Current Events > Just finished the first Silemt Hill for the first time

(+) Yeah! (+)

Went in blind, and it was hyped as this super duper scary game. And now that I'm done, I didn't get that vibe from it. Especially the last section of the game, it's more emotional and heart tugging than anything. Not to say I didn't enjoy it and I regret playing it. Only a couple of times did I really feel scared or unsettled throughout the playthrough.
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Really impressive that you beat the game while blind huehuehuehue


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Yeah well you should have played it as a child when it came out. I can still remember when the world turned the first time. I think the school creeped me out the most.

TC was secretly spooked.

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Well yeah PS1 graphics aren't exactly scary anymore.

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Ugly PS1 graphics really dont have the same impact they had in the 90s

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Spoilers for Lisa!

I always felt so sad about Lisa, especially in the scene where she realizes what's happened to her and begins to transform:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG5fpimNIYI

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Blitzkrieg182 posted...

Yeah well you should have played it as a child when it came out. I can still remember when the world turned the first time. I think the school creeped me out the most.

Yeah I think that may have been the problem. Like I've seen stuff in other more recent games more disturbing than anything that happened in SH. I'd imagine when that game first came out it was groundbreaking though. I'm still glad I got to finally experience it though
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Blitzkrieg182 posted...

Yeah well you should have played it as a child when it came out. I can still remember when the world turned the first time. I think the school creeped me out the most.

This game was much scarier when it came out vs now. Though the limitations of the hardware (The fog, the janky character models) really leaned into the unsettling nature of what they were trying to convey.


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Its not going to be scary because it looks and sounds hilarious now. Only silent hill 2 or 3

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Blitzkrieg182 posted...

Yeah well you should have played it as a child when it came out. I can still remember when the world turned the first time. I think the school creeped me out the most.

Eh the hospital was my first real freak out moment. Because you got the nurse enemies that were in uniform, that really unsettled me the first time I encountered it, nothing in the school really unsettled me.
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darkprince45 posted...

Its not going to be scary because it looks and sounds hilarious now. Only silent hill 2 or 3

Agree. It's aged like bad CG in movies. Silent Hill 2 and 3 both look good and feels good to play.

The first game doesn't have that same cheese factor that the first Resident Evil had. RE feels like a fun 80s monster movie.

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The transformation between the normal hospital and the otherworld hospital in SH1 is still my favorite in the series. The trick they pulled with the elevator is a so good

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Silent Hill 2 isn't scary due to the monsters but because the idea of your young wife becoming deathly ill and killing her is fucking terrifying, that's why Silent Hill 2 is brilliant.

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I definitely wanna experience 2 & 3 though after this. Is there any continuity or is it a GTA type deal where they're all their own independent things?

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WaterLink posted...

I definitely wanna experience 2 & 3 though after this. Is there any continuity or is it a GTA type deal where they're all their own in dependent things?

SH3 is a direct sequel. Otherwise it's mostly just references to other games.

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Silemt Hill

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Three connects to the first although I think it helps if you get a certain ending as well.

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pegusus123456 posted...

SH3 is a direct sequel. Otherwise it's mostly just references to other games.

So 2 is its own thing. OK

Irony posted...

Silemt Hill

Sorry for hitting a key to the right

So_Hajile posted...

Three connects to the first although I think it helps if you get a certain ending as well.

OK.

So 2 is its own thing but 3 is more direct. Would you say that those games are worthwhile if I enjoyed the first? This isn't like some Jurassic Park thing is it where the next 2 installments are kinda shit but have their defenders? Are they really good? Because I really want to delve further in this but I also have other games in my list I need to get to but I've been in kind of a horror mood lately

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SH2 is widely considered the best of the franchise. It's the only one I've played and I can attest that it's really good.

SH3 is also considered to be good.

It's after that where things start getting a little shaky.

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pegusus123456 posted...

SH2 is widely considered the best of the franchise. It's the only one I've played and I can attest that it's really good.

SH3 is also considered to be good.

It's after that where things start getting a little shaky.

Well then bet. Guess I'm moving on to SH2 tomorrow!

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SH2 is widely regarded as the best SH game. It's really good.

3 is my favorite but definitely play the original trilogy if you can.

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The children with butcher knifes in the school got me ......mannnnmm if they did a silent Hill remake like resident evIL did it could be awesome

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FinalBraveNUT posted...

