Silent Hill

[Swirling weeb]

remember kids:
Team silent died for this shit

 

[Sincere Sinner]

Doesn't one of SH3's first puzzles on Hard assume you're familiar with some Shakespeare? And not just the names of his work, but actually assumes you've read them?

Yes. I fucking loved the hard puzzles. I would try them over and over for at least a few hours and get totally stumped before looking up the solution. I only solved the face/keypad one without a guide which was immensely satisfying, but I liked discovering the internal logic of the solution after several of my guesses.

That one in particular was a real cunt and I couldn't complete it because I was unfamiliar with all but one of the five (Hamlet). Romeo and Juliet I figured out just by knowing vaguely what it was about. What was also confusing was there were five books for a four digit code solution. The line of the riddle STILL living rent free in my head "three witches disappeared thusly" is the clue to remove one of the books, but I had no fucking idea which of the three stories remaining had three witches in them.

 

[Psyduck]

Yes. I fucking loved the hard puzzles. I would try them over and over for at least a few hours and get totally stumped before looking up the solution. I only solved the face/keypad one without a guide which was immensely satisfying, but I liked discovering the internal logic of the solution after several of my guesses.

That one in particular was a real cunt and I couldn't complete it because I was unfamiliar with all but one of the five (Hamlet). Romeo and Juliet I figured out just by knowing vaguely what it was about. What was also confusing was there were five books for a four digit code solution. The line of the riddle STILL living rent free in my head "three witches disappeared thusly" is the clue to remove one of the books, but I had no fucking idea which of the three stories remaining had three witches in them.

Lol that puzzle remains a cute memory for my sister and i, spent an hour trying to solve the bastard when we were teens before we just gave up and looked it up, laughed out loudly for a couple minutes "How the fuck were we supposed to find that out!?"

We managed to solve the face/code one, but that 'poem' made her squeamish. Matter of fact, the Hospital area becomes way more disturbing on Hard with that puzzle and the whole Stanley thing going on

Ah, memories...

 

[Hazel Motes]

I know this is from literal who Twitter "leakers", but this was supposed to be a fucking JOKE.
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Fucking why?

the game is still playable. It does not need a remake. And half the charm is its occasional ugliness and peculiar voice acting.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

There's no way anyone, even the journalists could find the puzzles in SH2 (or SH3) that hard. You have the choice to put the puzzles on easy mode at the beginning of the game. The easy mode puzzle almost solve themselves from what I've seen of them.

I wish I knew about easy mode, I got stuck not knowing where to go or what to do in SH2. At the very least it's much more difficult than any Resident Evil puzzles, which had the perfect balance until RE4 went braindead.

 

[Red Hood]

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the game is still playable. It does not need a remake. And half the charm is its occasional ugliness and peculiar voice acting.

The Lo-Fi quality of the game's graphics and awkward acting and aggressively dissonant soundtrack is part of what makes it so creepy. It has the quality of a dream/nightmare.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

anyway worst silent hill character ever, I hate her and her simps

 

[Dom Cruise]

Yes. I fucking loved the hard puzzles. I would try them over and over for at least a few hours and get totally stumped before looking up the solution. I only solved the face/keypad one without a guide which was immensely satisfying, but I liked discovering the internal logic of the solution after several of my guesses.

That one in particular was a real cunt and I couldn't complete it because I was unfamiliar with all but one of the five (Hamlet). Romeo and Juliet I figured out just by knowing vaguely what it was about. What was also confusing was there were five books for a four digit code solution. The line of the riddle STILL living rent free in my head "three witches disappeared thusly" is the clue to remove one of the books, but I had no fucking idea which of the three stories remaining had three witches in them.

Isn't the witches thing a reference to Macbeth?

Lol that puzzle remains a cute memory for my sister and i, spent an hour trying to solve the bastard when we were teens before we just gave up and looked it up, laughed out loudly for a couple minutes "How the fuck were we supposed to find that out!?"

We managed to solve the face/code one, but that 'poem' made her squeamish. Matter of fact, the Hospital area becomes way more disturbing on Hard with that puzzle and the whole Stanley thing going on

Ah, memories...

I really wish we could have gotten at least one more game in the series as good as 3.

3 blew me the fuck away, if I had gotten the chance to experience another Silent Hill as good I feel like I wouldn't have as much of a sense of longing that I have today, but I always wanted to experience another Silent Hill as good after 3 and it simply never happened.

The dream of course is another game as good as 2, but I'd settle for one as good as 3.

anyway worst silent hill character ever, I hate her and her simps

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"LOOOOOST?"

 

[Psyduck]

Wish i knew how to hack the cameras and shit, some off the out of bounds stuff is very interesting to me

The fact that they didn't just despawn Angela's model is very strange, she keeps walking up to a point, and then starts twitching, kinda creepy in a way


Some unused Eileen animations from when you peep on her

The last one seems to be an unused haunting for later on in the game, not gonna lie dawg, that shit is terrifying even unfinished

 

[THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN]

Wish i knew how to hack the cameras and shit, some off the out of bounds stuff is very interesting to me

The fact that they didn't just despawn Angela's model is very strange, she keeps walking up to a point, and then starts twitching, kinda creepy in a way


Some unused Eileen animations from when you peep on her

The last one seems to be an unused haunting for later on in the game, not gonna lie dawg, that shit is terrifying even unfinished

Here's something I see almost no one talk about: the mouth you see in the hospital in SH3 that's supposed to represent Alessa screaming used the famous picture of Marilyn Monroe smiling as reference:

This was discovered back in 2015 or so but nobody really cared as most thought it was from the SH1 OST cover. It's not a perfect match obviously but I find the resemblance pretty remarkable.

