
>b4nny the tr4nny

>>715583178
taxes in cali and ny can be brutal depending on where you live - i'm from long island about 1 hour drive from NYC and here it's 12k in taxes for my town a year while you pay almost half that or less in the other more rural parts of NY alone - it's also been more and more multicultural over the years to the point where when we sold the house last year the neighborhood went from 90% white to almost 50%+ asians who come here for the school system and then pack up and leave after their kids graduate

I love these games but am retarded and still don't understand how SH works, and I know it's meant to be ambiguous to some degree but I feel like I should have a better grasp than I do. I know in 2 it's all the guilt and trauma manifestation shit, but in the others it's a regular town that was infused with evil as fuck demon energy and Indian burial ground stuff and the cult tried to use Alessa to make their God real and it combined with all the latent bad jujus of the place made it into Spooky Silent Hill, and then I somehow never understood how that works with the normal/fog/other/rust worlds and shit. How close am I

>>715588650
The one common link between all of them is that Silent Hill has a personalized aspect to it. That doesn't necessarily mean that you're experiencing your own Silent Hill, for example in SH1 Harry is experiencing Alessa's Silent Hill, which is manifested into reality through weird cult bullshit.

>>715588813
Oh yeah I completely forgot that part too, yeah. Is 3 all Alessa's stuff too or someone else I forget

>>715588865
3 is Heather's Silent Hill, it manifests since she's carrying a god like another anon said. When Heather rejects it and Claudia eats it, then it's Claudia's at that point probably.

>>715581965
My town has 34k people and we have a giant medical area with two massive hospitals and tons of small clinics.

>>715588650
1 is all Alessa's trauma's and fears, and some of Cheryl (who is just a shard of Alessa)

its pretty simple, the Power is unwieldy, it cannot be grasped or truly controlled, but it can be steered, especially by pain and fear and suffering, which the Cult understood and burned Alessa to fully bind it to her.

everything in 1 and 3 is just her suffering made real.

>>715588271
>the Pocket Dimension extended to Harry's appt
There's nothing in the game that supports your theory. How would that even work? Harry died in his chair by a real monster that was in the real world
By the time Heather wakes up she's already alone in the mall and nothing bad happens until she finds a gun next to a monster eating a corpse, so at least one employee died there. The detective leaves the mall after meeting Heather so there's no reason for him to "be drawn in"

>>715589029
I mean Heather is Alessa is Cheryl, so its moot.

>>715583178
You always say where all the stuff is where all the things happen but what exactly is that stuff and are those things?

>>715589129
its mobile, its moving with Heather, she can't escape into the real world because the god is within her, so wherever she goes, it just creates more "otherworld" overlay on top of the real world, or a shitty copy of it.

Harry was likely killed by a Cultist, a real life human being, who became a monster as the overlay got close to him.

>>715588650
I mean you're not far off in a general sense. The place always had an ambience of magic and strangeness to it as seen by all the weird shit that has happened through its history. It then got amped up when the cult summoned a demon.

>>715589202
ok, do you have anything from within the game that states this?

>>715583178
>Like why do people even live in all those places instead of big places like California and New York where all the things happen

During World War 3, the bridges to Manhattan, San Franciso, Boston, DC, and other large coastal cities built on peninsulas will be knocked down and 100 million people will starve simply because trucks will be unable to get food into those important cities where things happen.

>>715589398
the fact every location is abandoned.

you think a subway station would just be empty my guy?

>>715589609
so it's just headcanon
Silent Hill has always been about horror in mundane places that people go to, that's why you won't ever see an underground lab like Resident Evil. The place being empty serves more as a tool for horror than a narrative statement
We have no idea the size of the town that Heather is living, what's going on outside or what time it is when she gets there, so they can take creative liberties in order to have that location in the game

>>715581445 (OP)
>psych
Never post again. You are shit. Do not make threads.

>>715585774
OG James is great, don't get me wrong. The new VA is just better

>>715583126
My town is the size of Silent Hill and it's maybe 5000 people tops.

>>715589429
> Muh trucks.
Its not the big point of WWIII logistics breakdown to big cities.
> All the fucking cities are just nuked as they are targeted by those bombs because of guaranteed high civilian damages.
That's really it other than:
> Even if they managed to use ships to logistics things to big cities with trucks on ferries and shit, it would be too expensive to keep running during war economy when most your ships are out there fighting the enemy over the sea control etc and you have to have a continued supply line of drones/explosives/tech instead of supplies to civilians to stay fighting.

>Silent Hill is a real town, not some dream/nightmare or purgatory realm
Gayest shit ever. Ruins the entire franchise.

>>715581445 (OP)
Am I the only person that thinks it’s obvious as day that SH was originally meant to be an anthology series and that SH1 and SH2 have nothing to do with one another, including the backstory and lore, until SH3 backpedaled on the idea?

>>715592824
You are spot on, they used Silent Hill's name just to market an unrelated game with the brand name attachment.

