What can Konami do from here?

Sat Sep 18, 2004 6:25 am by bret bretonian

For those who care, just had Silent Hill 4 delivered today. Didn't think it was due out until next friday but it turned up on my doorstep this morning from amazon.co.uk.

Anyway, i have been a HUGE fan of the Silent Hill Series and after i played the first one, at the release of SH2 and SH3 i would take a week off work so i could designate an entire week to SH time. Again, thinking the game would be out in a weeks time, i did it again.

But woe me. What has happened? SH4 has had a complete makeover! I'm not saying this is a bad thing but SH4 just does not have the feel the first 3 games had. the original SH used to have me wetting my pants, 2 wasn't scary at all and 3 was closer to the original. I've been looking forward to this since i pre-ordered back in April, as i do everytime, i'm just a little sad that Silent Hill 4 has not captured the essence of Silent Hill. IF konami do a 5th game in the series, its going to have to revert back to the original style.

Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:21 am by kimk

tell us/me about silent hill pls ?

i've heard about it, know nothing about it.

Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:50 am by bret bretonian

*Begins lesson in Silent Hill*

Silent Hill was created by Konami on the orginal Playstation. Part of the survival horror genre, it matched and in my opinion surpassed the resident evil series. Silent Hill is based on the town of the same name. The usual bad stuff goes on, demons, satanic cults and such. Each character throught the series some way linked to the occult rituals or histroy of the past. Set in the 3rd person perspective, each protagonist must find out what the hell has happened. And hell has literally happened. Through out parts of the first 3, the world would change from silent hill to a "Alternate version, where unthinkable "creatures" lurk. The Japanese director of SH (i forset his name) created a game that could literally scare the socks off you. I still won't play the first one if i'm at home by myself. Each game i feel boasts very good graphics, but the game excels in creepy SFX. For instance, in the first game, you are in a elemantary school, with a radio that makes static when a bad guy lurks, you hear the screaming and crying of children. The music itself from Silent Hill 3 was very good. Konami really managed to put the fright in to you with their sick and twisted creations. One of the monsters in SH3 was a limbless body that was suspended in a steel cage that would make a high pitched wail when it attacked.

Brief Synopsis - SH

Main Character - Harry Mason

His daughter insists on visiting SH for a holiday. En route, i girl appears in the middle of the road forcing Harry to crash his car. He awakes to find his daughter is missing and a strange fog has enveloped the town of silent hill. Harry must travel through Silent Hills history and its alternate reality to find out the truth of his daughter and the role she has to play in the towns satanic history.

SH2

Main Character - James Sunderland

James receives a letter from his "deceased" wife to meet him in their "Special Place" in Silent Hill. Could his wife Mary be contacting from beyond the grave? Compelled, James travels to Silent Hill in search of his wife only to find the town covered by the mysterious fog. The encounter of the "Judge" Pyramid Head, James must seek the answers as to why Silent Hill has brought him back.

SH3

Main Character - Heather "Cheryl" Mason

The adopted daughter of the first games hero, Heather and her father Harry live outside the town of Silent Hill. When visited while shopping by the mysterious Claudia Wolff, Heather must find out and learn her role in the history of the town. Kept in the basement of Alchimilla Hospital by her birth mother Dahlia and occult members hoping to bring peace to the world in the form of a demon, have the rituals from her childhood created the living god inside her womb ready for birth, to bring about the eternal paradise?

SH4 - The Room

Main Character - Henry Townsend

Wakes one morning to find himself trapped in his apartment, a strange protal opens in his bath room that leads to alternate worlds.Went on a holiday to the town, Henry finds a strange attraction to the town of Silent Hill, evident by the paintings and pictures of the possesed town in his apartment. Can Henry find a way out of his room via the portals, or, more importantly find out who has him trapped in his room?

Hope this helps Kimk

Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:53 am by Tawakalna

Silent Hills too creepy for me.

Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:00 pm by matt8705

I never could get into the series, some of it is the genre and the other is I just couldnt sit down and play that game four hours.
I played one and two and stoped after that.

Matt

Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:39 am by Heltak

Silent Hill bored me to death, I guessed 3/4 of the plot and 9/10 of how they would try to scare you.

Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:52 am by Megistos

You clearly have far too much experience with such games

Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:33 am by Arcon

i never got to play them because my arch nemesis is Sony. i hear theyre a good group of games, might have to give in eventually.

Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:57 am by bret bretonian

Arch, i think 2, 3, and 4 have been released on XBOX and PC

Edited by - Bret Bretonian on 9/19/2004 7:28:43 AM

Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:05 am by kimk

sounds scary =/

Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:17 am by -------

Games don't scare me. No game that anyone can make will possibly scare me. I've seen it and played it all. Meh, is all I have to say.

Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:36 am by Esquilax

Silent Hill? Aren't they a band?

Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:27 am by Tawakalna

that's Cypress Hill, you rabbit-head!

Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:41 am by gromit

Hits from the Bong.....

Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:42 am by Esquilax

Taw - Silly me

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