Here's another one that was only found in 2020 but it's pretty well known by now: in the very first cutscene of SH2, James takes a peek right where the camera is supposed to be, like as if he was looking at the player. Masahiro Ito said he can't confirm if this is real and flamed the fans for thinking too much, but even if you take the FMV files from the PS2 disc, deinterlace them, denoise, AI upscale and interpolate to 60FPS you can still see it (look closely at 10s in):

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

anyway worst silent hill character ever, I hate her and her simps

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You don't want a QT suicidal gf with mommy issues and BPD?

 

[Kurtis Trent]

You don't want a QT suicidal gf with mommy issues and BPD?

poorfags and rednecks are all like this, why bother?
SH2 was pretty woke showing there's nothing cute about mentally derange and abusive women, but people sexualized and woobified them anyway

 

[Sincere Sinner]

poorfags and rednecks are all like this, why bother?
SH2 was pretty woke showing there's nothing cute about mentally derange and abusive women, but people sexualized and woobified them anyway

I think sexualizing Angela is kind of missing the point completely. She's a foil for James and his horny. The throughline of their woobie backstories is sexual frustration ruining and destroying their past relationships. At first Angela seems unhinged when she's anxious and afraid of James being another potential abuser, but as the game progresses you start to think, y'know, maybe she's right about that.

 

[Hazel Motes]

I think sexualizing Angela is kind of missing the point completely. She's a foil for James and his horny. The throughline of their woobie backstories is sexual frustration ruining and destroying their past relationships. At first Angela seems unhinged when she's anxious and afraid of James being another potential abuser, but as the game progresses you start to think, y'know, maybe she's right about that.

It is a remarkable game and I do believe it is the reason why we will never get another good Silent Hill game. Homecoming and Downpour were bad attempts at recreating what 2 did so perfectly. SM was good but a remake of the first game. Origins is OK though nothing special.

Look at the first four games. All different from each other. Only 1 and 3 shared any story but they had a whole console generation in difference.

I'll defend The Room, despite its flaws. It is my second favourite game in the series. I think it says a lot about isolation, paranoia. I presumed most of the outside action took influence from the things in Henry's room. The Room is his own isolation. It's been a few years since I played it though.

When the average gamer thinks of Silent Hill, they think of James killing his wife. It was a magic moment in storytelling and build up. Lightening in a bottle. Maybe Kojima would move SH in the right direction because he seems to have a vision beyond replicating 2, but is that ever going to happen?

 

[Anon88]

anyway worst silent hill character ever, I hate her and her simps

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I liked her part of the story, I thought it worked well as a side piece to the main story. She's not anything special but I wouldn't call her the worst. Eileen is the worst, not because of anything story wise but because I remember her dying a lot in the gameplay.

Some unused Eileen animations from when you peep on her

The last one seems to be an unused haunting for later on in the game, not gonna lie dawg, that shit is terrifying even unfinished

The video missed one of them.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Maybe Kojima would move SH in the right direction because he seems to have a vision beyond replicating 2, but is that ever going to happen?

Kojima with a solid, fantastic editor makes MGS1-3. Kojima with a lackluster editor makes MGS4-5. Kojima with no editor makes Death Stranding.

He doesn't really get what made the SH games great. PT was nothing like the old silent hill games, and was just an effective, but wholly different, horror title. All the other entries in the franchise were shit, so finally getting something that was decent - even if it had nothing much to do with the original material - got it a lot of hype. The reality is, this series is never going to be good again because it's just a stupid franchise at this point. The original spark is gone and is never coming back, and horror creators need to make their own shit instead of slapping "inspired by silent hill" onto the dogwater they keep releasing.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

TIL Travis was originally meant to look like Norman Reedus, Kojima was not even original


source

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

They should remake Silent Hill 3 but Heather is a part of IP2.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

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They probably worked from the PC codebase, iirc SH2 HD/PC share some some things unique to those versions. When they say they got "beta code" that could mean that they got the code for the rushed PC port.

That port was done by small British developer(Creature Labs) in a short amount of time(five months) with no english documentation. They started working on it sight unseen with a tight deadline so of course it's going to end up messy. The PS2 game also did things that PC couldn't do at the time and unless they exclusively targeted the bleeding edge PC segment they would have to scale things back.
But they had five months with nothing documented in english so who can fault them, they were also very skilled.

Anyone know if the Xbox ports of SH2/MGS2 was done by Konami?

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

I liked her part of the story, I thought it worked well as a side piece to the main story. She's not anything special but I wouldn't call her the worst. Eileen is the worst, not because of anything story wise but because I remember her dying a lot in the gameplay.

The video missed one of them.
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The original Mario/Rabbids game?