Thread 723036225

Decided to try out pic related finally. Should I pick normal or hard?

>>723036225 (OP)
Normal. Get familiar with the game's combat and mechanics before playing a mode where you take more damage from enemies with even more health. You're going to be using melee weapons a lot. Remember you don't have to fight every enemy you face and running might be a better option to conserve health items and ammo, regardless of difficulty.

Always play games in normal mode. That's the intended experience for the first playthrough.

>>723036225 (OP)
For me? Its Cybil

>>723036225 (OP)
Normal is fine, i didn't die once and had plenty of resources for the final boss

>>723037309
based

>>723036225 (OP)
play hard. normal is way too soft for the amount of healing supplies and ammo you'll have. if you play with any sort of care you're basically going to negate the game. hard isn't overly tedious or spongey and is much closer to an appropriate horror experience.

Normal.
Hard is for retards that think beating a video game is an achievement.

Does the first gamer have harder puzzles on hard?

>>723038557
what fucking retarded take

>>723038563
no. puzzle difficulty started with 2.

combat is utterly mindless garbage so why would anyone wish to play on hard? why do you think the later games let you set enemy and puzzle difficulty separately? even the devs knew only retards would find it fun to engage with the atrocious combat to any greater degree than necessary.

Eileen shaving

>>723036225 (OP)
once you get the hammer it doesn't matter

>>723038818
Best weapon ever.

>>723038757
hard if anything encourages you to avoid combat more often but it's really just about a more cohesive experience. it makes sense for a survival horror game to have a little pressure instead of being an effortless cakewalk, at least in sh1's case that's fairly reasonably balanced on hard.

>>723036225 (OP)
Normal.
Even "Easy" might be 2hard4zoomies.
Hard was ALWAYS meant for veterans.

Here's the SH PC GUIDE + PASTEBIN:
https://pastebin.com/uf5XhyXz

>>723036225 (OP)
I think if you're asking this question you're someone that dislikes when a game is too easy but you also don't want to dive into a horribly shitty tedious hard mode. I would give you the go ahead to play on hard, it's not particularly obnoxious or tedious as far as hard modes go.

>>723036225 (OP)
Easy. Normal is way too hard. You only get 15 bullets for the first enemy in the game which takes 5 bullets to shoot and flies around very fast. So in theory if you miss 2 shots before you hit (very easy with tank controls and flying enemy), the game could be softlocked on the first enemy. And it gets even harder from there with many flyint enemies in the fog plus your running speed, is very slow

>>723039321
there is a knife in the diner for this reason.

>>723036225 (OP)
I ragequit on Normal back when I had it on PSX, but when I replayed it in an emulator a couple years ago I was able to finally finish it on Easy. The part I got stuck on the first time was the piano

>>723038818
there's still some enemies that can fuck you up, like the gorillas

>>723039407
i left it there in case the chef came back and needed to make some food

>>723039793
Chef was a cultist and a known pedophile. Now how do you feel, buddy? He used that knife to make pedo food.

>>723039793
The chef is an enemy later in the game and you can stab her with the knife for different ending

>>723039857
>>723039903
fucking bullshit made to sell strategy guides.
FUCK YOU KONAMI

>>723036225 (OP)
Hard combat in any SH is a waste of energy, it just turns every monster into sponges

this is like the 5th time you've played Silent Hill for the first time.

>>723036225 (OP)
Hard mode has a super pterodactyl that randomly appears and spawns a swarm of normal pterodactyls to defend it. I've seen it by the cop car hanging over the chasm before.

>>723039793
Based carer, don't let this world wear you down.

>>723040396
Nigga is like the Silent Hill fanbase Jesus

I LIKE THAT JUMP

>>723043936
>I'd really prefer if your wife as fucking dead
What did he mean by that?

>>723036225 (OP)
Is there any advantage to doing next fear over just doing a new playthrough on hard? What's the difference?