The children with butcher knifes in the school got me ......mannnnmm if they did a silent Hill remake like resident evIL did it could be awesome

That was supposed to be P.T. right?

Then it fell through and Capcom ended up running with it for RE7.

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Wii_Shaker posted...

That was supposed to be P.T. right?

Nah, what little we saw indicated it was a new story.

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Sh2 is good but sh3 is the scariest.

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The crying kid in the bathroom and the bloody locker freaked my out hardcore when I was kid. Resident Evil had jump scares like the dogs but Silent Hill was actually scary.

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DanKiller7 posted...

and the bloody locker

Which one? The one with the cat or the one with just the blood? Not gonna lie both times I was expecting some kind of jump scare because of the rep the game but they never came honestly.
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WaterLink posted...

Which one? The one with the cat or the one with just the blood? Not gonna lie both times I was expecting some kind of jump scare because of the rep the game but they never came honestly.

The jump scare that comes after the bloody locker didn't make you jump?

idk what to say. You must be really tough or something idk

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BlockAddition posted...

WaterLink posted...

Which one? The one with the cat or the one with just the blood? Not gonna lie both times I was expecting some kind of jump scare because of the rep the game but they never came honestly.

The jump scare that comes after the bloody locker didn't make you jump?

idk what to say. You must be really tough or something idk

What, the body that falls out of a separate locker? It was a cutaway scene and it was a little tense. But idk it just didn't get me for whatever reason. Not what I would call a jumpscare. And not gonna lie the cat thing got me more. After that I felt like it was a repeat so I kind of braced myself for something real to happen this next time and it was underwhelming.
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SoundNetwork posted...

Sh2 is good but sh3 is the scariest.

I agree with this. Silent Hill 4 exists and the outsourced games are no bueno.

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WaterLink posted...

Which one? The one with the cat or the one with just the blood? Not gonna lie both times I was expecting some kind of jump scare because of the rep the game but they never came honestly.

the one where its moving around and you open it up to nothing there, just filled with blood. The cat made me chuckle, jump scares are more fun than scary to me.

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WaterLink posted...

I definitely wanna experience 2 & 3 though after this. Is there any continuity or is it a GTA type deal where they're all their own independent things?

It's a bit of a mess

3 is a direct sequel to 1

Other than that they are independent but reference each other a lot so knowledge of the other games is useful.

So 2 is its own thing but 3 is more direct. Would you say that those games are worthwhile if I enjoyed the first? This isn't like some Jurassic Park thing is it where the next 2 installments are kinda shit but have their defenders? Are they really good? Because I really want to delve further in this but I also have other games in my list I need to get to but I've been in kind of a horror mood lately

Silent Hill 2 is one of the best horror games ever made.

But none of them are very scary. Silent Hill goes for atmosphere and tension over being scary.

If you're looking for Jumpscares then something like Outlast or Fatal Frame might be more your thing

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Maze_ posted...

It's a bit of a mess

3 is a direct sequel to 1

Other than that they are independent but reference each other a lot so knowledge of the other games is useful.

Also Shattered Memories is a re-telling (not a remake) of the original Silent Hill. This kind of causes some continuity errors if you subscribe to any sort of timeline.

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I remembered watching my older cousin play it when i was a kid. i was scared af

iirc it was a part where he was going throuhg houses or a school and these grey faceless beings were around

Wii_Shaker posted...

Also Shattered Memories is a re-telling (not a remake) of the original Silent Hill. This kind of causes some continuity errors if you subscribe to any sort of timeline.

Ehhhhhh

That's actually debatable.


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toyota posted...

I remembered watching my older cousin play it when i was a kid. i was scared af

iirc it was a part where he was going throuhg houses or a school and these grey faceless beings were around

That would be the school with the grey children @toyota

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Really, SH2 is sad/eerie while SH3 is creepy/mental. Fyi, the pattern for the Silent Hill series is odd-numbered games (1, 3, 5/0rigins, 7/Shattered Memories--SH1 re-imagined) for the main story and even-numbered games (2/Restless Dreams, 4/The Room, 6/Homecoming, 8/Downpour) for stories from nearby communities.

You can play the even numbered SH games in any order, but the odd-numbered SH story-line goes 5/0rigins, 1, 3, with Shattered Memories as the only RFYL "revisit" game (no combat; a camera-phone is your primary means of untangling mysteries while the game tries to analyze and misdirect you).
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spikethedevil posted...