>>715592824
Sh2 under-performed, and Japanese fans were bitchy and wanted clear-cut answers to the events of SH1, so that's how we got SH3. They wanted to get the sales of 1 again.

>>715588650
p.s. theres no burial ground shit in silent hill thats from pet sematary silent hill's just a holy place for the natives no burials
also read the book of lost memories to comprehend the town its not really that unclear other than what kind of reality the otherworld is

>>715587705
Homecoming still has it beat for the worst

>>715581965
>there absolutely wouldn't be one Hospital, especially not a second one for Mental patients, the Hospital in SH is way too fucking big for the size of this small pit stop town.
Maybe silent hill used to have more visitors and the hospitals were built to accommodate them since they kept getting sick or/and went schizo.

>>715582418
The missing ferry is the main plot for the silent hill arcade game.

>>715593369
yeah could very well be that the hospital was the main hub of that region and surrounding town/cities and was build as a psych wards, those things can get huge in small town USAs go look at some old abandoned footage from those places they are MASSIVE.

>>715583178
Because the taxes are crazy and those town are just a giant extortion ground where the government tax whites to high heaven and gave it to the browns and blacks that will eventually torn the hand that feeds them.

btw to the 2 autismos arguing
the otherworld in 3 is manifested by claudia, which then receives strong influence from missus alessa 3.0 and the demon god fetus in her. that's why the missionary shows up in a random portland apartment to fuck harry up, claudia's got powers of her own
this is literally the canon explanation for the seemingly mobile otherworlds in 3 by the way its just claudia origin + heather influence and then some

>>715592596
It's both you fool.

>>715593581
and no im not fucking around, its an unique power
admittedly i think like the hotel otherworld and maybe some others came from heather herself or the god fetus but claudia is an essential part of the equation

>>715582280
>added just a little to lengthen the game
lol

>>715583293
>8 city square blocks total,
Yeah but that's just the downtown area, there's probably suburbs, properties and neighborhoods in the surrounding areas that you don't visit in the game. Where would all the people who work the hospital, docks, amusement park, and all the city workers live? In the 10 houses downtown?

>made the mistake of playing on hard
>Dumped 2/3rds of my arsenal on eddy's fat ass
>tfw the twin pyramid fight
please tell me there's another way out of this without having to redo the entire game

>>715581445 (OP)
SH3 goes to the one down below though ever.

>>715581546
Can add in the western games if you want.

>>715583178
Cost of living is like 10x less.

>>715581965
>Japs don't understand American cities
MILD SHOCK.gif

This is like when Biohazard's Raccoon City was small tight alley's in Biohazard 3: Last Escape which no American town is going to have. No, not even New York.

>>715583178
Because America is fuck huge and during the early years (1700-1800)'s getting from the East Coast (British invasion) to the West Coast (end of the "world"/country) took literal months. So some folks settled down and made towns for resupplying and resting before moving on toward the other coast on travelling.

Overtime these places stayed or became ghost towns and faded into irrelevance/history.

Now a days the small towns are either dying similar to Japan's rural small towns (younger generations leaving because there is no industry or "modern comforts" there) or are stable because they have some "modern comforts" (a hospital similar to Silent Hill's, resturants or fast food places, Wal-mart or Target if not main-street small-businesses that were killed off by said Wal-mart) that people that live there don't need much more.

If EVERYONE moved to either coast, there would be Jacksonville, Florida level sprawl for the main cities and then "dead air" for moving freight and resupplying gas/food between the coasts for the farmers that took the land.

>>715595805
Thank god they don't, that's what made these games good, they were clearly foreign in origin wearing an american costume.

>>715582280
The idea that people actually like the SH2 remake frightens me

>>715582941
>know
wat

>>715586397
Silent Hill is kind of weird with it's puzzles. Sometimes it'll be super simple stuff like 'use this item you found on this thing and now you can open the door' and other times it'll demand you write out directions to Hyperborea and give it to someone from 200 years ago

>>715582418
you cant be serious

>>715592824
I mean if it was meant to be an anthology, Konami failed by making it a sequel titled "Silent Hill." They could've went with something like "XYZ: A Silent Hill story" or something to that effect and not had the town be called "Silent Hill" in 2.

At this point, the I.P. and Konami/developers are sort-of trapped by making an urban environment tie into Silent Hill/the town since it's an "urban"-esque environment.

>>715597537
>"We may visit death upon the head of the sinner but to what avail?

>In the name of retribution, we took part in a bitter comedy this day.

>You, hanging as you do, by your neck, unforgiven and cursed by all.

>Five of them committed crimes, six went out for a drink and were captured there.

>Only one of them was innocent, but they knew not that.

>The bloodstains remaining are proof of their guilt.
>Trodden upon and thus created,
>they are paths to Hell or the Void.

>The white bandages stained with crimson,
>The remains upon the scorched black earth,
>The whispered cries of the maiden.
>They are but a meaningless contract.

