Also, iirc Team Silent isn't really a thing. As in there wasn't really a consistent roster you can credit.
Yup, only game to really have a horror feeling that lasts even after playing. Silent Hill 3 did that too, but to a lesser degree.
While games like P.T and Outlast are scary and good games, they are roller coasters/ the haunted house experience.
Fallout 3 in certain parts like metro stations
I thought Silent Hill, Silent Hill 3, the first two Project Zero games, the first two Siren games and Dead Space were scarier than Silent Hill 2, and much better games as a whole.
I never played a Silent Hill game...what's the best way to experience the first two?
I'm giving my vote to RE2.
Scarier? Yeah, I guess so, with the exception of Dead Space which did completely nothing for me on the horror front (good game though). It's intense, but it never scared or even had me spooked. But for me SH2's combination of environments, art, sound effects, music, and all the symbolic implications are absolutely unnerving. That's what makes it "scary" to me, and the environments that start building toward the climax, from when you go into the historical society, down into an old underground prison just totally weirds me out. I'm always super uncomfortable during all of that.
Scary is such a broad term that it's all gonna be highly subjective. If I'm super creeped out, I do feel scared. The Silent Hill games have much more going on than that though, which is why it's my favorite horror series.
I never played a Silent Hill game...what's the best way to experience the first two?
The underground prison is probably the worst place ever made. Every time I reach that place I cry like a little baby (inside). Worse than every nightmare, lol.
The Labyrinth is infinitely more chilling in my book. It's my favorite level in gaming.The underground prison is probably the worst place ever made. Every time I reach that place I cry like a little baby (inside). Worse than every nightmare, lol.
True enough, but Yamaoka's significance on the team is debatable, and that band was a small "Team" with lots of other changing hands. There's certainly attributable creators but still my understanding is there isn't really a whole studio you can credit for making the series great the same way you could for other devs. It was more a series of competent devs under good leaders (or one might say "auteurs," essentially). TS being more a PR name.There abso-LUTE-ly is!
Akira Yamaoka, Masahiro Ito, and Takayoshi Sato are the core three, with Hiroyuki Owaku rounding it out, and that's enough to form a good rock band. After that it's a toss-up between which director you get. But that's Team Silent. You get those four guys, you got the band, and all the other hands will fall into place.
Project Zero II
Fuck Japanese ghosts. Some frightning backstory to the ghosts themselves and some great scary, atmospheric moments overall.
Silent Hill 2 is brilliant with it's narrative and themes though, and while I think REmake is the superior game, SH2 is far more important for the medium as a whole.
I don't have an issue with the First Person Horrors of the genre.
They kind of remind me of found footage films in that they're a quick and visceral thrill that's effective and easily disposable. The very fact that they work justifies it for me. I love found footage movies because they have a significantly higher chance of making me jump than most other horror movies. After seeing so many, the mere act of reacting to a scare is novelty and found footage continues that novelty better than most.
Video games are special because they're significantly more immersive than film, so they tend to not have to need that crutch. But I still enjoy the first person thrills, especially with P.T. and Amnesia.
I liked Outlast a lot, but I didn't find it scary once I found its incredibly easy to discover philosophy and rules on scaring the player. The amount of "safe zones" were numerous and so easy to discover that any sense of dread disappeared instantly. Silent Hill 2 has rules as well, but played with them in incredible ways that still terrify me in how scary and genius they were.
The Labyrinth is infinitely more chilling in my book. It's my favorite level in gaming.
Even entering The Labyrinth is some of the scariest content put to art, and dealing with it is chilling in a way that makes me do a pause whenever the thought of tackling it crosses my mind.
Has probably the creepiest, spine tingliest bit of horror I've ever played , with the dept store dummies.Condemned
Amnesia The Dark Descent
The X16 and X18 labs in STALKER Shadows of Chernobyl
What is the probability of a ps2 psn release for SH 2,3,4 on ps4
Night Shift gets it!Silent Hill 2 for me as well. I will even go as far to say it is the greatest horror work of our time.
What is the probability of a ps2 psn release for SH 2,3,4 on ps4
Night Shift gets it!
Oh, does your horror game have a mutated representation of familial gang rape? No? Just infected bitey monsters? Well then.
I've come to terms with it as well when I considered everything in the game, what it represents, the subtle and macabre way its presented, it's absolute dedication to adult horror without being too cheesy or placating for the player... Besides maybe the little girl- but even she has a purpose amongst the others you meet.In terms of the narrative design, writing, and how pretty much everything has some meaning behind it and not in a bland, random or pretentious way, but in a way that works in its own context but also directly relates to James' personal journey and demons in his closet... I mean it's hard for me to argue with that.
I agree with every word, character, and thought that went in this post.I agree OP. Sure, SH3 has more visceral insanity, but I believe SH2 is the best horror product to come out in our time- book, movie, etc. It's just absolutely perfect if you pick the canon ending of "In Water". A fucking super grim fairy tale about the absolute depths of the human soul combined with Pyramid Head and Pacific Northwest occult lore..... 10/10, would nightmare again.
Night Shift gets it!