i like the silent hill games in theory, but i could never really get into any of them. i don't really have much tolerance for the horror genre, particularly when the controls deliberately handicap you, so i never really met the prerequisites for playing/enjoying the game. it's a shame because the core concept of silent hill is great, but i don't think it's executed particularly well. it kinda treads on the kafka/lynch territory but at the end of the day is really more like jacob's ladder than anything else, which i strongly disliked. not enough incentive for me.

akira yamaoka's music is fucking great though. rather than bother pushing myself through the game i decided to just put the soundtrack on my mp3 player and walk around town at 3 in the morning listening to it. i've done this countless times over the years, actually. i've played enough of these games to know that this is a pretty worthwhile substitute.

also it's pretty cool that yamaoka has dumped konami and joined grasshopper to work with suda 51. that should be interesting.

hell yeah listen to the man, sorry jamie but alas. alas.

man i don't want to waste space so i'll just paste my other posts in this post

aha yeah and you can make dwarfs and shit, only they're not dwarfs, they're actually humans who got demented from th radiation, and gnomes who are like evil radiatet(sp) humans o_O

hell yeah listen to the man, sorry jamie but alas. alas.

well well well. if it isn't bozo_buddy

alas what, bozo? that's pretty much what i said. watch your mouth.

it kinda treads on the kafka/lynch territory but at the end of the day is really more like jacob's ladder than anything else, which i strongly disliked.

This is kind of off topic but what about Jacob's Ladder did you strongly dislike? I thought it was a pretty interesting look at the proccess of death, although I wouldn't say it was a profound statement or anything.

And besides some of the imagery (such as hospital stretchers and faceless creatures) I didn't think they had that much to do with Jacob's Ladder. It's more like they took some elements from the movie and did something else with it, much like they did with elements from Lynch and Kafka.

This is kind of off topic but what about Jacob's Ladder did you strongly dislike? I thought it was a pretty interesting look at the proccess of death, although I wouldn't say it was a profound statement or anything.

And besides some of the imagery (such as hospital stretchers and faceless creatures) I didn't think they had that much to do with Jacob's Ladder. It's more like they took some elements from the movie and did something else with it, much like they did with elements from Lynch and Kafka.

i actually wrote some angry review of this movie right here if you're curious about it??

Ok, I can understand some of your gripes.

i like the silent hill games in theory, but i could never really get into any of them. i don't really have much tolerance for the horror genre, particularly when the controls deliberately handicap you, so i never really met the prerequisites for playing/enjoying the game. it's a shame because the core concept of silent hill is great, but i don't think it's executed particularly well.

this sounds like my opinions on silent hill exactly

i don't have tolerance for the horror genre either but look i walk around central scotland and all i see are wet and dank walls and worn down people who aren't just quite ready to kick over yet.

on some days.

this silent hill crap tries to go for it, it just can't cos it needs to make money. the reason i CARE is cos i went there! for petes sake that is the whole idea i don't watch it i go there. if there is anything interesting i stick around and i still want to do this thing but they just keep Not doing it!

i don't have tolerance for the horror genre either but look i walk around central scotland and all i see are wet and dank walls and worn down people who aren't just quite ready to kick over yet.

on some days.

this silent hill crap tries to go for it, it just can't cos it needs to make money. the reason i CARE is cos i went there! for petes sake that is the whole idea i don't watch it i go there. if there is anything interesting i stick around and i still want to do this thing but they just keep Not doing it!

what?

but yeah I live in new england and I also thought life was supposed to look like silent hill. or at least the segments of are you afraid of the dark? before the scary stuff happens and it is like kids at some old run-down school or something PRELUDE to the scary shit

The transition into the scary world at the end was also really horrible. I never really liked that idea. I'll play it.

I didn't actually bother watching the trailer all the way through but if the transition is that stupid shit they've been doing since the movie where the normal layer literally PEELS OFF then yeah I've always been really bothered by that stupid idea.  One of my favorite moments in any silent hill is in the first one when you're in the abandoned hospital and you use the elevator a bunch of times and eventually there is a button for the fourth floor which was never there before and when you get off the elevator on that floor you're suddenly in the hell world or whatever.  that was genuinely one of the scarier moments in the series for me.  I just liked that in the first few games you would like open a door or go through some path that shouldn't physically exist and suddenly you're in the hell world and you can't get out.  that's creepy I think.  THAT BUTTON WASN'T THERE BEFORE.  I like that.  I don't like this flashy peeling crap