That would be the school with the grey children @toyota

so my description was real :/

man fucked up that it mustve been 20+ years and that shit still stuck with me.

I remember being pumped seeing the movie. I mean, c'mon, it was by the man behind Brotherhood of the Wolf so it had to be good. Visually, it's fantastic with a dreadful and tense ambiance. Then it goes downhill as it dumps exposition at the end just like a video game to the point it feels like satire.

Also, the monsters looked fantastic, but feel like empty shells without the lore behind them to explain why they're even there. That's what I dig about the Silent Hill games is that the creatures are twisted versions of...something. People, memories, whatever. Like the children in the first game are Alessa's classmates and the way they gang up on you is similar to how they picked on her, only distorted to creepy proportions as they're creations through Alessa. Or something like that. It's been too long since I've played the first game.

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The silent hill movie was really good at yanking a bunch of cool stuff from the game like the soundtrack and monster designs, but absolutely terrible in using them in any sort of interesting way.

it honestly mirrors the series post-sh4.

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So_Hajile posted...

I remember being pumped seeing the movie. I mean, c'mon, it was by the man behind Brotherhood of the Wolf so it had to be good. Visually, it's fantastic with a dreadful and tense ambiance. Then it goes downhill as it dumps exposition at the end just like a video game to the point it feels like satire.

The first movie really nails that disassociated, dreamlike uncertainty of the first game. Many people shit on the sequel but I actually feel that it gives fans what they were missing in the first film. I had the privelege of seeing it in 3D and was not disappointed.


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Wii_Shaker posted...

The first movie really nails that disassociated, dreamlike uncertainty of the first game. Many people shit on the sequel but I actually feel that it gives fans what they were missing in the first film. I had the privelege of seeing it in 3D and was not disappointed.

I think that's why I came away disappointed from the first film. It was so close to nailing it, but missed the landing. It's still a worthwhile watch.

I've seen the sequel. Heck, I think I even own it yet I remember nothing about it other than Sean Bean and Kit Harington are in it. I should give it another spin sometime.

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So_Hajile posted...

Also, the monsters looked fantastic, but feel like empty shells without the lore behind them to explain why they're even there

I'd pretty heavily disagree about them being empty shells in the movie. The Lying Figure is Alessa being wrapped up in bandages and trapped in her bed. The Grey Children are her bullying classmates, trapped forever as kids who are perpetually burning alive. The Janitor is pretty obvious, as are the bugs he creates. The Nurses are the same symbolism as the game.

The only one that doesn't have overt symbolism is Pyramid Head. Even then, he's pretty clearly Alessa's personal bodyguard/assassin.

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That's a good point. And I forgot all about the Janitor. What about the armless monsters?

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That's the Lying Figure. I dunno why they changed the name for the movie.

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I'm not a fan of nowhere.
Not having map is a bit frustrating, the puzzles got way easier, it's all recycled areas and recycled enemies yeah. Though I think this is where the PAL version is a bit better, Grey Children were censored in the school which sucks, but the invisible Grey Children I believe were in Nowhere for the first time and they were pretty creepy but it's the first time you heard them.
I get what they were going for and I'm sure it's highly important to the lore but it's my least favourite "dungeon" in SH.

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So_Hajile posted...

I remember nothing about it [SH Revelations] other than Sean Bean and Kit Harington are in it

Who could forget Malcolm McDowell's "heartfelt" appearance? Oh... yeah...

Apparently, Christophe Gans currently is working on another Silent Hill movie and a Fatal Frame movie.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3603023/christophe-gans-says-hes-working-new-silent-hill-fatal-frame-movies/
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andri_g posted...

Who could forget Malcolm McDowell's "heartfelt" appearance? Oh... yeah...

Apparently, Christophe Gans currently is working on another Silent Hill movie and a Fatal Frame movie.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3603023/christophe-gans-says-hes-working-new-silent-hill-fatal-frame-movies/

That's fantastic. Thanks for the link. At least it's not Uwe Boll.

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A little bit into the 2nd one now and it's a little more scary than the first so far. Had a bit of a scare when you get the flashlight and immediately get attacked because the radio wasn't making noise at first for whatever reason and trying to grab that key and some little girl kicked it away out of nowhere, what the hell is a real girl doing in a place like this?

May use this topic to provide real time updates as I go through it
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