>They are also signs of guilt.

>But one of them was done without reason.
>It was done out of fear and a ripe imagination.

>Sinning alone at the end of a rope, it is nothing less than a disgrace to us all."

>>715598160
This was cool as fuck

I just played SH2 OG for the first time and thought it was somewhat overrated
the atmosphere and presentation was incredible even now, and I can't even imagine how this would have gone over if you played it in 2001
The gameplay is outright boring and the city itself almost feels like an afterthought. I didn't really notice the music the way I noticed Not Tomorrow or the famous SH1 dentist drill music. I also thought the story was unimpressive but I am willing to excuse that the game is probably ruined if you've already had the ending spoiled for you ten years in advance.
I think SH2 is a worse version of SH1, that game blew me away.

I really don't get why they used the SH from 2 when you play as the daughter of the first one

>>715592824
It was intended to be a standalone title, apparently SH2 was a completely different game that was repurposed as a SH game due to managerial pressure to make a sequel after the success of the first. They tried going for the haunted town angle. The indian burial ground trope. There was a huge fan backlash to this. If Silent Hill 3 had taken place in Silent Hill again with a completely different story and characters it would have made for a better series overall. You can't have Silent Hill be both a town where a cult happened and a haunted area without making some kind of connection. It was largely glossed over in 2, there's only a couple of deeply buried cryptic references to a dark god and that's only if you squint and look at it sideways.
I think it would have been better if they had continued with the anthology, the story was told completely in SH1. There's an evil cult who tortured a little girl in a botched attempt to summon an elder god, harry mason comes to town and steel pipes everyone to death the end no more cult they're all dead. Though I didn't like some aspects of Silent Hill 2's atmosphere (tried too hard to be twin peaks), it was still a well done horror game that leans too heavily on le shocking personal traumas. I prefer the story of the first game, but the story of the second game isn't bad and the gameplay is still survival horror. The third game felt campy and phoned in. As if it was a response to the fanboys who loved SH1 and complained about SH2. They pulled a Joel from last of us.

>>715581445 (OP)
Cult stories are psychological though. Sure, it's not therapy town, but ultimately those stories are still about people, their problems, and various ways people react to suffering.

>>715600941
Time restraints were brutal, and the team was split into two, one half working on SH3, the other on SH4. Both games suffered because of this. With SH3 in particular having to rely on reusing SH2 assets.

>>715582280
All of SH1 dialogue was recorded with the VAs never meeting, they recorded all their lines in one go with personalised scripts that had only their lines on it

They did this on purpose so the tone would be all over the place and feel like a fever dream

>>715583178
>why live in beautiful nature when you could live in a filthy dump with browns
Gee idk

>>715581445 (OP)
This is one of the members of Team Silent speaking btw
I kneel

>>715592223
>>715581965
How do I move to a small town like Silent Hill or Twin Peaks, bros? There's no work even in the big city in my country

>>715581793
>small american town
>shithole
this is your brain on xitter turdie propaganda

>>715582558
nigger, entire franchise got started on a crisis
>car crash
>while the towns cultist lost control of the situation

>>715605268
As someone that lives in that sort of place, that's what a large portion of people end up thinking about it and they want to leave it. They say there's nothing to do, even though there's a city an hour and a half away. Most of them are looking for fulfillment that they aren't going to find just from living in a different location.

>>715583178
since normal people aint faggots like you

>>715582280
>added just a little to lengthen the game
They double the length of the game. This isn't a good thing.

>>715605675
Almost triple. 8 hours to 22 hours. I've seen let's players, who admittedly aren't the most intelligent lot, genuinely forget characters or what their objective is.

>>715605493
>As someone that lives in that sort of place
you can take your appeals to authority and stuff them up your prolapsed ass. Small towns are decent and close to perfect middle ground as there are not too many human monkeys to become a nuisance but also not completely isolated. Unlike so called "big city" rat and cockroach nests that historically have been centers of strife, tension and epidemics.

This goes double for the information age revolution where your average white collar does not have to be nailed down into a sterile office-school complex. while blue collars can thrive in low competition environments as the need to actually do something practical with your hands rises exponentially in these smallish to medium population centers

>>715581793
Small shithole town with its own school, hospital, amusement park, multiple churches, multiple restaurants, large Sewer system, orphanage

>>715607550
SH would be pretty comfy if not for all of the nuthouses and prisons. That shit can't be safe in a relatively small area.

>>715582418
Would have been in five

>>715587236
Too secular/atheistic for silent hill

>>715581965
isn't it an old mining town

>>715584851
>James, Eddie, and Angela are all better in the remake.
Lmao lol

>>715581965
Its a resort town somewhere in the mountains on an idyllic lake.
They probably had a hospital and the mental hospital because it served as a spa for richfags who could afford it.
But I think Shattered Memories had the best depiction of SH as a generic American town.

>>715602525
Its generic as fuck