Silent Hill or Resident Evil 2

[sullynathan]

I want to buy one or the other. I've never played a Silent Hill game, I have played Resident Evil Remake & beat it twice & beat RE4. I really like RE:Remake but have heard good things about Silent Hill. If I we're to get either game, it will be the PS3 version

 

[Ivan]

Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill 1 + 2 are must plays. You can't go wrong with those three.

Fun Fact: Resi Evil 2 is one of those few games that I enjoyed so much that I finished it 4 times to see all of the alternate endings; did the same thing Silent Hill 1 cuz I accidentally got the "bad ending"

Also, you should know that Resi 2 has more in common with RE 4 than 1 (more action, less oh shit I'm outta ammo run the fuck away). Silent Hill is atmospheric, pure distilled delicious foreboding

I cannot choose one. Give me kingcomrade option

 

[McPlusle]

Resident Evil 2 is significantly better from a pure gameplay perspective, but Silent Hill is much scarier, and has a far better story.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

PD: How underrated the gameplay and the level design are in the Silent hill tetralogy just hurts me. That's why whe had all the shite non-Team silent continuations with different gameplay formulas.

 

[Ash]

Underrated gameplay? It's serviceable but RE2 has better gameplay and even that ain't all that great. Parasite Eve 2 or RE3 are the peak gameplay for this style of game.

But yeah, why not both? One or the other though it's a toughie. Silent Hill if you want to shit your pants. RE2 if you want to trade intensity of horror for slightly better gameplay.

Now a slight tangent: of the tank control fixed camera survival horrors I'd recommend:

Primary/Must-Play:

Parasite Eve 2 (now THAT's an underrated gem).
Original Resident Evil (fuck the REmake)
Resident Evil 3
Silent Hill

Secondary:

Resident Evil 2
Martian Gothic
Clocktower 3
Cold Fear (has both fixed cameras and tank controls mixed with fine aiming)

Wasn't a fan of Silent Hill 2, Code Veronica and other RE spinoffs (RE0), Gallerians, Alone in the Dark, Evil Dead.
Have not played Dino Crisis 1 + 2, Silent Hill 3 + 4, and any other tank control fixed perspective survival horrors there may be other than the above.

 

[sullynathan]

PD: How underrated the gameplay and the level design are in the Silent hill tetralogy just hurts me. That's why whe had all the shite non-Team silent continuations with different gameplay formulas.

This is a last minute purchase in all honesty

fuck the REmake

What?

 

[Ash]

What?

Mostly for subjective and emotional attachment reasons. But I went into it before: colour/visual variety sucked out of the game. It has a new mixed-in-level-of-faithfulness monochromatic art direction. And the soundtrack "remaster" just sounds worse to me.

Exhibit A: Mansion basement. Droning ambient vs the original pants-shitting pending doom backing.

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As a kid I was scared to turn those corners in the basement. The new music direction here is just typical forgettable droning.

Exhibit B: Mansion second floor. Something is just lost here. Literally parts of the track is missing.

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I think the art direction in the original was for the most part fine: could be improved, but shouldn't be taken in a different monochromatic direction. And the soundtrack was...why the fuck would you touch it? But ultimately I beat the game when I was 10 years old and thus have strong emotional ties to it, yet that doesn't discredit some of the very legitimate criticism here.

 

[Perkel]

Imo if you never played SH games just go SH1>SH2>SH3>SH4 and try to emulate SH:Shattered Memories (PSP or Wii version, both are great).

You will be fucking wishing series would have more games and none of those games got old.

 

[Silva]

Both are crap.

Take Silent Hill 2 though. At least the story and atmosphere are GOAT on this one.

 

[Perkel]

Both are crap.

Take Silent Hill 2 though. At least the story and atmosphere are GOAT on this one.

You are crap. I finished SH1 in 2010 and it still is amazing fucking game. It plays exactly the same as SH2 just with more blocky graphics.

BUT it has waaaaay better atmosphere than SH2 (SH2 story is where it shines).

 

[sullynathan]

got Silent Hill. Close thread

 

[Deflowerer]

To be honest, the story in Silent Hill 1 is equally intriguing, it's just not EMUHSIONAL like SH2.

 

[mck]

https://store.playstation.com/en-ca/grid/STORE-MSF77008-FLASHSALE18PS3G/1?direction=asc&sort=price

Resident Evil 2 and Silent Hill are both on sale for dirt cheap on the PS store right now. Get em both sullynathan

 

[mfkndggrfll]

Silent hill all the way. Re2 is a massive disappointment after playing the REmake. Dont buy it, emulate it, shitty graphics are part of the atmosphere

 

[Max Stats]

Personally, i love RE2, but neve managed to get all the way through SH for some reason (after many tries). Not difficulty, just didn't really hold my attention for whatever reason. SH2 is great tho, make sure to play that if you have a chance.

Re2 is a massive disappointment after playing the REmake

WHen does RE2make come out? I'd definitely play that when it comes out. REmake is great, btw.

 

[Apostle Hand]

Both games are great. Been having fun times back in the days with Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

 

[JarlFrank]

Both are way too scary to play, avoid them!

 

[Apostle Hand]

Yeah they were scary enough back in the days

 

[mfkndggrfll]

Personally, i love RE2, but neve managed to get all the way through SH for some reason (after many tries). Not difficulty, just didn't really hold my attention for whatever reason. SH2 is great tho, make sure to play that if you have a chance.

Re2 is a massive disappointment after playing the REmake

WHen does RE2make come out? I'd definitely play that when it comes out. REmake is great, btw.

Dont know but honestly there is no way its going to live up to the REmake. It will most likely be better than RE0 remaster but still. They would need to rework the puzzles and game balance especially the ammo available.

 

[Silva]

SOMA is way better than both, because it recognizes that gameplay in this formula is shit anyway. Also, it has more mature and well thought out themes.

 

[Multidirectional]

I like both Silent Hill games better than Resident Evil games but then I'm a massive atmosphere fag.

 

[Ash]

The Resident Evil games have atmosphere and mood! Granted, you can't top running through the mist with the malfunctioning of the radio...what's going on with that radio? Or air sirens for that matter.

What do you think of Call of Cthulhu: DCotE then Multidirectional ?

 

[Multidirectional]

What do you think of Call of Cthulhu: DCotE then Multidirectional ?

I played through the full thing only once and it was certainly a memorable game. I really preferred the part until you get weapons in that game and replayed it couple times since. The respawning ruins it most for me I think. Would be fine with combat otherwise. Would say it's a rough gem and certainly recommend trying it to people who still haven't done so. I will need to give the full thing another go eventually too.

 

[Ash]

Hmm a common complaint, yet the combat is better than nearly every game mentioned ITT. So maybe it's not the combat itself but the belief that at that point OTHER aspects of the game decline. Personally I think the level of quality is pretty consistent though. And the game isn't shy of taking away your guns and forcing the mystery, helpless atmosphere and storytelling upon you again and again anyways.

Also, respawning? What respawning? I recall one instance of that happening right at the end where you have to take control of the beasts to deactivate Hydra's shields.

 

[Multidirectional]

Also, respawning? What respawning? I recall one instance of that happening right at the end where you have to take control of the beasts to deactivate Hydra's shields.

From what I remember all human enemies respawn in a matter of seconds after you shoot them. I was noticing it as soon as the first time you get a firearm, near the police station, I think. I don't remember now if it happens throughout entire game as, like I said, I tend to stop soon after I'm able to kill things. It seemed to work much better as adventure game. I will really have to replay this thing again sometime.