>>723039160
based screencap poster.
I know you'll always be there for me :')

>>723044373
Next Fear gives you bullet adjust which increases the amount bullet drops give to 2x (then 3x next time you beat the game all the way up to 6x, you can enable this in the options menu, L1/R1 to scroll to the other options) and allows you to go for 10 star rank playthroughs if you're into that, you need to unlock the other endings first

>>723039160
Thanks anon

>>723036623
modern games need to be played on hard, because normal is actually just easy mode.

>>723040396
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/UcVrvpiSWg056Ao3jg0jDQ/

>>723036225 (OP)
pray for OP he's stuck in silent hill

>>723036225 (OP)
Keep doing this until the remake comes out
Then keep doing this with the remake

>>723036225 (OP)
Hard because you're so hardcore OP.

>>723036225 (OP)
is this worth playing through just to play the other games in the series? are 2 and 3 etc better?

>>723050063
Sure why not. The series peaked with the first 3 games. The rest is just whatever.

>>723050063
100%, it's the root of the series and critical to truly understanding the other two. SH2's story features different characters but it's a subversion of the first game in a lot of ways. and i don't think you can really appreciate how SH3 is doing all these callbacks to the first game unless you play it yourself.

>>723036225 (OP)
Playing this for the first time on PSP. Need to get used to tank controls if im gonna play RE1 next

>>723050492
it's a good game to get accustomed to tank controls with because it has the camera adjust option, RE is 100% static camera so it's a lot harder. plus limited inventory compared to Harry's endless pockets.

>>723050492
It has more in common with Tomb Raider than Resident Evil desu

>>723036225 (OP)
Just finished it on normal and I didnt die once. Constantly had over 100 bullets.

>>723050665
what ending?

>>723036225 (OP)
Its shit, play Shadow tower

>>723036225 (OP)
Played on hard once, started getting shit on in the school section. Till I realized the whole light attracts attention mechanic. Hard mode is honestly not that difficult.

>>723050752
Shadow Tower sucks shit like any non-Armored Core game From Soft did before Souls

>>723036225 (OP)
What did they mean by this?

>>723051039
Broccoli hair 51% muttoid skibidi bussin tik tok influencer zoomer. Go back to your pvp cave

>>723039160
This "guide" is fucking retarded,

The PC versions are fucking janky and buggy as hell. Play all of them on PlayStation like everyone who played them did.

>>723038810
Is this a bot or a dedicated Eilieen shaving enthusiast?

>>723039320
That's me. Yakuza and Kingdom Hearts and Crisis Core taught me to consider if Hard Mode was worth it or not.

SH1 just had one difficulty selection instead of it being separated based on combat and puzzles right? Play hard, the games shower you with items and you just gotta not fight 99% of enemies anyway. I don’t think SH1’s hard mode makes the puzzles harder, but if you play the later games, always do Normal Puzzles Hard Combat on a first run. The hard puzzles can actually stump you for a good while, especially in 3.

>>723051538
Is hard mode worth it in those games?
I only played Crisis Core on normal I think cause it was like. A slot machine game.

>>723050665
good+

>>723051209
What?

>>723051653
If you are hardcore into it. I played blind and died many, many times and had to go through boss cutscenese and shit many times. Also, 3rd Birthday is the only game I ever restarted on Normal because it is next to impossible on Hard without NG+

>>723047870
I got 2 of them together yesterday too kek

>>723036225 (OP)
My first option was hard for 1-3. I think for 2 and 3 it can be pretty bullshit or miserable, even. Some puzzles(specially in 3) and enemy balancing make the experience really unfun. I guess that's why 1 is my favorite.

Its clear Konami's marketing team is posting all these Silent Hill threads. I don't care if a new game just came out. This amount of threads is particularly egregious.

>>723053795
The game is almost 30 years old, retard.
You are the only one who has brought up the shitty new game.
What a fucking retard.

>>723051246
that hasn't been true for nearly a decade

>>723052581
playing 2 on hard is really dumb, the enemies are just as easy to kill they just take 6 hits instead of 2 or 3. it's really not worth it unless you have to for 10 star runs like SH1, idk off the top of my head as i've never quite engaged in that level of autism with the games before.

>>723053795
go cry about it in a twitter screencap thread you fucking nigger

>>723036623
if you are an experienced player (which is what everyone here should be) there's no point in playing anything other than the hardest difficulty

why didn't (You) save her?

