Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill 2
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Sweet Silent Hill 2. Love the game but the series has really dug itself into the ground with the last few games. Origins was ok and but Homecoming sucked if you ask me.
This brings back memories.. Silent Hill 1 and 2 are the 2 scariest games i've ever played (with the only other one coming close being FATAL FRAME)..
I can remember my buddy and i being up until 3 in the morning playing this thing.. We both had to take stress breaks every so often.. It really did affect you psychologically.
Great great game.
I can remember my buddy and i being up until 3 in the morning playing this thing.. We both had to take stress breaks every so often.. It really did affect you psychologically.
Great great game.
but the real reason for james's blind determination was the fact that A.he really did'nt have much of a life left to live for and B.he needed to come to terms with the SPOILER ALERT fact that he killed his wife,albeit to end her suffering but the act itself shattered his personality in ways only a journey of self realization and unrequitting horrors could,i'm not saying this was a bad review or anything just that,this is my interpritation for james's seemingly idiotic ignorance when confronted with the monsters
like he says in the beginning of the game with angela "we'll it's just that I don't really care,whiether it's dangerous or not"
anyways just a diulgence into my perspective on an unmittigated epic of a retro game
keep up the good work yahtzee XD
like he says in the beginning of the game with angela "we'll it's just that I don't really care,whiether it's dangerous or not"
anyways just a diulgence into my perspective on an unmittigated epic of a retro game
keep up the good work yahtzee XD
Silent Hill 3 remains my favorite(there are some utterly terrifying segments), but I respect 2 for a lot of reasons, especially the following it still has.
As many people have stated, SH2 (and SH3, for that matter) is one of those games that's nearly impossible to finish at a normal pace. You simply need breaks from it because it gets under your skin and breeds. The whole thing creates an overwhelming sense of dread and hopelessness. If the graphical representation of the town and Otherworld weren?t enough to give your nightmares, it?s the SOUND that?ll finish you off. I can?t even count how many times I said aloud, ?%$&^ you! There is no way I?m going in there!?
And if you?re a man that?s ever lost someone you love? well, get ready to have your freakin? heart torn to tiny, murmuring, little shreds of pain.
SH2 is a rare gem. I can?t recommend it to everyone, but you will never forget the experience.
And if you?re a man that?s ever lost someone you love? well, get ready to have your freakin? heart torn to tiny, murmuring, little shreds of pain.
SH2 is a rare gem. I can?t recommend it to everyone, but you will never forget the experience.
Silent Hill 2 had the a good haunting atmosphere but really it doesn't hold a candlestick (or rather flashlight) to Fatal Frame 2 or even Fatal Frame 1 for that matter. You don't have to spend very much time in that haunted village before you desperately want to get the fuck out, but no, it drives you deeper into the village until you feel like your nerves are gonna burst.
Someone's probably already answered this but oh well - Maria always seemed to go JAAAAAAMES whenever she spoke to him, was quite funny really, made her sound like a retarded prozzie ^_^The_Amaster said:
Am I the only one who thinks that Silent Hill sounds like a less scary version of Fatal Frame? Every reason about why Yahtzee said he liked Silent Hill is from Fatal Frame...
Of course I've never played Silent Hill 2 so I can't judge.
Of course I've never played Silent Hill 2 so I can't judge.
I am incredibly apprehensive about the new Silent Hill's "psychological tests". I am afraid it will just be a quiz-like series of questions that will merely flip certain switches in the game. For example.
Q1: Are you afraid of the dark?
>Yes
[ok, make it dark]
Q2: Are you afraid of spiders?
>Yes
[release the spiders!]
Q3: Do you like cliche plot devices?
>Yes
[The masked antagonist is your father and you were dead all along!]
and so on....
Q1: Are you afraid of the dark?
>Yes
[ok, make it dark]
Q2: Are you afraid of spiders?
>Yes
[release the spiders!]
Q3: Do you like cliche plot devices?
>Yes
[The masked antagonist is your father and you were dead all along!]
and so on....
Fantastic review, this is probably one of my favorite games. I have many fond memories of helping my roommate play it while I clung screaming to her arm as she shot/stabbed/mangled the various baddies that would jump out in front of Mr. Sunderland. I still can't play it by myself without a towel on my couch and the lights all on.
yes silent hill 2 definitely was my favorite to all the games, I thought the story line was very well thought
out, I think the camera angles allow you to see the enemies, the music is good, the fog is kind of creepy,
because you can't see everything in front of you, james is a cool character, it also seems like the characters
have similarities to his emotions in a dream sequence kind of way, the only bummer is the fact that james
can't get over his dead wife, but maybe that's why he went to silent hill, maybe he doesn't care about
torturing himself mentally, enemies in the game are creepy, pyramid head is an awesome villan, that knife is
awesome too, I do think it is an awesome game, it seems like they messed up pretty much every other silent
hill game, especially in the sense that most of the other silent hill games, the story lines don't make sense,
especially the new one, I kind of liked the 3rd one with the bunnies and the carnival, and the 4th one a
little bit, 3rd one had some ok music in it, the 4th one I have no idea if there was good music in that,
but in the 4th one I don't get why 2 ghosts follow you that can't die, wtf on that, it was kind of cool
how the enemies could come out of the walls, the cutscenes in silent hill 4 were good, but to me graphics
aren't everything, i mean some old games have crappy graphics and they are way better games, than most of
the new one's now-a-days, also story lines don't usually explain why something wants to kill you, which makes
no sense, I could go on, but I won't.
out, I think the camera angles allow you to see the enemies, the music is good, the fog is kind of creepy,
because you can't see everything in front of you, james is a cool character, it also seems like the characters
have similarities to his emotions in a dream sequence kind of way, the only bummer is the fact that james
can't get over his dead wife, but maybe that's why he went to silent hill, maybe he doesn't care about
torturing himself mentally, enemies in the game are creepy, pyramid head is an awesome villan, that knife is
awesome too, I do think it is an awesome game, it seems like they messed up pretty much every other silent
hill game, especially in the sense that most of the other silent hill games, the story lines don't make sense,
especially the new one, I kind of liked the 3rd one with the bunnies and the carnival, and the 4th one a
little bit, 3rd one had some ok music in it, the 4th one I have no idea if there was good music in that,
but in the 4th one I don't get why 2 ghosts follow you that can't die, wtf on that, it was kind of cool
how the enemies could come out of the walls, the cutscenes in silent hill 4 were good, but to me graphics
aren't everything, i mean some old games have crappy graphics and they are way better games, than most of
the new one's now-a-days, also story lines don't usually explain why something wants to kill you, which makes
no sense, I could go on, but I won't.
"You start to think that James' nightmare might be entirely his own creation, as if the town is just handing him a set of jump cables and watching as he sticks them on his balls. It's a fascinating voyage of pain and despair that leaves you emotionally drained and satisfied like fucking a burning dolphin."
That's one of the best things I've heard in a game review ever.
That's one of the best things I've heard in a game review ever.
I know the original "Silent Hill" was released for the pS1, and Silent Hill 2 (i'm pretty sure) came out a little bit before the first "Fatal Frame", but i definitely agree that the 2 games are very comparable.popdafoo said:
I have to admit to putting off "Fatal Frame" for a couple of months simply because the description of "using your camera to kill ghosts" sounded lame...
The same buddy i played the Silent Hill games with was finally convinced by ANOTHER friend to give "Fatal Frame" a try, and it was every bit as psychologically testing as "SH2" was...
Just the way a random phantom could glide softly by you, without even a peep....I remember my buddy and i just screaming "HOLY SHIT!" and turning the game off in favour of a round of NHL hockey
