Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill 2

[Wolcik]

Silent Hill 2 XD So we'll get 2 or 3 normal new games reviews and then some old bad game like Turok instead of Painkiller (a goood game) XD

The sacene with batman looks cool but it's Silent Hill that should be lying dead, not killing people That's nerdy of me to point that out XD

 

[Desert Tiger]

Other thing I liked included the multiple ending, so only characters you gave three shits about survived.

 

[Orzene]

So, essentially, if they turned Eraser Head into a video game, with the same disjointed, diluted and uncomfortable storyline, characters, and over-all ambiance, then it'd be the a damn good rival to Silent Hill 2.. (Of course you'd need more than a cackling, sick, deformed baby as a monster to make it a truly formidable rival.)

 

[ManStapler]

"He wouldn't be caught dead pressing X to not die"
So, he is a master of quick time events? Other then that, this was a surprise to see, and I did enjoy it, everything including the top finale.

 

[WaderiAAA]

If atmosphere is so important, maybe the Path would be a good game to try out.

 

[MercurySteam]

I had a skills test today and when I saw the section on Trigonometry I shat myself. So for me, a man with trigonometry for a head is truly an ordeal.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Tsshhh, this was perhaps the most mediocre ZP ever. The only moment which made me smile was "There was a reviewer here, now he's gone".

Forutunately not as bad as Thief: TDP.

Now I'm definitely sure it's his voice. It just has too much enthusiasm and emotion in it nowadays.

 

[GreasedUpDeafGuy]

I've never understood why Yahtzee loves Silent Hill 2 so much. It bored me to tears! But perhaps I didn't give it a fair chance as I had just come off playing Metal Gear 2 and Final Fantasy X. Then I put in Silent Hill 2 and what super cool weapons do they give me? A flashlight and a board with a nail in it. Nah, I'd rather play ratchet & clank and blow the $#&T out of everything in sight.

 

[eels05]

Critique of a classic game.
I'm liking this.Hope he does more old games soon.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

Wondering when the mentioning would culimate in an actual review. Was expecting a bit more if I'm honest, particularly something about the locked doors... (The lock is broken, the lock is broken).

 

[Jedamethis]

I wish i'd played Silent hill now, i want to see what it's about

 

[Stylish_Robot]

I only played Homecoming (which I got 1000GS out of) but it got kind of...old after awhile but I did watch Cloud's walkthrough videos on youtube though, looked like a fun game

 

[prorook]

Play penumbra. You would love it.

 

[WrathofthePenguin]

It's kinda funny how his description of the town and the creatures inside such remind me less of my Silent Hill experiences and more Half Life 2. Hear me out
A majority of the time you are alone, the allies you find are generally faceless peons prone to death and the few actually human characters generally disappear within a few minutes.
I always jump back to the beach level as you are trying to break into the prison, besides the ant-lions and the Combine there are very few friendlies and non actually accompany you. Freeman is in a hostile environment with no interaction except to be shot at, attempts at eating him, and killing.

 

[ReverseEngineered]

I'm confused why he even liked this game. He berates it for the terrible characters, the weak mechanics and camera work, the silly story, the dreaded voice acting, and yet loves it because -- it had the atmosphere of being alone? Of the characters being distant and inhuman?

I've played games like that before -- barely any people around, the people talk in flat, distant voices with no real facial animation. I always chaulked it up to a half-assed developer not taking the time to create a bunch of characters and create realistic facial animations (a la Oblivion).

The saying goes, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." The fact that the lifeless characters and empty world is somewhat appropriate for the game is lucky for Silent Hill, but I don't think we can congratulate them on making a good atmosphere. It really just means that their already-demonstrated lack of development happened to work out nicely for them in one aspect.

 

[S-Unleashed]

I found this bias. Most of the time, Dick face is ripping games in peaces but nnnoooo not this time. He just pats SH2 on the head. By the way I played this peace of crap called a game and after the first 3 hours I took it to a wood chiper and therw it in.

 

[geldonyetich]

I gave Silent Hill 2 a try on GameTap awhile back (probably the cheapest way to give it a spin, BTW). Indeed, the atmosphere was thick, and the monsters were pretty creepy -- and, as somebody who desensitized himself to System Shock 2 cyborg midwives, that's saying something.

However, I couldn't finish the game. It wasn't so much the fear factor (which prevented me from finishing the aforementioned SS 2 for years) so much as the strange Resident Evil-esque logic to the puzzles. It was good enough that I didn't want to ruin it with a walkthrough, but getting stuck was extremely easy to do. The solution may well involved pixel hunting or finding some barely visible corridor somewhere. Maybe this could be attributed to being part of the nightmarish quality of the game, but eventually my level of frustration exceeded my level of fear of the game, and now the game sits rather low on my priority list of things to savor.

So I'm thinking that a great deal of Yahtzee's love from the game comes from the fundamental fact that he's probably learned all the puzzles and is rarely ever stuck. The main glaring problem with the game thus slides neatly under his radar.

That said, any game that has (massive spoiler) a secret ending like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfUhWPKMtEc] definitely has merit.

 

[Strikey182]

haha i like how some people do a little review of his review. im pretty sure that complaining isnt going to get you anything other than a potential mocking on his next video.

 

[Dave Rain]

Silent Hill 2, one of the best games ever, any way, it's true, the story is not such a big deal.

 

[desolateone]

Sometime i'm gonna need to get this for my psp.