Silent Hill: Homecoming

[Lore]

I got it for my birthday and just started playing it today and I'm liking it so far. I was talking to my friend Jeremy about it and he was saying it doesn't QUITE feel like Silent Hill, and I know what he means. The ambiance is just a bit off. But I still am enjoying it.

Now this could come from the fact that I'm a die hard Silent Hill fan. I've played all of the games multiple times (with the exception of The Room. For some reason I could only barely get through it once) and I saw the movie many times in the theater. I'm not about to go off saying it was the best movie ever made, but darn it, it had the music and the nurses and freaking Pyramid Head. I was in love.

Apparently PH is in this game as well and I'm torn. One part of me thinks "But no, Pyramid Head is James' villain because he comes from his violent and disturbing subconscious." And the other part of me is just so excited to see PH again that I don't really care!

So yeah, anyone else played it yet? I'll ask for no huge spoilers because I'm really just at the beginning and like to be surprised by the twists and turns.

I also have some theories about Alex and why his family seems so disconnected from him. I'ma wait and see if those pan out to be true.

And while it's stepping out of the norm to have a main character that actually has combat training and knows better how to defend himself (all the other characters are just normal Joes and running away is usually the best defense on many occasions), it's nice to feel like you have a little more power and control of the situation. Not that I'm going to assume I'd even leave the slightest dent in PH when I go up against him, but you know.

Okay, enough of that.

[MalkavianMarine]

I dont play survival horror for the fact that Im those Jackasses that plots real life scenarios to things like a Zombie outbreak in a mall and all your armed with is a camera . . .

[Lore]

You don't play survival horror games? That makes me sad. I loves them.

If nothing, it's training me for a real life scenario where I won't be AS freaked out by things crawling out of the sewer or from under cars or from being made of two pairs of mannequin legs.


Smash them with a metal pipe first, scream and sob later.

[Erika]

I don't play video games and am not into horror in general, but this thread makes me want to see the movie again. I liked it.

[MalkavianMarine]

Ok I will say this . . . The Resident Evil Series I played up until number 3 . . . Or 2 . . . Whichever one had Nemesis in it. I actually lost sleep because of that game and I was avoiding the actual reason, but I am little baby when it comes to survival horror games. In Silent Hill one at the begining when you get over run by those little demon things and you "HAVE" to die for the game to progress, scared the bejeebers outa me.

[Lore]

Ah, I see now, survival horror games just scare you too much. Me, I liked being freaked out. I always play with the lights off and think "Oh my god why am I playing this in the dark ALONE!?" but afterwards, it's so satisfying.

But even I admit that there's one point in SH 2 when PH is chasing me. Every time I played it, if it looked like he was going to catch me before I got away, I would jump up and just turn off my playstation. I simply could NOT watch it. "nnnnNNOOOOHMYGODNO!" CLICK! Yes, I'm aware that I lost all of my game play since I'd last saved. I'm very very aware.

[MalkavianMarine]

However, I will play the shizzle out of Dead Rising. That game is a Zombie Simulator if you ask me.


Oh hey . . . I got a new title . . . Right Hand . . . I dont get it.

[Erika]

As in you go from being the hero's sidekick to his/her right hand man.

[MalkavianMarine]

Oh cool

[psycholain]

i must buy the game.(or maybe lore will let me borrow it later ehehe) when is the next movie coming out??? grrrr.

[coriolis]

I generally don't like zombipocalypse games, such as Resident Evil, but for some reason I did like the first two SH's. I also liked the Parasite Eve games of the same decade.

The early SH puzzles were interesting. I think I did get some nightmares from the first game, but they were very subtle -- hearing the faint burglar-alarm-bell ringing, which defined the essence of the horror without being in-your-face.

I didn't get much beyond the opening scenes of the third one (female lead character?), and I actively disliked The Room. That turned the series into just another infinite-spawning-zombie game, and I didn't like the Big Bad actively taunting the player over the airwaves. I liked being able to (if only temporarily) clear an area.

The movie got it right, except...where they arbitrarily and needlessly killed Cybil...she didn't even get a warrior's death!
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[johan591]

Silent Hill ... pure awesomeness ... or something.

Yeah I heard Homecoming was disappointing ... not sure why, I haven't tried it yet. Did you finish it? Personally I'll forever be in love with SH 2 because of Maria ... Imeantheplotofcoursetheplot. Was brilliant. I can't remember how many time I finished it but that's many.
And the movie!!! They had all the right sounds!! I was squeeeing like a fangirl the whole movie! So cool!
So anyway, was Homecoming good?
Damn Now I can hear Maria's boot clocking in my head XD. Love that sound.
Damn I need an avatar ... need to draw something ...

[t]

It feels different because it was developed by a new company, double helix games, rather than Team Silent who made it in the past

[johan591]

Oh I see. Kinda like the last Tomb Raider games. I'll have to give Homecoming a try.