Welcome home! Silent Hill is back with a vengeance in the newest installment of the franchise, Silent Hill Homecoming. There was always something a little different about Silent Hill compared to other survival horror games. The atmosphere, the psychological tension and the constant fear all contributed to the absolute horror of these great games. Now with new American developer, Double Helix, let me be the first to tell you, it's all here.
The sirens are sounding again, beckoning you back to the foggy ghost town as we rank all the Silent Hill games, from the chilling classics to the misguided missteps.
I mostly disagree with Downpour's position. Yeah, the game is not amazing by any stretch of the imagination but is much better than the HD Collection and Homecoming. The main issue is the performance, but that was mitigated by the patches, especially on the PS3. Personally, I put it a little behind Origins and The Room.
Having Restless Dreams as a different entry from Silent Hill 2 is also a choice.
Normally, we would not consider it a different game (Restless Dreams), but since it had a very different critical reception and had new content, it was allowed. As for Downpour, I would agree, but since that one is subjective, we let him make his case for the placement.
silent hill 2 is definitely the best one out of those.
for me personally, the whole ritual/cult stuff was always so weird to me in all the other games.
No disrespect but I put SH2 over 1. 1 is fantastic, but 2 took it all up a level.
Twinfinite: "They said it couldn't be done, be we've tried our best to rank all the monsters in Silent Hill according to their fear factor. Let's go!"
Pyramid Head is my #1 too, despite the fact you don't actually fight him much - and the few times you do are actually super easy. It's all in the presentation & close encounters.
I never thought the monsters themselves were very scary. It was the tension and the unknown, the silent moments that got under your skin that were the most scary to me.
Silent Hill has always been about the psychological horror more than it's gore.
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I had no idea Binary Domain was backwards compatible. I know what I'm downloading.
I would like El Shaddi, Afterburner Climax, and outrun 2 please. I am sure that there are other games as well but those came to mind for me right now.
Played it, finished it and loved it. Lent it to a buddy and he's going to have a go at it now.
Ok, I got it - only because SH2 pulled me in, and hope springs eternal; because SH4 pissed me off with how stupid it was, and got traded in.
I'm liking it better than #4. So it's already off to a good start. Very creepy, great music, better controls, a similarly compelling storyline with plenty of gruesome ambience. But I find myself increasingly frustrated with the lack of an 'Easy' difficulty setting, one which perhaps would offer more than a single ammo drop every 2 hours.
I get it, of course - the developers want you to use the new hand-to-hand fighting system, primarily. Which would be fine, except it's too damn clunky to use effectively. Works ok until you're facing off against 5 enemies at the same time, or a boss.
Classic game design mistake: games are supposed to be FUN, not work. If I end up throwing the controller at the TV in frustration because your game is too damn hard to play...you fail.
To be fair, I haven't finished the game. If I do, that's a passing grade in itself. But I'm getting increasingly frustrated with it... >_<