>>723055445
Nothing could be done to save her.

>>723051314
Take a guess

>>723051763
He was expecting you to praise him for his epic contrarian opinion but short circuited when you rightfully called him a cringe poser.

>>723055445
Sadly it's impossible.

>>723051538
Which Yakuza? Hard mode is mad fucking easy in most of them

>>723036225 (OP)
Normal. Hard is for second playthroughs and beyond.
Hard is actually hard, and not modern hard which is normal.

>>723055445
Is she an actual ghost, a "town manifestation", a projection of Alessa?

>>723055835
>>723056105
wrong... you're wrong!

>>723056574
probably the closest thing to a ghost the series has outside of SH4's specific interpretation. Lisa was blackmailed by the cult and given the drug they produce and apparently also magically imbued to keep living in order to take care of Alessa. according to Masahiro Ito she was driven insane by a drug overdose and killed by Valtiel. somehow she was reanimated as a manifestation to tend to Alessa.

>>723056067
Zoomer circlejerk

>>723056574
>>723056981
>The exact nature of Lisa's post-death condition is never clarified directly. Silent Hill 2 establishes that unreal human beings can manifest from the memories and desires of those who enter the town. One such being is Maria, who materialized from the subconscious of James Sunderland and shared physical characteristics with his late wife Mary. Unaware that she is a manifestation, she would periodically experience amnesia and would sometimes guide him on his journey through Silent Hill. The dark world in the original game manifested the delusions of Alessa, who spent years being treated by Lisa in the hospital basement.

>Alternatively, the Lost Memories guidebook and a memo in Silent Hill 3 explain that the lingering thoughts of people who died in the town suddenly by suicide or by accident can cause their spirits to remain trapped in the area where it happened. These spirits have lost their human senses and memories. Unaware that they are dead, they can only relive the moments before their demise. In Silent Hill, Lisa only appears in Alchemilla Hospital and exclusively in the Otherworld and Nowhere. She is unaware that she is dead, frequently reaching out to Harry for help. One of the game's designers, Masahiro Ito, believes that Lisa is "very close" to being a ghost or spirit.

>>723057652
Yes. Zoomers say cringe things like "erm Silent Hill is bad and Shadow Tower is WAY better" to circlejerk despite not playing either game. It's a genuinely pathetic existence.

Normal; gameplay is shit you should be playing it for the atmosphere.

>>723058846
OBSESSED

>>723051209
what the fuck is he talking about?

>>723059112
I think Indians on the internet tend to just randomly throw phrases they see on Twitter together as an attempt at communication with more civilized races

>>723036225 (OP)
hard is way to hard.
i only beat it with cheats

>>723059181
You just need to run more from encounters, turning off your flashlight and radio can help too. In a lot of cases it basically renders you invisible to enemies.

is F worth playing?

>>723059476
The backstory and themes are interesting, I think the main story is a bit lacking and the characters can be a bit flat at times but they do have layers. The biggest problem is that it's not a horror game. It's just an action game, it's a jankier dark souls.

>>723059476
its gookslop

>>723059476
>worst sh story
>worst otherworld
>worst enemy variety
>cringe unfitting combat
>gacha mechanics
>furry garbage

no

>>723059065
He's just shouting out random buzzwords now. I fucking broke him : (

>>723059476
>no doghouse section
trash

>>723059476
It's the best non Team Silent game, but it sucks compared to Silent Hill 1-4. I enjoyed it for what it was though

>>723059464
Its kinda cool how they gave a chance for more experienced players to save resources on ammo and such if they can predict enemy movement AI and patterns and memorize room layouts.

just finished my first playthrough

played on normal; think hard would have been doable but probably not worth it

I actually missed the hunting rifle my first go through, so I got to the final boss without enough firepower to kill it (bad end boss too) so I actually had to reload a save way back at the hospital and run through it again. Luckily most of the time between the hospital and nowhere can just be ran through avoiding enemies.

How does Harry die to some random enemy in 3 after everything he survived in 1?